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Oh, that'll be great! That's not quite the same as a sliding window of last 5 minutes, but it'll definitely work for my use case. (Intuitively, a sliding window seems very hard/imp…

Hey, this is very close to something I've been needing recently (and in Go, nonetheless). Is there any way to get a similar thing for a sliding window of a stream? For example, to …

Great demo! This is probably obvious, but for the first time it occurs to me that motion blur is essentially the same as anti-aliasing. They are eye-tricking hacks to work around a…

ATI?

You could also do this without a server at all. You could just have a script put your data into the html/js template and open up the page with something like bcat. http://rtomayko.…

Oh shoot: http://gist.io/3135754 http://bl.ocks.org/1353700 Two of my favorite gist frontends, broken :(

Really? I feel pretty much the exact opposite way. I find the docs to be thorough, accurate, and concise.

I had this problem right when I started using rbenv. Eventually with some help I realized that just starting bash was slightly slow, and that all the various bash scripts that rben…

This is a cool idea, and I love the convenience of deploying a single-binary app when using Go for servers. When deploying web servers, though, I'd prefer to leave the images and o…

I believe this also includes the bitmap marking GC changes which will make the GC copy-on-write friendly. This is pretty important for a lot of folks running Ruby web servers. See,…

Readline has vi mode, and it's amazing. I use vi mode in zsh, bash, ruby, python, mysql, etc. and I can't live without it any more. I still have fit-of-rage moments when I try to u…

We don't have immediate plans for other VCSs. None of the people who built Barkeep use other VCSs on a regular basis, and we initially built it around our own needs. Right now our …

I'm American, and I've never paid for an SMS in my life. You can block texts via your carrier so that people can't cost you 20 cents or whatever by sending you a text. I'm pretty s…

And it has 'pragmatic control' :D

I don't know much about Django/Flask, but the arguments presented seem to apply to Rails as well. At my company we're moving off of Rails completely in favor of SOA structured arch…