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mhodgson

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About mhodgson

Serial entrepreneur. Former CTO of Boundless, TurningArt, and YouCastr.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #25210698

    If AWS can't even figure out not to build their status dashboard on their own infrastructure then I think all hope might be lost.

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    Comment #12582142

    Is it the case that 'Docker for Windows Server 2016' can only run Windows containers and 'Docker for Windows' can only run Linux containers? If so, is there any plan for a solution…

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    Comment #11155648

    Looks like a nice entrant to the space. React is very well suited to this problem space and they clearly understand many of the pitfalls and problems. A few questions/concerns: 1. …

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    Comment #9839581

    Once you understand how git works under the hood it's actually fairly easy to predict that performance will be poor. A simple checkout involves accessing 100s if not 1000s of objec…

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    Comment #9835266

    I'm not sure I follow. Our use case required the ability to easily update blobs (in this case formatted written text) without having to rewrite history every time. I don't immutabl…

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    Comment #9835255

    You could certainly try. I believe the core contributors moved away from the idea of pluggable backends once they realized the performance limitations. It still works great for som…

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    Comment #9834013

    Happy to help. The license is MIT (just added). In terms of duplicating objects, I believe that if you do choose to store objects from many repos in the same table, they will NOT b…

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    Comment #9833954

    Also, note that some of the code will need updating since it was written specifically with Ruby bindings in mind. Should be easy to spot and update/remove the rb_* method calls.

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    Comment #9833948

    Lucky for you I actually did exactly this over a year ago. We're not using it anymore so I'll just open source it for you: https://gist.github.com/mhodgson/d29bbd35e1a8db5e0800 Ple…

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    Comment #5686806

    Looks interesting. How does is compare with Cube? http://square.github.io/cube/

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    Comment #5439399

    I'm fairly certain this doesn't work with current versions of Chrome. The experimental support for the -sass-debug-info that this method uses was removed in favor of real sourcemap…

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    Comment #2834478

    What, exactly, do you think is average about Steve Jobs?

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    Comment #2004350

    Wow, works great. Now I can follow people without having to actually listen to them.