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by scottshea 13y ago
I think this might touch on a larger point. If a startup grows with poor customer service then how incentivized are they to add it later on?
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by scottshea 13y ago
Agreed. A friend of mine keeps raises his bidding price as he gets overloaded. If they pay the amount then great; if not it is better than saying "no" to potential business.
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by scottshea 13y ago
Totally agree on the price. There have been many of these types of posts on HN in the time I have been following it and all have said the same thing.
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by scottshea 13y ago
Actually I did too. And, American-centrism at its finest in me, I wondered why the USA was not on the drop-down until it dawned on me... I need more caffeine
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Data Modeling in Performant Systems (2011)(railstips.org)
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by scottshea 13y ago
It is comments like this that wish I could up vote several times
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by scottshea 13y ago
For me also I take into consideration how much the server has to do for me. For instance if they give free refills and have to come around to my table for it, or even just stand behind the bar and refill when I come up, I will leave an addi
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Beginners Ruby/Rails Cheat Sheet(pragtob.github.io)
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by scottshea 13y ago
I am glad to see that an ASD based tech company is going for more than just testing. Specialisterne and Aspiritech are excellent but slotting ASD folk into just software testing seemed a bit limiting. Also, the inherent conflict of testing
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by scottshea 14y ago
I have to admit I was a bit scared when I read this too. My introvertness makes me want to run from stuff like this. However I do have to say that there should be some effort to greet the new person. I had one job where I was sat in a cube
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EA voted worst company in America(consumerist.com)
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by scottshea 14y ago
Totally. Given the smaller footprint of Puma there is a win available there too as long as you can use JRuby or Rubinius
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by scottshea 14y ago
Keep in mind with more Unicorn workers per box you will need fewer dynos overall so it does not necessarily mean you will have to pay double in the long run. At 1x Dynos we could only have 2 workers going but at 2x we could squeeze five wor
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Using Unicorn Worker Killer to help reduce queue backlog on Heroku with Unicorn(mycatwantstolearnrails.blogspot.com)
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by scottshea 14y ago
I should add that using Unicorn Worker Killer to end a process on thresholds is not a solution as much as it is another stopgap.
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by scottshea 14y ago
Having been part of their efforts to test 2X, and 4X Dynos and using Unicorn long before the RapGenius issue I can tell you the added memory and Unicorn still has issues. We still see periods where queueing is above 500ms. The additional Dy
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by scottshea 14y ago
So their solution to the random routing is for the customer to switch to Unicorn/Puma on JRuby. Wow.
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by scottshea 14y ago
Just as a note... remote work is not okay with them anymore
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by scottshea 14y ago
You know when you're already having performance issues on Heroku having a performance regression is not fun.
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Upgraded Heroku Plugin to view Postgres statistics for your app(mycatwantstolearnrails.blogspot.com)
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A Simplified Query Interface for Relationships in Active Record 4(beerlington.github.com)
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by scottshea 14y ago
So you lose the right to object anywhere if you do not try the channels provided by the wrong doer to begin with? That makes no sense. If I see a company engaging in illegal/unethical activity, by your logic I can only go elsewhere after I
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by scottshea 14y ago
I am glad to see them mentioning this. We use Unicorn, and have for quite a while, as a means of lowering the bottlenecks and slow response times. I strongly suggest looking at Unicorn Worker Killer too ( https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-work
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by scottshea 14y ago
Agreed. I am working with a client who is slightly lower on the Heroku customer food chain and using Unicorn with four workers right now. Our next step is Puma though that will likely not be the end point.
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by scottshea 14y ago
We did this in unicorn.rb `:backlog => Integer(ENV['UNICORN_BACKLOG'] || 200)` and then set the UNICORN_BACKLOG variable by the Heroku command line `heroku config:set UNICORN_BACKLOG=25 -a <app_name>`. We have been as high as 10
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by scottshea 14y ago
To amplify, I do a ton of queue adjustment work with Unicorn at the backlog level. It is so frequent that we set up Unicorn startup to read from an ENV variable on Heroku that we set as needed. With two Unicorn workers we found that 25 was
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by scottshea 14y ago
To expand on your comments I think it is safe to say that the elite, whether aristocracy or meritocracy, are adept at keeping the wealth, influence and power for themselves and their friends. Some of it is innate in that they will pass on r
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by scottshea 14y ago
It is hard to tel if the Court's refusal to open up PACER is due to fear of oversight or bureaucratic greed.
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by scottshea 14y ago
I would love to see how this would work here in Phoenix in the summer. While it is aimed at temperate climates, if it is able to reduce the AC consumption here it might be worth it. First Solar in Tempe designed some shade screens into thei
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by scottshea 14y ago
Thank you for the addition. I was really depressed until I read that (I tend to read comments before articles)

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