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Comment · 9 months ago

One of the many reasons to visit Pembrokeshire, Wales:

https://www.internalfire.com/

Lots of running kit you can get close to or hands on with e.g. 4000hp jet generators, telephone exchanges, steam engines etc. plus knowledgeable and passionate staff.

Well worth a couple of hours detour to check out.

Comment · 11 years ago

Yes, but even the best agency will every so often run into a bad client. I think that's analogous to what happened here.

Comment · 11 years ago

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You’d be part of a small team that is taking Appear Here worldwide, onto new platforms, and deep into masses of valuable data. It's an energetic, committed, challenging, and sane culture. Plus we're a stone's throw from the best lunchtime options in London.

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Comment · 11 years ago

This is essentially the same approach as https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/Setting-up-the-Clo....

What's neat and novel to me about this implementation is the use of delimiters vastly simplifies loading the raw S3 logs into Redshift.

Comment · 11 years ago

Here's a summary of the discussion (RAML vs Swagger vs Apiary vs RSpec...) we had at Lonely Planet: https://lonelyplanet.atlassian.net/wiki/display/PUB/API+Spec...

5 months in, we're happy with API Blueprint. We used to use Dredd for API validation but ran into to some limitations:

- Dredd does not perform any validation against the siren response beyond the first key level. For example, it does not validate if the class-name is user-events, or usr-events

- Dredd does not make any difference between Action parameters and Resource parameters. Then, an action POST to create user-events will have undesired url parameters. E.G: POST /user-events?take=0&skip=2 (The apib blueprint specs allows to make this difference: https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/blob/master/exampl...)

So one of our devs created a Ruby validator, https://github.com/nogates/vigia. See http://engineering.lonelyplanet.com/2014/11/18/vigia-integra... if you're interested.

Comment · 12 years ago

What do you mean by "brand name tests"?

Comment · 12 years ago

Or well-known URIs http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785

Comment · 12 years ago

> marked incompatible with nexus 7

FWIW works perfectly on my 2nd-gen Nexus 7.

Comment · 12 years ago

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/feb...

Comment · 12 years ago

    1. Start scraping all images from http://developer.android.com/training/ inside div.gc-documentation    
    2. Inspect manually
    3. Profit

Fun!

Comment · 13 years ago

We're trialling cutting packages from Rails apps with fpm[1], plus prm[2] to create the apt repository on s3.

There's a bit of footwork needed to include built gems and correct asset manifests in the package too, but we now have 10-20s deploys, down from 8-12 mins. Plus it has less impact on server resources.

1. http://rubydoc.info/gems/fpm/latest/frames 2. http://rubydoc.info/gems/prm/latest/frames

Comment · 13 years ago

This is so much fun. Thanks!

Comment · 13 years ago

Last month Jobbik rallied against the World Jewish Congress in Budapest, protesting "against what it said was a Jewish attempt to buy up Hungary".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22413301

They frame themselves as fascist and anti-semite.

Comment · 14 years ago

Because in general, delegation tends to lead to object schizophrenia. Specifically, SimpleDelegator will leak the original delegatee object when a delegated method returns `self`.

     s = "foo"
     
     d = SimpleDelegator.new s

     s2 = d << "bar"

     s2.object_id == s # true

I think SimpleDelegator is really neat but totally dangerous. Doesn't this ring alarm bells with you?

  # delegate.rb L117
  #
  # Returns true if two objects are considered of equal value.
  #
  def ==(obj)
    return true if obj.equal?(self)
    self.__getobj__ == obj
  end

Comment · 14 years ago

We use StatsD and Graphite a ton at lonelyplanet.com: http://bit.ly/lp-perf-and-metrics