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Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

Stewart Matheson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:20:01 -0000

hey did you manage to find the solution to this? I am getting the same issue. Love the tute btw

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:51:12 -0000

No, I didn't even know it existed until you pointed it out. Will check it out, thanks for the heads up!

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:50:08 -0000

This site is actually run on a crappy $10 a month hosting joint.

Check out http://massify.com/ which is what the article is based on.

Re: Slicehost API Notes for the Non-Rails Posse

iflyhigh — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:25:21 -0000

Just committed version 0.01 of the Slicehost management app. You can find
the libs in the /app/lib/slicehost directory if you check the project out.
You can find the project here:

http://github.com/jawngee/SlicehostManager/tree...

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:57:16 -0000

Give me a few hours, I have the solution for that particular problem.

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

iflyhigh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:21:36 -0000

You're probably right. The pricing I popped in was transfer to S3 for
storage, and then transfer out of CloudFront. Assuming our little user
content generating site did 250gigs a month, what's the more realistic
pricing look like?

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

iflyhigh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:27:21 -0000

I looked at Fusemail, but their web interface was clunky and not as
smooth as GMail, which was the impetus for us to switch over.

Re: Crapify

mattmaroon — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:48:47 -0000

Do you know what a straw man is? Because what you just did is create a few of them and argue against them. You didn't argue my points at all, you made up your own and argued them. Feel free to argue mine at any time.

Re: Crapify

iflyhigh — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:13 -0000

Your post is so incorrect, I don't even know where to start.

> Apparently they crowd-sourced an entire movie. Everything
> from the script to the casting was voted on, presumably by
> the same lunkheads who turned Digg into an extension of
> Apple marketing interspersed with unfunny comics and left-wing
> commentary. It’s a process scientifically designed to produce a
> film that’s mediocre for its budget range, which apparently was
> somewhere in between what a student film normally costs and
> my monthly car insurance payment.

First of all, the process you've outlined in your post is *not* the process used on Massify. Massify users voted for the story, not the screenplay. The winner did not direct the movie, he served as a producer and got a small role in the movie. What he did get to do, however, is sit in on the production and participate, work with the screenwriters to flesh out the story, etc.

Furthermore the budget for the film was way beyond the cost of a student film and your monthly insurance car payment combined.

> Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but I
> guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel way
> to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates this
> crap 10 times a year, except (judging from the trailer) with more
> polish. They don’t need crowd sourcing to add to the dung heap.

It's painfully obvious you've had little to do with film, like ever. Do you really believe most films are the work of a single individual? Movies have been crowd sourcing since before the internet tubes. The only thing Massify changes is who gets let into that particular crowd.

> Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but

How can you call the process neat when you haven't the faintest clue how it works?

> I guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel
> way to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates

I'm not exactly sure our process is that novel. All we've really done is put a web interface on the same mechanic and opened up who can participate, nothing more and nothing less.

> In fact, the one thing the movie industry has going for it is
> that it’s still much more meritocratic than most of the rest of
> America. A good script is a good script, no matter who wrote it,

Again, you write with authority but it's obvious you aren't a student of film history.

I'd argue your points more, but discourse on the web is futile, specifically when there is a risk that the OP will be shown to be clueless and pedantic.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

iflyhigh — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:15:14 -0000

I'll take a look at it sometime this week and see if I can get it to
work.

Re: It always goes down like this.

iflyhigh — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:15:41 -0000

Test

Re: Filthy Dirty

iflyhigh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:00:49 -0000

Absolutely. I would make the same move again, but I am satisfied with the fact I knew I was in a fucked situation. I love those moments of pure clarity.

Re: Filthy Dirty

iflyhigh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:59:50 -0000

Thanks :)

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

Wes — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:51:32 -0000

So, I push, BB calls all-in for less (whaaa?) and MP calls, as well. The full call of my all-in was over 50% of his stack. BB turns over Js9s, which I completely did not see coming, and MP turns over 55, for a set of 5s. Turn card is his magic case 5, hits miracle quads and takes down a nearly $700 pot that he had no business winning.

Suffice to say, I did not hit my straight flush on the river. But the river was the 10s, so I would have been fucked even if my reads were more correct.

I hate 1-2.

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

iflyhigh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:18:39 -0000

So what the hell happenend??? Don't leave me hanging!

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

sparkletack — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:36:17 -0000

Maybe this will make the issue clearer:

After implementing the settings, when I attempt to subscribe to "http://www.my_domain.com/feed?category_name=php", FB still points the feedreader to "http://feeds.feedburner.com/sitename" (instead of my brand new "http://feeds.feedburner.com/category_name").

Does that make sense?

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

sparkletack — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:04:40 -0000

The issue that I've run into is that (much like Curley when he tries to think), nothing happens!

What I mean is, the newly burned FeedBurner category feed pulls the *entire* feed, exactly like my original feed does. The single category limitation does not appear to be functioning.

Any ideas?

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

iflyhigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:01:51 -0000

Send me an email at jon.gilkison at gmail and we'll see if we can get it sorted out.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

iflyhigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:59:01 -0000

Yup that's the way you do it.

You will have to create a new feedburner feed for every category you want to "burn".

Let me know if you run into any issues, there might be some bugs in my patch, I've only used it on this blog and my poker blog.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Fix

iflyhigh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:49:30 -0000

Hope you find it useful.

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

iflyhigh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:03:32 -0000

Your hand recall is nuts.

I don't remember any one particular hand that opened up the game for me. That last trip to Vegas was a serious epiphany of religious magnitude. For the first time, the game was crystal clear to me and I could easily divorce the random elements from the elements that I could exert influence over to sway the game my way.

Got a long ways to go yet, but, I honestly feel for the first time in the six years I've been playing that my game is hard to approach by others.

Re: Metadata/Attributes in PHP

iflyhigh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:34:46 -0000

I'm the CTO for massify.com. When I signed on the site was being written in PHP. Unfortunately, it was a hideous wreck so we had to rewrite it, but thought we could use some of the code that had already been written. That wasn't the case however.

Honestly, I don't mind it, there are some benefits to it, but I do miss C# and am sort of kicking myself for not having done the rewrite in Python.

C'est la vie. :)

Re: Flying Solo

iflyhigh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:36:04 -0000

Yeah I was afraid that I was going to end up pushing him out, but you're totally right, I think he was convinced his hand was best and I could have gotten more of his stack. The other thing I considered was that I had laid down two massive busts just an hour prior which I thought might have made him skitish.

Re: 14 Hours Non-Stop

iflyhigh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:24:25 -0000

Certain hotels in Vegas will give you a poker room rate if you play x number of hours per day. MGM gives you about half off if you play 5 hours a day. The total is cumulative, so you can play 10 hours one day, none the next.

Re: Upping The Game

iflyhigh — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:39:12 -0000

PS. Caesar's has chocolate milkshakes.