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It's cynicism on every thread and full of "get-off-my-lawn" comments. It has become toxic. Not sure what happened in the last 10 years.

Do you have contact info? Would love to hear your story and how you got to where you are.

This is pretty amazing. It shows there is a level of intelligence that exists above what these 5 can achieve collectively. Scientists have effectively created life when something c…

For those doubting the interview, I was asked many of these same questions for a mid-level role by the recruiter just a couple of months ago. It's real. Passed the phone screen, bu…

Yup, that JSON is the response from the endpoint I'm referring to. Congrats on shipping!

How are you getting accurate pricing for AWS components? I know Amazon's Simple Calculator uses an undocumented pricing endpoint, but that endpoint could change and become inaccura…

Would like to know this as well. I have a gasoline Golf and I'm concerned its depreciation has accelerated.

Is there any really way to design your application to handle S3 failures like this? S3's SLA has 99.99% availability, but is there a way to handle the 1% so your application is not…

Django REST Framework is the the most popular way to build APIs with Django. Lot of neat features out of the box such as throttling and permissions make it easy to build API endpoi…

Your logo looks similar to Ghostly's http://www.theghostlystore.com/

I'm in the middle of this process, but from an even older version. Since 1.7 introduced migrations, I recommend upgrading to 1.6 first and getting your South migrations caught up w…

How do you source your candies? Did you ever have any logistics issues with order fulfillment being time consuming? How did you get around that?

What area are you in? Learning basic sysadmin tasks will take you a long way. Plug: I'm in the process of making an online training curriculum if you're interested. The content isn…

For local development, I use Vagrant + Chef cookbooks to setup my environment. The same Chef cookbooks are used to provision the production servers. It's not clear to me how I can …

Can anyone compare Nginx and HAProxy, and also provide an example of using both in an infrastructure?

Probably a joke. They are using Nginx, and you can easily add a custom header using the add_header directive[1] in the Nginx config. e.g. add_header "X-Powered-By" "Food"; [1] http…

Hey Maerek, thanks for signing up! I try to cover typography, frontend techniques, interviews with designers, industrial design, and branding. It's a broad range of topics that I'm…

I started a weekly newsletter that provides design-related articles and tips: http://seriffed.com Like you, I wanted to improve my design skills, so I coded this up over several we…

I've found classes in graph theory, linear algebra, probability, and statistics to be the most useful for me. Probability and statistics have much more practical applications outsi…

Thanks for subscribing! I'll play around with the ligature and see how it turns out :)