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by robotmay 14y ago
My experience with EA's customer support has actually been rather good. I pretty stupidly bought Battlefield 3 Premium, thinking it included a copy of the actual game (I already owned it on the 360 and was switching to the PC). When I reali
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by robotmay 14y ago
And here's a pretty good clip with James May (of Top Gear) talking about them, and taking a ride in a modern one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch2zs-7je_s
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by robotmay 14y ago
I'm really excited by Rust because it seems to be one of the most sensible language designs I've seen in a while. Go is nice but has some pretty odd syntax in places. I'm just waiting on Rust to hit 1.0 before I start playing with it more s
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by robotmay 14y ago
And I finally got that pun. Only took me like 8 hours.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I'm assuming Redis to Go is currently hosted on EC2; will that be relocated to the Rackspace Cloud? If so will that affect latency for users on Heroku, for example?
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by robotmay 14y ago
I normally use Puma these days, as I've found it gives me the best performance for the least amount of hassle.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I will admit to accidentally running it in production when I forgot to put a different server in the Gemfile. I was being pretty thick that day.
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by robotmay 14y ago
It's pretty well mapped to Rails and has some of the better documentation as far as JS MVC frameworks go. However there were a few problems I found with it, like the view bindings being somewhat slow if you're doing a lot of rapid updates (
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by robotmay 14y ago
Only 45 minutes? They've improved that since I had to use it (~6 years ago). I think it took me the best part of a week to get my account reset :\
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by robotmay 14y ago
I always like seeing people use beanstalkd. It's a great bit of software which seems to have been largely overshadowed by redis these days, which is a shame.
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by robotmay 14y ago
The biggest problem I had as a kid was finding other people to play against. I moved from a fairly urban area to the countryside and never really found anyone else who enjoyed playing it. I only ever played for fun and was never interested
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by robotmay 14y ago
I put some effort into getting something working in Ember recently, and after the initial learning curve it did get a bit easier. I'm really glad that they've frozen the API and are getting to work on better documentation.
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by robotmay 14y ago
On the concurrency side of Ruby I've been really enjoying Celluloid recently. Still trying to come up with a project to hack on with it.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Rails is the biggest offender in terms of startup speed, which I've noticed much more since I started playing with Padrino. But you're right; there's still a lot that could be done to improve speed.
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He is standing behind his employees; by protecting the jobs of those not involved in the drama. Any CEO who would stand behind an employee to the death of their company would not be CEO for very long.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I'm really just looking for a model system that allows simple updates of objects in its identity map with data from an arbitrary source. Backbone is the closest I've found to supporting this with the least effort. I'd rather like to use Ser
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by robotmay 14y ago
Ah I quite like those two, but I was hoping for some client-side ones as most of my projects are in Ruby :) I should try a project on Node again at some point, it has been quite a while.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Does anyone know of a JS framework which plays nicely with Server Sent Events or WebSockets? I've tried pretty much everything so far, and it's always a colossal hack to implement, as none of them seem to have been built with anything other
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by robotmay 14y ago
One of my friends bought himself a mangagement ring a few weeks after he proposed because he was feeling left out :D
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by robotmay 14y ago
One of my favourite customs for propositioning marriage has, unfortunately, largely died out. In Wales, and I believe parts of Scandinavia (which opens up interesting theories as to vikings bringing the custom to Wales), a man would propose
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by robotmay 14y ago
Finally a charting library with a decent radar chart implementation. I've had numerous uses for these over the years and the only popular use of them I've seen any time recently was in a few Pokémon games.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I've actually been somewhat hoping Dropbox would venture into email. Their service has been reliable for me for years, and it'd be nice to have a decent Gmail competitor at last.
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by robotmay 14y ago
This is what I want too, and that's why I'm gonna take a stab at building my own. I don't really want to share an article about spoon carving, but hot damn do I want to read it.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I will indeed! Also a helpful reminder for me to try out Superfeedr as part of the backend :D
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by robotmay 14y ago
Google Reader shutting down at least gives me a new hobby project to hack on. There are a few decent alternatives in this list, but nothing I'm particularly enthusiastic about.
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Also their app login server appears to be down, which isn't helping matters.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Is there an easy way to get all of them? It might take me a while to hit the button on each issue in the tablet application.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I made the same switch about a year ago now. Firefox feels so much better than it did when Chrome first appeared. I also now have an Android tablet, and Firefox on Android has come on leaps and bounds since it was first released; the tab sy
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I was wondering if someone would mention Planetes. I'd still rank it as one of my favourite anime series, as it's such a plausible near-future sci-fi. Highly recommended.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I got a Nexus 7 yesterday and I've already noticed this phenomenon :\

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