rjacoby5

I think everyone is completely missing the reason behind the omission of Q and Z.

Due to the database storage engine they chose, it was necessary to put a limitation on the number of Scrabble points that a password would award.

Q and Z are both 10-pointers, so passwords with them frequently blew past the limit. You can use J and X, but that's really pushing it.

And the "cannot contain three repeating character" rule is due to that being the trigger for the stored procedure that implements 'triple word score'.

I think you mean THX-1138s.

Total operation cost: six thousand credits under budget. Congratulations. Be efficient, be happy.

Agreed that this is a pain, but _much_ less so than getting a working compiler/paths/libs/etc on Windows for doing Ruby work. (Unless you go with an all-in-one installer...)

One of the hidden costs of Unicorn is spin-up time. Unicorn takes a long time to start, then fork. We would get a ton of request timeouts during this period. Switching back to Thin, we never got timeouts during deploys - even under very heavy load.

Agreed. In this case, NYT is widely recognized as serious journalism. And sometimes it's not entertaining at all.