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https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/86acbf1cc050c8fa8c74a1... For our application that meant bringing 1 of 3 application servers down and slowing things down in general. So we're…

Our best hires are friends of our employees. In fact it works so well when we want to hire someone we think of job ads as a waste of time. And there is some explanation to that: Go…

A long, long time ago I coded an MP3 implementation for a TI Fixed Point 16bit DSP@100MHz (family 5XXX IIRC). I initially wrote it in floating point C (compiler translated float to…

I thing there's an explanation to the NoSQL movement and why non-rdbms are gaining popularity these days. Not a long time ago, if you had to handle 1 billion records then you were …

The funny thing is that I like the guy. I like both of them. I don't think that they are great hackers, but I enjoy reading their blogs and I respect their efforts. I also believe …

lol s/indent/intent/g

Joel is referring to his programmer(s) and I think Atwood is coding for StackOverflow

"Joel boasts that for 1/10 the hardware they have performance comparable to similarly size sites. He wonders if these other sites have good programmers. Let's see how they did it a…