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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
Can someone explain to me why they don't just open up every possible string as a TLD?
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Seems like symlinks could solve your problem in the mean time.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Gmail is faster than any native email client I have ever used.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
AcademicWorks.com - Austin TX Senior Rails Software Engineer Learn more here: http://www.academicworks.com/careers
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Its interesting that Safari doesn't need to be on for these to work. I wonder if it will launch my browser of choice (Chrome) when I click on one of these.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
What is the significance of LLCs being on the list?
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by techscruggs 13y ago
What is your deterministic system for determining salary?
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by techscruggs 13y ago
I am curious too. It has me looking at apps like: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tokenlock/id402433482?mt=12 How/why is this better?
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Agreed. Airmail is my favorite email client too. Just to set expectations, it does crash daily on me. That being said, it is still the best option out there.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
A lot of people are concerned about the Yubikey dying, but that is only one of 3 passwords you should have memorized. You also need to know your app store password. If your computer crashes, you will want to be able to reinstall 1password.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
It won't have a decent Disaster Recovery plan until 1.0, so I would suggest holding off on making it the authoritative source of any of your data.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
AcademicWorks.com - Austin TX Senior Rails Software Engineer, Client Support Engineer, Lead QA Engineer Learn more here: http://www.academicworks.com/careers
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The Monthly Lunch: How I do one on ones(aaron.scrug.gs)
1 points by techscruggs 13y ago|0 comments
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by techscruggs 13y ago
This would be a fantastic option for the admin interface's of JSON document stores like CouchBase, ElasticSearch or RethinkDB. JSON is easy to read, but can get hard to visually parse when the payload is large.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Log4r[1] is nice, but last I checked it isn't as well maintained or feature rich as the Logging[2] gem. [1] https://rubygems.org/gems/log4r [2] https://rubygems.org/gems/logging
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by techscruggs 13y ago
On an orthogonal note. Seeing an image of a man smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer next to the post-mortem doesn't exactly inspire confidence. This really seems to be pushing the limits of professionalism.
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by techscruggs 13y ago
"Email that uses standard Internet protocols cannot have the same security guarantees that real-time communications has. There are far too many leaks of information and metadata intrinsically in the email protocols themselves. Email as
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by techscruggs 13y ago
He provides a more complete example on the github page: https://github.com/dhh/custom_configuration/
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by techscruggs 13y ago
Its buried http://rottmann.net/2012/12/enable-google-now-google-apps-fo...
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by techscruggs 14y ago
Austin TX, DevOps Engineer AcademicWorks helps students afford college with the best scholarship management application on the market. We've helped scholarship administrators across the country process millions of applications, and have hel
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by techscruggs 14y ago
Aaron, thank you for all your hard work and making the Rails community fun to be a part of. ... upgrading now!
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Egor Homakov, github's 'hacker', hints at next attack.(twitter.com)
7 points by techscruggs 15y ago|0 comments
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Then you don't use S3?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
what about those classes not in your autoload path?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
What about production consoles? And even with reload, what about those classes not in your autoload path?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
They said that they had 2TB in postgres not 2TB of total data. I imagine all of their data is probably about an order of magnitude larger. Additionally, the challenges are not as much around how much data you have, but how you want to acc
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Two benefits I see (esp. w/ rails) 1) Quick console start. As rails developers, we spend way too much time waiting for consoles to start. This could save at least an hour out of my month. 2) Dynamically change production logging level. W
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Question: They tout MongoDB's "generally fast" read speed. Any idea what this is in relation to? In "fast", are they suggesting that it is faster than a typical RDBMS? If so, does anyone know of any supporting benchmarks or breakdowns of
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by techscruggs 15y ago
More exiting than the datastore offering itself is that it is going to be SSD backed. I hope this hints at an SSD backed EBS offering in the near future.

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