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mickeybenon Windows 8 App Store Screens Leaked

Oh common ... Kinect, C#, F#, Linq, Office, Win7 (this one is debatable but I really think it's full of innovations even if I'm using OSX principally).

Of course some of them are here through acquisitions but they made them great products.

mickeybenon Introducing Pow, a zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X

gem install passenger

passenger start

no preference panes to install. No Apache configuration files to update. And Passenger eliminates the need to edit /etc/hosts. To get a Rack app running, just type a single command.

mickeybenon Poll: Would you like tags implemented on HN

There's an option missing : Seems like a good idea. I'd like an experimentation.

mickeybenon How may times links shared on soc networking

This looks great ! Thanks

mickeybenon How may times links shared on soc networking

Very nice !

I'd pay for this applied to a domain with a date filter :-)

mickeybenon I think tumblr has a huge security hole

I pretty much agree with jjm comment. I never have ONE config file but a directory of config files, everything is separated : database, memcache, heywatch, s3, routes, ... It's way easier for the developer, the sysadmin, the deployment, ... Of course it would multiply the risk of this happening by n files.

mickeybenon NASA ISS Live Stream

I can't read the stream neither in VLC or mplayer ... any idea ? I'm on macosx.

mickeybenon Heroku is partially down (my site unresponsive)

We had the same issue at the Seesmic Web launch 2 years ago and uninstalling new relic fixed the issue.

But the guys at New Relic helped us and fixed the issue, according to them it should not happen anymore.

mickeybenon Ask HN: Who's hiring in Europe?

We're recruiting a Polyvalent developer to work with Ruby/Rails/Sinatra, Javascript (jQuery), web services and capable of handling basic ops.

We're in Paris but we'll relocate in California(our market is in LA but the technical staff we'll maybe go to SF) by the end of the year for our launch in the US.

http://letitcast.com

edit: Remote working is an option

mickeybenon Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice

After many years of Rails (and other frameworks), I know now that I NEED to review the code of plugins written by folks smarter than you or I. I don't count the times I had to remove plugins from my application.

I use Warden and saw there was a rememberable strategy in Devise that I could use.

I also read I can secure the cookies to be only send over SSL. I was hoping some further explanations on that since Devise doesn't seem to do it.

mickeybenon Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice

Sorry for the dumb question, but I see some negative comment about this link ... so what's the good approach to implement secure persistent login in a web application ?

mickeybenon Show HN: My awful Kickstarter campaign. Good idea, terrible presentation.

It's too much focused on the technical side, I'd present it as a multiuser audio sequencer, with an awesome demo and what would you do with the cash. Technical details are available on Github for people interested in.

edit: By the way, great project !

mickeybenon How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps

Another easy way :

1. Create two paypal accounts ; one on your american account, one on your french account

2. connect to both from the same computer and make a transfer from one to another

3. Wait and enjoy !

mickeybenon Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget

I had the same error from time to time, but it seems resolved : https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet/issues/closed#issue/20

You should open a ticket, eventually write a spec to reproduce.

mickeybenon Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget

Choosing indexes is a world of compromise ; Indexes slow down operations that involve writing. When you have an index that is rarely or never used you'll slow down writing operations on the table for nothing. So you'll have to carefully chose indexes and there's no way any framework could do this for you ... It completely depends of your application and your indexes can change over time.

mickeybenon Rails + MySQL scaling on a budget

Here's few other ways to optimize your rails application (with the description taken from the doc) :

- https://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet/ : The Bullet plugin/gem is designed to help you increase your application’s performance by reducing the number of queries it makes. It will watch your queries while you develop your application and notify you when you should add eager loading (N+1 queries), when you’re using eager loading that isn’t necessary and when you should use counter cache.

- https://github.com/sdsykes/slim_scrooge/ : SlimScrooge implements inline query optimisation, automatically restricting the columns fetched based on what was used during previous passes through the same part of your code.

- http://guides.rubyonrails.org/caching_with_rails.html : Caching With Rails from the awesome rails guides

- http://guides.rubyonrails.org/performance_testing.html : Performance Testing Rails Applications from the rails guides

mickeybenon Ask HN: We built a site but got beaten to the launch by another site. What next?

I completely agree with the other comments, spread it around you; The market is huge ! Try to have article on teenagers blogs and news sources. There's also that for techcrunch-like coverage : http://blog.traindom.com/places-where-to-submit-your-startup...

mickeybenon JQuery Waypoints - execute a function whenever you scroll to an element

it's the box-shadow effect :-)

Just tried with the webkit inspector, if you remove all the box-shadow, the page is smooth.

mickeybenon Solving The Hacker News Problem

Very well written article. I think he has some good points. I'd really like to see a 'deeply technical' alternative to HN and hope he'll find the good guys !

mickeybenon What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?

I think the problem with this approach is that it's forcing you relying on a web framework and eventually on libraries.

As an exemple a lot of people know how to make a blog in rails but only a part of them really understand what's a class variable.

I'm not saying it doesn't work, just that you could ending up knowing a framework not a language.

mickeybenon What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language?

Jamis Buck suggests generating mazes.

Here's the full article http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/27/maze-generation-recur...

mickeybenon Brilliant use of CSS drop shadows

Drop shadows are very slow when animated because they have to be recalculated every time they move.

mickeybenon Apple.com gets a redesign

There's also a nice transition when using the search

http://littlebigdetails.com/post/2939190835

mickeybenon The best Web Framework - what makes Lift different

And Rake plugins (pieces of middleware, done in a standard/reusable way, contrary to Django's middleware) are just awesome.

I think you're talking about rack middlewares. Rake is the Ruby make.

mickeybenon The Services Used By Y Combinator Startups [Infographic]

It would have been interesting to know what they're using for email marketing, analytics, customer support, project management, ...

mickeybenon Google's library for dealing with phone numbers (Java/JavaScript)

So if you need to handle the 228 countries this lib handle, you only need 228 to 556 hours of work ...

mickeybenon MongoDB cloud hosting platforms comparison

Any chance to get a mongolab invite ?

mickeybenon Show HN: Index Ping - Get an email when your new website is indexed by Google.

How do you differentiate from Google Alerts ?

mickeybenon Complete Noobs Guide to Hacking Nginx

Sorry for the tone I was just frustrated !

mickeybenon Complete Noobs Guide to Hacking Nginx

I don't want to sound rude but the title doesn't seem appropriate at all.

Your article is about how you hacked nginx for your specific need (eventually fix it if it finally merge to 0.8) but not a "complete noob guide".

That being said, nice fix !