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Comment #10012522
Better filters for emails. Would love to subscribe to only new issues on a repo or random issues on a repo. Basically http://codetriage.com
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Comment #9918918
This program offers interesting features to a business but not s much for the traveler. Anyone who is spending 25+ nights a year in a hotel is going to be sure to be getting points…
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Comment #9506527
At Georgia Tech we got a very small server space which was used in a few CS classes, it would have been large enough to run hubot. Your university might have a similar setup.
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Comment #9506204
If you've got a static files you could still serve it using Heroku free. Put cloudflare or another CDN in front of it and boom you've got 24 hours of fast responses. Though if it's…
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Comment #9311911
> The first step was removing varnish This was removed for architectural reasons. It brought a lot of downtime to the platform and didn't help speed all that much. It's better and …
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Comment #9308362
If you want to get into: * Discussing technical issues with developers. * Learning about new technologies. Check out http://www.codetriage.com . It will also help give you the tool…
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Comment #9251181
I bought this game a few years ago. I learned quite a few things about vim. Unfortunately the puzzles in the later levels aren't very clear. I spent hours trying to figure out what…
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Comment #9214674
Tenderlove, the super nice guy who submitted that PR is on Rails core. Too bad to hear he's part of the evil visible minority that you just made up in your head.
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Comment #8924836
Austin is amazing! If you're in town stop by an Austin on Rails, great community. There's always friendly folks, companies hiring, and ususally some food.
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Comment #8902138
I think there are a few issues. The first is funding. If you are an engineering manager and trying to ship product, you don't want a 25% faster Ruby VM in 10 years, you want someon…
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Comment #8902078
We sponsor Matz, Nobu, and Koichi. Of them Koichi works pretty much full time on speed. He implemented partial generational GC in Ruby 2.1 and incremental GC in 2.2. He also implem…
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Comment #8899454
This is really really cool. Thanks for posting. I'm especially interested in memory usage right now. I wrote a way to generate load and measure memory impact on your app: https://g…
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Comment #8864992
I've learned to do this, but for me it wasn't obvious at first. At the end of the day if it's my PR, it's my job to provide the supporting evidence as to why that code should be me…
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Comment #8863010
This happens so frequently to me. I'll Spend an hour running benchmarks and then post a PR. Someone chimes in and says "method x is faster" with nothing to back it up. I have to be…
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Comment #8839508
> Look at what I’m not running Cue http://dhh-soundboard.herokuapp.com
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Comment #8827222
You can also run foreman if you're not on Heroku. Put your environment variables in a `.env` file. The environment variables get sourced only to the environment of that process and…
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Comment #8821505
> can't Heroku/GitHub/37 signals or someone sponsor a week of dev time to automate a system Heroku does sponsor Matz, Nobu, and Koichi. We hired them and give them a full time sala…
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Comment #8608445
> 2.0.0 means no memory errors 2.1 has a totally new GC setup (generational GC). It is guaranteed to use more memory (expect 3~5%), but be MUCH MUCH MUCH faster. Typically you can …
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Comment #8607691
I don't think they're talking about a released build, but rather building it yourself from source ( http://madcoderspeak.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-compile-rub... ) which is what …
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Comment #8607676
If you're still running a Ruby 2.1.0, 2.1.1, or 2.1.2 (i.e. less than 2.1.3) you're missing out on some killer memory optimizations. I saw huge savings in my production app when i …
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Comment #8355557
> I dislike the proprietary nature of Heroku platform Most everything we do, we open source. For example I help maintain the Heroku Ruby Buildpack, and it is fully open source. Thi…