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Why does a comment have to have a subject? (Score:1)

by pdcawley (485)

I look forward to your 'when I am Emperor' post on this.
I can guess the language... (Score:1)

by sigzero (5768)

No, really I can. : )
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  by Alias (5735)
  
  If it's the one I think it is, I like it when they rave about closures, and then you tell them what a continuation is and that other languages have them :)
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  by chromatic (983)
  
  Who says it's only one language? I'm capable of a great deal of annoyance focused in several directions simultaneously!
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    by sigzero (5768)
    
    Hmmm...point taken. I guess I was letting the current things I have seen you post in other places skew my response.
nice response (Score:2)

by lachoy (1663)

inspirational [oreillynet.com]
Bring the Payne (Score:1)

by jamiemccarthy (664)

Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne [radicalbehavior.com]
By various metrics Twitter is the biggest Rails site on the net right now. Running on Rails has forced us to deal with scaling issues - issues that any growing site eventually contends with - far sooner than I think we would on another framework.
The common wisdom in the Rails community at this time is that scaling Rails is a matter of cost: just throw more CPUs at it. The problem is that more instances of Rails (running as part of a Mongrel cluster, in our cas
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  by chromatic (983)
  
  I really want to make a joke about common sense here, but that would merely prove that I'm overeducated.
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  by Aristotle (5147)
  
  Payne is expecting a shrinkwrap solution to problems where there is no general case for a framework to solve. Ryan Tomayko makes this point at length [tomayko.com].