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by xal 16y ago
with shopify's code size jruby needs 2gb of memory per process and we found that it spends almost all the time in GC.
392.
by xal 16y ago
Man that's a nice idea. I wish we would have had it ourselves during the process.
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by xal 16y ago
Cool that you managed to upgrade to 1.9.2. The encoding issues have us scared. We do have a few special purpose webapps that run 1.9.2 because of very high performance requirements.
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Shopify's path to Rails 3(blog.shopify.com)
58 points by xal 16y ago|16 comments
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by xal 16y ago
My honest question is why there is this odd loyalty to virtual environments in this community. I realize that it may be boring but you guys are passing up insane savings that can be had by using colocation. All cloud providers are very expe
396.
by xal 16y ago
Really interesting article. I can't help but notice that he used ruby in his example code. Anyone know if this is simply for illustration purposes or is it already possible to use ruby to write hadoop map/reduce jobs?
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by xal 16y ago
Gmail recently restricted how many sessions they allow to a given account. I'm not sure what the technical details are here. I often have tons of tabs open and many of them have gmail in them. If gmail becomes unresponsive, say after sendin
398.
by xal 16y ago
because it pretends that 2 people of exactly the same value to the company. What are the odds of that?
399.
by xal 16y ago
The situation he describes is a lot more common then you guys probably think. Amazing things happen in a great partnership, but it's as rare as breakaway success companies, and probably highly correlated. Get the founder vesting, also forge
400.
by xal 16y ago
Totally agreed, don't underestimate the issue tracker build into github, it's superb.
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by xal 16y ago
I'm the author of Delayed Job. The popularity of it really surprises me to no end, and always brings a smile to my face. DJ took about 15 minutes to code up originally and is a product of one of those software rage moments ("why don't peop
402.
by xal 16y ago
This looks related to prop 19 :-)
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by xal 16y ago
It's a great product, we have been using it at Shopify with great success. Fantastic news that it's available to everyone now!
404.
by xal 16y ago
The only thing wrong about the next 10 years will be that we will have to share them with pessimists.
405.
by xal 16y ago
About 100k when I started Shopify, that meant I didn't have to take a salary until we had enough revenue 2 1/2 years later. Urg, don't do it like that.
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Mysql "Swap Insanity" (jcole.us)
141 points by xal 16y ago|26 comments
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by xal 16y ago
Genius, you guys are seriously underestimating how good this will be for them in the long run. Everyone here has now heard of them, most of you probably felt a lost opportunity when you found out what they offered and now you couldn't have
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by xal 16y ago
> AMQP will become popular with banks because it looks like enterprise messaging but is much cheaper in terms of license costs. ØMQ will become popular with everyone else because it looks like TCP sockets but is much cheaper in terms of
409.
by xal 16y ago
iOS4 actually has great support for gmail finally. You can enable archive instead of delete in the options now (may have to re-add the account). In iOS 4.1 they even changed the icon away from the trash can when you have this enabled. That
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by xal 16y ago
This is right on the money. People will be blown away by what google maps will look like after enough browsers have WebGL capabilities and the maps team switches to that technology instead of the crude javascript tiling that they rely on ri
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by xal 16y ago
I totally disagree, the back button is the single greatest UI improvement of the web. There are a lot of non tech savvy people out there who are so afraid of breaking things that they won't even open context menus in Word without saving the
412.
by xal 16y ago
we integrate with GWO before there was Visual Website Optimizer or Optimizely. Believe me, i'd love to undo that decision.
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by xal 16y ago
Like I said in the other thread, I started Shopify build it up to 30 something employees and run it as CEO. I play Starcraft2 right now and am usually in the top 10 of my diamond league. In fact the company is almost completely stacked with
414.
by xal 16y ago
I build and run a very successful startup and I'm at the top of diamond :-)
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by xal 16y ago
That being said, the ipad needs user profiles so badly it's not even funny.
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by xal 16y ago
yay liquid.
417.
by xal 16y ago
Shopify is always hiring. Lack of permanent damage from working for the government or nortel is a big plus...
418.
by xal 16y ago
hmm never encountered this. What city?
419.
by xal 16y ago
We run probably one of the largest Ruby production systems that has ever been made and the dynamism and "monkey patching" are used daily to skillfully make the language better and better over time for the tasks that we solve. It's absolutel
420.
by xal 16y ago
1000 a day is actually pretty low. Once you find out what your CPA is and your lifetime customer value you simply look at your profit sheet and write a cheque to google for the full amount if you make a profit within say 10 months. Yes, tha

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