My worst failure was a 3am production database drop half-asleep. We had backups but we lost an hour of transactional data. My worst IT failure to date.
This is a good article, but I've found that using swap is a bit expensive and slow. Why not just purchase a cheap VPS from bitkumo.com and then use the swap only when necessary. Swapping is never a good thing unless it's absolutely necessary (IMHO)
Stick with what makes you happy. If you want to work in Ruby, target jobs that are Ruby/Rails oriented and keep on coding in Ruby. Unless you are interviewing for an engineer position that require C/C++ you're most likely better off sticking to Ruby jobs.
On the other hand I've had job interviews where they used a language I wasn't proficient in (Python, Scala) but they allowed me to craft the solution to problem in Ruby but expected me to port it to the other language. Employers these days seem to be flexible, especially when the candidate is intelligent and picks up technology easy.
I dont mind a non Ruby job at all. Its just that since I have no real C++ experience, just picking it up for interviews (which I had done so far) doesn't seem like a good idea somehow.
I've only been programming for 5 years and some of the original code I first wrote 5+ years ago has survived and somehow is still running. I'm tempted to go back and refactor it to make it more performant though.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm hosted out of Canada so we're outside of the reach of US laws, however I will be adding a ToS and AuP to the service which people have to agree too. For me this was a fun service to build and I'm hoping others will find value in this. Cheers! -shakycode
Not yet. That feature hasn't been implemented. For now it will send a message from a random burner number. But I'll put the santa claus feature in the queue :)
