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Why do you talk about 'engineers' as if they were a single mind? They've also been working on nuclear weapons for generations.

> it is impractical to transport data in a binary format that is unparseable without extra information (schemas)

Well, Avro embeds the schema with the messages, and deserializing the message will default to using that schema.

I think JSON is great for a one-off, but I'd hate to be on a team that doesn't schema their data exchange formats.

> Everytime console hacking comes up I start to wonder how well a manufacturer would do if their next console was open.

Would you consider a PC as an 'open' console for this context? If not, what would differ?

Eh, Kinesis has some pretty significant trade-offs to know about if you are comparing it with Kafka (e.g. data retention time and write latency).

Because as a developer, it's often easier to develop for Linux than other major platforms. You often get Linux compatability for "free". It's worth asking for for this reason.

I assume you've never had the pleasure of configuring a Sendmail installation?

I want to second this. I'm in the middle of this course right now.

It has a lot of theory, which may not be terribly interesting if you just want to learn to build a compiler, but it's complete and the language you're building the compiler for has a little bit of everything.

> This is good, because now I know I would never work for Asana.

I've actually used their product, and I'm in the same boat as you because of it.

A player with glasses is on Giant Bomb's stream as I type this, and says "it ain't great". He's been at it 20-ish minutes.

Which would have been a terrible name if they weren't simultaneously controlling the bully pulpit.

I mentioned it in my response to the other reply, but I've found that the average programmer's Google-fu is actually quite poor, and they would not do that subsequent narrowed search.

I get that¸ but naming your project a single word that has tons of pre-existing search results can't be a great idea if you're looking for traction. The average person's (or even programmer's!) Google-fu has always been much worse than I expected, ime.

It's not really on-topic, but why do people name their projects with names that are very difficult to find via search engine? I really don't understand this mindset.

I mean... you don't start out using power tools, right?

Every tool can't be everything to everybody.

At the beginning of my career, there's no way I could do Rails, but nowadays, I'm just not interested in anything but.

There's a lot that I like about Erlang the language, but using it in production left a sour taste in my mouth due to difficult-to-find documentation, difficulty in testing the code, and (especially) the misery that is mnesia.

It was a poor fit with our cloud-based infrastructure, and once the mnesia database began corrupting itself weekly, requiring a full rebuild, it was an easy decision to move to another solution for what we were using it for.

You can install it from Play. It's straightforward.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Yeah, it's come up a few times in the past.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=anonymous+font

Cockatrice is the successor to Apprentice, and is still around even after a recent C&D from WotC. The reason the C&Ds come along is because they all tend to use terms and concepts that WotC owns, like tapping cards.

http://cockatrice.woogerworks.com

I'm not sure if you're aware of Forge or not, but it's actively developed and will probably give you a better game than Shandalar.

http://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/Forge

This reminded me of a password for the original Metal Gear that will start you very close to the end.

FUCK1 MEEEE EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE

(This is not the same as the better known FUCKM E1111 11111 11111 11111 password - you start with more stuff.)

Sure - so far I've had to update postgres_ext, rails_autolink, redis-rails (part of redis-store package), and marginalia.

I'm currently fighting with redis-rails in particular, as bundler doesn't seem to be seeing the dependency change in a nested gem.

The issue I keep running into when testing the RCs with larger apps is the number of gems that have strict dependencies on older versions of activesupport, etc.

I am wading through my Gemfile (over 200 gems counting direct and indirect dependencies) at the moment trying to give the RC a shot, but it's going to be difficult to justify spending much more time on it, unfortunately.

Quotes like this come off as a lot of hot air. Don't tell me what you're going to do. JFDI.

So I type 'help', and a box pops down that says

Help! Get help on using Storm Bar

and nothing else. I can't click anything. What am I supposed to be doing with this?

This looks to have resolved it for us as well. Thank you.

It also allows them to offload a lot of the processing to the client, and not have to worry about infrastructure to deal with cropping, resizing, etc.

And of those migration changes, the move to 1.9.3 will be the biggest change for shops still on 1.8. If you're already on 1.9, the move is straightforward.

Switching find syntax over is rather simple, though tedious.

Gemifying a plugin takes 30 minutes or less in my experience. It will take more time if you haven't done it before, and more time beyond that if you've never made a gem before.

True story: Piki was Stipple's original name, some 3+ years ago. I don't remember now why we changed it...

I switched back to Mutt a few months ago after trying Mail.app (filtering wasn't up to my requirements, would hang often) and Thunderbird (bloated and slow under load). It's been a champion.

urlview.sh is pretty awful, mis-parsing urls constantly for me. I then discovered extract_url.pl[1], which is much, much better.

offlineimap likes to hang randomly - mail just stops coming in and the process never stops, requiring me to remove the lockfile by hand, then kill the process. I haven't found a replacement for it, unfortunately. Definitely open to suggestions on this front.

The linked view_attachment.sh file has problems, for example, with files with multiple dots in the filename (among others). I have made a few tweaks[2] to it to make it more robust. It still has a few issues, but I've found it to work better for the most part.

msmtp is probably unnecessary nowadays if you have a typical setup. For GMail, add the lines:

  set smtp_url            = smtp://your@email.com@smtp.gmail.com:587/
  set smtp_pass           = mah_password

to .muttrc and you should be ready to go.

I also wrote a very small, crappy applescript launcher to launch an iTerm with mutt from the OSX dock[3]. It won't open a second copy if already running, but I haven't been able to figure out how to display a badge on the dock to denote unread mail. It may not be possible.

[1] http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/

[2] https://github.com/xxx/dotfiles/blob/master/osx/mailcap/view...

[3] https://github.com/xxx/dotfiles/blob/master/osx/mutt/mutt-it...

Mixpanel had some downtime 2 days ago, from 22:59 until 23:23 UTC according to our error logs. It might have only been for API users, but downtime nonetheless.

It's certainly possible it was scheduled, but it's not clear where that downtime is announced if so.