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I think the author fails to notice that with Git you can have your cake and eat it too. We use a centralized canonical repo for each of our projects as well as origin (developer) repos. With branches we can more easily add larger features without polluting the main trunk. With svn, as we all know, branching is a bitch.

superjaredon Redis 1.2 Stable Released

Possibly the greatest thing about this release is the "Append Only File".

The Append Only File is an alternative way to save your data in Redis that is fully durable! Unlike the snapshotting (default) persistence mode, where the database is saved asynchronously from time to time, the Append Only File saves every change ASAP in a text-only file that works like a journal. Redis will play back this file again at startup reloading the whole dataset back in memory.

superjaredon Django admin awesomeness

You should look at greenlet. Pretty cool stuff, used heavily in eventlet and gevent.

superjaredon Advanced Messaging & Routing with AMQP

A key feature in RabbitMQ 1.7, unmentioned in this post, is native SSL support. Before this version, stunnel was required to talk securely with Rabbit.

superjaredon Git needs a new interface

No it doesn't.

superjaredon Python 2.6.3 Released

The real meat: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.3/NEWS.txt

superjaredon Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado

Erlang uses epoll on Linux, kqueue on BSDs, et cetera.

superjaredon Erlang, Yaws, and the deadly Tornado

I love Erlang--don't get me wrong--but this is flawed. He uses Tornado on a system that doesn't have epoll() so it uses select() instead, and then the author continues to show how Tornado will fail at higher concurrency levels. This is not a problem with Tornado but with select. I imagine that Erlang will still generally rout Tornado when using epoll, just not as significantly.

superjaredon Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source

I'd say it's a little more similar to Thin, which is a web server based on EM.

superjaredon How to use game theory to buy a car

The author mentions South Korea and its foreign policy several times. I would prefer to know more about (and attempt to predict) the foreign policy of North Korea over South, because of its closed-off nature.

Did anyone else think that the author meant North Korea?

superjaredon Enforcing Type Returns in Ruby with Pedant

I would probably never use Pedant for a library that was never touched by other developers. Just like tests, Pedant can prevent others from breaking something (or at least bring attention to it). Ruby's implicit returns make this situation more apparent.

superjaredon Seeking - How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting

My brain must be off because I hate the latter two.

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Blog spam for : http://www.agilezen.com/

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This must be old because ma.gnolia, now defunct, is #12.

superjaredon Sliceapp.com - Bootstrap Slicehost Servers Automatically

Looks like you have to give your root password, which, no offense to Clever Collie, doesn't seem like a good idea. I'd prefer to see a shell script generator, or something like that.

Full disclosure: I'm a developer at Slicehost.

superjaredon The New Google Search

Type in "Hacker New" and you'll note that the first result shows the site with it's URL, not just the name.

Is that it?

superjaredon Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service

A large reason of why URL shorteners are hard to maintain is the incredible amount of spam they receive. At Slicehost we seem to get spamcop emails every day about yet another URL shortener someone has created because the spammers will use their link instead of the real URL.

superjaredon Design notebook suggestions?

Any advice on how to get started on a DIY notebook?

superjaredon The Most Horrible Blog Post Ever

It's not the worst I've seen, but it sure is bad.

superjaredon Analyst has seen Apple tablet, predicts September launch

As for concrete details about the device itself, the veteran analyst had only one thing to say about his or her hands-on experience: "The machine impresses with its display of hi-def video content. It's better than the average movie experience, when you hold this thing in your hands."

This smells like BS to me.

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Agreed, and even worse is that this trash is from 2007.

superjaredon New image search engine

Interesting idea but it seem much less of a search tool than a toy. The spasmodic loading of images is incredibly distracting and the lazy layout doesn't appear to have any structure.

superjaredon Firefox Achieves One Billion Downloads, 31% Marketshare

We should launch a campaign to re-re-rename it.

superjaredon The different reasons for company code contributions

It's too bad that sensationalist headlined stories get so much more attention than the mundanely headlined stories like this, which have great content.

superjaredon Three Israeli Femme-preneurs To Keep an Eye On

The comments are interesting. My favorite:

I don’t think I can name any female SEOs…

Should I be ashamed?

superjaredon Ask HN: Please, review wordoid.com, a smart naming webapp

Outstandical!

superjaredon How Different Groups Use Their Time

One thing I found interesting was that those with no children seemed to work considerably less. Perhaps it's an age/career-centric thing. Also to note, those with children spend quite some time in "Family Care" which to me sounds like maintenance moreso than leisure.

superjaredon Saying goodbye (Mark Tarver on Qi)

This is the goodbye from Mark Tarver regarding Qi. Submitter, next time please add a bit more info to the title. Thanks.

Edit: Thanks for the title update.

superjaredon Ask HN - Is it worth joining Mensa?

It seems to me the only reason to join MENSA is to brag about the fact that you got in.

superjaredon Narwhal - hello 0.1

"Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications, primarily outside the web browser. Narwhal includes a package manager, module system, and standard library for multiple JavaScript interpreters. Currently Narwhal’s Rhino support is the most complete, but other platforms are available too."

Has anyone tried this out?