techscruggs

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by techscruggs 6y ago
At Amazon's scale, betting on M1 servers for a niche subset of their EC2 offering doesn't seem to be really risky.
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by techscruggs 6y ago
What are some of the other exciting things happening in the Rails world these days?
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by techscruggs 6y ago
This looks great. I'd love to remove Redis from my tech stack on applications with low throughput background jobs. Sadly, it doesn't appear to have a UI. Resque and Sidekiq are both good enough solutions, but what makes them my
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by techscruggs 6y ago
You can implement background processing with less operational complexity. This allows you to leverage activejob to get something up and running quickly and easily. Granted, if you start having higher throughput, you want to move on from us
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by techscruggs 7y ago
1) Setup a status page for what you want to monitor (/health/queuelength) 2) Point statuscake at that url 3) Connect statuscake to pagerduty. This approach is easy to implement and scale
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by techscruggs 7y ago
I hired the best Engineering leader I have ever worked with early in his career from posting on an HN "who's hiring thread".
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by techscruggs 7y ago
Step1 | Head of Marketing | Austin TX | https://getstep1.com/head-of-marketing/ Step1 helps Realtor's organize the home buying process while putting their clients first. There are plenty of tools that organize th
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by techscruggs 8y ago
Isn't this the inverse experiment? The theory that removing ads will increase your user base?
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by techscruggs 8y ago
EBITDA is intended to reduce the possibility of "financial engineering".
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by techscruggs 8y ago
The medical field has a term for this: iatrogenic.
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by techscruggs 8y ago
The majority of these websites appear to be US based local news outlets. They have very little motivation to comply with GDPR. As a side note, a lot of the comments here suggest that few people are reviewing the list at all before offering
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by techscruggs 8y ago
Reddit can't contact them because Reddit didn't require an email address to create an account back then. If they did require an email address, they could restore their database backups to retrieve that information.
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by techscruggs 8y ago
Stock analysts should have to share what percentage of their portfolio is in any company they write about.
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by techscruggs 10y ago
It is a team sport. Learn to recognize when to ask for help and who is the best suited to help you.
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by techscruggs 11y ago
The user couldn't be signed in as the attacker if search.com required their cookie to be signed. Only search.com would have the secret key. EDIT: Just read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279794 ... NM, you ar
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by techscruggs 11y ago
Another great argument for using signed cookies.
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by techscruggs 11y ago
That's a rather entitled viewpoint.
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by techscruggs 11y ago
What exactly would you like to see?
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by techscruggs 11y ago
I have two at my house and absolutely love them for the simplest tasks: weather, time, timer & shopping list. It's other features are fun, but I haven't found more useful than grabbing my smartphone. For me, it's a more
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by techscruggs 12y ago
I disagree. The primary purpose of language is to help one give form to their thoughts. Communication is secondary to this.
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Also, this is only an issue if you are running version 1.0.2. It doesn't affect any other version.
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by techscruggs 12y ago
So, this exploit allows for a Denial of Service Attack. While this does mean a single person could bring down your site, it does not appear that it will allow someone to gain access to your server via this exploit.
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by techscruggs 12y ago
No, probably not anyone who is reading hackernews, but imgur has a much wider audience. GIFV will help communicate 2 things: 1) this file is audio free 2)this file is safe (people don't generally worry about getting a virus from a gif
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Austin TX, AcademicWorks, Senior Ruby Engineer / Systems Architect We are looking for someone to help us scale, automate, and maintain our SaaS application that is used by some of the largest and most prestigious universities and found
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Seems like you might want to consider getting all of your data in the same place. A Foreign Data Wrapper feeding a Materialized View might be a neat way to solve your problem: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/in
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by techscruggs 12y ago
I wonder how these benchmarks would compare with citusdb + compression. Very interesting nonetheless.
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Its a bad solution for OLTP. C-stores are read optimized while a typical (row-oriented) rdbms is write optimized. Read optimized storage is typically accomplished via a write buffer that is flushed to a read store at a certain epoch. Basi
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by techscruggs 12y ago
If you are not familiar with Foreign Data Wrappers, they allow you to connect to other datastores and represent that data as tables in your database. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Austin TX, AcademicWorks, Senior Ruby Engineer / Systems Architect We are looking for someone to help us scale, automate, and maintain our SaaS application that is used by some of the largest and most prestigious universities and found
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by techscruggs 12y ago
Austin TX, AcademicWorks, Senior Ruby Engineer / Systems Architect We are looking for someone to help us scale, automate, and maintain our SaaS application that is used by some of the largest and most prestigious universities and found

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