techscruggs

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by techscruggs 15y ago
I have been using this desk for the past year now and it is awesome. What I dislike about the authors suggested setup is the fixed height. Often, the initial height that you set the desk to will become uncomfortable. As your body adjusts
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by techscruggs 15y ago
AcademicWorks has hired two people from posting on HN. We consistently find our best candidates from these threads. I have a memo to post at the first of every month, because we are always looking for talented engineers.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Austin, TX Senior Software Engineer Use Postgres, Redis, AWS, Ruby 1.9.2 & Rails 3.0 to help college students find scholarships. AcademicWorks is a profitable startup that values work/life balance and career development. Learn more he
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Thanks! I have and love the two Packt books. I'll check out the rest. If end up blogging, let me know. I'm @techscruggs
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Wow, I have to ask, what do you think are some of the best resources to pull on for postgres knowledge are? and do you blog/tweet about your postgres work? if so, where?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
"High quality, world class text search is a basic prerequisite for a production web app these days" That is a pretty bold statement, that I can't agree with. The right tool for the job can vary dependent on need. Perhaps you are building
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by techscruggs 15y ago
AcademicWorks in Austin, Tx Ruby, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Chef, Rails3.1, Graphite, Resque, the list goes on. We are funded and exceeding all our projected sales goals. Come work in an environment where you can love what you do! http://www.a
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by techscruggs 15y ago
What version of chef server are you using? It appears to have been fixed a while again: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-489 . Perhaps your issue is not tied to your ruby version: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-920
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Good to know, that does make my concern significantly more trivial.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Have you used Blueprint? I am really interested in it. Honestly, it seems like a bit of magic to me and wonder how well it works and what its limitations are.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
That would be a great surprise! I haven't been on the wiki form ~5 months, which does make my opinion a bit dated.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
I was a bit confused by the "excellent reference documentation" regarding Chef, as well. The documentation I have read has been out of sync, occasionally contradictory piece-meal. I have yet to find anything more useful than just reading
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Agreed on all points. Guaranteeing the entire installation is "documented and replicable" is huge. Chef/Puppet can become a large part of you disaster recovery plan and increases the "bus number" in ops. The value in this is immediately ap
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by techscruggs 15y ago
I use Chef, but without the server (chef-solo). I have a hard time stomaching the idea of dealing with a Merb application (an abandoned framework) that has some rather complex dependencies (couchdb & rabbitmq). That being said, plenty
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by techscruggs 15y ago
This isn't exactly news, is it? Isn't this the same tactic that ExpertsExchange used to show up in search results while trying to hide the content behind a paywall?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
So, this looks a bit bogus. It doesn't look like it is actually google, but glad to know the workaround.
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Google+ sends users to Yahoo/Hotmail to import Facebook friends(facebook.com)
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Its no 'yappd', but still very cool!
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Spending $20 at themeforest.net is the best investment you could make. Its an interesting concept, but it will be hard for anyone to get past the UI.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Austin, TX AcademicWorks is a small, funded and rapidly growing startup. We are working with the latest versions of Postgres, Redis, Rails & Ruby to help college students get scholarships. You can learn more here: http://www.academic
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Between the quality of this editor and the rate at which new (relevant) releases are coming out, I can no longer justify using Textmate.
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Redis 2.4 will be released tomorrow(feedproxy.google.com)
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by techscruggs 15y ago
with oauth access you can push the tweet yourself. Of course, tell them what they will be posting, but you can control the message.
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by techscruggs 15y ago
As I suggest in the comments: http://tbbuck.com/building-a-50-dollar-a-month-web-app/#comm... ------ Try presenting your users with a paid and viral choice. First oauth them with the promise of the service you are offering. Then present
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by techscruggs 15y ago
I am curious of its success rate. Of those of you who have posted, have you heard from any candidates yet? I posted 4 hours ago and have had no replies yet. While I don't expect to receive any responses this quickly, I am curious what oth
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"I trust Redis-on-disk every day less." --Salvatore(groups.google.com)
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Crap, my apologies, I obviously skimmed that article as opposed to reading it. mea culpa
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by techscruggs 15y ago
With the advent of Homebrew, why would manually compile from source for your local dev environment?
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Austin, TX - Ruby Programmer AcademicWorks - Scholarship Management in a SAAS environment. We are working with a lot of cool technologies: Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.0.5, HTML 5, Jquery 1.5, Postgres 9.0, Redis 2.0 (yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll be upgr
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by techscruggs 15y ago
Base64 is a two-way hash function

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