swindsor

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by swindsor 15y ago
I DON'T KNOW WHAT HTML5 IS, BUT SIGN ME UP FOR SOME. I'LL TAKE 13!!! BUY NOW!!! CAN WE INVEST? IS IT PATENTABLE??? DO IT NOWWWWW.
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by swindsor 15y ago
Also coming in Firefox 7: The number 7.
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by swindsor 15y ago
The problem with C isn't C. It's shitty C programmers. Learn how the language works, follow good patterns, and expect some bumps in the road. Most of the time, though, you can use a different higher level language, and be a happier and less
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The last debugging tool you'll ever need...(rubberduckreview.com)
1 points by swindsor 15y ago|1 comments
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by swindsor 15y ago
We've stop/started continus integration a few times with a few different CI servers with mixed success. What did you guys end up using? Right now, we have tests, but I'd still say we rely pretty heavily on hoptoad to let us know if we reall
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by swindsor 15y ago
Then 'curl get.pow.cx > pow.sh'. Take you time and look at the script, then run it. Worked for me.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the unicorn...(blog.teachstreet.com)
37 points by swindsor 15y ago|5 comments
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Netflix's Worst 100 DVD & Instant(worst100.heroku.com)
1 points by swindsor 16y ago|0 comments
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by swindsor 16y ago
Sad! I worked for Obopay and on Billmonk with Chuck and Gaurav a few years ago. I hope to see the site back up and explanation on what happened.
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by swindsor 16y ago
We wanted to be able to serve arbitrary sizes so we can handle different demands for thumbnails and new use cases. Having to resize all of your images because you've re-designed your homepage sucks, and is no fun (especially if you have a
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by swindsor 16y ago
Oh, that's cool - I didn't know you could use matches from a location in an alias. Is that a new feature in nginx?
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by swindsor 16y ago
I could see where that would be useful. Image uploads in our case are actually handled by our existing web app, so our image servers can be ignorant of user authentication/etc. We end up using swfupload, which is a nice client experience,
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by swindsor 16y ago
1. Good point - I didn't bring this up in the article. When we store the images locally, we create divide end of the unique ID of the image into two levels of subdirectories. This gives us "random enough" distribution in subdirectories, a
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by swindsor 16y ago
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting I am totally okay with 99.999999999% durability. This is way better than I'll be able to build/afford on my own. In case of an epic S3 disaster, we could backup our S3 buckets to another offsite stora
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by swindsor 16y ago
Dragonfly looks pretty cool. I like the approach of using rack (our app was written pre-rack, but it's been upgraded to newer versions of rails, so we could make it rack-enabled). Have people written different datastores (like S3?). I lov
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by swindsor 16y ago
True, there is guarantee. But it's a pretty good track record - and the underline technology holds up pretty well. It's more reliable than what we'd be able to build with a small startup budget (or pay for offsite backups/storage).
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by swindsor 16y ago
That I really agree with. It's a great group collaboration tool, and a much better replacement that email. But for task management, it still isn't better than a shared Google Spreadsheet, which is weird to me.
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by swindsor 16y ago
I think my issue is that I totally agree that fine-grained project management is evil, meetings suck, I read the books, listen to podcasts, drink the kool-aid, etc. But, Basecamp is a project management tool. It allows you to track tasks (
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by swindsor 16y ago
I think I'm okay if Basecamp doesn't want me. Really, it's a product, and if it doesn't fit my needs, I'll move on. But I'm sure I'm not the only one. But really, it's up to 37Signals to listen to the feedback or keep the product as is.
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by swindsor 16y ago
No, but I think they focused on solving their own problems (and building the perfect product for them). As they've made Basecamp on of their public products, though, there are product changes they could make so that it fits everyones use c
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by swindsor 16y ago
I agree - I don't think I want Basecamp. But I don't need Zoho either. My point was that Basecamp is missing a few (very small) features that would take it from "Ok" to "Awesome". Even though this may be against much of the 37 signals ph