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nate
7,926karma·1,070submissions·October 10, 2006
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YC alum. Founded Inkling and Draft. Ran Highrise. Founding engineer at Census (acquired by Fivetran)
https://ninjasandrobots.com
I'm working on https://allihat.com, https://pageforth.com, and more. If I can be helpful at all with anything, please hit me up on X (@natekontny) or email me anytime (nate.kontny+hn@gmail.com).
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Maybe this link will work better? http://bit.ly/wcLwWe Update: Weird. Why do these links redirect when clicked on from Hacker News to this? http://breakthrufundraising.com/ezzi.html That's not whe…
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Thanks Steve, I'll do that. All it does is add an extra option (or two) to the views render method. By default nothing changes. Stuff only gets invoked if someone wants to do: render partial: thing, c…
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I'd love for it to be part of standard rails, but don't they usually like to see features like this play themselves out as gems before trying to incorporate them (e.g. turbolinks, cache-digests, etc.)…
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Yay! That's awesome. Thanks for that.
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No, but if I'm not mistaken they typically like to see new features shake themselves out as gems. Like turbolinks or cache_digests. Right?
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Oh, thanks for sharing that. This presentation is great and is food for a couple more ideas I think I might be able to pull off for Rails using multi fetching.
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Thanks for answering that. Yep, there's a bit here: https://github.com/n8/multi_fetch_fragments/blob/master/lib/... @collection.each do |item|
key = @options[:cache].is_a?(Proc) ? @option…
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I can totally play skeptic :) So like I mentioned in the description it really all depends. If your cache store is already really close to your application like on the same server, you aren't likely t…
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Those public links though can get turned off pretty quick right if there's a lot of traffic to that image? Or no?
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Great summary. One problem that tripped me up with http caching in rails was invalidating client http caches when a template changes and you're doing conditional etags based on an object's updated at …
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Sorry if I made the timing not clear. It definitely would be hypocritical if I was building this business after I wrote this post. I had no idea these sponsored posts ended up in people's timelines in…
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Yeah, I'd like to nuke it, but there's so many things on there that family and friends post that I'd never get anywhere else. The photos of my 2 year old niece. The articles my friends only post there…
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An interesting bit about Steve Jobs (from the biography) was that he had a foreboding feeling that he'd die early. That also seemed to encourage him to work against the status quo before it was too la…