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by texel 16y ago
The FileReader API allows you to do some cool things, but I wanted to avoid chunked uploading for a few reasons. First, it's way more complex to handle given the way our app currently deals with files, and second, there isn't nearly as much
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Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1(onehub.com)
77 points by texel 16y ago|6 comments
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by texel 16y ago
Courtesy of Evan Phoenix... apparently in MRI, attr_reader doesn't create a method, instead creating a NODE_IVAR in the method table of the class. This circumvents method creation/invocation overhead and is therefore faster.
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by texel 16y ago
Admit it: you just wanted to use an AST so that you could easily convert SQL to and from XML for an upcoming talk.
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by texel 16y ago
For me, it was the EPR/double slit experiment.
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by texel 16y ago
Right, having written a billing system, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. I just got the impression that the article conflated rolling your own billing system with actual handing of the payments and credit card storage. Perhaps I was mista
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by texel 16y ago
It's interesting that the author didn't mention a third option– you can build your own subscription management and dunning code, and then foist the high-risk credit card related stuff onto a third party. I'm not sure I'd necessarily suggest
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by texel 16y ago
This is a bit of hand waving (which is OK because we're talking about imaginary sci-fi constructs) but it was my understanding that since warp drive bends space around you, you're not actually going anywhere near the speed of light, and t
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by texel 16y ago
You could certainly do this in-process, either shelling out or by creating a gem that calls your C library. Additionally, if you're fronting your app with a server like nginx, you could use something akin to http://www.grid.net.ru/nginx/up
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by texel 16y ago
I've heard these references to "hitting a wall" a few times now, and it's a bit perplexing. From what I gather, it means that you'll get to a point where you need to understand more about the underlying framework in order to accomplish a pa
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by texel 16y ago
Let us not forget the MAC system: Move in After Completion.
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by texel 16y ago
Oh you're right about that. What may not be entirely obvious though is that oftentimes 1 query can be far slower than 3 queries. In a lot of cases, that one query would have to do joins against multiple tables– I've personally seen speedu
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by texel 16y ago
Well you're ignoring possible disadvantages, like locking an inordinate number of rows in several tables while a long-running copy takes place. Transactions are all well and good, until they run counter to the usability and stability of you
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by texel 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure ActiveRecord will issue a separate query for each of those :include clauses.
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by texel 16y ago
Can you point me to more information about master's degrees being a bad idea? My wife is about to start a master's program, and it'd be good to know ahead of time.
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by texel 16y ago
Do the existing MacRuby features still work (ie autodiscovery of IB outlets/actions)?
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by texel 16y ago
The given example of "unless myvariable.nil?" is a little bit awkard. In fact, the use of the "unless" keyword is, in my opinion, almost always awkward unless it's postfixed: "do_a_thing unless wait?" Not only that, but most of the time,
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by texel 16y ago
I originally got into programming not for the exact same reasons, but for similar ones (reasons that were tangential to one of my primary interests). I guess I found that I loved it just as much and just never stopped, even though I never a
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by texel 16y ago
There are a lot of projects aiming to fix that, but yes, YARV is a great improvement on the speed front. Synthetic benchmarks being what they are, it looks promising: http://rubychan.de/share/yarv_speedups.html
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by texel 16y ago
He's not praising all of them by any means though– on what points do you disagree?
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by texel 16y ago
Me too! Everyone knows the proper usage is "hella rad." Kids these days have no respect for grammar.
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by texel 16y ago
So... not a big Knuth fan?
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by texel 16y ago
Great, now I need to add a third dimension to http://github.com/texel/Effect.Circle Thanks a lot.
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by texel 16y ago
The Mac Mini in question has no means for hardware video acceleration, so you're right, Silverlight does software rendering but faster. How on earth then is it not Adobe's fault that they can't do the same?
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by texel 16y ago
Shenanigans. I can watch HD Netflix streaming on my Mac Mini without a hiccup with CPU to spare, but 480p Lost on the same machine makes it cry for mercy. Pretty Microsoft doesn't have access to any super secret APIs that Apple saw fit to h
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by texel 16y ago
You want AckMate: http://wiki.github.com/protocool/AckMate/
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by texel 17y ago
I don't think I made any assumptions about your feelings on static vs. dynamic typing, I'm just pointing out that even though on the surface they can be both used to solve similar superficial problems, static typing is woefully limited with
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by texel 17y ago
They don't solve the same problem though. All static typing does is make sure you don't have any type mismatches. Sure, it helps enforce assertions about your inputs and outputs, but there are a million ways your code can compile without is
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by texel 17y ago
I know this is just a single data point, but they've already instituted a law like this within King County. It has certainly changed the way I order when I'm out. Accuracy of the numbers notwithstanding, you can clearly see huge differences
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by texel 17y ago
Agreed. Not only that, but they have an awesome API. I've used it to write automation tools for our build/deploy process. Never underestimate the usefulness of a good API.

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