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To be fair, no cat video watching on the Newton though
Re:DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter on Monday December 02, 2013 @12:51PM (#6835206)
There seems to be a heavy rush on the region at the moment, creating a 1gb box took 17 minutes, now I'm waiting for 5 minutes for a power-off to enable private networking... `sudo shutdown` worked, but the admin job queue seems to not check on that. I'll try again tomorrow :)
Re:DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter on Monday December 02, 2013 @11:44AM (#6834707)
This is actually somewhat big news because, considering the relative popularity of Digital Ocean, this alleviates 2 blocker pain points for european customers:

* The AMS1 region used to be out of available droplets quite frequently, and in recent weeks it was entirely unavailable to book new ones (at least for me)- which is bad news for scaling existing installs. * The AMS1 region did not have private networking

The fixing of these two points with the new region makes it much more reasonable to deploy multi-node environments to this region.

Re:DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter on Monday December 02, 2013 @11:23AM (#6834571)
Yay! And private networking, too!
Re:Web GL Ocean Simulation on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @02:27PM (#6803542)
Hitting ctrl-+/ctrl-- on chrome leads to interesting results :) Impressive demo, kept staring at it for a while pondering the exciting future the web platform has in it.
You're right, it's more like "ah, it's not 8:50 yet, I can snooze..."
For me this looks like this: "I've hit the snooze five times, it must be 8:50, oh hey it's actually only 8:47. I SHALL SNOOZE ONE MORE TIME!"
Re:Essential Tools for Starting a Rails App in 2013 on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:11AM (#6393321)
Some additions:

* The better_errors/meta_request/binding_of_caller combo for error pages with in-browser REPL and for Rails Panel chrome dev tools tab

* foreman for launching processes

* pry as a debugging tool

* lograge/quiet_assets for cleaner log files

As the project author, I will not include simplecov here, but I would normally drop that in there too ;)