pjdavis

Joined 17 years ago

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Rails Developer from Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Comment · 3 years ago
From the article:

> State troopers who found Paxton’s body in his overturned and partially submerged truck had said there were no barriers or warning signs along the washed-out roadway

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Is it an official Rubik's one or some other brand? I've got about 15 of them (Mostly from QiYi and GAN) and all of them have the yellow/white opposite. Of course they're all made within the last 5 years so maybe it changed at some point.
Comment · 15 years ago
I'm also running iOS5b3 and it crashes on just about everything. Stream, Pics, Circles, Profile.
Comment · 15 years ago
I believe the only thing that survived each remake is probably the strippers.
Comment · 15 years ago
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. I have become unable to stop the plane while on the ground. What I'm going to have everybody do is form a queue at the emergency exits, and as I go down the tarmac two or three of you jump into the gate…"
Comment · 15 years ago
My favorite part of the old article was

  The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years.

  -M. E. Kabay
Comment · 15 years ago
A slide will usually have a generalization of the point that the speaker is making, not a word for word rehash of everything he says.
Comment · 16 years ago
How essential to your success do you feel the freemium model was?
Comment · 16 years ago
I think they're having DNS problems right now.
Comment · 16 years ago
Small nit-pick, but Biz didn't actually create the Fail Whale.
Comment · 16 years ago
Yes, like hulu or yellowpages.com
Comment · 16 years ago
Really? I've been working with it for nearly 4 years now, and I haven't had any problems getting it to what I needed it to do. I wonder what problems that it wasn't "built for" have you had problems implementing?

Also, while scaling may be a non-trivial challenge, going to over ~100,000 page views a day (95% are between 8am - 6pm) was pretty easy, and very little fuss.

Comment · 16 years ago
I have one setup for my name, cause I'm a narcissist and like to know when people are talking about me.

edit: misspelled narcissist.

Comment · 16 years ago
Oddly enough, responding to a newspaper ad.

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