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I'd say give Temporal ( https://temporal.io ) a look, but there are a lot of options ( https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines ).

We've been using Temporal for the past year and have found it to be an absolute joy. Being able to model business processes--some of which may take multiple _years_, and require hu…

Would you ever want autocomplete on, say, a field where you're inputting a 2FA response? Probably not, since any suggestions would be useless. I find the workaround of "just put so…

I find this story highly suspect, unless the writer happened to find a company run primarily by sociopaths.

Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712261

I've used Uber dozens of times, but stories like this really make me think I should give Lyft a shot. After all, if this company is operating in such an underhanded manner this ear…

I'm not sure why MS decided that the release of a free upgrade of their product that's trying to address pain points with Metro would be great opportunity to shove the Windows Stor…

It's worth noting that Twitter had their own project called Starling, but I get the impression they've moved on. http://rubyforge.org/projects/starling

What does this have to do with client trust? They're expecting the client to access their API a certain way, and the client is sending what is arguably a malformed request. This is…

This (mass-assignment) is fairly standard Rails-fu, so its fair to assume that this could affect a lot of apps out there.

What the hey... I'd love to see support added for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.

Rackspace customers can use SendGrid to send up to 40K emails a month for free. I wonder how this might impact that deal.

Yep... if you follow the link you received previously, there's a new Steam key available for the added games.

I don't believe the intent here is to replace Resque (Resque is awesome), but provide a slim API at Rails.queue that Resque/Delayed Job/BackgroundDRB/Torquebox/etc. could tie into,…

Wow, thank you for this. The delay caused by this behavior has been driving me crazy for a really long time.

For those who aren't familiar with MC Frontalot, might I suggest you check out "It is Pitch Dark," his rap about Zork. http://youtu.be/4nigRT2KmCE

FYI, you can wrap any line of Ruby at a comma, provided there is one.

I guess this will get _someone_ using id tech 4... doesn't look like it ever got much love from a licensing standpoint. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4#Games_using_id_Tech_4…

As an rdio subscriber, a streaming video service that offered some sort of integration with rdio would be pretty interesting. A single subscription plan that would allow for unlimi…

For the record, I almost immediately filled up my allotted iCloud backup space because of rdio, because I have 4.6 gigs of music synced for offline use, and it wanted to back that …

Is it possible that a user could use Instapaper to save a document that they wouldn't be able to download later, even if they had access to an internet connection? If that's possib…