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Cuba will have to step up its game with their Internet access, which is almost non-existent.


That assumes that the Cuban's in charge want to get it fixed. The Internet is not non-existent in Cuba because of some technical problem.


Almost right. It's both a political and a technical issue. Like you don't get a whole country with access to the internet from one day to the other without signing a contract with the devil (whatever that is). So, it takes time, but it is happening, Cuba is getting online, and there's no step back.


What contract with which devil?

Cuba already has a fiber optic cable to Venezuela, so they can get all the Internet they want and need into the country.

Cuba already has a national backbone, so they can get the bits distributed to every city.

Cuba already provides Internet access to government and educational institutions and some businesses, so they already have the capability to provide intenter access, even if so far it's been in limited quantities.

There are plans to provide ADSL service and Internet access can also be provided via existing wireless networks. There are also informal wireless networks that could be used to,get Internet out there to the people.

The Chinese will sell them as much network equipment as they want. They already provide the most of it anyway.

There are very few technical issues. All the Cuban powers that be need to do is unrestrict access and allow the use of existing infrastructure.

EDIT: all of Cuba could have some level of Internet access right now if they just allowed satellite usage.


Nice. And you didn't take my parenthesis as a warning! Give me 10..



Anybody can shed some light on the difference between "CNAME flattening" and ALIAS?


they are essentially the same thing -- both are "proprietary" names for the same feature, which is behind-the-scenes recursive CNAME chain lookups by the authoritative nameserver, to return A records directly.


Does anybody have children in SF? How is it possible with these rent prices?


About 80% of folks I know with kids leave San Francisco before they turn 5. The big issues are high rent, variability of school quality and logistics getting kids+gear around. City has done some great work to upgrade the kid's parks but the rent, schools and logistics make it very expensive to raise kids in SF.


In 2012, at least, SF had the lowest percentage of children of any major city in the country:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/09/families-flee-san-f...


It depends if you mean SF or are including the surrounding area.

The few people I know with kids in SF proper are either dual-income or did well on a startup. Some people live in the Sunset, which is more suburban -- still expensive but at least a little more kid friendly.

Most everyone else I know leaves the city for a suburb. Essentially having kids means your commute gets longer!

(Although in my case it actually got a lot shorter because I also got a job a lot closer to home in the South Bay instead of working in SF).


Dual income. Very little left over.


Good job guys, product looks nice!

We currently pay for Codeship, anybody experienced both and have some insights to share? (not trying to start a war here!)


I personally pay for Codeship for my own projects, and we pay/use CircleCI at up.co. I love both. Both have given us pain in random edge cases where things just don't work, which is frustrating. Both have provided amazing support whenever we needed it. Both have all of the technical needs we require. Both accommodate the exact same Github-based workflow with Heroku & Hipchat.

My suggestion: flip a coin. Or choose based on something arbitrary like which website design you like more. They are both great startups that deserve your business.


More importantly, FFI 1.9.1 was released today (http://rubygems.org/gems/ffi) and completely broke knife-solo, returning a huge stack trace ending with:

You may have encountered a bug in the Ruby interpreter or extension libraries.

reverting back to FFI 1.9.0 did the trick.


1.9.1 is yanked as of now, which means no one can install it accidentally.


We use the exact same model but we have a dev branch for our staging server, thanks for writing it down!


Less memory usage then Unicorn here, though we recently moved to Passenger enterprise which is really similar: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/enterprise

good writeup on the subject here: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa...


One of the few who makes me a proud canadian.


Yup, him and the Beiber. :)


I seriously doubt that...


+1 for this. Also, I18n with nib files is a pain, the CLI tool that xcode provide for translating nib files is a joke really... Also, if you have custom UI or a custom font, you're nib file will look like shit anyway...


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