jmcnevin | 3 years ago | on: Dabbling with Dagster vs. Airflow
I'd say give Temporal (https://temporal.io) a look, but there are a lot of options (https://github.com/meirwah/awesome-workflow-engines).
jmcnevin's comments
jmcnevin | 4 years ago | on: Temporal raises $103M in Series B funding
We've been using Temporal for the past year and have found it to be an absolute joy.
Being able to model business processes--some of which may take multiple _years_, and require human approval/rejection steps--using procedural go/java/js, and knowing that once that function starts executing, it is basically indestructible (barring the complete destruction of temporal's backend database), is just really cool. Being able to outsource a lot of the complexity involved in using event sourcing to manage distributed transactions frees up our developers to worry about just the high-end business logic.
Congrats to the team! I'm excited to see Temporal gaining some more traction.
jmcnevin | 9 years ago | on: “autocomplete=off is ignored on non-login input elements”
Would you ever want autocomplete on, say, a field where you're inputting a 2FA response? Probably not, since any suggestions would be useless.
I find the workaround of "just put some other random bullshit for the value" hilarious. And once developers start over-abusing that as well (they will), then what's the plan?
jmcnevin | 10 years ago | on: Interview Humiliation
I find this story highly suspect, unless the writer happened to find a company run primarily by sociopaths.
jmcnevin | 11 years ago | on: A Bitcoin battle is brewing
Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8712261
jmcnevin | 11 years ago | on: Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides
I've used Uber dozens of times, but stories like this really make me think I should give Lyft a shot. After all, if this company is operating in such an underhanded manner this early in the game, it's troubling to consider what they'd be capable of down the line.
jmcnevin | 12 years ago | on: The Utter Failure of my Windows 8.1 Upgrade
I'm not sure why MS decided that the release of a free upgrade of their product that's trying to address pain points with Metro would be great opportunity to shove the Windows Store down users' throats. I can't even open Windows Store on my media center PC (hooked up to a 720p television) without increasing my screen resolution past native. That's just irritating.
Do you realize that your Windows 8 license key will not allow you to download and do a clean install of 8.1? You need to download 8.0, install 64 or so important updates, and only then are you deemed worthy of being eligible to download 8.1 through the Windows Store. Who thought this up?
I went the clean install route after my upgrade from 8.1 preview stalled out on the "Almost There" screen for 15 minutes. I rebooted, and all references to my installed applications were gone.
All in all, the 8.1 upgrade wasn't a pleasant experience.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets
It's worth noting that Twitter had their own project called Starling, but I get the impression they've moved on.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: IOS 6 injecting should_group_accessibility_children to POST requests
What does this have to do with client trust? They're expecting the client to access their API a certain way, and the client is sending what is arguably a malformed request. This is, surprise, causing an error to occur.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: IOS 6 injecting should_group_accessibility_children to POST requests
This (mass-assignment) is fairly standard Rails-fu, so its fair to assume that this could affect a lot of apps out there.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: Embark Plans 1.3M Transit Trips Since Apple’s Release Of iOS 6
What the hey... I'd love to see support added for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: Mailgun (YC W11) is being acquired by Rackspace
Rackspace customers can use SendGrid to send up to 40K emails a month for free. I wonder how this might impact that deal.
jmcnevin | 13 years ago | on: Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V
Yep... if you follow the link you received previously, there's a new Steam key available for the added games.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: Rails 4 will establish a new background job queueing API
I don't believe the intent here is to replace Resque (Resque is awesome), but provide a slim API at Rails.queue that Resque/Delayed Job/BackgroundDRB/Torquebox/etc. could tie into, similar to how Rails.cache works now, in addition to adding a simplistic default implementation.
Considering Rails has always been about best practices--and background job queueing is definitely a best practice--I think this is a great move.
This will also allow other gems/plugins to have an easy way to push their own jobs into the queue rather than trying to support a bunch of different queue implementations.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: Something is deeply broken in OS X memory management
Wow, thank you for this. The delay caused by this behavior has been driving me crazy for a really long time.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: Indie artist trying to claim his domain name
For those who aren't familiar with MC Frontalot, might I suggest you check out "It is Pitch Dark," his rap about Zork.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: HAML: the unforgivable sin
FYI, you can wrap any line of Ruby at a comma, provided there is one.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: Carmack: Doom 3's engine ready for open-sourcing, awaiting 'OK' from legal
I guess this will get _someone_ using id tech 4... doesn't look like it ever got much love from a licensing standpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Tech_4#Games_using_id_Tech_4
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: Skype founders gunning for Netflix with Vdio
As an rdio subscriber, a streaming video service that offered some sort of integration with rdio would be pretty interesting. A single subscription plan that would allow for unlimited streaming of music AND movies could be huge.
jmcnevin | 14 years ago | on: IOS 5's "Cleaning" Behavior
For the record, I almost immediately filled up my allotted iCloud backup space because of rdio, because I have 4.6 gigs of music synced for offline use, and it wanted to back that up.
Solution: I disabled backups of rdio data.
page 1