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A collection of "two problems" jokes.

I share your pain.

I'm currently trying to buy a pair of shoes on amazon, and many reviewers are calling out the fact that after giving the shoes a five star, they go to buy a second pair of the same…

I actually owe my programming career to MTM. When I was ~10-11 years old, I held many tournaments. At some point, my tournament grew to the point where I couldn't manage signups da…

I use it here and there as well. I combined it with meteor to give a presentation without having to screen share. https://github.com/phillc/meteor-impress Example: http://phillc-cd…

You hit my opinion exactly. I love to hate/hate to love meteor because of how easy it is, but I just can't come up with an easy testing scheme outside of full out integration test,…

If you are worried about cost, just run it on a subset of your servers. 10-20% of your servers should be enough to gather most information you need... unless you are using new reli…

Your philosophies are sound for banking software. There are cases where startups, social impact organizations, or any fast moving team would pick rails for its fast movement, acces…

Single location to aggregate a list of all vulnerable apps.

If you are scanning your code base for find_by_ 's, make sure to look at your find_all_by_ 's as well if you have them.

Thank you... I always wondered why that was true.

Yep, it focuses my eyes. While pair programming, it tends to drive the other person nuts.

And that they took some of the learnings during the contest and saw some decent gains.

One of the racks fell over onto the other racks, like dominios.

Yes. I have played with many js frameworks, including derby, meteor, tower, and several more while attempting to build my toy app http://retr.us . While it is built in meteor, I ha…

Thank you! I was in the middle of debating what to do my presentation in and decided to go with Shower because of your analysis.