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> * How do you backup and restore your system? > All critical servers use RAID 5. Unfortunately RAID 5 (or any other flavor) is not a backup solution. It doesn't account for user e…

Boston, MA (South End, no remote) - MeYou Health I'm Lead Engineer at MeYou Health and we're hiring engineers (and a web designer). We work mostly in Rails and Node.js, building we…

Etymotic's in-ear headphones are pretty great, especially if you spring for the extra $100 to go to an audiologist and get custom ear molds made. http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er6i.…

One day about 3 years ago I quit sugar "cold turkey." At the time I was rather highly motivated by seeing a friend nearly killed by necrotizing fasciitis. (Not that his illness was…

He's just playing different venues. For example, he'll be playing Symphony Hall in Boston, where they already do all their own ticketing, instead of the TD Bank North Garden, which…

According to Jason Kottke HFJ has their own webfonts service in private beta. He's using their Whitney font with this new service in his redesigned site: http://kottke.org/12/03/ko…

The article's author seems to be using the term "back end" to refer to an administrative area of the site where you log in to make changes.

Not true. I quit my last job and was on COBRA.

Looks like I can't edit any more. All the books have been claimed at this point. I hope you all enjoy them!

UPDATE: Everything except Operating Systems 2e (Deitel) has been claimed. I'll try to get everything shipped out in the next few days. Happy Holidays everyone! - Sean It's been a l…

> [If you use git merge --squash some-branch] [w]hen a QA person or your boss says, "Hey, is some-feature {merged into QA, deployed}" you have to resort to `git log` spelunking. Of…

Can anyone recommend good documentation on load balancing a LAMP app across multiple independent VPS providers? We've had a high profile site affected by these Fremont outages so I…

> Though usually omitted from public sources about H-bombs, including all of the sources I managed to find this morning with a bit of Googling, I remember hearing somewhere, years …

> git pull origin master I think in general, as well as this particular case, it would be better to do git fetch origin One doesn't always want to merge from the remote branch.

You'd still be able to get the cookie when the client sends it bnack to the server on subsequent, non-SSL requests. It's gotta be SSL all the time.

Yeah, I tried it out after reading the above post. Way too buggy to rely upon for client work.

Because I hadn't heard of it 'til now :-). Will _definitely try this out. Thanks!

Or use srm.

I've been using a previous generation MacBook Air (1.86GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD) for web dev work for 18 months or so. It's great for everything _except_ browser testing …

Am I the only one who finds Pivotal Tracker's UX horrible to the point of being unusable? I worked with a team that insisted on Pivotal Tracker and aside from its crashing my Fluid…

> DINNER: Grilled salmon, roasted green beans, side salad Aren't green beans legumes?

What's the purpose of matching "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999."? For purposes of this regex, wouldn't the domain matching that follows be sufficient?

I've been able to eliminate cravings for the bad stuff which, for me, has had the same benefit as making the good stuff crave-inducing. To do this I: 1. Eliminated all artificial s…