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by wmoxam 16y ago
Are there many ruby app built by large teams? In my experience, teams building Ruby apps tend to be much smaller than teams building Java apps .. That said, this is a problem for any libraries that you might want to include, you have to tru
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by wmoxam 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands
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by wmoxam 16y ago
It's the same issue here. Conservatives in power (right), Liberals in opposition (left/center) hold the bulk of the seats, NDP (left) and Bloc (left/separatists) hold the remainder. The NDP doesn't have enough seats to help the Cons on thei
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by wmoxam 17y ago
I'm in. The Rhino is a popular hacker meetup place. Both Ajax pubnight ( http://www.ajaxcamp.org/ajax-pub-nite/ ) and Rails pubnight ( http://unspace.ca/innovation/pubnite ) are held there. Many of the attendees of those events frequent hac
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Yeah, Don't Move To NYC To Do Your Startup (Yet)(zedshaw.com)
1 points by wmoxam 17y ago|0 comments
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by wmoxam 17y ago
Very cool, the syntax is similar to Potion CoffeeScript: square: x => x * x. Potion: square = (x): x * y.
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by wmoxam 17y ago
"The e-reader's web browser and blog subscription service will not work in Canada, according to the description on Amazon.com, but customers will have free access to Wikipedia." ( http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/11/17/tech-amazon-kindle-c
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by wmoxam 17y ago
I would assume the obstacle that prevented an earlier release was Rogers. I assume that Kindle must be a GSM device, and since Rogers is the only GSM provider in Canada, they must have played hardball on fees, etc. I really wish there was s
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by wmoxam 17y ago
Paid apps aren't available in Canada yet. I can see them if I use a T-mobile SIM card.
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by wmoxam 17y ago
Sounds like a good story, one that is often repeated in the US. Unfortunately it's not entirely true. The facts: * There are severe restrictions on prescription pharmaceutical advertising in Canada. For example, access to product informatio
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by wmoxam 17y ago
http://github.com/wmoxam/potion/tree/master
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by wmoxam 17y ago
Pat Allan had the best follow up, which kicked off some interesting discussion. You can find it here: http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/future_ruby_and_california...
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Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology(infoq.com)
18 points by wmoxam 17y ago|3 comments
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by wmoxam 17y ago
I'm a fan of Munin. It's super easy to write custom scripts for it in any language. For example, here's a script written in ruby to graph Passenger memory usage: http://gist.github.com/37525 Munin is only one component of a complete monit
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by wmoxam 17y ago
There be hackers of both hardware and software in the Greater Toronto Area, but not so much within the city itself Huh? Spadina Ave. in Toronto is lined with startups and tech companies, as is King West (aka 'Liberty Village'). There are
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by wmoxam 17y ago
Thanks Paul. I'm aware of Math Player, but I don't like the tradeoff of forcing our users to install a plugin for superior display quality/customizability vs. "it just works". The nature of our user base just doesn't make it feasible IMO. I
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by wmoxam 17y ago
We actually do the same for math equations in LearnHub lessons (via texhub.com). Images are pretty much the only way to present complex math equations to a wide audience. MathML would be a much better solution only if it were natively suppo
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by wmoxam 18y ago
That could be a long ways off with the expense of building a network and the difficulty in raising capital these days ...
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by wmoxam 18y ago
Have recently switched from using Solr+acts_as_solr to Sphinx+Thinkinh Sphinx I have found quite the opposite. Thinking Sphinx is simpler than Solr and required no 'fiddling'. I had to work around some problems in acts_as_solr, such as it's
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by wmoxam 18y ago
Beanstalkd + async_observer (Rails plugin) have worked well for me. Add a Munin script to monitor the queue size ( http://gist.github.com/36116 ) and it's a pretty effective and manageable system.
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by wmoxam 18y ago
This is what I do. Using Amazon's EC2+EBS makes it dead simple. Every time we test a release I setup a staging env (from scratch) and restore the latest EBS snapshot. That way I'm testing both the database backup and that I've kept all of t
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by wmoxam 18y ago
Munin has worked great for me. I've written a few node scripts for monitoring Passenger (aka mod_rails) and Beanstalkd and it was super easy. Ex: http://gist.github.com/37525
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by wmoxam 18y ago
I've been using Limechat lately
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by wmoxam 18y ago
It'll be interesting to see how well it works in the coming releases of Merb. I'm not being a hater, just saying it hasn't been tested. Hopefully they can pull off upgrades more smoothly than Rails and Rails can learn from it. That way ever
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by wmoxam 18y ago
_The state of alaska didn't buy that land from canada, the United States federal government did and gave it to alaska_ Actually, they bought it from Russia (Canada didn't exist at that point). Alaska didn't immediately become a state either
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by wmoxam 18y ago
I spent several years writing ASP applications and administering dozens of Windows servers running IIS (amongst other things). I had many of the same problems as the author such as: "I have absolutely no clue what error 0×00001ad59add means