stoph

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   by stoph 15y ago

   You have to take into consideration developer time, because often you are paying more for your staff than for your servers. Python and Ruby applications are known (unsourced) to have faster, more rapid development cycles than PHP applicatio
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   by stoph 15y ago

   My issue with CouchDB is the basic approach. Instead of maintaining indexes, the goal of CoachDB is to pre-cache all search functions with the actual result, for all records. This takes a lot of disk space for certain use-cases. This differ
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   by stoph 15y ago

   I think the key to recovering from over-commitment is to increase your rates. If you are over-committed, you are giving away your time for too little money.
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   by stoph 15y ago

   We are using Softlayer and we found that on our server we were not bottlenecked by memory, CPU or disk I/O. However, we were bottlenecked by our bandwidth which sat around 5 MB/s. Perhaps we could upgrade to a higher-throughput network card
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   by stoph 15y ago

   Thanks. I'll be checking this out, although I was hoping they would also have something equivalent to jQuery's Sortable ( http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ ).
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   by stoph 15y ago

   I'm having a hard time nailing down what the killer features are here. For example, I saw that they advertise drag-and-drop with support for touch devices, but I couldn't even find the drag and drop demo on the site.
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   by stoph 15y ago

   I do a lot of near-pixel-for-pixel reproduction from Photoshop documents, and I find that using rule nesting, mixins and child selectors (a similar style to the final example from the article, the first example is atrocious) definitely help
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   by stoph 15y ago

   I think this is where the mantra, "Those who cannot do, teach," comes from.
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   by stoph 15y ago

   There is already a github mirror: https://github.com/php/php-src
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    by stoph 15y ago

    I wonder how hard it is to open source a Google product. I imagine that Google's products are heavily tied in to its proprietary solutions like BigTable.
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    by stoph 15y ago

    I would add a page on the site to view the source for the mixins.
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    by stoph 15y ago

    My first thought here is that fast food chains will try and pick this up to cut costs, it can be grown cheaper than farming.
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    by stoph 15y ago

    EC2 has had some issues in the past, but did those issues affect S3? Even if you're on linode, you might find sending large binaries to S3 is a cost-efficient way to increase your storage size. Plus, you have a built in CDN when you need it
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    by stoph 15y ago

    I would encourage you to consider sending people to a completely new URL instead of loading the lyrics with Ajax, unless the browser supports the HTML5 History API. That way, people who use modern browsers get the original user experience,
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    by stoph 15y ago

    Is there any connection to be made between this article and the usage of signed cookies to hold session state? Database-backed sessions hold a state that you know your application set at one point, but a signed cookie, if forged, could have