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by ultimoo 14y ago
My feels go out to the ops folk at Cloudflare. Mistakes happen no matter how many years of experience people bring in, or how much they're paid. We're all humans after all. It must be a pressurizing task to be responsible for potentially mi
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by ultimoo 14y ago
You should try out ZipCar. I'm not pitching it against InstaCart, which will prove to be cheaper for groceries, but more like a trip to Fry's or Ikea maybe.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Thanks for posting. As a Ruby programmer I have been wanting to learn Python since 2 weeks and hopefully this will get me started for good.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Instead of `tail-mode` in emacs, I prefer the `auto-revert-tail` minor mode that has the ability to display the file in its entirely as well as tail a file. Makes searching for an expression a lot easier, for example.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Wonderful essay, thanks for posting it. For servers, I have seen numbered-names work quite well in most of the projects that I've worked on -- www01, www02, app01, app02, db01, mq01, mq02, so on and so forth. Workstations my university were
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by ultimoo 14y ago
I remember being in a talk by Dr. Vogels last year and he mentioning that *most of the Amazon.com North America services moved over to AWS in September 2011, many other services outside of NA were yet to move.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Wow, this link was the top one on the frontpage for me about 2 minutes back. Now it has completely disappeared off it. How does this happen?
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by ultimoo 14y ago
It's back now.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Let's remember the original comment is the top one because it was voted so by the community.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Haha, I'd be happy if VTA paid more attention to the time their platforms display. The time on at least half the platforms is off by 3 to 4 minutes from my phone's time (which is set on automatic). Forget that, when DST stopped in Novembe
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by ultimoo 14y ago
As someone who rides the VTA LRT and Buses daily since I don't have a car, I'd also like to point out how filthy the vehicles are. The back of most buses and the centers of most train cars smells like urine. Sometimes, your shoe gets stuck
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by ultimoo 14y ago
Usually, password managing software are used for creating and entering such passwords.
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by ultimoo 14y ago
True, but :find_by_id is closer to :where in that it doesn't raise exceptions upon not finding a record. I've seen it being used in a few places, especially in front another scope, like `current_user.posts.find_by_id`.
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by ultimoo 15y ago
That definitely doesn't tell much about Bob's ability to craft beautiful code fast. However, in my experience, people who have mastered their tool-chains are most likely good developers too.