briancurtin

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by briancurtin 12y ago
There's a small note on https://status.rackspace.com/ right now: > Open SSL Security Advisory > Rackspace is aware and tracking the security advisory released by the Open SSL Community. We're closely monitor
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by briancurtin 12y ago
I umpire college baseball and have looked into mounting a GoPro on my mask for a game, and may do it, but won't be able to do it during the regular season. Could still be fun to show in a summer league where it's slightly more rel
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by briancurtin 12y ago
I don't know where you got this, but it was never planned to have been dead two years ago. 2.7.0 happened in July 2010, and regular bug and security fixing would still have been happening up until around this time regardless of anythin
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by briancurtin 12y ago
Python itself. Check out the developer guide at https://docs.python.org/devguide/ and the mentorship list at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship/ to get started.
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by briancurtin 12y ago
Conversations at the language summit, mostly. A lot more of us use git more often than we do hg these days as well.
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by briancurtin 12y ago
While the process was competitive, it wasn't a "competition." There was a bidding process that several firms took part in.
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by briancurtin 12y ago
> If Python 3 is so wonderful, why are the Python 3 developers still using Python 2 in their toolchain? It's because it would reportedly take 1 man year to port Mercurial to Python 3. Why would that have anything to do with it? We d
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by briancurtin 12y ago
That's not what that site is saying. For my PyCon Russia talk, I pulled down the data for all 44,402 packages (as of May 31). 13.5% of all packages on PyPI support some version of Python 3. 75.5% of the top 200 packages by download cou
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> In the past, RubyGems was hosted on dedicated hardware within Rackspace. While this was certainly cheaper, it created administrative issues. Granted those can be solved without using AWS, but we get back to again desiring to have as lo
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by briancurtin 13y ago
Yep, I wasn't able to get to everything. I had to update a ton of the content via the Django admin without a source checkout (which is now available), so I couldn't grep for placeholder text. We'll get it all straightened out
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by briancurtin 13y ago
That wasn't supposed to be there. It is now removed.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
Someone working on or using Azure would be more than welcomed to implement support for Azure drivers. Contributions typically come from the providers themselves, or the users of those providers.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> If you standardize on the lowest common denominator, you lose many of the key features of AWS such as VPC and autoscaling. That's not the level where libcloud is aiming for LCD - it's not at a provider level, but at a product
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by briancurtin 13y ago
We just released 0.14, and the next will move to 1.0. The general feeling is that it is stable, and people really like seeing "1.0".
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by briancurtin 13y ago
They seem to be generally popular in the midwest. I've attended or worked my company's booth at conferences in other areas and almost never hear .NET stuff. Then I went to CodeMash in Sandusky, OH and probably 70% of the people I
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by briancurtin 13y ago
They do. http://www.irs.gov/uac/Free-File:-Do-Your-Federal-Taxes-for-...
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> Rackspace also makes their list available, albeit incomplete ( http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cloud-site... ). FWIW, this is specific to Cloud Sites, which is like one-click Wordpress/Dr
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> and yet no one seems to know about it or care very much. I'm not sure how you've come to this conclusion. Two of my last three jobs used Twisted, one of them very heavily. Pretty much every conference I've been to has ha
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by briancurtin 13y ago
Bug fixes already get backported. Features will not be added in the 2.7 line.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
The reason for the "getit" page was, at least at one point, because the "download" page was blocked throughout China.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> Emphasis is now on touring and t-shirts as CD sales dwindle. This has been probably every band's emphasis for years, and for non-mainstream acts, it's not really an emphasis because it's the only way to make it in the fi
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by briancurtin 13y ago
It will. If you just tweak some things in the examples like urllib2 imports and print-as-a-statement usage, the threading API is the same so it's still generally relevant.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
Vim.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> Sorry to harass the hn community over this one more time, but does anyone knows if optional static typing is even being discussed as a future evolution for python ? No, it is not.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
I was aware of their efforts to implement a Code of Conduct as early as November 2012, around the same time I began work on the Python CoC.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
The conference spawned nothing. It has a policy, it adhered to it, and by both sides in the situation's own admission, did what it said it would do. The "spawn" here was the internet.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
> In Chicago, where crime has been slower to fall than elsewhere, local politicians this year thanked hotspot methods for the lowest murder rate in half a century. What year are they talking about? 2012 was the highest in something like
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by briancurtin 13y ago
I've done it numerous times over the last several years and while it's probably not trivial, it's definitely not hard. If you're looking for a "one true way", it's Python's C API.
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by briancurtin 13y ago
I can appreciate someone who took the time to figure out what my experience adds up to and then share a relevant position they're trying to fill. I've had a few companies first find me on LinkedIn, then they contacted me through e
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by briancurtin 13y ago
I downvoted it because it was needless speculation by an anonymous account called "routergate" which was created 35 minutes ago for the purpose of stirring the pot.

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