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Especially on long distance trips, I try to avoid layovers because of the uncertainty it introduces. If I could be guaranteed that my first leg would leave and arrive on time, then…

Listening to the live radio communications on a flight was eye opening. Turbulence aside, I can usually feel when the plane is moving to a new altitude (either up or down), and whi…

As an internet user, I really enjoy reading about all these performance improvements in V8 / javascript. As a ruby developer, I'm insanely jealous.

No need to apologize - I kind of do that already with texts, but my last vacation was in Japan, so the timezone thing gave little overlap and it would have been nice to have someth…

I have similar concerns, but I was just on vacation for 2 weeks and would have loved a way to check-in on my cat / cat-sitter to see how things are going. Are there products that w…

I feel like piracy is going to continue to be an issue until we get a spotify/tidal/apple music-type service for video content. Netflix seemed a lot closer to that several years ag…

I think it was Netflix that said that: https://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hb...

It goes on for pages. My guess would be someone phished an admin account and changed which subreddits are included in /r/all.

I've been struggling with this a lot. Granted it's pretty much all speculation, but if it is a state actor that is giving Wikileaks this information, and if said state actor was tr…

JSON API seems overly verbose to me. It feels like like a direct descendant of the SOAP / WSDL era -- or maybe I'm just scarred from having written and consumed SOAP webservices.

Yep, working now. Thanks!

Sounds really interesting, but I'm getting a 503 from their site. :(

Having grown up in the midwest where everything is a 10 - 20 minute drive, I absolutely love it here. It's literally life changing.

If you're only visiting LA, you're going to run into traffic. LA has arguably the first or second worst traffic in all of the US. As a counter-anecdote, I live in what could be con…

Agreed. Top Thrill is great for the "thrill" of hitting 120 mph and dropping ~400 feet, but it's over in a matter of seconds. I think they nailed it with the drag race metaphor. Th…

I switched from will_paginate to kaminari when I made the move from rails 2 to rails 3 and haven't looked back. It's a great library that works as advertised.

I set up my first rails app on Linode about 5 years ago and used to scoff at people that went the "easy" route with Heroku. Now I'm using Heroku and wonder why I wasted so much tim…

While I'm not disagreeing with the intentions of the quote, it's worth pointing out that there's no actual evidence that Einstein ever said that: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/einst…

I was literally going to post the exact same article. Up until I read this a few days ago, I would have jumped into a debate with "desalination! just do it!" -- turns out it's much…

I really appreciate what the omniref guys are doing, but I find these "posts" (maybe not the right word?) incredibly difficult to follow. I can't tell if I'm supposed to read the l…

This was just posted a few days ago -- here's the discussion for anyone interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8594769

RVM/rbenv/chruby are generally discouraged on production servers.

Yep, I played around with different GC settings for ~2 days before I gave up and reverted back to 2.0. I keep hoping pressure from other hosting companies will push heroku to up th…

For the person who wants to put time/effort into investing, where you suggest they start?