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gary4gar

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About gary4gar

Ruby on rails Freelance Consultant

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    Comment #48721510

    Everyone does QA at a startup. There is no dedicated QA. If you're a developer, you're doing QA. Product, whatever your job title is, you're doing QA.

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    Comment #13991730

    What's wrong with just doing SHA1?

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    Comment #11251376

    How is this different from https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/buford ?

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    Comment #11157357

    Tried the Golang cheatsheet, the rendering is broken. lots of tags https://duckduckgo.com/?q=golang+cheatsheet&ia=answer&iax=1

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    Comment #10876351

    What about High availability, auto-scaling & avoiding single point of failure? Might not be that important in your case, I am guessing.

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    Comment #10200373

    What are you using for ref docs? https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-album/

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    Ask HN: How to Improve our API's documentation

    Hello, We have an ReSt API that have been in use internally & now we have started opening it for our partners. I have done the initial documentation by parsing our server logs to g…

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    Comment #9931196

    is it faster than MRI?

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    Ask HN: Going from Redis to MySQL. Good idea?

    We are building a SaaS backend for restaurants using Rails. We integrate directly with POS, so each POS keeps sending customer orders that we store for later processing. we have th…

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    Comment #7813225

    does this work on all android versions?

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    Comment #7604474

    Downloading via Bittorrent! Getting 12.04 LTS with great speeds.

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    Comment #7579522

    Print the CLA, sign it and scan it (or use a camera to photograph it) and e-mail it to hello(at)robovm.com. Include your GitHub user name in the e-mail. print & scan in 21st centur…

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    Comment #7538447

    they built a wooden model to demonstrate their answer — although Bozóki notes that the model doesn’t verify the result because manufacturing errors are much greater than any errors…

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    Comment #7489860

    Work on the Ruby interpreter is weirdly silo'ed off and mostly done by Japanese developers, so there's a significant barrier to entry for any enterprising C developer to roll her s…

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    Comment #7291953

    Ruby v2.1 have a improved GC which helps a LOT with performace. You can know about Performance changes in these posts: http://tmm1.net/ruby21-rgengc/ http://tmm1.net/ruby21-oobgc/ …

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    Comment #7150073

    It would be nice to get these patches in core as part of ruby 2.1.1 so others don't need to patch & recompile ruby from source. Other that, anything that improves performance is a …

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    Comment #7130611

    UbunutuOne & OneDrive are quite similar names which might cause confusion for microsoft

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    Comment #7036439

    Ruby 2 is almost dropin replacement for Ruby 1.9.3. so upgrading should be easy & backwards compatible with following exceptions Incompatibility There are five notable incompatibil…

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    Comment #6921127

    Ruby Devs, Take note, Fedora 20 has ruby 2 & rails 4 available. to get started with rails, all you need to do is: yum install rubygem-rails and Bam, it will install latest ruby, ra…

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    Comment #6908709

    I am currently reading "Web Application Development With Angular". Its a well written book geared towards who already know angular basics. That's why I suggested O'Reilly book as i…

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    Comment #6908696

    DreamHost is mostly used for LAMP stack. you might want to Use heroku which offers first-class ruby support. https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/ruby

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    Comment #6908196

    Try the following - AngularJS http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028055.do - Web Application Development With AngularJS http://www.packtpub.com/angularjs-web-application-develo…

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    Comment #6807139

    You are doing god's work with Discourse & improving rails/ruby to support 50/ms response/per request. Thank you!