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topdan 4 years ago | link | on: Ask Lobsters: Can you recommend any videos of high-quality talks online?

I’m a big fan of Bret Victor’s talks: Inventing on Principal, Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and others

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topdan 5 years ago | link | on: The Premium Branch Manifesto

Mike Perham just released Sidekiq Pro which implements a novel licensing method similar to this. When you buy a license you get a custom git URL for your Gemfile. When the license expires your URL goes dead, you lose future upgrades, and your Gemfile is broken.

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topdan 5 years ago | link | on: Why Do We Learn Math?

Kill Math is another take on this thought: computers can help us visualize problems better than the pencil/paper approach. The author (Bret Victor) also has one of my favorite articles on programming visualization: Ladder of Abstraction and the video Inventing on Principle

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conroy 5 years ago | link | on: How we keep GitHub fast

Anyone want to take a guess at what the rocket logo is in the screenshot? I wonder if they are planning on launching a deployment service of some kind.
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  skalnik 5 years ago | link
  
  It’s a link to our Admin page. Nothing exciting :)
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    conroy 5 years ago | link
    
    Oh well, still a great blog post. Are any components, such as the graph dashboard, open source?
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      topdan edited 5 years ago | link
      
      Can’t answer for github, but they mentioned graphite, which is commonly used with statsd to generate realtime graphs. Posts by etsy, shopify and 37signals
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      skalnik edited 5 years ago | link
      
      Most of the data is just hijacked from other gems like rack-bug or pulled from Graphite and added to our bar.
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    philfreo 5 years ago | link
    
    How about the nav button to the left of “Code”? Or the “search or type a command”?