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by sams99 14y ago
You get a very basic view with non js, which gives you most of the information but does not allow you to contribute anything to the sites. This is mainly done for search engines.
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by sams99 14y ago
on the cards, message bus really is awesome, I plan to blog about it. can you put a request on meta for this? Also I would like to release the "general consumption" gems as MIT
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by sams99 14y ago
fyi rack-mini-profiler does timeline stuff https://github.com/SamSaffron/MiniProfiler/tree/master/Ruby
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by sams99 14y ago
Does anyone know what ever happened with Kiji, it seems a generational GC for Ruby has already been coded twice, yet in 2.0 it seems the only big change is the CoW friendly GC
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by sams99 14y ago
You can also take a look at Rack MiniProfiler http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/07/12/miniprofiler-ruby-e...
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by sams99 14y ago
You can track the latest on this issue at: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/69171/why-doesnt-the...
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by sams99 14y ago
sure they do, you randomize algorithms or add proof of work.
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by sams99 14y ago
Many months into this experiment I barely get 2 spam comments a month on my blog, I totally respect reCAPTCHA, but demanding JavaScript, doing some minimal tests and perhaps an amount of computation (1 sec on iPad) is the FIRST thing we sho
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by sams99 14y ago
A related tool not to be forgotten is http://spriteme.org/
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by sams99 14y ago
Can the lack of mixed DML/DDL transactions be worked around with a change to my.conf? non transactional migrations always seem to trip me up in mysql, cleaning up the mess is a nightmare
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by sams99 14y ago
Very nice project, I would really love Go, been dying to play friendly games once in a while with friends but IGS and the other online corners are so unfriendly
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by sams99 14y ago
If anyone from valve is listening, would really appreciate it if you added commenting support to your blog, I am looking forward to this series of articles, it is a very interesting and unique space.
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by sams99 14y ago
I guess some common ones are, 1. sys-admin reorganisation, moving content from one spot to another without redirects in place. 2. developer reorganisation, for example moving from "confusing" urls to "slug" based urls without adding redirec
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by sams99 14y ago
akent, on a personal level I am torn on the deleted content issue, I understand both sides of this issue. On one hand this is not content the community want to associate with the site, on the other hand we have no facility for redirecting t
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by sams99 14y ago
How about reading http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/132675/validating-th... before swearing at me. No, we are not going to ban all the links from GitHub on our site cause shitty WEB CRAWLERS forced GitHub to use a white-list based a
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by sams99 14y ago
At Stack Overflow we use slugs for this approach, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102/what-is-a-slug etc, will all redirect to the canonical: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/427102/wha
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by sams99 14y ago
There you go, it is called items now, personally I don't see much difference this is a tiny demo class and the var is private, you better understand before copying and pasting. Anyway, lets not argue about semi columns. The class is correct
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by sams99 14y ago
prepared statements often eliminate this vector ... the thing is, mysql2 the most popular db access gem for rails does not even implement prepared statements, and AR does not have a mechanism to send these to a db. In an ideal world the app
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by sams99 14y ago
I find it tragic that this "storm in a teacup" instigated by a very rich and powerful person even happened. Saying TED shy away from controversy, or even defining this talk as huge controversy is tragic. Take this talk for example: http://
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by sams99 14y ago
I think funnily enough even though it is the same mechanism bcp is faster cause it is 100% native, I have seen native odbc outperform sqlclient by a factor of 2, would assume you would get the same for bulk operations. As always you are goi
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by sams99 14y ago
bcp and SqlBulkCopy are using the same underlying db mechanism.
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by sams99 14y ago
They are totally fine for error reporting imho, you can and should implement your own datareader so you can catch/handle errors while streaming data in
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by sams99 14y ago
there is also http://www.fastsoft.com/home/ which professes to do the same, personally I worry about any non-documented non-public congestion control protocols, many years have been spent in the academia researching this subject ... it is
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by sams99 14y ago
Am I missing something or is this approach downloading both high dpi and non high-dpi images for high-dpi displays?
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by sams99 15y ago
that is not 100% true, you are always going to pay at least 1 extra round trip up front for an encrypted connection, for NY-Sydney latency this would wack on 250ms extra to the first request, http keep alive mitigates a bit.
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by sams99 15y ago
so, we have 3 of these now ... on the front page ... I guess this is a side effect of the community not having anywhere to submit bugs to
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by sams99 15y ago
I created this page as a supplement to a talk I am doing next week, would very much appreciate any suggestions of missing tools in the giant list of links
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Keep your sites fast: a web performance tool and resource list(samsaffron.com)
2 points by sams99 15y ago|1 comments
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by sams99 15y ago
The data did not send, It was too bad to store. So I sat in my chair All confused and in awe I sat there with sartak. We sat there, we two. And I said, "How I wished For
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by sams99 15y ago
yeah ... the change was introduced in 2.6.39 ... but its a pretty rare kernel to have afaik, not even in debian backports anymore

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