morganpyne
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Comment · 13 years ago
It is slightly surreal for me to see somebody posting here with my name and such different perspectives to mine on the topics being discussed. I have to double-take each time I read one of your comments and see the poster name. Greetings from 'the other' mpyne :D
Comment · 13 years ago
Since we manage our servers with Puppet, we use hiera-gpg to securely store sensitive information in encrypted form in git. Puppet then safely deploys these files to our servers and our application deployment process (Capistrano) symlinks/copies these config files in to the application as part of the deployment process. The sensitive config files themselves are excluded from our application's git repository and developers keep local copies of these files (containing local dev. credentials only) for development purposes.
More info on hiera-gpg here: http://www.craigdunn.org/2011/10/secret-variables-in-puppet-...
Comment · 14 years ago
This looks like a scaled up version of this experiment that has been on youtube for about 5 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1TMZASCR-I
(only 5 metronomes in that one, but I remember being fascinated when I first saw the effect)
Comment · 14 years ago
Congratulations to the 80/20 folks, and a great acquisition for Square. I had the pleasure of working with Andrew in the past on a couple of projects and he's both a very talented & productive designer, and a very nice guy.
Comment · 14 years ago
I watched the Anthony Griffiths movie he referred to a while ago and it is heartbreaking. I'm normally a very reserved person who's partner is convinced my tear ducts dried up from lack of use years ago, but watching Anthony tell his story is like a punch in the guts. I didn't enjoy watching it, but I'm glad I did. It sure puts things in perspective.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is exactly the mechanism that pt-online-schema-change from Percona uses.
http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.1/pt-online-sch...
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks. I had only installed the JRE. When I installed the JDK it showed up in there for me too.
Comment · 14 years ago
Does anybody know how to integrate this into OSX so that it is known to the Java Preferences app ? (/Applicatons/Utilities/Java Preferences.app)
Comment · 14 years ago
Sounds like you should give New Relic a try so :-) Although unfortunately their pro plan is a little more than $25/month
Comment · 14 years ago
Heh, perhaps some Joyent staff may have something to contribute to this conversation. They offered a "lifetime" hosting deal with shell access a while ago for a one-off fee, and I have heard that this is becoming a bit of a millstone for them. Certainly my brothers 'lifetime' account with them is not getting a lot of love and feels a bit like it's being left to rot on decrepit hardware.
I wonder would they do it again with the benefit of hindsight, or did it serve their purpose?
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for the clarifications. And the work :-)
Comment · 14 years ago
Is there any overlap between the work done in Gizzard and the other popular MySQL forks (Percona, MariaDB, Drizzle) or are each of these solving different (incompatible) problems?
Comment · 14 years ago
Certainly the UK seems to have taken a giant leap in this direction recently (unless this is a misguided April fool article):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17576745
I think you are deluding yourself though if you believe that most major govts are not doing wholesale digital trawling to the best of their (advanced) abilitites already, regardless of whatever legislation is currently in place.
Comment · 14 years ago
Well done and congrats. Glad we nabbed you for a visit to New Zealand before you got lost in work again. Good luck in your new job.
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A master of all trades, the father of a beautiful flame, a player of gypsy jazz, an aspiring luthier, an explorer on and below the ocean.