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Re: Third Brexit vote: St Albans MP Anne Main votes to support Withdrawal Deal for first time on March 29 | St Albans and Harpenden News - Herts Advertiser

MatthewRudy — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:08:25 -0000

As of today 17,485 St Albans constituents have signed the petition to Revoke Article 50.
I think Anne is doing a very poor job of representing her constituents.

As she said in Parliament, she only voted for the Withdrawal Agreement *because* her constituents are largely remain, and she "will not be cowed" by them.

https://www.theyworkforyou....

Re: Pink lines showing up on some Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge displays

MatthewRudy — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:43:14 -0000

I have this problem with my S6 Edge.
It appeared after about 8 months with the phone.
Initially just a single pink line, but eventually about a 5mm band of pink and green https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Re: PostgreSQL SWAG: JSON data type and working with Twitter data

MatthewRudy — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:11:32 -0000

It's cool.
Thanks for the insight.

Re: PostgreSQL SWAG: JSON data type and working with Twitter data

MatthewRudy — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:55:32 -0000

This is interesting, but of course, performance metrics are very dependent on hardware, data size and all of this stuff.

We have ~30 million tweets indexed, (but we store them in a different form).

We're quite happy on Amazon RDS, but Postgres on RDS maxes out at 3TB... so need to find a different solution.

I'd be interested to see how it works for a larger data set, and how the old JSON data type compare to JSONB in terms of performance and storage space.

Thanks.

Re: Internationalization Support in Ember.js

MatthewRudy — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:22:09 -0000

Fair enough.
I often feel inclined to DRY up my translations,
but then end up regretting it.

Re: Scaling Buffer in 2013

MatthewRudy — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:15:22 -0000

I'm more worried about the cost of doing a round robin load balance across many small machines, versus a few bigger machines.

This was the whole problem with the RapGenius issues on Heroku earlier this year.

Re: Internationalization Support in Ember.js

MatthewRudy — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:09:18 -0000

Behind the scenes do you use the same zh-CN.yml file (compiled to JS) for both client and server, or are client and server translations kept apart?

Re: Filing For Residence Visa Extension, Another Year in China

MatthewRudy — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 05:01:05 -0000

your official name is "Mike"?
cool, I thought it would be "Michael"

Re: AngularJS: ngBindHtml

MatthewRudy — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:32:11 -0000

I like this, thanks!

Re: Scaling Buffer in 2013

MatthewRudy — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:54:29 -0000

It's interesting that you almost exclusively use m1.small servers.
My understanding was that bigger instances were better

ie. (for your workers) 2 x m1.xlarge would be more effective than 16 x m1.small

but you seem to have the opposite conclusion,
did you do benchmarks on this?

Re: RedDotRubyConf 2013 - Wrap Up - WinstonYW

MatthewRudy — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:44:14 -0000

Overall it was a great conference.

If I have one criticism it is "don't give free tickets to Lightning Speakers".
I know I was a beneficiary of this, but it was unnecessary.

Maybe a half price ticket?

Re: Dalli replaces memcache-client [Rails 4 Countdown to 2013]

MatthewRudy — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:24:33 -0000

yes Pikachu, you are already using everything.

Re: Hoopla! » Ruby Speedup: Memoize those Methods

MatthewRudy — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:59:25 -0000

I cloned the old ActiveSupport::Memoizable into a new gem called Memoist
https://github.com/matthewr...

I'm currently considering alternative approaches using Ruby 2.0s Module#prepend
https://github.com/matthewr...

Re: Dropbox is going brogue!

MatthewRudy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:57:57 -0000

没有中文吗？

Re: Yesterday I Quit My Job

MatthewRudy — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:07:04 -0000

Good luck.
I'd offer to show you around the mainland,
but am still in the UK
(off to Canada for a bit next week).

If you are going to be hacking in HK
please go check out boot.hk.

It'd be a waste not to.
Maybe try out the hack day on Saturday
http://www.facebook.com/eve...

Re: Yesterday I Quit My Job

MatthewRudy — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:22:25 -0000

I take 3 months or so off work a year.
I guess that is the freedom of a contractor.
Never seem to use my long holidays to do anything worthwhile.

Saying that,
I have specifically said I don't want to be unwaged in Hong Kong.
It's not worth the ridiculous rents.

Cross the border,
spend some time in ShenZhen.
Its a great place.

Re: RoR Testing - One Thing To Do (I think) And One Thing Not To Do (I'm Sure)

MatthewRudy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:19:21 -0000

regarding params in functional tests.
I normally will use to "to_param" method on the object.

get :show, :id => users(:me).to_param

this always returns a string.

But yeah
I think its a mistake that functional tests allow arbitrary types in the params
(I don't think it'd be that difficult to sort this out, though, if you want to submit a patch)

Re: MongoDB, OpenStreetMap and a Little Demo

MatthewRudy — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:37:38 -0000

Interesting experiment.
We were looking at ripping trails from opencyclemap
apparently their coverage of HK hiking trails is pretty good.

But you dont have the hong kong map?
Sucks to be me.

Re: MongoDB, OpenStreetMap and a Little Demo

MatthewRudy — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 02:34:29 -0000

I guess it verifies that the coordinates match between the two systems?

Re: New Heyzap Shirts!

MatthewRudy — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:41:28 -0000

Do you have a higher-res version?
I want to see Immad's toned body.

Re: Skobbler brings ForeverMap to Android

MatthewRudy — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:00:07 -0000

Google Maps for android is also now offline-ish.
If you've got the region you want in your cache.

I'll give this a go.
Really I want to be able to say
- I want to download France
- I want to download West London
and be sure that it will still be there when I need it.

Re: Devops Weekly - Morethanseven

MatthewRudy — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:09:21 -0000

Cool.
I'm excited to see it.

Re: Nicolas alpi, Ruby on Rails developer | Analyse of a Disaster

MatthewRudy — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:16:22 -0000

I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
I think the best thing for me was being part of a team.

The big problem I have working by myself is I don't know how to make things pretty,
having a guy on the team taking command of that really make a difference.

It was good fun,
but I imagine working 30 hours over a weekend with almost no sleep would be even more punishing if I were doing it by myself.

I hope you find a good team for next year.

Re: What are you wearing for Halloween?

MatthewRudy — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:10:24 -0000

You need to hang out in Mongkok more.
He's there every night, as well as in Jordan night market sometimes.

Re: Ruby Enterprise Edition still faster than Ruby 1.9.2?

MatthewRudy — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:53:05 -0000

Interesting
I will see how my test suite works since we upgraded to Rails3 beta.
and update the post.

Exciting!