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Re:How We Moved Our API From Ruby to Go on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @02:03PM (#9694119)
so true. just reading your comment was enough to make me feel frustrated and anxious.
Re:The Dropbox terabyte conundrum on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:55PM (#8358570)
you can do this pretty easily with bittorrent sync
We use this at work and it's awesome. Solved a lot of big problems and a lot of little problems, like "works on my machine but not prod" and rebuilding your dev env when you switch machines. etc.

The one thing that became a problem was managing vmware (the plugin is a closed source one, so it was hard to debug any issue that came up with it - easily solved by writing our own open source one)

berkshelf makes this a breeze, fyi. I do it for all of my AWS instances
Re:Retiring the Netflix Public API on Friday June 13, 2014 @09:52PM (#7891815)
whats "old"? they're pushing 20 years now. that feels pretty ancient in internet time :)
I keep bouncing between "this is an excellently executed troll!" and "…does this actually work?!"
Re:NASA's Next Mars Lander to Begin Construction on Friday May 23, 2014 @04:59PM (#7791304)
Is there anywhere I can go to actually see NASA's (or CSA or ESA)'s "Lessons Learned"?

I'd love to track how they've evolved different characteristics of spaceflight/rovers.

to improve my KSP game, obviously.

Re:Practical Tmux on Friday May 16, 2014 @05:30PM (#7758031)
thats terrible. starting in $PWD is the first thing I encountered that I loved about tmux as a multiplexer vs iterm
And now know why it's taken him so long to write each book
Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:09PM (#7649049)
when you're scaling any given variable, the stock solution is almost never good enough. you end up hitting all kinds of limits.
Love FTL. I can't remember the last time I loved a video game this much.
Re:Npm Raises $2.6M Seed Round on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @12:43PM (#7218927)
Thanks for clearing it up. I knew there are technical/logical answers to all of the points people are bringing up.
Oh wow. I was being tongue in cheek about us techies, but looks like Netflix beat me to it here. awesome!
if only we had a distributed group of people, all of whom with a vested interest in figuring this out, that could help us with doing speed tests in variety of configurations…
hahahaha.

good one.

Re:Shopify Raises $100 Million on Thursday December 12, 2013 @09:23AM (#6894523)
As fellow Ottawans, I think we all really appreciate hearing that. We all benefit from a stronger tech community here.
Re:I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @03:45PM (#6850037)
low... a good rough base for freelancing should be triple whatever the salaried hourly rate equivalent would be (i.e. $80k/year => $40/hr, so you should be charging $120).

I do give a break if I'm charging in bulk (i.e. I have a really long term ongoing project with you and we negotiate a different rate).

Re:I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:07AM (#6846893)
you charge $56/hr in a daily rate? O_o
brilliant.
Re:Shopify Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @11:31AM (#6809053)
The BTC support we offer is through a 3rd party merchant gateway. As a shop-owner, you are simply accepting payments via BitPay (our partner) which converts the BTC into a currency you find acceptable and deposits it into your accounts.
Re:Background Job Processing for Atheists on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:18PM (#6733573)
no, but I dont care if it's up as long as its not down :)

which, of course, leaves me hanging if the job queue is just not running, but thats monitored with runit which will issue an error if the service fails to start.

Re:Background Job Processing for Atheists on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:49AM (#6733347)
I like this idea. its the push version of the traditional uptime monitoring pull mechanism (i.e. ping endpoints).

not sure I'm a fan of using this specifically for background jobs though, as we have airbrake and splunk and other tools that detect these failures cheaply.

Re:Background Job Processing for Atheists on Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:47AM (#6733337)
Wait. Santa's not real?
So? Dont treat the automotive market the way you treat the tech market. single companies have a much, much lower affect on the market when it comes to cars.
Re:Edward Snowden is Almost Broke on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:50AM (#6725460)
So what you're telling us is that being a whistleblower and fleeing to Russia turns out to be a poor career move?
Re:International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware on Monday November 11, 2013 @04:26PM (#6714169)
this is why on Galactica all of their computer systems were completely disconnected from each other.
I've wanted this for a while, but I'm betting licensing is going to get messy there.

I'd be happy with just a "watch random shows from this tv category".

Re:LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity on Thursday October 24, 2013 @04:36PM (#6607779)
seriously? this is what Intro is? how is it not a bigger deal?people get upset over the littlest Facebook changes, but something this big barely shows up?
at first I definitely thought this was related to the old gnu bug tracker.

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