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One of the many reasons to visit Pembrokeshire, Wales: https://www.internalfire.com/ Lots of running kit you can get close to or hands on with e.g. 4000hp jet generators, telephone…

Yes, but even the best agency will every so often run into a bad client. I think that's analogous to what happened here.

Appear Here | London, United Kingdom | ONSITE | FULLTIME Ruby/Rails React/Redux IOS Android Redis/PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch AWS/Docker https://www.appearhere.co.uk?hn is the UK’s le…

This is essentially the same approach as https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Setting-up-the-Clo... . What's neat and novel to me about this implementation is the use of delim…

Here's a summary of the discussion (RAML vs Swagger vs Apiary vs RSpec...) we had at Lonely Planet: https://lonelyplanet.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PUB/API+Spec... 5 months in, we'…

What do you mean by "brand name tests"?

Or well-known URIs http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

> marked incompatible with nexus 7 FWIW works perfectly on my 2nd-gen Nexus 7.

See also Wong Kei's in London's Chinatown. Its notorious rudeness is/was part of the attraction. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb...

1. Start scraping all images from http://developer.android.com/training/ inside div.gc-documentation 2. Inspect manually 3. Profit Fun!

We're trialling cutting packages from Rails apps with fpm[1], plus prm[2] to create the apt repository on s3. There's a bit of footwork needed to include built gems and correct ass…

This is so much fun. Thanks!

Last month Jobbik rallied against the World Jewish Congress in Budapest, protesting "against what it said was a Jewish attempt to buy up Hungary". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e…

Because in general, delegation tends to lead to object schizophrenia. Specifically, SimpleDelegator will leak the original delegatee object when a delegated method returns `self`. …

We use StatsD and Graphite a ton at lonelyplanet.com: http://bit.ly/lp-perf-and-metrics

Haha. I'd love someone to release a greasemonkey/userscript for that status page to make degraded service more obvious.

Brings back happy memories of hacking on the BBC Micro. > MODE 7 > PRINT CHR$(136);"GOODBYE CEEFAX!"

veewee is being merged into vagrant.

I recommend Elise Huard's recent talk on Ruby GC: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/ruby-bin-men (Also, I'd love to see the Hungarian Folk Dance interpretation of different GC a…

Lovely. We do something very similar in front of EC2 clusters with http://openresty.org/

Cheers! Really enjoyed making it! I compiled a JSON index of all the tracks from various sources. The site loads the index and calls the YouTube API to find the best match video. S…

In the meantime, you can listen to every track from every John Peel Festive 50 at http://peelplayer.com Disclaimer: it's a site I hacked together in a few hours for John Peel day l…

IIRC "zo" is also valid. It's a Tibetan yak hybrid. Hmmm... Yak butter tea.

I've heard it called "splay" before e.g. `chef-client` will take an interval option and a splay option. Splay is a random amount of time added to the interval to prevent thundering…

The students' anticipations of the exam are their anticipations of the exam. I don't see the circularity yet. It's clearer in the Liar Paradox.