Wisqnet

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   by Wisqnet 11y ago

   Cripes, people. WHO CARES? So I SSHed in. I got the message. Then I saw all the people freaking out here and couldn't believe my eyes. Ask yourself this: How often do you SSH in to arbitrary hosts? Ones that you don't control,
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   by Wisqnet 14y ago

   Shopify itself is written in Ruby using the Rails framework. I believe we're one of the oldest and largest Rails projects out there. Some parts of our infrastructure are written in other frameworks (e.g. Thin) and languages (e.g. Go).
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   by Wisqnet 14y ago

   I'm honestly not really seeing the fuss here. Doesn't every company want "really really really good programmers"? Don't most companies offer stock options? Am I really supposed to see a lack of info about how hard they work and assume th
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   by Wisqnet 15y ago

   The problem is that DSL around here is PPP over Ethernet, rather than just plain Ethernet. So there's no MII, no ARP, no regular ethernet link bonding. It's hard to escape PPPoE for DSL around here due to phone company politics. The type
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   by Wisqnet 15y ago

   The problem was that all cabling had to be done underground at our place, and phone lines were the only thing we had in abundance. Coax, fibre, anything else basically meant busting up a path to the road in a major urban area. Plus it was
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   How a Potato Saved Shopify's Internet(shopify.com)

   9 points by Wisqnet 15y ago|5 comments