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by wgjordan 9y ago
> Just the fact that app can utilize all cpu cores without you doing anything special is pretty damn awesome. Rails apps can utilize all cpu cores without you doing anything special as well (Since Rails 5 its default web-server is Puma,
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by wgjordan 9y ago
Another unaffiliated happy customer here, ShareLaTeX is awesome.
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by wgjordan 10y ago
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' - Carl Sagan
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by wgjordan 10y ago
Whatever your opinion on whether it's appropriately formal for a news article, the 'get-passive' [1] is definitely not 'this mysterious slang construction from my generation', unless you're a contemporary of Ma
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by wgjordan 10y ago
Related, are you aware of the JRuby+Truffle project [1]? Not a new high performance JVM language, but a high-performance implementation of Ruby using Truffle and Graal. On the surface it sounds extremely similar to Ruby+OMR (applying a hi
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Introducing the K–12 Computer Science Framework, a Milestone for CS Education(blog.code.org)
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by wgjordan 10y ago
Not 'Rails' here, just some enhancements from the Active Support Core Extensions library, which can be included in your (non-Rails) project entirely standalone. I have found it to be a very useful supplement to the Ruby standard l
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by wgjordan 10y ago
letsencrypt-aws looks to be designed specifically to automate updating ELB certificates, and doesn't seem quite as suitable for provisioning certificates for standalone EC2 instances, for example. I've had good results using http
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by wgjordan 10y ago
Considering alex/letsencrypt-aws is also designed specifically for ELB, I think the comparison to ACM is appropriate. From what I can tell, the only reasons to use alex/letsencrypt-aws (IAM certificates) instead of AWS Certificate
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by wgjordan 10y ago
This is designed specifically for researchers in academic institutions that have quite narrowly-defined mechanisms for 'getting credit' that can be formally applied towards career advancement, tenure review, etc., where by definit
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by wgjordan 11y ago
For organizing your papers, Paperpile ( http://paperpile.com ) is an excellent up-and-coming reference management tool. It integrates with Google Drive and has a full-featured PDF annotator and note-taker. It's helped me out
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by wgjordan 14y ago
Just released last week in Flash Player 11.4: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/release-note/fp_114_air_...