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by towelrod 13y ago
The point is that you shouldn't have to configure things like @Path because they can be inferred from the class name. Why not: class Hello { def get() { "Hello, world!" } } I would prefer to see this a
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by towelrod 14y ago
What $1,000 worth of equipment? The "free" tier only comes with a network box, and it has a $300 "construction fee". $300 should pretty easily pay for what looks like a wireless router.
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by towelrod 14y ago
Interesting -- what other apps use the remote control API? I have never been able to control anything other than "Music" with either of my cars. Aside from using the phone to make calls, of course.
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by towelrod 14y ago
Are you kidding me? Currently my car radio can control the music app and let me listen to podcasts. Why would they take that functionality away?
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by towelrod 14y ago
There is also a "continue without logging in" link.
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by towelrod 15y ago
That's not enough. Contacts should not be accessible by third party apps without explicit permission, period. Its not enough to remove apps after they are found to violate a rule. Just don't even make it possible to violate that rule in
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by towelrod 15y ago
thin uses EventMachine and puma uses threads.
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by towelrod 15y ago
Hmm, I graduated from college before the REALLY old days were over, apparently. :) I don't mean to glorify USENET. The web based forums brought many cool new features -- you could post images that worked reliably, the Slashdot-style moder
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by towelrod 15y ago
Facebook is doing the same thing to your forum that your forum did to USENET. In the 90s, USENET was lively and active. It was federated, decentralized, and you could use any client you wanted to access the information. Web based forums c
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by towelrod 15y ago
I think the OP just meant that once someone like reddit moves into your cloud, your performance goes down. Meaning, the hardware that my little blog is on works great until that hardware also hosting reddit, and then my blog takes a beatin
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by towelrod 15y ago
People have spent billions of dollars buying music on iTunes. Its pretty obvious that people will pay for things if its more convenient than pirating it.
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by towelrod 15y ago
>If Hollywood wants to improve box office receipts, they could stop making so many sequels, movies from comic books, movies from TV shows, and 3D for the sake of 3D. If they want to improve receipts, why should they stop making the movi
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by towelrod 15y ago
Do you have a source for that quote?
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by towelrod 15y ago
To be clear, I don't think that the NGIN slowdown is caused by this exception stuff, because that has been taken out and was really a different performance problem altogether. I only raised it because it was similar -- a problem only on 1.
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by towelrod 15y ago
>exception handling is universally slow. Except that exception handling is so fast in 1.9.2 that it made this change a performance optimization in 1.9.2. Look lower in this topic for benchmarks showing that Rails 3 is faster in 1.9.2 t
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by towelrod 15y ago
I hear what you are saying about exceptions, but you also have to live in reality. Look at danielparks benchmarks in this thread; rails3 under 1.9.2 is faster than rails2 under 1.8.7. Its easy enough to spout platitudes like "don't use e
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by towelrod 15y ago
The problems here are manifesting on Ruby 1.8.7, but not 1.9.2. There have been big performance problems found with 1.8.7, for example in this issue: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/... What was originally a p
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by towelrod 16y ago
Blizzard freaks out about changing IP addresses when you sign in to World of Warcraft. I have two internet connections at home and sometimes I switch back and forth, and back when I was playing WoW, it would lock me out after each switch.
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by towelrod 16y ago
I wear all of those hats from time to time, and I'm a Remote International, and it works ok.
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by towelrod 16y ago
That's interesting. Installing New Relic makes your site dependent on New Relic's availability? That's kinda scary... Of course its also possible that you just got lucky and Heroku came back up for you when you redeployed. Could be a coi
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by towelrod 16y ago
But they would have to pay for all of those. Its more likely to see something like "Angry Birds Forth of July!", right?
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by towelrod 16y ago
Look at something like this: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/03/01/business/01eboo... So $4 out of the $26 I pay for a hardcover book goes to the person who is actually responsible for the content? I submit paying $22 in rent is r
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by towelrod 16y ago
Google and StackOverflow are kinda the same step. I don't think I've ever gone to search specifically on StackOverflow, but google finds the answer there quite often. I think this is a natural extension of the work programmers do these day
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by towelrod 16y ago
There's not much of a point -- that's why 1.8.7 is still around, and why uptake on 1.9.2 has been so slow. If 1.9.2 really made every HTTP request go 2x as fast, don't you think every Ruby shop would have switched to 1.9.2 at least a year a
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by towelrod 16y ago
That kind of performance just doesn't matter that much though. I recently benchmarked my fairly standard Rails app on 1.8.7 vs. 1.9.2, and the numbers for delivering a page are basically the same. 1.9.2 is much faster for calculating Fibon
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by towelrod 16y ago
> My read is that Apple is looking ahead at a future full of small/startup ebook publishers. If I was a small/startup, I would happily give over some percentage -- possibly even 30% -- of my revenue to Apple in order to avoid building m
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by towelrod 16y ago
Sure, Amazon is the poster boy for getting screwed here. But they aren't the only ones getting swept up in this nonsense. I'm just saying, I'm not Amazon. I'm a content company that sells content to users in print form, and on the web (pr
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by towelrod 16y ago
Why is it only a major issue if it relates to SaaS? Isn't screwing over Amazon and anyone else selling that kind of content already a major issue? Anyway, Apple clearly wants this to apply to XaaS, where X = anything and S = subscription.
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by towelrod 16y ago
That's not what is happening here. My company makes all of its money from subscription services that we sell directly to customers. Now if we provide a IOS app to access that content, we risk losing 30% of our revenue if the user happens
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by towelrod 16y ago
> the real schoolboy error was Aaron Barr using a weak shared password for Google Apps admin. I've been reading through some of this HBGary stuff, and I have come to the conclusion that Aaron Barr is kinda a dipshit. Read the email anal

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