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by talkingquickly 13y ago
My impression was they were claiming to have passport scans and a 20GB DB dump, e.g. that they were separate?
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Would be really interested to chat to you about Codebox + Docker, email is ben at talkingquickly co uk or talkingquickly on twitter
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
To put "often" in context, I raised a Github issue on it today which was resolved within a few hours, it's improving incredibly quickly (and it's already awesome).
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Exactly, how many developers can honestly say they've never copy pasted commands into the terminal without being 100% sure what they were doing?
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I think it's less that you can't and more that most people won't. The reason I know I can provision a new server for app x without hassle is because the chef setup to do it gets used regularly, it's part of the workflow
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
They don't actively lock you in which is great but you will almost certainly end up with bits of your workflow which are extremely dependant on Heroku. IMO pure AWS has exactly the same problem if not more. If you compare this to deplo
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
For smaller apps is worth looking at Monit, really simple to setup and covers most of what needs testing if configured correctly.
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Myself and some guys with a telecoms background spoke to various telcos about that ~2 years ago. Feedback was that they were already so over stretched with data usage they weren't going to embark on any projects likely to increase it u
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Was not expecting a comments from someone at GoDaddy here, appreciate the response.
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Exactly, I mentioned further down that their ruby customers are probably made up of people with very little experience. So these customers are probably characterised by quite low spend and very high support costs since they're still q
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
My guess would be it's more that no experienced Ruby developer would use GoDaddy for hosting. So most people they've got using it are probably inexperienced people (on that basis if you had experience, you'd use something lik
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
OK I'll rephrase; for most people the internet isn't a thing where you view static html documents anymore. Therefore people want to use "something" to access these things (for example new software) and currently this thi
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
> Browsers are fine as long as you use them for what they are meant to be used A lot of people now want to use their browser for far more than that and browser technologies are evolving accordingly. I'd suggest it's been quite
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Also fascinating that despite all the talk of Bitcoin only being used by speculators, there's demand for tools which allow it to be used purely as an exchange mechanism.
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Definitely interested in contributing, going to get this up on a VM tonight and try and get to grips with how it works. What's the best way to get in touch with you?
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Exactly what I was looking for yesterday researching an interactive programming tutorial I was thinking of putting together. Great timing! Not sure if it's intentional but the license (apache2) link on GitHub goes to the docs folder ra
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Not aimed at exactly this use case but the first two thirds of my book Reliably Deploying Rails Applications https://leanpub.com/deploying_rails_applications is heavily chef focussed. It's intended for use with Chef So
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
True but I think people often assume, mistakenly, that SO will have a lower cost than RTFM. A great example is Postgres authentication, there are hundreds if not thousands of questions on this topic on SO, almost all of which would be answe
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Using Chef to automate setting up a Rails Server (including sample code)(talkingquickly.co.uk)
8 points by talkingquickly 13y ago|1 comments
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. What's more because of the focus on hyper growth, I think a lot of people are discouraged from working on valid problems which lack immediate potential for that kind of growth.
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I feel like they may have lost any semblance of the "artist" part using that approach..
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Or maybe four; http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/21-hours
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I'd argue it does. Deserve as mentioned in the parent implies some sort of generally accepted human 'right'. The length of the work day/ work week is fairly arbitrary and definitely up for debate, there are great argumen
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
We built this for clothes ( http://www.shopofme.com ) a while ago. It did some fashion specific stuff on top of it but in essence the same principal, alerts when items drop in price. Might be interesting to chat as I'm still
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
If you're interested I'm currently writing a book on the subject of deploying rails apps, more info here; http://deploying-rails-book.talkingquickly.co.uk/
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I'd second this. Particularly CPU performance on Rackspace has been hugely worse than Linode on comparatively sized instances. To the point I've had to use 8GB instances on Rackspace for CPU bound tasks which are fine on 1 or 2GB
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Agreed, I think the author has mis-understood what it means. Quite a common one to get wrong though, for anyone wondering it generally means that stating an exception proves/ establishes/ implies that a general rule exists. E.g. Y
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Australian Startups To Begin Delivering Textbook Orders By Drone(techcrunch.com)
30 points by talkingquickly 13y ago|19 comments
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
I've been thinking about building something like this for ages but never got around to it. I'm working on a book about deploying rails applications and was hacking together a script at the weekend to extract words written per day
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by talkingquickly 13y ago
Would that not mean that the cookie could still be re-used by a malicious user who had intercepted it, as long as the real user had subsequently logged in again? I guess it reduces the attack surface (the genuine user must be logged in at t

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