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Benferhat··on BootstrapCDN Year in Review
Thanks!
Benferhat··on BootstrapCDN Year in Review
This is a wonderful CDN, thanks for this! Especially grateful for the Bootswatch CSS files, although it would be nice to see them updated.
Benferhat··on Microsoft's Ajax CDN tumbles worldwide
They're talking about what happens when you load an infected jquery.min.js from cache when you get back to your home wifi network.
Benferhat··on Microsoft's Ajax CDN tumbles worldwide
This is why I use yepnope [0].

"yepnope.js has the capability to do resource fallbacks and still download dependent scripts in parallel with the first."

[0] http://yepnopejs.com/

Benferhat··on Go vs. Python for a simple web server
I'm sure you already know this, but for future readers: check out gofix [0] when you find yourself in this situation.

[0] http://golang.org/cmd/fix/

[1] http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/introducing-gofix.html

Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
It doesn't matter, all ways lead to the center. To borrow an analogy: objecting to one way of meditation in favor of another is like a ferry boat captain complaining to the government that someone else has opened up another ferry business down-stream. "Let all operate ferry boats who will, and if you don't have the sense to stay off one that sinks, that's your problem." -Alan Watts
Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
> The goal is to be aware of things as they are without judgment.

As long as it's being done your way, right? People get dogmatic and judgmental about everything, your post is evidence that meditation is no different.

Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
Well it wouldn't really be about "helping" them in the traditional way, but more of an upaya.
Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
You could really gamify meditation by recording things like heart rate, perspiration, time between beads, frequency of practice, etc. Like a Buddhist Nike+.
Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
Have you thought about creating high-tech mala (prayer/meditation beads)? They're used to count the breath or repetition of mantras without thinking about it. Making it one full way around (often 108 beads) is supposed to be a good amount of time to meditate. A high-tech version could gather all kinds of data during meditations and gamify the whole process. Of course, that might defeat the purpose for some people.
Benferhat··on The Mindful Programmer - mindfully get more stuff done.
I love this trend. I wonder if the non-dual programmer will be next.
Benferhat··on How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
Right on, that's the only way to live.
Benferhat··on How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
Thanks for sharing! You seem to have found a way to live in both worlds at once quite nicely. Feel free to delete the post while you can btw, if you're concerned about privacy issues.
Benferhat··on How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
Yup that's all it does, automate those best practices, so there's probably no need for you to use it over CloudFlare.

GAE edge caching is poorly documented, here's what I've found so far:

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/6xA...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2...

[3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/8QgEU...

[4] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/8QgEUBOiNFw...

Benferhat··on How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
Cool, please do drop an update if you come to any conclusions about its efficacy.

BTW, I meant the PageSpeed Service for GAE [1], which seems like it's basically CloudFlare running mod_pagespeed on all requests.

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

Benferhat··on How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
How does the Schizophrenia present itself in your daily life? I'd love to hear some examples so I can better understand your experience.
Benferhat··on New services bypass Apple DRM to allow pirated installs without jailbreaking
Thanks for the clarity, I'll update my post.
Benferhat··on How I Made my Blog 2.3x Faster
I'm curious about what changes have you noticed when enabling CloudFlare, and whether you considered PageSpeed as well. Do tell?
Benferhat··on New services bypass Apple DRM to allow pirated installs without jailbreaking
As predicted, the Hackulo.us shutdown simply spurred the adoption of more effective software piracy tools. Between Aptoide on Android, which somehow is available via the official app store and also doesn't require rooting/jailbreaking [1], and these new iPhone piracy services, I wonder if we'll start to see changes in the way we approach software monetization. Requiring in-app purchases, for example, is quite effective.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bazaar.ins...

Benferhat··on How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
> If you're that broken, you just don't deserve romance and love.

Woah, woah, woah. Surely you don't mean that anyone deserves my or your or anyone else's romance and love. These things don't mean anything unless they're freely given.

Benferhat··on Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
Try without SSL: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Or on GitHub: https://github.com/gorilla

Benferhat··on How I Fell in Love with a Schizophrenic
Finding out that someone you already care about has a mental illness is really tough. What do you do? Run for the hills, or stand by their side? If they were physically sick, it would be a no-brainer: it could just as easily be you who's sick with the flu or cancer or what have you, and you'd want your friends to be there for you.

But when it comes to mental illness, it's different. Those afflicted are somehow no longer a part of our in-group, and it becomes easier to turn our backs on them. This post is a sort of therapy for me as well, you see, as I've turned my back on two similarly afflicted former friends. Difficult decisions indeed.

Benferhat··on Reddit's visitors skyrocket in 2012 with 37 billion page views
What were you selling?
Benferhat··on Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
Thanks, turns out he manually set it to 4 always-on instances, so we don't know what the GAE scheduler would have done.
Benferhat··on Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
Ah, I thought GAE was spinning those instances up for you automatically. That's the default, it spins up extra instances as-needed to keep latency down. With Go apps, that's generally down to i/o from API calls.
Benferhat··on Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites
Is 7776000 pageviews/month the kind of traffic that you'd expect to be able to generate $80/month? $0.00001/pageview/month? If the average user viewed 1,000 pages a month, that would be $0.01/user/month.

Obviously it depends on the average pageviews per user, but what's your gut feeling? Should $80 have been too expensive?

Benferhat··on CSS Grid Systems Make You Look Good and Your Client Happy
It's your choice to go in for the dogma, but don't force it on those of us who allow form to follow function on this one.
Benferhat··on Hackulous shutdown
I wonder if this will spur the creation of something distributed and more resilient, like what Android has in Aptoide [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bazaar.ins...

Benferhat··on An FBI Hostage Negotiator Buys A Car [audio]
Any opinions on carsdirect.com?
Benferhat··on Show HN: BootStrap Alert with modal instead of Browser default prompts
Thanks, it looks great!
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