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Twitter OAuth Switchover Postponed to August 16(groups.google.com)
10 points by sandofsky 16y ago|4 comments
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by sandofsky 16y ago
It doesn't takes 1000 times the traffic to max out your workers. Imagine if your database (or some other dependency) had abnormally long response times for a minute. I would think that by spinning up more workers than you can support, you s
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by sandofsky 16y ago
You may want to provide an inline summary of the issues. There's nothing wrong with providing a link to the full version, but providing only the link makes you look self promotional.
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by sandofsky 16y ago
How do you guard against the situation in which both applications require the maximum number of workers?
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by sandofsky 16y ago
I don't understand the benefit of dynamically allocating instances. Why should you be running fewer instance than your server can support?
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by sandofsky 16y ago
Ruby 1.8 uses green threads, so running multiple processes lets you use all your cores. As mentioned in another post, Rails used to not be thread safe. Right now I'm running a Rails site in production with multithreading enabled, but I'm su
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An Explanation of Twitter's Poor Performance this Week(engineering.twitter.com)
2 points by sandofsky 16y ago|1 comments
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Twitter Acquires Smallthought Systems (DabbleDB, Trendly)(blog.twitter.com)
92 points by sandofsky 16y ago|23 comments
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by sandofsky 16y ago
The real Flash "killer" is whatever commercial product they release to compete with the Flash artist tools. The only people who care about Flash are those with investments. Artists don't want to relearn tools, or worse; their worst fear is
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by sandofsky 17y ago
From what I've read, Zed's goal is not to be exhaustive training for an existing professional developer, but a gentle introduction for the non programmer. He's leveraging his experience from taking time off to go to music school. http://sh
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Introducing SproutCore Touch(blog.sproutcore.com)
42 points by sandofsky 17y ago|5 comments
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I suspect this has to do with their prices. At $50, OmniGraffle was one of the most expensive iPad apps I spotted in the app store. I think iWork apps being $10 each acts as an anchor. At $50, I have to ask myself whether I'll really use it
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by sandofsky 17y ago
Please correct me if this article is wrong or I'm misreading it: http://www.igvita.com/2009/05/13/fibers-cooperative-scheduli... MRI's fair scheduler means a thread gets an equal time slice even if it's blocked on IO.
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I suspect recruiters are comforting when companies don't know enough about the technology to judge qualification. Of course, rarely do recruiters know much more. Does anyone know if there are services for performing due diligence on candida
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by sandofsky 17y ago
Not really. From the article: "single Thread, multiple Fiber" Fibers are not threads. Rather than preemptive multithreading, it's cooperative. This means the VM isn't wasting time on requests blocked on IO.
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I did a minor in theatre (well, the closest my college had). I focused a lot on Mamet. It's easy to take his approach overboard. Mamet is a playwright, and plays are a different medium than film. In fact, his book "On Directing Film," cover
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by sandofsky 17y ago
Some people don't know about the opportunities. Some people value being near family. Some people are just afraid of change. The entire discussion is making me want to finish an essay I started five months ago, when I left LA. But in short,
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by sandofsky 17y ago
It should also be noted that Giles works in Los Angeles. Having spent 5 years in LA as a developer, I can tell you companies there are absolutely desperate for talent. Contrast this with a tech heavy area like Boston, where competition is g
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by sandofsky 17y ago
Your line of reasoning flawed, in that it can be applied to anyplace where one option surpasses the other. Without a car as a point of reference, would you notice a horse and buggy are so bad? Yes, I would live with the scrolling on the And
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I just tested. I loaded a web page I'd bookmarked on my home screen. The top part of the screen shows the loading bar. The bookmark button is still a bookmark. When I click a link, it doesn't change into a stop button until the actual page
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I've had my Nexus One for four days now. The hardware itself is outstanding. The screen is gorgeous, I like the haptic feedback, and there are lots of nice touches like the trackball that lights up. The software has a few great points too.
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by sandofsky 17y ago
"Your current web browser (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_1; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9) is not officially supported by Lombardi Blueprint. If you experience any problems using th
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by sandofsky 17y ago
> Of course, Silverlight and Flash both beat the pants off of Javascript for practically every benchmark. Last I checked, this is not true. In my darker days, I spent six months on a contract developing a third party full screen media b
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by sandofsky 17y ago
> Silverlight apps can look just as polished as desktop apps. This is not true with DHTML/Javascript. You should really try MobileMe, or 280slides. There are a number of other web apps written in Sproutcore and Cappuccino that feel exac
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Mobile.twitter.com launches (set UA to Mobile Safari first)(mobile.twitter.com)
1 points by sandofsky 17y ago|0 comments
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by sandofsky 17y ago
I developed a few toy projects to learn each framework. Cappuccino is an incredible technical accomplishment. I've done iPhone development, and it's true that you can easily map your Cocoa experience onto Cappuccino. However, when I hit a c