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Here is a company that provides conveyor belt that is in the same vein as this MIT project https://www.festo.com/group/en/cms/10225.htm

This article conflates programming and making a product. The example of creating 'an app that would save the planet' most likely has little to do with who programmed it, and more t…

I've been using the CanCan(Can) gem to handle all permissions logic, both in controllers and views. It abstracts all user state logic to a single file https://github.com/CanCanComm…

Author here. No monetization in mind. We just want to have people using it. If it turns out that nobody else is hosting the server part, but people still want to stream, we might r…

I have one, it's called a blender. The quality ingredients are up to you!

Heroku sells convenience, and resells EC2 instances to you. Their previous dedicated database option, Ronin, cost $200/month. When you connect the dots that this DB has a 1.7GB cac…

I think engineers in hard sciences are a bit different than "startup" software "engineers". Anyone can make mistakes of course, but the process and professionalism is different. I'…

Swole means muscular, which for many is a good thing.

No, allow_mult was set to false. Similarly to the author, it was running on AWS, so that may be a factor.

I have used riak in a production app. Just recently switched to redis. Riak was great for the most part. There were three nodes running on three different machines. Setting up a ne…