Fluxx

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by Fluxx 11y ago
On the quadrupling of the estimate from $250 million to $1 billion between 1995 and 1996, the article states: " The cost increase was the result of detailed engineering studies conducted during the year or so after the initial estima
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by Fluxx 13y ago
Yeah that's totally fair. I live at Geary and Stanyan, and made liberal use of the 38L and 38[A,B]X busses, which cut that time down a lot. I used to go to the gym every morning before work and could be door to door on the 38BX in abo
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by Fluxx 13y ago
There does seem to be a "center of gravity" in SF that is incredibly bizarre to me. For a lot of people, if you live west of Divis or south of 24th st, you might as well be, for all intents and purposes, in Oakland. Seems like a
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HTTP For Great Good(speakerdeck.com)
1 points by Fluxx 13y ago|0 comments
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by Fluxx 14y ago
It's not revolutionary, but it does a lot of things right and has more features that what you mentioned above: * maintains a semaphore of currently processing requests, and will immediately fail a request if the semaphore is full. * tracks
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by Fluxx 14y ago
> you're just given some basic data structures that handle pretty much everything under the sun, and you go from there This only works because the size of your n is small, possibly a few hundred, so it doesn't matter. When you start
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by Fluxx 14y ago
I'm not sure if you can count this as a startup, but I bought my King-sized Sleep Innovations (memory foam) mattress with Amazon Prime for $530. And if I wanted the less-think 10" one, it would be $400. http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Innovat
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by Fluxx 14y ago
Django still powers a lot of the DISQUS infrastructure. That said, we're in the process of breaking certain parts of it off into independent services and out of Django. But Django will be the main component for the foreseeable future.
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by Fluxx 14y ago
While I don't disagree that Apple's technical skill isn't best of breed, where Apple has shined - both now and in the past - is their ruthless determination and focus on UX and HCI. Apple goes further than any company on the planet to make
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by Fluxx 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of office "suites" - smallish offices which comfortably hold 3-6 people. It's a good sweet spot between open spaces full of dozens of people and individual offices. Usually suite-mates are people on the same team/projet as
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by Fluxx 14y ago
> NodeJS is suitable for apps that do plenty of short lived requests. I'm confused. Isn't Node's event-loop style programming ideal for long-lived requests? I.e. ones that, under a synchronous i/o, block other requests?
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by Fluxx 14y ago
Hulu, Living Social, All of 37 Signals, Groupon, AirBnb, Scribd, Zendesk, Soundcloud, etc. Twitter's scale is unlike nearly every single web app online, so I think the real story with Rails and Twitter isn't that "they had to move away from
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by Fluxx 14y ago
Oh weird. Less than 24 hours after I first saw it from Twitter, the account was no longer active. Nice to see it's back!
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by Fluxx 14y ago
There was a Soundcloud account with a like every essential mix ever on it the other week, but shortly after it disappeared - I think due to licensing issues with BBC content outside of the UK. Did you look into that for your player?
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Say hello to Octicons(github.com)
253 points by Fluxx 14y ago|135 comments
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SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry(seomoz.org)
101 points by Fluxx 14y ago|34 comments
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by Fluxx 14y ago
I wrote a similar blog post back at my old job about our usage of Riak. http://devblog.seomoz.org/2011/10/using-riak-for-ranking-col... Keep in mind we used Riak pre-1.0, so YMMV.
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by Fluxx 14y ago
> Isn't this just a method of implementation for your option 3? I don't really see a substantial difference between mocking the server and mocking the API. The short answer is that there is no difference. Just as you could mock out a c
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by Fluxx 14y ago
Awesome, thanks for the extra info. I think your setup sounds really good :)
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by Fluxx 14y ago
In my opinion, having to replicate S3 in development and test isn't the best idea. There are a few problems I see: You have tied yourself to S3's API, you must maintain this "other" S3 by making sure it behaves like the real S3 and your te
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by Fluxx 14y ago
I think this article title is misleading. It's not 10 million hits a day on Wordpress , it's 10 million hits a day using Varnish to a single URL. Might as well say you can serve 10 million hits a day to a static file served out of memo
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by Fluxx 14y ago
If you know what these commands are doing under the covers, these commands are a true time saver. If you don't know what these commands are doing, they're basically "magic" and in the hands of inexperienced developers could be harmful to t
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by Fluxx 14y ago
> Too bad every generation has to rediscover all this stuff. Even though this technique existed 30 years ago, doesn't mean that it's been recently "rediscovered" by the Ruby folks and excitedly implemented to the musings of, "how did
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Orbital: A real-time map built on top of Websockets and ZeroMQ(blog.disqus.com)
2 points by Fluxx 14y ago|0 comments
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by Fluxx 15y ago
I've was bitten by this many times until I changed my global push setting to upstream, and I consider myself an advanced git user. One time I did a vanilla git push -f, wanting to add my amended commit to the remote branch. I accidentally
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by Fluxx 15y ago
> But where's the full-stack test harness for a Rails app with heavy JS usage, that runs at a reasonable speed, gives us useful traces on the client and server, and doesn't break when I slightly rework my HTML? If you're talking Python,
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by Fluxx 15y ago
> I honestly don't see the meaningful difference between contacting Github and leaving a silly commit, except that the former would probably get the bug fixed quietly; in contrast, now everybody is aware that the bug existed in Github a
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by Fluxx 15y ago
I would disagree with this, quite a lot. He brought up an issue with the Rails team, they pointed him at the canonical, "here is where we talked about this before, sorry." Still not satisfied, he found the same exploit in Github to prove
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by Fluxx 15y ago
> Instead of being able to use javascript libraries with one another natively, everything goes through Ruby. You can still do that, you can turn the asset pipeline off and just throw everything in /public like normal if you want. Re: "t
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by Fluxx 15y ago
They're not dictating how you use JS, best practices, or anything like that, it's simply a pipeline for compressing and delivering assets. You also don't have to use it if you don't want to. There is a "config.assets.enabled" option in ap

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