purephase

Thanks for the response. I appreciate it.

If you don't mind me asking, what load balancer are you using? I'm trying to setup multiple app servers on EC2 behind ELB using Redis as a session_store and I can't get sessions to persist.

I never bother. I find it much easier and much less hassle to use VMs. With Fusion, you can create snapshots, try something out and revert back if it doesn't work out.

This way my primary OS stays as clean as possible (text editor, browser, fusion) and my VMs can be my messy playground.

Don't get me wrong, brew and ports are great but their very existence makes we wary of venturing too far down the rabbit hole of development directly on OSX.

I like this quote:

"Reality is painful — it’s so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you’re good at or else to pick something so hard there’s no point at which it’s obvious you’re failing — but it’s impossible to get better without confronting it."

It is a measure of a good technology hire. I don't necessarily want someone who is an expert in one language, one technology or even one particular vertical. I want someone who consistently pushes to learn more. I would even provide the necessary tools/training and time for them to do so.

It is a problem with a lot of developers. They get into a comfort zone and stick it out.

Good interview question:

"Tell me about a time in which you were trying something new and it didn't exactly work out as you expected. What did you do next?"

This must have been difficult to work out. My thanks (or condolences?) to Amazon for this. It will make my life a bit easier!

I love this. Thanks for putting it together! I'm not sure it will replace my beloved 3WK, but it is always great to pick-up new artists.

Well done.

I think the best thing about Usenet is that no one talks about Usenet.

You're right. It does nothing except belittle the efforts of the developers. They're trying to make their work more open which should be applauded. Just because the entire administration does not adhere to their stated philosophy, doesn't mean that we (the developer community) should be jumping on those who are at least making an attempt.

The majority of HN readers and GH users would immediately close issues / pull requests like this and be bitter about it. I don't understand why there is a double standard being applied here.

That's just stupid. As if the developers involved, who are likely proud of their work and the go-ahead to release it to the community, have anything to do with the petition outcomes.

People need to think things through sometimes.

Another vote on this. Annoying "issue".

I love it. I searched for a few of these just to confirm that real comments were being used.

Was not disappointed.

Anyone have any recommendations for linear algebra courses through Coursera or similar sites? It is a subject I've always been fascinated by but my self-directed learning endeavours have not yielded much usable knowledge.

I second this. Sounds like it might be a bit too good to be true.

Interesting. Just met them at the Toronto Rails Pub Night a few weeks ago.

Good for them! Had a good conversation about how much Paypal fraud prevention sucks.

I find with Devise and Omniauth it works like magic. rbates has some excellent Railscasts on the process as well.

I agree with the main thrust of the argument though. OAuth providers do not make it as easy as they should. The point about the buttons is spot on. I've had some good success with the buttons provided here:

http://nicolasgallagher.com/lab/css3-social-signin-buttons/

I didn't qualify it as I'm not a MS investor. I'll leave it up to the shareholders to read into it what they will.

This is fairly standard practice. Just much more noticeable when it is MS and it is such a large purchase price.

What did I just read? Are forbes tech/blog articles all automatically voted up or something? This is terrible.

It was intentional. They used a good quarter to shoulder the write down of a acquisition. The accountant/lawyers know what they're doing.

I think 500px is taking on this space already. They appear to be doing fairly well.

Not really, no. I think it's size is more indicative of the standard age range it draws (a younger audience).

People keep telling me that there are decent parts of the place. Each time I try to venture in it is such a dizzying mess that I stopped trying.

It makes me feel old.

For the cost that Rackspace charges (and what they claim to provide for said cost) I want both.

I disagree. The markup does not simply justify cheery service folks. I want knowledgeable. When they don't have support for Nginx, to me, that's not knowledgeable.

Rackspace prices are insanely high and I can't wait to move off of them.

Or, how dare they only allow specific actions to their own apps that the deny to third party developers...

This is great news. Truly staggering amount of effort for a small gap in build numbers (if you were using the last beta). Love the release and the editor. Worth every penny.

The only additional package I use is the Dark Soda Theme, is there any others that people would recommend for Rails development? The default editor seems to provide a lot. I tried SublimeCodeIntel but it kept crashing.

His first example is round robin DNS. Sorry, but the terms DNS failover and round robin are often used interchangeably when you're dealing with business continuity.

Yes, certainly there are other options that increase the complexity, but why not start there? While the impact to users on shitty ISPs or behind proxies is unfortunate, it is relatively easy to implement and low-cost.

Going beyond that increases the complexity and cost exponentially and is certainly not easy.

The GAE and Maps price hikes were an odd decision. I'm not sure why they decided to do that.

With round-robin DNS you have that now. It is fairly easy to setup. The data may be a bit more challenging, but certainly not impossible.

That is an excellent point. I know it will be next to impossible, but the best tactic at this point is to ignore him and not rise to the "threat".

He's decided to blindly start swinging. While it is certainly possible that he will not hit anything regardless of the community reaction, the minimal probability of success will be such a pain-in-the-ass that it is not worth it.

Admittedly, I'm not that familiar with RDS, but I think there is a big difference between babysitting and common practices around data protection.

Always plan for failure regardless of where your data is, what claims are made, or how much you're paying.

I'm not sure I understand the "which does not have actual data" part of your statement.

Could you explain that a bit more?