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Agreed, especially about simplejson. I work on a project that uses simplejson, and it leads to ugly type checking all over the place because you never know what your JSON string go…

I'd love for them to do that, but there's a couple of problems that they'd have to overcome first. First: Slackbot. This is a Slack-run bot that's in every channel; team owners can…

Any limits on the number of metrics or metrics/s?

Given a sufficiently large monitor, it's fine. I (Emacs user) routinely pair with a Vim-using coworker; we just put Emacs on one half of the screen and Vim on the other. The only t…

Probably the best way to get started is to grab an Emacs 24 pretest and use technomancy's Emacs Starter Kit: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit Emacs 24 gives you a s…

Absolutely true. The RAID controller would randomly lose drives and the driver for it would randomly cause kernel panics. We tried different firmwares and different kernels and mad…

We had something similar but smaller (~8 TB) at a place I worked, and it was a nightmare. Migrating from that to S3 was one of the best things to happen to that project. Being a si…

I voted for option #3; I recently tried to work with a technical recruiting agency, and based on my experience, I don't plan on ever doing it again. They were a bunch of email-phob…

> Does 911 work different for cell phones? Yes, it does. Calling 911 from a cell phone connects you to a big regional call center that gets your location and transfers you to your …

There's two flavors of monthly data cap. I have a Linode with a data cap of 300GB per month; if I use more than that, I pay a reasonable amount ($0.15/GB) for the excess. So if I u…

Sometimes both programmers just keep using their favorite editors. At my last job, we had a more typical pairing setup with one machine (27" imac) in the middle of two programmers.…

As an Emacs user, I've never found Emacs-ish keybindings in other applications to be helpful. Take Textmate, for example. Its default keybindings are a little bit Emacs-ish, and th…

This is the default behavior in Emacs 23.1. Most of the time, it makes editing text easier, as one would expect. The exception is when using a keyboard macro to do something to a b…