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I believe Vagrant is for quickly and repeatably building development environments - I don't think it's meant for production. Look into packer for building out Production images, an…

I believe the debugger is broken in Ruby-2.0, and you should use byebug instead. There are pry wrappers for byebug - https://github.com/deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug - maybe that'll …

Wow, that's an impressive donation from Mozilla. What's the background story? Why would they be so heavily invested? I understand Tim has done great things for the Node community. …

This is a top notch effort. As someone who has recently started looking at JS MVC frameworks, I've found there are a lot of options and not a huge amount of documentation or tutori…

How have you written this? It's fast and has an interesting feel to it, but I don't recognize the JavaScript framework. Also, how can I leave feedback from within the site?

And in FireFox 7.0

Bookmarklets are awesome except they involve more user interaction than should be needed. I feel like almost every time I could use a bookmarklet, a plugin would do more with just …

It's using Ruby Whois ( http://www.ruby-whois.org/ ) to do the queries, and it looks like the .org implementation is a bit flakey. Thanks for the heads up and thanks for the feedba…

That's pretty cool, but slightly different. It's certainly a much more polished product =) Where that's showing you a combination of words, my site instead looks up every word and …

Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any …

Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any …

What an excellent post, and easy enough for someone without tech experience to follow. This will definitely be forwarded to friends wanting to get into the more serious side of web…

This just strikes me as so very open to malicious attack. That I can scan networks to find smart phones on Virgin (or other networks), and do no more than a ping flood those IPs to…

Imagine if this was combined with the iPhone worm from a few months back. It'd essenially pingflood all phones exposed on the telco networks and screw thousands of people in excess…

First alarm: iPod plugged into a stereo playing something pleasant. (7.20am) Second alarm: iPhone alarm 40 minutes later. I now mega-loathe the "Harp" alarm tone. (8.00am) Third al…

The Rails Way is pretty good. http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Way-Addison-Wesley-Professional-... I've found the peepcode webcasts worth their weight in gold, but that's not a book =) …