troels

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1. 151.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   You reply back to the startups that there is something wrong with the AL site?
2. 152.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   file size appears to me as a completely random metric to measure your code against. With the overhead associated with establishing a http connection, the actual byte-size is most likely of little importance. In fact, if this goes over TCP&#
3. 153.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   Exactly. I feel a bit cheated.
4. 154.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   I don't think that, when this sort of interaction occurs, you know the person is going to be good at writing production code. But at least you do know they're the "sort" of person you would expect to be good at it
5. 155.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   Well - have you considered what happened to PHP 6?
6. 156.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   I wouldn't call Ruby's syntax simple. Elegant, yes, but not simple. I'd consider myself a pretty seasoned rubyist, but my IDE catches syntax errors for me all the time.
7. 157.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   "and one wrote something that looked suspiciously like COBOL - still not sure if he was trolling me." That's brilliant. Now I have to learn myself some COBOL just for that.
8. 158.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   I imagine it should be trivial to work out an algorithm to break the deadlock. We have plenty of software systems, that needs to deal with similar problems.
9. 159.▲
   by troels 11y ago

   Sendgrid has been in the game for a long time and has it as their core business (unlike mandrill). So I wouldn't be too afraid of them closing down overnight.
10. 160.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Brasilia did better
11. 161.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    If the library site serves over plain http, it is fairly easy to snoop on the visitors activity. So one could find out which kind of books certain visitors were looking for. That could easily reveal secrets about said visitors. If we are no
12. 162.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Try resizing the window.
13. 163.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    I'm fairly sure I've seen several such sites.
14. 164.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Well. If you pick a number at random and test it, and the first one you happen to pick is it, then surely not much.
15. 165.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    The thing about gem churn is somewhat true, BUT that is a problem in any open source eco-system that I've seen so far. And in fact I think Rails fares much better in this area than most others. There are a lot of very high quality gems
16. 166.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Minor quibble, but the Dutch live in The Netherlands. The inhabitants of Denmark are called Danes.
17. 167.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    There's also xdebug, which can give a lot of detailed information. And then there's New Relic for PHP.
18. 168.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Thanks, that was what I was missing. I figured it was the un- prefix, which means something like non-existing. ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/un-#Prefix )
19. 169.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    I was mostly thinking of the unun part?
20. 170.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    What's the in-joke with the temporary names? (ununtrium, ununpentium ...)
21. 171.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    I'm sure there's a secret court somewhere that can make a decision. Of course we would never know.
22. 172.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Credit where credit due - I think Basecamp were one of the early ones to perfect this strategy.
23. 173.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    There does seem to be an air of schadenfreude/witch hunt going on.
24. 174.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    touché
25. 175.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    That doesn't sound as cool, so clearly can't be it.
26. 176.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Speedball 2 was absolutely classic. It was clearly influenced by this great seventies movie, in case you need a shot of nostalgia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/
27. 177.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    For a pivot, simply take a resultset that gives three columns and map the first to the X axis, the second to the Y and the third as values. It's very often that I find myself pulling that kind of data out in reports. Making a general p
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    by troels 11y ago

    Another vector might be to build a tool that allows programmers to build ad-hoc reports, and then hand it off to tech-savvy non-programmers. If the tool makes it easy to share/fork queries (I'm envisioning something like gist in a
29. 179.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Very nice. I've been building on something similar myself, but this looks like you came quite far. Further to this - Does it have the ability to render pivot tables from two-dimensional results? Or cohort charts? These are visualisatio
30. 180.▲
    by troels 11y ago

    Can you say a bit more about how you use Aurora for indexing S3? What are these indices used for? (Or what do you mean by indexing)