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Deployments at Yammer(eng.yammer.com)
1 points by mrduncan 13y ago|0 comments
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Zero Downtime Database Migrations on Rails(mattduncan.org)
1 points by mrduncan 13y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 13y ago
Yammer - San Francisco, London At Yammer, our mission is to change the way people work, and that mission starts with us. We use our own product every day to promote and encourage our culture of openness and transparency. Yammer provides eac
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Yammer Drinkup - Services and Rails: The Shit They Don't Tell You(yammerdrinkuprails.eventbrite.com)
10 points by mrduncan 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 15y ago
CouchDB uses SHA-1 hashes for passwords - you've got to be kidding me. What is the rationale for that over bcrypt?
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The Way I Work: David Sacks, Yammer(inc.com)
3 points by mrduncan 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 15y ago
I've found Lanyrd to usually be the best bet for finding conferences - unfortunately, they don't list any either. http://lanyrd.com/topics/common-lisp/
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by mrduncan 15y ago
It's not that easy though, for example, Jacobellis v. Ohio - how would you go about defining the threshold of pornography? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by mrduncan 15y ago
Also, don't forget about Google Books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_A...
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by mrduncan 15y ago
Technically, it is not at all. Socially however, I'd wager that fewer people would let you take a picture of their card compared to swiping it. People are simply used to having credit cards swiped, they aren't used to having pictures taken
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by mrduncan 15y ago
The numbers on cards become a lot harder to read after the coloring wears off of the numbers. Even as a human it can be hard to read them at times depending on the lighting. Card layouts also vary a lot, even from the same issuers (for exa
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Obie Fernandez: The Dark Side Beckons?(blog.obiefernandez.com)
4 points by mrduncan 15y ago|0 comments
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The Curve of Talent(epaley.posterous.com)
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Do you want to Test::Right?(functionsource.com)
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by mrduncan 15y ago
Sorry, I never realized that - it is still interesting in any case.
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by mrduncan 15y ago
If you've never seen it, their pitch deck is also pretty interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...
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by mrduncan 15y ago
Since this article doesn't have much substance, if you're looking to do something similar, check out this article on CSS rotation transformations. http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-text-rotation
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by mrduncan 15y ago
A heads-up for anyone upgrading - 2.2.4 is now released. Warning, going to release 2.2.4 in seconds as I decided to change the semantics of OBJECT command to avoid problems in the future. https://twitter.com/#!/antirez/sta
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by mrduncan 15y ago
Care to elaborate on what is so bad about them (or, what you'd like to see improved)?
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by mrduncan 15y ago
I'm not sure what version of Redis you were using, but depending on the data you're storing, 2.2 uses significantly less space than previous versions. Some data from GitHub: http://technoweenie-ruby-onales.heroku.com/#34
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by mrduncan 15y ago
I've been thinking about how to make better news feeds lately - here are some other interesting talks/papers: http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer/ http://research.yahoo.com/node/3203 http://technoweenie-ruby-onale
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by mrduncan 15y ago
From the last release of news.arc (which may have been a while ago but should be somewhat close to what news.yc is running): ; Ignore the most recent 5 comments since they may still be gaining votes. ; Also ignore the highest-sc
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by mrduncan 15y ago
While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case. Twitter actually started out as a Rails project because Florian Weber (who worked at Odeo with Jack on the initial
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Time Scales(erlebacher.org)
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Even easier, just create a bookmark to which points to: javascript:$('overlay').hide();$('gatewayCreative').hide();$(document.body).setStyle({overflow:'scroll'}); Ironically, I couldn't test it since the paywall never came up now matter how
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by mrduncan 16y ago
If you do decide to go with GoDaddy, you can save a considerable amount of money by googling for "ssl certificate" instead of going directly to their website. Their advertisement price is $12.99 per year (it's $49.99 per year on their websi
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Another relevant blog post on the importance of URL design: http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
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How to Make Money in 6 Easy Steps(inc.com)
261 points by mrduncan 16y ago|55 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
This is an excellent example of why you shouldn't write your own crypto code - Colin is awesome at it and even he makes mistakes. Edit: To be clear, this isn't aimed at Colin but meant to point out that if he still occasionally gets it wron
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Responsive web design course - free for 24 hours(membership.thinkvitamin.com)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments

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