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We started getting SQS errors from us-east-1 around 05:08 UTC. We also have a bunch of files on S3 which Cross-Region Replication hasn't yet replicated... I think that depends on S…

This is where regular company or team-wide meetups are worthwhile. GitHub do this semi-annually I think, I know Engine Yard do it with their remote support staff, and the company I…

Talk to your GF about it. The best part of living with someone, is you don't have to give them your attention every second you're together. If you need time to spend on your intere…

It's a glib statement, but it's not coming from a place of envy - more likely cynicism than anything else :) As I said, he has real world experience, he's made his money and contin…

Disagree. There are plenty of people with CS degrees who can code, what's more dangerous is a programmer with gaping holes in their theoretical knowledge. A friend of mine who both…

There was a study done on this a while ago: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8914028... I agree with the premise that there are diminishing returns after the 2n…

My own experience suggests you are truly burnt out when you are no longer capable of doing work in the face of dire consequences like missing mortgage repayments and feeding your c…

Just as long as they stay away from that Eve kid, I hear she just wants to know EVERYTHING!

At an ethical/moral level, they should care, but at a business level, they should also care. Every time a staff member walks out the door, how much does it cost a company in terms …

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realise that we cannot eat money" Staff shouldn't be treated as so…

I can't imagine Rackspace would be happy with the impact that would have on their clients...

We skipped unit tests when we built desksnear.me for the rails rumble, but we DID have a cucumber test suite for integration testing. It wasn't that much of an impost for us, and i…

Yeah, I had wondered if it was something like that. It IS a tad concerning.

"They store your password in cleartext" Do you have a reference for this to back up your claim? Preferably before I sign up.

Mining money isn't a good fit for dotcoms, I've seen it first hand, as an employee of a startup with investors there (WA). These guys get edgy in businesses they don't understand, …

Did you actually read the article? retraining other devs to use Ruby was identified as one solution. Nevertheless, bringing new developers in who need training is not a zero-cost p…

Unless you're hiring someone fresh out of school, they've likely had some experience in the job market and base their expectations of salary and conditions on that. It's not really…

What have you done to improve your networking opportunities and the community in YOUR city? I started a monthly lunch group where a bunch of us get together and just talk tech. Som…

Hey, at least they're using something . There's no need to waste time on a religious war within the church of version control, when there are non-believers who must be shown the li…

There was no version control available to me when I started programming BASIC on a BBC Model B in 1987. :) It's a bit of a different story in 2010. I would sincerely hope that anyo…

Not trolling, but seriously, is there really a significant number of developers out there who aren't using any form of version control?

I doubt much/any of this will come to pass, speaking as someone who has always had to deal with download limits, it's really not THAT big a deal. We here in Australia have been sub…

I've tested the link on Chrome, Safari and Firefox under OS X while logged out of google and in none of these cases was I asked for a password. Other people have been able to succe…

It's a google docs webform. A few clicks, a submit, and you're done. Did you actually wait for it to load before passing judgement?