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aram··on Lessons from Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes (2011)
I agree and I've seen that; however, the point of the article is that ideally you have rock-solid code and the only sane way to scale is just to add more of the same resources as the codebase is already optimized.

The reason I posted the quote was to answer your on your remark that it isn't a solution - it is close to an ideal solution actually, but not applicable everywhere and at any time (e.g. sloppy/non-optimized code as you pointed out).

Hope this makes sense.

aram··on Lessons from Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes (2011)
> Architecture is doing the right thing when growth can be handled by adding more of the same stuff. You want to be able to scale by throwing money at a problem which means throwing more boxes at a problem as you need them. If your architecture can do that, then you’re golden.

Source: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/15/scaling-pinterest-...

aram··on Show HN: A Search Engine for Developers, Marketers, Web Designers, and Hackers
Very interesting service. At first it didn't occur to me why would I want to search the source code, but your examples were good.

What is the logic behind the search criteria? I entered `<div id="main">`[1] and the first result is LinkedIn with `<div id="main-wrapper">` highlighted, which shouldn't match my query directly as I entered a closed tag. Some of the other results also didn't contain exactly what I was searching for - e.g. `<div id="main" class="main">`, `<div id="main" class="clear">` etc. A technical explanation on this would be great.

Also, one minor note - David's photo in the front page footer is broken [1]

[1] https://search.nerdydata.com/search/#!/searchTerm=<div id="main">/searchPage=1/sort=pop

[2] http://www.arc.losrios.edu/Images/Images-arc/Foreign_Lang_De...

aram··on Interactive visualization of UbuntuEdge funding over time
Thanks
aram··on Interactive visualization of UbuntuEdge funding over time
Would be cool to see at the same time straight line showing how much they'd need to receive on average every day.

So $32m/31day = 1.032m every single day

aram··on Ubuntu Edge
Dummy question:

"Dual LTE antennas"

Does this also mean double the radiation?

aram··on Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik
Yes, you can create additional users within Piwik and grant them access to specific websites.
aram··on Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik
Thanks for that; I remember that it used to display only data older than 24h, but didn't know they changed that.
aram··on Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik
Piwik is pretty good alternative and unlike GA, it gives instant analytics and is extensible.

However, it tends to behave clunky after some time, depending on the number of sites, traffic and server where you host it. This is most visible when you try to display a larger date range or just dig in the history.

There is one more important thing to consider: it collects IP addresses of all your visitors out of the box, which might be in conflict with your local laws. Be sure to check that out before adding it to the site.

aram··on Ubuntu forums breached - all passwords compromised
Email addresses + passwords + possibly other things as well.

Many people reuse the same email and password on other services/websites, so this is pretty valuable and sensitive information.

aram··on Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites
That's only according to their analytics - not a real situation. It means that the users of Wappalyzer currently visit mostly those websites, nothing else.
aram··on Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi
For full (or even better) Dropbox-like solution, check also AjaXplorer[1] which is a PHP file manager.

It supports zipping/unzipping, file preview, editing, sharing and many other things.

And best of all - it's open source and you can create custom plugins for it.

[1] http://ajaxplorer.info/

aram··on Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available
Regarding the coding standards - I meant on these things: no spaces after/before '=>'/ or dots for concatenating strings, mixing camel and snake cases sometimes, naming of certain classes/methods weren't so clear etc.

Thanks for the Gii templates; will definitely have a look at that.

aram··on Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available
The best example is the fact that the first (and the only AFAIK) conference was held in Ukraine and most of the coverage was available in either Russian or Ukrainian. There were slides in English, but noone was writing additionally about it in other languages.

Also, while the site and official docs are in English, adoption of a framework is greatly influenced by the people who are blogging about it. I found many devs actively writing about Yii in Russian/Chinese, while the English sources were either outdated or ended up on "Let's build a helloworld app with Yii" or comparing Yii's performance with Cake/CI/Symfony/potato.

Regarding coding standards - this is personal and of course you can change it, but to me it was a sign of ignorance and reminded me of sloppy coding. Whenever I do something through gii (code generator) I had to do a few rounds of replaces to format everything the way I want. Doesn't influence anything directly, but is damn annoying.

Hope this makes sense.

aram··on Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available
I agree there; somehow I got the feeling that mostly Chinese and Russian folks are using it, meaning that up-to-date resources/tutorials in English are limited.

One of the major things in v1.x that put me off from feeling too comfortable with it was the lack of coding standards - naming conventions, spacing etc. This might be personal, but to me that was one of the little annoying things that didn't really let me make the switch completely.

v2[1] addressed these things which may lead to a better adoption. It looks pretty promising, but it will need more time to become stable.

[1] https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2

aram··on Show HN: Distraction Free Reader/Writer
This one is a web-based editor which you can embed wherever you want. It's basically a replacement for WYSIWYGs:

http://epiceditor.com/

aram··on Bike Share Program Opens in New York City After Long Delay
Pretty cool site!

However note 404 on about page

http://citybik.es/about

aram··on Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells
Thanks for the answer.
aram··on Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells
Isn't Google behind Mozilla as well?
aram··on Show HN: the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader
Thanks a lot - feels much better than any other iOS/Android HN reader app I've seen.
aram··on Announcing the new Jetstrap for Twitter Bootstrap Development
You're welcome!
aram··on Announcing the new Jetstrap for Twitter Bootstrap Development
Good idea and looking great!

I just signed up and here are a few observations:

- the editor is stuck every few minutes on latest Chrome

- helper buttons (clone/delete) disappear after a few moves

- content elements are disappearing when typing (heading titles on marketing layout) - not sure if that triggered some shortcut

- the "undo" button is missing there badly

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