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by annowiki 3y ago
How do you get around 403/401's from WSJ/Reuters/Axios? Because I've tried user agent manipulation and it seems like I'd have to use selenium and headless to deal with them.
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by annowiki 3y ago
> Another area is with software we’ve had to build (instead of buy). When we started out, we strongly preferred buying software over building it because a team of only a few engineers can’t afford the time cost of building everything. Th
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by annowiki 3y ago
Actually it seems pretty accurate. Novelty-seeking is a well known phenomenon in curious individuals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_seeking Literally getting dopamine rewards for seeing something new is what ke
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by annowiki 3y ago
This is not really "sieve-ing" per the article, but what prevents me from running another process that periodically queries the data in a cache? Like just running a celery queue in Python that continually checks the cache for out
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by annowiki 4y ago
There's a piece of graffiti from the May 1968 Paris riots that goes "I have something to say but I don't know what." Reminds me of this. I can't find the original French but I think it's something like "J&
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Ask HN: Tools for programmatically improving a big legacy code base?
1 points by annowiki 4y ago|0 comments
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by annowiki 4y ago
I started as a python programmer and was very used to package managers. I believed in them, I championed them. When I switched to C++ for work I was very disheartened that there wasn't a standard. Conan obviously has promise, I haven&#
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by annowiki 4y ago
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics https://pimbook.org/ It introduces math from a mathematician's point of view (complete with proofs, etc.) rather than rote memorization and exercises, but it does so from
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by annowiki 4y ago
You have me thinking about kind of a cool board idea. 150 person twitter boards. Cap it at 150. People in that group can all vote on their own moderation, they can't interact with groups in other boards through quote tweeting or voting
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by annowiki 4y ago
When I run ls I don't want to see all the configuration files. Just my files. I think that's the point of hidden files. > One more example. Imagine if you have a project and want to edit an .env file. But as dotfiles are hidden
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by annowiki 4y ago
When I started playing with C/C++ the first thing I complained about was how difficult package management was. Conan is not as simple as cargo or pip. It's often simpler to find a header only library and plop it into your repo, bu
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by annowiki 4y ago
For our purposes, we never have strings that are other than the form XX.XX.XX.XXXX so there was no reason to generalize. Which improves the speed, makes it easier to read, and provides all the more reason not to use a library.
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by annowiki 4y ago
Its usually not so much "a range of wheels optimized for specific roles" and more "one size fits all." You want a wheel that fits your cart. You have a lathe. Why make do with a wheel someone else made, standardized, and
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by annowiki 4y ago
Its a numpy style docstring. PyCharm can be configured to auto generate them. I guess I just add the types to be thorough. Ideally I want to generate api documentation via a tool. A long time ago I wrote a script to parse the AST and genera
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by annowiki 4y ago
I come from a Python background so libraries were always just a pip install away. In the past year, however, I've been working on a large C++ codebase (couple million lines) and the result has been a considerably greater amount of &quo
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by annowiki 4y ago
I believe he means "the use of asterisks to mark required fields" was invented for the web. Otherwise, you'd have to be quite young and quite sheltered to not have seen asterisks in places older than the web.
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by annowiki 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement Mario's "Operation of the Machine" speech is pretty good. Also worth noting, often these groups were not quite as egalitarian as they're thought to
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by annowiki 4y ago
I can strongly recommend Fussel's (the author of this essay) book "The Boys' Crusade", which provides a very eye opening account to WWII. It is most likely a longer version of this essay (I haven't read this essay).
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by annowiki 4y ago
Small typos everywhere. Init functions without the dunders, move_ahead in an abstract class then moveahead later.
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by annowiki 4y ago
I just linked your blog post in a separate comment because I was reading it over the weekend. I was looking for articles about writing static site generators and didn't realize most people don't roll their own templating engines.
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by annowiki 4y ago
This is mindblowing synchronicity. I thought this article was one I had read this weekend for a second but checked the post date and saw it wasn't available yesterday. I'm working on trying to write a static site generator for my
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by annowiki 4y ago
I've been doing this but without the jinja. It's trivial to store a latex file or markdown file with something like %PLACEHOLDER% and then just run with open('template.tex', 'rt') as f_in: templat
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by annowiki 4y ago
I consider myself quite adept at cli, I can sed, grep, find, vim, and git quite well. However, what I never found convenient in cli was debugging. I was a print debugger for years until my job convinced me to try PyCharm. I've always t
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by annowiki 4y ago
IdeaVim works fine. I can't use vim sandwich and that's about my only complaint. I was firmly resistant to IDEs like OP and quite in love with neovim for years. Tried PyCharm because of work, never looking back. I could never find
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Ask HN: Advice for cross-platform dev environments for Python Extensions
1 points by annowiki 4y ago|0 comments
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by annowiki 4y ago
Scikit-Learn's api is masterfully consistent. We've taken to using it as a source of inspiration for our own code.
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by annowiki 4y ago
Why wouldn't they just use the older version of C++? If you don't want non-c compatible c++ you could just stick to C++20 instead of upgrading to "C++breaking_changes". I ask because its not like support will ever be pha
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by annowiki 4y ago
The debugger. I made your same argument for years to a buddy of mine that always used WebStorm (I'm a Python dev and he kept pushing me to try PyCharm). A coworker pushed me to try PyCharm since we're on Windows and I haven't
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by annowiki 4y ago
I did a double take because I've been using pictures from unsplash found by searching "tokyo night"[0] and "night city"[1] for wallpapers and they're nearly identical in color, saturation, and mood. I just rech
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by annowiki 5y ago
Fascinating. What did you do for scraping? I built something similar but to do sentiment analysis on news (it is shamefully slow https://maudlin.standingwater.io/ ). I used scrapy to get the articles and post them to a post

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