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Get Notified When Your Favorite Website Is Not Down Anymore (36)
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A fan of extremely simple, straight-forward web services? Then you probably know about amusing pet-projects like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, GoingToRain or IsTwitterDown (variations apply). Here’s another one for your bookmarking pleasure that won’t make you go back to the website every time to check the uptime. NotifyMeWhenIt’sUp lets you enter any website or service suffering from downtime and sends you an e-mail notification as soon as it’s back up (and only when it was effectively down upon ...Shared by Alex (0) Ara (3) Burcu Sarar (0) Caitlin (0) cesaracardoso (10) christideli (15) codeAries (2) Colin (13) Compuwizard123 (13) crispy (0) Danr (287) Dave Vanhoudt (0) David Bisset (sn) (1) dexterc (0) groovysoup (0) Hamed Safa (0) Hoof (0) InspireMedia (0) Jake (3) Jared Cherup (0) jccamus (0) Jeff Blaze (0) Jeff Douglass (10) Jesse Stay (3) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (1) Kenny Kim (1) Nate (18) Neil Williams (0) PJ Kix (0) Rene Cunningham (15) Ricardo.Borelli (0) Ryan (0) sushi (7) Syng (0) Thomas (0) Yohan Launay - ConceptSL (20)Contribute comment -
JRuby and why it might be nice to be back on the JVM (1)
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We ported our Rails application to JRuby in order to do some GC comparisons yesterday. Not a ton of changes required. Mostly replacing gems with native dependencies. YAML is a bit more strict than its MRI counterpart.... but all told, thats pretty amazing! Nice job JRuby crew! That said.... one interesting, entirely un-scientific, test case. After requesting the same URL 6 times, the VM got a lot better. 3.4s to 480ms Completed in 3380ms (View: ...Shared by crispy (0)Contribute comment -
new plugin: acts_as_git (2)
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With the help of Jamie van Dyke at Parfait and Scott Chacon at GitHub, I'm pleased to announce Acts As Git (no, I don't like the name either). It's a simple plugin which stores all changes you make to a text field in a git repository. This is ideal for something like a git-backed wiki. Look at it here: github or check it out from git://github.com/courtenay/acts_like_git.git From the README: ALG automagically saves the history of ...Shared by crispy (0) Ted (1)Contribute comment -
Dark Flow (195)
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- Mattie Kenny said: ...pull harder, Mum.
- 狮子真好吃啊 said: 笑死，啥都Your mom。。。
- Jordan T-H said: This struck a deep chord. I sort of get the same feeling about my dad when I look at Orion. It was the first constellation I saw when I looked up at the sky after I was told what happened.
- Chung said: awwww.....
- trip said: Pizda mu šopa, ej :h
- John Fishback said: I've always had a hard time explaining why I love xkcd. But this strip is a pretty good explanation. I think behind every glib exchange in our days sits profound emotion, thought, and humanity. Okay, that's our kum-bah-yah for the day."
- Jim said: :(
- Jason said: This is me, when people make "your mom" jokes ;-)
- Alice Robison said: yes, i love it
- Anne said: This breaks my heart, but I keep coming back to it.
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On hiring Rubyists and Railsers (2)
onWe’re launching a new service at work in the next week or so that involves me looking through a lot of job applications: resumes and sample code. I’d like to tell people right now, upfront, if you’re applying for a Ruby or Rails job, for anyone, there are a few ways of ensuring you get called back. They’re probably fairly simple. Send some sample code, maybe a link to a project on Github, or a ...Shared by crispy (0) Dustin (0)Contribute comment
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We've stopped using rSpec ... (2)
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Netflix “Watch Instantly” for Mac Beta Now Live (15)
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Realtime wars pick up speed (13)
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Thursday night Twitter engineer Alex Payne finally acknowledged the obvious regarding the firehose - the full stream of data sought after by third-party developers to add back the long-withheld Track service. Twitter executives have been all over the map on this, sending developers on a wild goose chase to obtain access to the XMPP stream that the company has failed to provide since May. Payne’s post describes how Twitter provided the firehose “on an experimental ...Shared by crispy (0) Der Tautologe (0) Dustin (0) Greg (2) guttertec (0) Jeremy (0) Jesse (0) Joe Dawson (8) kliger (4) Ron (0) Sam Harrelson (2) StevieB (16) Warner (0)- crispy said: twitter is a disaster.
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xkcd - A Webcomic - Height (153)
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- Steve said: Tall tale
- K said: Lovely !!
- rishabh said: i can see this one being shared some thousand times. Awesome!!!
- Edgar Gonçalves said: Undoubtedly one of the finest xkcd strips. Now really, what are the odds of the person thinking about this kind of stuff being the same that actually can draw it?
- Andrew M said: it's stuff like this that makes XKCD the best webcomic ever.
- crispy said: This is really neat but he missed the other half that starts at 1' and goes smaller.
- Aloch Rye said: *ROTFL*
- Craig Hills said: This is actually pretty cool...
- Will said: This is fantastic. Can I get this in a poster?
- Patrick said: ahahhaha!
- Andreas Gohr said: I can haz poster plz?
- Bruce Cordell said: This version is funner than a similar but less fanciful graph I saw awhile back online.
- BuildMaster said: really cool, as per usual
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What's New in Edge Rails: Simpler Conditional Get Support (ETags) (4)
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Note: This feature has been greatly improved since the writing of this article. See here for the latest and greatest. Conditional-gets are a facility of the HTTP spec that provide a way for web servers to tell browsers that the response to a GET request hasn’t changed since the last request and can be safely pulled from the browser cache. They work by using the HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH and HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE headers to pass back and forth both ...Contribute comment -
Some Of These Layoffs Aren’t Really Layoffs (17)
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I’ve spoken to a lot of CEOs this week who are going through layoffs or who are thinking of going through going through layoffs. The list of those who’ve pulled the trigger gets longer every day, and the unparty seems to just be getting started based on the email flow that we’re seeing. Why are companies doing this now? Based on the CEOs I’ve spoken with, it isn’t just about cutting costs in preparation for ...Shared by Antony (0) CeccOman (0) Chris Lee (0) Cory (1) crispy (0) Dileepa (0) Gautam (1) Herkemer (0) Jack Stahl (0) Liz (0) Loudmouthman (0) michael (0) Miguel (0) mr94 (1) Rick (0) Shannon (0) usrbingeek (1)- crispy said: I've been expecting a layoff announcement from google for just this reason.
- Loudmouthman said: one of two blog posts using Office space as a picture to define the issue of layoffs and consultants.
- Liz said: 经济危机来啦, 是时候干掉那些看不上眼的员工啦...
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Some Of These Layoffs Aren’t Really Layoffs (9)
onI’ve spoken to a lot of CEOs this week who are going through layoffs or who are thinking of going through going through layoffs. The list of those who’ve pulled the trigger gets longer every day, and the unparty seems to just be getting started based on the email flow that we’re seeing. Why are companies doing this now? Based on the CEOs I’ve spoken with, it isn’t just about cutting costs in preparation for ...Shared by Chris Lee (0) Cory (1) crispy (0) Liz (0) michael (0) mr94 (1) Rick (0) Shannon (0) Tim (0)Contribute comment
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Have It Your Way: MyWonderfulLife Helps You Plan Your Own Funeral (2)
onDeath is an unfortunate consequence of life, at least until science can prove otherwise. And while most of us would rather just avoid the subject entirely, the thought of having a sappy, cheesy funeral weighs heavy on some people. MyWonderfulLife, a Minnesota-based startup that launched earlier this month, is going to help you make sure that doesn’t happen. You’re first asked to create profile detailing many of your last wishes, including the type of burial ...Shared by crispy (0) Ranjith (0)Contribute comment
