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by tomfakes 15y ago
This needs the V8 stuff compiled and installed. And then I'm running yet more code on my production servers to deploy. And this code compiles the CoffeeScript to JS, and this will be the very first place that this code will have actuall
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I've been building a new app with the Rails 3.1 rcs for the last 3 or 4 weeks. I still have no idea how to actually deploy into production in a way that has a chance of working. As far as I can tell, I need the V8 code built on my producti
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Amazon's user accounts have some strange behavior. I have managed to get myself 2 accounts with the same email and different passwords. There is no way to merge these together! This is the only site I've used where the username doesn't ha
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I've had trouble with Mongo Mapper and Devise. I've upgraded Mongo Mapper to 0.9.1 to take advantage of it's Rails 3 integration, and it works with Devise 1.3.4 which removes the deprecation warnings. To do this, I had to pull down the devi
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I just manually changed the Gemfile to 3.1.0.rc1 and fixed things that broke. My next step is to fixup my morass of CSS and JS files to use the Asset pipeline correctly. That's probably another hour or so.
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I just upgraded an app from 3.0.7 to 3.1.0 rc1 I use Devise and Mongo Mapper. The Mongo Mapper for Devise gem depends on Devise 1.1.x, and this causes a bunch of deprecation warnings, but it works. I don't know if the latest Devise has th
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I think it's something like the plot of the Logan's Run movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(1976_film)
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by tomfakes 15y ago
This doesn't add up for me. Unless they've been working on this for a long time - at least a year, why did they pick the very slowest current version of Ruby to start this process with? Ruby 1.9 gives you an easy doubling of performance fr
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by tomfakes 15y ago
In my experience with both Passenger/nginx and Unicorn/nginx, Unicorn is much more under control with the number of processes it spawns. Passenger may have fixed this by now, but when I was testing, Passenger would forget about processes a
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by tomfakes 15y ago
One thing I've not seen done often on the web is timed release of content to every user, based on their start time. For things that become complex over time, i.e. learning a programming language or a framework, having the content fed to me
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I've written production code in that peak zone. One rule though: don't touch the production servers when you're in this zone. Don't ask how I know...
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I've used Webby in the past: http://webby.rubyforge.org/ - you can use your current text editor to create content and it has rsync built in to copy the generated site to a server somewhere
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by tomfakes 15y ago
I wonder if the problem is that the music scene is so good here in Seattle that the recently graduated want to participate in that area, both as producers and consumers, and not so much in the tech area?
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by tomfakes 15y ago
validate_uniqueness is a system that is completely broken once you have more than 1 ruby process running against the same database. It just can't work the way you want it to. You must add constraints to the database and handle the resultin
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by tomfakes 15y ago
Feel the non-love at HN! I thought I was the only one who thought this way about Guy. I'm glad I'm not alone I love the way he completely non-answered the specific question about a startup he'd been involved with by hand waving about "It'
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by tomfakes 16y ago
I looked into this a little bit a few months ago, but have since decided to take the cash I have and bootstrap a new business instead. These angel things seem to be tricky to get into without help from the inside. And then there's articles
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by tomfakes 16y ago
earning equity in return for work There are tax implications with this description. This equity could be called compensation and taxed at the income tax rate instead of the capital gains rate, in the US. This could be the difference bet
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by tomfakes 16y ago
In Honduras, foreigners can't own more than 3/4 acre of property. The way around this is to have a corporation own the property, and you own the corporation. The system is setup for this purpose. Even smaller properties are owned by corpo
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by tomfakes 16y ago
This is probably to bypass the built in IE error page that is triggered if less than 256 (or 512?) bytes are returned for an error HTTP status.
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by tomfakes 16y ago
How long will it be before someone writes a client sync portion (Windows, Mac and Linux) to make this work like Dropbox? At 50GB and 100GB this costs half of what Dropbox costs. And it goes bigger. I'm currently at 70GB of Dropbox, and am
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by tomfakes 16y ago
This isn't about file size at all, it is about being able to see as much CSS as possible at one time. My screen is wide, my editor is wide, my code is fairly wide, but the standard format for CSS is really narrow. Every time I see the vert
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by tomfakes 16y ago
Slightly related, but mainly a formatting issue, I format my css files as such: .foo { x: y; a: b } .bar { m: n } .baz { background: blah blah url(xyz.png) top left; x: y; i: j; } instead of the more commonly
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by tomfakes 16y ago
I just had a discussion with someone else about fast release schedules and QA teams. If an organization wants to ship often, then QA teams don't work. You need the developers to write and own the test system. The new feature isn't done un
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by tomfakes 16y ago
I'm a good programmer. Many people I know professionally may call me more than that. I have a friend who, when he does stuff, I can look at and say that there is no-way I would ever come up with that. Once I've seen it, I can say that I c
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by tomfakes 16y ago
You can randomly talk to a Briton in exactly one situation - at the pub. The rules are different there, and the booze helps too.
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Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply(cringely.com)
254 points by tomfakes 16y ago|94 comments
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by tomfakes 16y ago
I bought some early LED spot lights for home. These things cost $55 each and gave out a light that was a bit too dim, and very, very blue. My wife hated them and we took them out and put incandescents back to get the light we wanted. We ha
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by tomfakes 16y ago
I've previously built Facebook applications. I've had Facebook turn off my applications with no warning. It sucks. They've done this to us on a Friday evening and then headed home, so we've had our business shutdown until Monday or Tuesd
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by tomfakes 16y ago
In production use, we found we could run double the load on our servers with 1.9 than we could with 1.8. Switching to 1.9 kept us running our app on a cluster of 8 servers as our user base grew, saving us the monthly rental of 8 servers an
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by tomfakes 16y ago
Every other app that has done this in the past has been slapped down by Facebook for TOS violation. As a general case, when you're building an app on someone else's platform, you absolutely must know the terms of service of that platform, o

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