Disqus - Latest Comments for jelder

Re: Tesla CEO Elon Musk releases first picture of his new tunnel boring machine

jelder — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 09:36:00 -0000

"A" boring company implies that it's not even a specific one, one of many. "The" means it's the only one, a specific one.

Re: Educating towards a circular economy

jelder — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:09:58 -0000

The first link ("Ellen MacArthur Foundation") is a 404. The first image does not expand when clicked, and the second image actually gets smaller when clicked. Nice.

Re: Supreme Court rules for police in search case

jelder — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:57:59 -0000

> Getting arrested sucks but that's what happens when you break the law.

Getting arrested _does not_ mean you broke the law. Determining if you broke the law is what courts are for.

Re: Phusion Passenger 5 beta 3: more stable, turbocaching updates

jelder — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:07:15 -0000

Any update? Still can't find any docs on this.

Re: Write better Markdown - BrettTerpstra.com

jelder — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:28:54 -0000

There are a number of formatting errors in the "Fenced code blocks" section.

Re: DoorDash Blog — Migrating from Heroku to AWS (using Docker)

jelder — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:04:21 -0000

Curious about your performance gains. You didn't mention PX instances, which grant single-tenancy, 6GB, and 40x CPU over the 1X dynos. Did you try PX before ditching Heroku altogether?

Re: Phusion Passenger 5 beta 3: more stable, turbocaching updates

jelder — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:16:23 -0000

Any details on new HTTP JSON API? I'd love to start using it but can't find any documentation.

Re: Ruby: How to iterate "the right way" - Jerome's Adventures in Rubyland

jelder — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:17:35 -0000

for should only be used when you actually want the iteratee to be accessible after you leave the block. `for` pollutes the parent scope with old iteratees. For this reason, each should be your default. Example: https://gist.github.com/jel...

Re: Space Is Not Our Friend

jelder — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:09:44 -0000

For what it's worth, it's not that unreasonable that Bullock's character would be working on Hubble: there is a lot of overlap between medical and space imaging technologies.

Re: Heroku | Adding Concurrency to Rails apps with Unicorn

jelder — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:35:33 -0000

We're doing that and it does seem to be working. That is a pretty weird omission from this announcement.

Re: Heroku | Adding Concurrency to Rails apps with Unicorn

jelder — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:33:36 -0000

This really isn't reasonable with the memory constraints Heroku uses. What's worse, they don't even publish memory usage statistics. It's basically impossible to find out how much memory a specific dyno is using until you run out, and even then it's pretty hard to catch without something watching logs constantly (we use LogEntries for this). Yes, everyone is using New Relic but that only gives you an average across all your web, worker, runner, etc dynos.

What Heroku should be doing is surfacing this information, at least under "heroku ps" but better yet make it public: I want to know the 95th percentile of Rails+Cedar customers actually end up using. When that's public, I'll believe them when they say 512 is incredibly generous.

Re: Scala and Ruby Rosetta Stone

jelder — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:13:03 -0000

Great post but your site's formatting clips many of the wider code examples, at least for me in Chrome.

Re: 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address

jelder — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:56:36 -0000

It is incorrect to say that S3 was not originally meant to serve content directly to end users. That was its stated purpose since its inception inside Amazon: serving pre-rendered HTML to clients inside an IFRAME on product pages.

Re: 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address

jelder — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:22:49 -0000

The thing is, for this project, we don't _have_ back end servers. The app is in Backbone.js, and exists entirely as a handful of static files on S3. It communicates with a RESTful API which is running on EC2 (and does use compression, etc). I'm coming from the position of wanting to use one vendor's full stack to its maximum extent, and finding it lacking.

Re: 3 Problems AWS Needs to Address

jelder — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:29:08 -0000

Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed.

Re: Getting more from your Heroku dynos

jelder — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:20:34 -0000

Curious about how this interacts with Heroku's routing layer. I was under the impression that (at least in previous stacks) they only allowed one TCP connection to each Dyno at a time.

Re: Agloves Touchscreen Gloves

jelder — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:59:55 -0000

I owned these, and I have to warn against buying them. Warm, effective, but they lack the tactile grip sufficient to actually hold onto an iPhone. Last winter, while trying to use my iPhone 3GS through Agloves, it shot of out my hand like a wet bar of soap, fell to the ground, and shattered. I would up with tiny shards of broken glass in my fingers and in the fibers of the gloves and had to replace the iPhone. I contacted the Aglove team about my concern and never got any response.

Re: iCal Integration and Hand-off Notification

jelder — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:01:15 -0000

Great news! I've been looking forward to this for ages. One problem: it's not enabled for my account yet. (locamoda.pagerduty.com)

Re: Dropbox + Softbank + Sony Ericsson =

jelder — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:55:31 -0000

If you read that headline as a numerical expression, it doesn't exactly sound like good news.

Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants and stumbling with them – the Amazon AWS outage’s “pain” statistics

jelder — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:27:05 -0000

You guys would make a great case study for a cross-cloud deployment. Have you looked into hosting at both Rackspace and EC2?

I have no relation to either, but I am a PD customer and some of my apps rely at least partially on AWS.

Re: Quote of the Day: David Frum on How To Get Off Oil

jelder — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:06:28 -0000

Those Home Depot/howstuffworks.com ads are the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen. Makes me want to stop reading TH :(

Re: CrunchyJew's Stash

jelder — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:00:09 -0000

Where did you see this?

Re: Survey: What Would You Give Up In A Car?

jelder — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:47:41 -0000

Yes, cut the drag with better airflow design inside and out, and maybe drop some superfluous gadgets. I wonder how much weight the latter will save. Maybe we're better off saying only one American per car. :)

Really though, why are we still using steel? Aluminum has a lot of potential, and there's a lot of it. Easy to recycle, etc.