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by socratic 15y ago
Why is unit testing useful, to you? I have often heard two justifications for testing: (a) correctness and (b) developer speed. Phrasing (a) differently, is X functioning as intended? Phrasing (b) differently, how quickly can I make a chan
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by socratic 15y ago
It seems as though you are actually contrasting two competing philosophies. Bare Bones with Add-ons : Heroku handles deployment (via git, releases), app servers (thin), reverse proxies (varnish), and caches (varnish). (That's "bamb
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by socratic 15y ago
I am really confused by your Heroku comparison. The blobstore is basically S3, and the CDN for the blobstore is basically CloudFront. Both S3 and CF seem to me to have really simple APIs, plugins to Rails and other common frameworks, and a
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by socratic 15y ago
What would you count as "publishing" articles? I find this an interesting point. In some sense, Hacker News publishes anything that can receive enough upvotes. But in another sense, YC interests are highly supported by the ecosystem. For
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by socratic 15y ago
What would you like Heroku to do with a MySQL on EC2 offering that Amazon is not currently doing with their MySQL on EC2 offering (Amazon RDS)? They are both local, use the same underlying infrastructure, and have Heroku add-ons, no? Presu
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by socratic 15y ago
Is there somewhere that gives a good description of the current state of asset packaging in Rails? Personally, I find the whole thing really confusing. Right now, I'm just using asset_id ( https://github.com/moocode/asset_id ) to dump my a
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by socratic 15y ago
I used web.py for a few years before switching over to mostly coding in Rails for the last few months. Is this for real? Do people find the difference between the style of these micro-frameworks substantial? Maybe I've been out of Python-
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by socratic 15y ago
Excellent. Thanks! Any in particular that you think are sensible defaults? I looked at that plugin page earlier and it seemed like a lot to read. What are the core 3--5 plugins that anyone writing a blog should be using?
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by socratic 15y ago
Could you go into a little more detail about how Jekyll isn't/wasn't versatile enough? Maybe a use case or two where it failed (or was too complicated) for you? I'm actually about to learn Jekyll to make a blog today, so I'm very curious.
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by socratic 15y ago
Does the experimental setup for the human judges sound fair to you? For example, the naive Bayes classifier knows the a priori distribution of review spam (which appears to be held to 50%), but do the undergraduate human judges? It would a
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by socratic 15y ago
Personally, it's worth $7/month for me not to have to set up and maintain some random early stage software, irregardless of any moral considerations. That said, what's most interesting about this to me is how few of Pivotal Tracker's featur
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by socratic 15y ago
I'm confused by people who pair all the time, because it seems like the benefit of pairing varies heavily depending on the current programming activity. For example, when I'm debugging, I can easily be several times more productive with som
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by socratic 15y ago
Can n image GETs (or similar) be used to produce 19*n bits of uniqueness, presuming that the affiliate network is willing to handle a factor of n more requests?
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by socratic 15y ago
Indeed. Though two-ish production users after 7 years of development hardly seems like a success. By way of contrast, (1) in the Ruby world, YARV went from an alternative implementation to the official implementation within two years, and
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by socratic 15y ago
To me, this list seems to suggest the opposite actually. [1] is the company where one of the main developers of PyPy works. [2] appears to be a discussion where they are looking for anyone using PyPy in production. [3] seems to be an arti
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by socratic 15y ago
Are there production users of PyPy? I feel like PyPy has always been the most academically interesting Python implementation. But has it taken away mindshare from CPython?
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by socratic 15y ago
What is the point of this article? It appears to be that Safari proxy mode is unreliable, which I guess is surprising but not that interesting. Given that the actual article does not have anything to do with the headline ("error rates" is
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by socratic 15y ago
Is Gruber right, or has Apple made all the right moves since about 2003? I think the main complaint by people who see Gruber pieces on HN all the time is that they argue that he's just an Apple pundit and/or apologist. Another way of askin
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by socratic 15y ago
Does Gruber ever add any real information in an information theoretic sense? He seems to be on Apple's side 100% of the time. (I guess he suggested that the App Store approval process was broken at some point...) He mostly just appears to
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by socratic 15y ago
This sounds like a really interesting application. Any idea what the break down is like on the loading time savings? In other words, what portion of the loading time savings is attributable to download time vs parsing time vs execution time
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by socratic 15y ago
This article surprised me. Is the state of node.js actually not really that far along? It seems like the examples in the article (and even in this thread) are all basically proxies or chatbots. Are there better examples of successful appl
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by socratic 15y ago
Completely agree. Facebook was already worth $750 million and had millions of users by the time they released their API. However, the API does seem (with 20/20 hindsight) like it was a brilliant move in terms of growth, engagement, and ev
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by socratic 15y ago
The pros in this post do not seem terribly credible. First, are there companies other than Twitter that have made an API strategy work? In other words, are there lots of examples of companies for whom their open API has been critical to ad
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by socratic 15y ago
Do people use GitHub Issues? Is there something that it's best at compared to the alternatives?
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by socratic 15y ago
Do you think that this really using argument is more or less a tautology? (1) If people who wrote their website in Lisp (Viaweb, ITA, Reddit) continue using Lisp, then they are smart and Lisp is powerful. (2) If those people (or new peo
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by socratic 15y ago
It seems like the lesson here is that basically any language (Python, Ruby, ...) will perform about the same with non-blocking I/O. Does this mean that Erlang and node.js are mostly compelling because of the prevalence of async versions of