rbranson

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1201.
by rbranson 17y ago
xargs + ssh = poor man's hadoop.
1202.
by rbranson 17y ago
It's funny that GOOGLE isn't even part of that.
1203.
by rbranson 17y ago
This guy sounds like a douchebag. Is hoarding money en vogue now? It's one thing to be frugal, but it's another thing to be a greedy miser. If everyone did this, it would choke the financial markets and drive the world into stagflation. The
1204.
by rbranson 17y ago
Glad to see GitHub get some focus. As a paying customer, I think they've let their free users degrade the service for those that finance the site.
1205.
by rbranson 17y ago
RealMedia: only second to Internet Explorer as the most annoying Internet software ever.
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Amazon Launches GSM-based International Kindle Device(amazon.com)
28 points by rbranson 17y ago|24 comments
1207.
by rbranson 17y ago
I have a T-Mobile G1. My girlfriend has an iPhone. There is just no comparison. Hands down, the iPhone is a better handset altogether in every imaginable way. Comparing the iPhone to Android is like comparing the Mac experience to Windows.
1208.
by rbranson 17y ago
This seems like an aimless rant. Rails (and Hibernate to my knowledge) uses SQL for exactly what he recommends: filtering, aggregation, and joining. The RDBMS is a very real and concrete concept in ActiveRecord. If you don't know SQL, it's
1209.
by rbranson 17y ago
I hear all of these people talking about dirty cities, but have you been to anything in the south? Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans? After a trip to the rougher areas of Memphis or New Orleans, you'd probably eat off the sidewalk in the Tender
1210.
by rbranson 17y ago
They may have been, but I imagine it's difficult to discern the difference between legitimate traffic and a DoS attack if you've got NAS volumes mounted over the same interface. You'd need to do a more thorough network analysis.
1211.
by rbranson 17y ago
This is surprising to me. It seems like Amazon should have dedicated ethernet (or at least a separate VLAN + higher QoS) for EBS.
1212.
by rbranson 17y ago
Java isn't becoming irrelevant because Sun is neglecting it or plans to neglect it. Java is becoming irrelevant because even though it's a great tool, the community represents many of the things that passionate developers have come to hate.
1213.
by rbranson 17y ago
Perl still sucks, and I wrote Perl5 code for years. It's more about the inconsistency in the way the language is implemented. Having to explicitly scope variables, the disaster than is OOP, the riddling of special cases and context-sensitiv
1214.
by rbranson 17y ago
Yes, thank you. The moral of the story is that you ship a product first, then you tweak, improve, and refactor it once you've got a reason to!
1215.
by rbranson 17y ago
I don't think that's the point Joel is making. At the end of the article, it really comes together. Perhaps you are too heavily focused on the specifics (unit testing, etc) instead of the overall theme. He's basically saying that while the
1216.
by rbranson 17y ago
Good point, and the install isn't exactly as snappy as the ActiveX-based plugins such as flash. Here's a blog post that details the steps. http://rickonrails.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/chrome-frame-ain...
1217.
by rbranson 17y ago
It would be easy enough to use ImageMagick to quantize the image to a limited color palette, create individual images for each color, trace them using POTrace, and then combine them back together. That's not to say that there wouldn't be an
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by rbranson 17y ago
Google probably has SOME connectivity they pay for, but by now they are effectively their own Tier 1 network, considering how much Internet traffic flows to their servers. They have a 2-byte ASN, which basically means they're a major backbo
1219.
by rbranson 17y ago
Umm, it sounds like some tweaking of your ActiveRecord::Base.find calls with the ":include" parameter might improve performance by 10,000x as well.
1220.
by rbranson 18y ago
Only by convention and common practice though. You can easily mix and match any part of the MVC as you see fit. This is where the "magic" comes in. Rails gives you a set of very sane, most-common-scenario conventions that are the basis for
1221.
by rbranson 18y ago
I think that goes without saying, although most of the techniques discussed apply to anyone who would use TextMate. One could compare it to learning vi, but vi kind of forces you to sit down and learn because it's almost unusable without pu
1222.
by rbranson 18y ago
One day I'm going to sit down and drill all of this into my head.
1223.
by rbranson 18y ago
S3 isn't about cheap, S3 is about reliable and scalable. Yes, it's inexpensive, compared to how complicated and expensive it would be to setup multi-site failover and support nearly unlimited scaling.