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From the chrome extension github: "This is pre-alpha quality software, the result of a three day project. It will crash your browser, leak your passwords and destroy your home. Thi…

We (Harry's) have released a tool called Kontrast: https://github.com/harrystech/kontrast , http://engineering.harrys.com/2014/09/24/kontrast.html It's written in Ruby but is not r…

I run mine as a NAS, and the performance is pretty terrible. The portability is great though! I'm somewhat nomadic at the moment so it's great to have a 1TB NAS that I can pack in …

ubuntu@c1-10-1-18-157:~$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=2000 --num-threads=4 run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following op…

Because everything written in Ruby is junk? This project can be used by any system that uses a cron-like syntax for scheduling jobs, regardless of the languages and frameworks that…

I don't understand why web professionals are publishing their work in .docx format, whatever the standard of the writing.

We certainly don't use Heroku for the price. I've got a fair amount of experience running distributed apps on AWS and I have found that Heroku do provide a lot of value-added servi…

We find that neither New Relic nor Analytics gives the full picture: some of our pages are heavily cached, others (e.g checkout processing) are computationally expensive, database …

That really depends on your app and your caching strategy. If you are doing something complex or memory intensive (or your app is poorly optimized), or if your users are highly eng…

Woah! So sorry to be treading on your namespace! I did a google search for the 'Dynosaur' and didn't get any hits if I recall. We will put our heads together and come up for a new …

We haven't benchmarked against other autoscalers or done any direct comparisons. Our main motivation was to write something that scaled as we scale manually (i.e. when we get a lot…

Dynosaur author here, if anyone has questions.

Good point. I am on GSM in the US but also prefer an international phone.

Yes, but it's a 3 row keyboard. I upgraded from the G1 (5 row qwerty) to the G2 (4 row, numbers-on-the-qwerty-row) and it's next to useless. As a phone, I need to use the number li…

We just spent days moving stuff away from Elasticache due to memcached limitations, and would love to have moved to managed Redis. We're an AWS partner, with the highest level supp…

Mongo got a lot better about reusing disk space in v2.2, if you are deleting from a collection. Still no compression or document field name optimizations though.

With Digital Ocean you'd need to install a software firewall on the servers themselves, there is no API-configurable network-level firewall. I used 'ufw' which was quite easy to ge…

Zoneminder grinds my dual-core Atom to a halt. Try 'motion' for a simpler system (well, simple if you like config-file setup) with about 25% of the CPU usage. Plus, the viewing int…

EnergyHub : Full Stack Software Engineer - Brooklyn, NY. Full Time. We're building a platform for controlling residential energy usage (think wifi thermostats, but also all sorts o…

I can't even begin to calculate the amount of time I wasted on Eclipse. I hated it. I tried to use eclim, which kinda work, but started crashing vim (infrequently) which is worse t…

Switching between tabs in the editor takes > 1s (on a core i7 with 12GB). That is enough to make it almost useless for me. IntelliJ community edition is much snappier.

I don't get it. Perforce is ~$200/seat/year. IDEA at $500 seems like a no-brainer compared to limping on with Eclipse.

It looks like it installs a separate non-conflicting package called wine-compholio with the necessary patches, and leaves your current wine installed. I don't really have any curre…

This is true, in the Ubuntu packages this is printed to the default log at /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log. It is also abundantly clear from the documentation. I struggle to understan…