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by robmil 13y ago
As a Londoner who recently got a 1Gbps up/down connection, I can't wait for this; the limiting factor in saturating my connection is now the rest of the 'net, rather than my own connection — which is actually oddly frustratin
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by robmil 13y ago
There's also the issue of repository size; both BitBucket and GitHub have (entirely reasonable) fair use policies that seem to limit repos' sizes to 1GB or so. Yes, Git sucks with big files, but sometimes it's necessary to ex
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by robmil 13y ago
Yes indeed; it's particularly odd to see in the eyes, where the milky blankness we're used to seeing in marble statues actually used to have a painted iris and pupil on them. It's hard to know whether it's just a bias fr
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by robmil 13y ago
As ever, profiting (and in this case, presumably profiting wildly) from copyright infringement is usually enough to earn the ire of most decent people. "Information wants to be free" is one thing; profiting entirely parasitically
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by robmil 13y ago
The fine has both to be punitive and to serve as a deterrent to others — so to be punitive, it has to be relative to the income of the person/company being fined, and to be a deterrent it also needs to be severe. I don't see any reason it h
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by robmil 13y ago
In the UK, we call it "cut and shut": http://www.autotrader.co.uk/safety_and_security/cut_and_shut...
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by robmil 13y ago
I'm not sure what this sub-Breivik material is doing on HN, but there we go.
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by robmil 13y ago
SCSS actually makes this easier, given that you can have partials; it makes it easy to separate out layout and visual style and then combine them into a compressed stylesheet automatically.
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by robmil 13y ago
It's happened quite a lot in the last few years, e.g. following the collapse of a black football player, Fabrice Muamba.[1] You have to consider the different context at play here; the UK has never had a history of "fundamentalist" (for wan
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by robmil 13y ago
Also available is the brilliant underscore-cli[1], which brings the functional programming of _.js to the command line. There's an examples page, if you're struggling to see how it might be useful[2], but I find myself using 'extract', 'fin
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by robmil 13y ago
Is there any way to get around the fact that adding a new machine involves adding N*2 remotes? (That is, one remote on each of the current machines to represent the new one; and then on the new machine, one remote for each existing machine)
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by robmil 13y ago
I was hoping this was going to be something where the files themselves were distributed so that they didn't take up space on everyone's machines, a la MogileFS[1], but alas. This is always a point of pain for us: in our studios we work from
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by robmil 13y ago
For anyone who's after a book: I've found Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto's "The Web Application Hacker's Handbook" to be invaluable.
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by robmil 13y ago
I've long since abandoned trying to do programming tests when interviewing coders. Instead, I work through a problem with them in a sort of socratic method; I play devil's advocate to them while they flesh out how they'd approach the proble
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by robmil 13y ago
We started off with our own toolkit for purging domains after deploys: https://github.com/robmiller/Varnish-Toolkit But yeah, it just got a bit painful after a while.
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by robmil 13y ago
We eventually abandoned Varnish because the purging was too far from our application logic. nginx serves static content just as fast as Varnish does, and so getting our application to write static HTML files that were redirected to via ngin
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by robmil 13y ago
For a lot of sites, either using ESIs or including dynamic content via AJAX is a fairly simple solution that still leaves you with the benefits of caching.
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by robmil 13y ago
I realise this is snark about the article going down, but it's actually a good point too. Not much point in optimising the client side if all your dynamic requests take a second for the server to process.
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by robmil 13y ago
Oh, absolutely. Web workers are awesome and hopefully the future, but it seems a bit disingenuous not to mention the huge caveat that currently prevents their being adopted in a more widespread way.
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by robmil 13y ago
Unfortunately they're not supported in IE9 or below, which this article oddly fails to mention. So a more accurate title might be "make your UI more responsive for ~60% of your users with HTML5 web workers".
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by robmil 13y ago
For anyone looking to learn more about Chechnya regardless of whether it's linked to these attacks, I'd highly recommend Sebastian Smith's "Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya". For wider reading on the region, I thoroughly enjoyed O
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Git merge-log and merge-diff: show what a merge introduced(gist.github.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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Fruity: a Ruby benchmarking/comparison tool(github.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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by robmil 14y ago
Not that I'd necessarily agree with it, but I think you're missing his overall point there: he's arguing that those things are time savers, but only for tasks within the domain they were designed to tackle, whereas macros allow more general
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Precis: emails you daily/weekly summaries of your Git repos(github.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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Batchtapaper: batch-add URLs to Instapaper(github.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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The one man bank(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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Focus: an editor theme for focussing on content(github.com)
44 points by robmil 14y ago|14 comments
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Script for tidying up Git repos(gist.github.com)
1 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments
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World map of international law(legalmap.robm.me.uk)
2 points by robmil 14y ago|0 comments

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