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> Not a fan of Java-based software either, to be honest. It makes me sad to see this is still something people say. I hope you reconsider this sentiment and investigate some of the…

The app looks pretty great. Being able to incorporate the geolocation data from foursquare, instagram, flickr, facebook, etc. would aid in not feeling like you have to think of you…

If you're interested in other examples of this sort of solution, this is how Shopify has tackled this problem: https://github.com/tobi/imagery It looks like tobi also has played ar…

Ends up that passing the file directly to grep will allow it to use tricks to make processing faster than reading from a pipe.

Can you elaborate on the 4S battery life issue? I've only had my iPhone 4S for a week, but I haven't noticed anything drastically worse than my iPhone 4. It certainly hasn't ran ou…

Based on what? Building really cool technology that you decide to give a way sounds a lot like how many startups have failed. You've attributed arbitrary value to peoples worth whe…

He smelled.

"PBKDF1 is recommended only for compatibility with existing applications since the keys it produces may not be large enough for some applications." — RFC 2898, September 2000

Why are they emailing developers out of the blue to "claim" their profile? Please don't base your service off of crawling sites and emailing people who don't ask for either.

Really? What is it going to take to get beyond the stupid provocative titles? Can we work on being constructive? It would be pretty sweet if people started writing post-mortems for…

So far I'm not really a fan of forking RubyGems, but I am concerned with the solution you mentioned for compatibility with Rails (which I take as a good metaphor for any large Ruby…

This post is as vapid as any of the this-NoSQL-datastore-is-better-than-this-RDBMS posts that pop up weekly. "Oracle also has a large number of background processes all competing f…

I hope this point does not get lost in the shuffle. This whole issue is very much due to the fact that Dropbox did not handle the initial reporting of this problem when it was anno…

Yep. And this may be one of those cases where they would have been better off ignoring their customer requests for the good of their reputation and their customers uptime.

I strongly believe one of the most positive aspects of EC2 was that it demonstrated a beautiful philosophy that a node and their disks should not be relied upon to always be around…