wwarnerandrew

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Weighing your options: tie breakers and rounding poll results to 100(genius.engineering)
3 points by wwarnerandrew 6y ago|0 comments
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Eliminating Swift Callback Hell with a 100-Line Futures Library(genius.engineering)
2 points by wwarnerandrew 8y ago|0 comments
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A Closer Look at the Polar Vortex’s Dangerously Cold Winds(nytimes.com)
5 points by wwarnerandrew 8y ago|0 comments
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BuzzFeed lays off 15 percent of its staff(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by wwarnerandrew 8y ago|0 comments
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by wwarnerandrew 8y ago
good question! the analysis that I was doing was really a one-off for switching between these processes. We have unit tests and sanity checks to ensure consistency going forward, but as a final check before flipping the switch we wanted to
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by wwarnerandrew 8y ago
OP here— good point! We actually use Athena to query these exports in S3 to debug data drift of specific export objects over time. It's quite a useful tool, I was able to go knowing basically nothing about Athena to querying gzipped ne
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Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq(genius.engineering)
206 points by wwarnerandrew 8y ago|84 comments
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Beware the Siren Song of Comments(leastastonished.com)
23 points by wwarnerandrew 12y ago|30 comments
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by wwarnerandrew 13y ago
The graphing library is highcharts ( http://www.highcharts.com/ )
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by wwarnerandrew 13y ago
Here is a permalink for that annotation: http://news.rapgenius.com/1900809 You can get that by clicking "share" in the annotation footer
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by wwarnerandrew 13y ago
What about using something like jquery detach? Then you could, when rendering, detach the element, render all the content, subviews, and re-append it. That shouldn't trigger reflows, right?
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Simple Active Record Query Debugging in the Rails Console(a-warner.github.com)
1 points by wwarnerandrew 14y ago|0 comments
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Coding Cloud Heroku May Face Lawsuit Over Bait-and-Switch Claims(wired.com)
178 points by wwarnerandrew 14y ago|96 comments
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by wwarnerandrew 14y ago
Yes, it's true that the Cedar stack supports forking web servers like unicorn, and that an individual dyno can run multiple workers and therefore serve multiple requests at the same time. However, dumb routing is still very problematic – ev
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by wwarnerandrew 14y ago
Yes, that's true, but for apps with significant memory footprint I don't think it's a huge help. Heroku dynos have 512mb ram ( https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos ), so for an app that has a 200mb footprint you're looking at probab