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by gthank 11y ago
Python 2 will store Unicode as either UCS-16 or UCS-32, depending on how it was compiled. The horrible monstrosity that is the default "string" (those are scare quotes; I know how the formatting on here works) in Python 2 is not U
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by gthank 11y ago
TL;DR Write it in Rust, export via FFI, bind from Python via cffi. The long version is: go watch this video from PyCon that will answer this question and probably others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA
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by gthank 11y ago
Somebody has to build the containers and/or images, and it's on them to make that an automated, repeatable process.
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by gthank 12y ago
Please tell me those discussions are on the mailing list.
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by gthank 12y ago
If you honestly believe that all you have to do is stand up a bunch of instances of Mongo/Cassandra/whatever and you instantly get acceptable HA, then you need to read the [Jepsen series]( https://aphyr.com/tags&#x2
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by gthank 14y ago
Having used them both a fair bit (though not to write novels, like some of the people on here): Markdown source is prettier to look at. This might seem minor, but it's the primary goal of Markdown. If I'm writing something highly technical,
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by gthank 14y ago
I use Eclipse (now that I no longer have an IntelliJ license) for doing heavy-duty Java, but if I can get away with it, I prefer to do things in MacVim. Eclipse is just too clunky feeling when I want to do simple text editing tasks; it tota
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by gthank 14y ago
It's PHP. They obviously wanted a broken language. Now the devs are taking that away from them.
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011(wired.com)
1 points by gthank 15y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 15y ago
I'm pretty sure it hoses Norton's "security" software, too. Of course, if you can't handle documented file system options, I don't trust you to detect exploits….
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by gthank 15y ago
Jenkins.
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by gthank 15y ago
For a lot of dynamic languages, at least, the templating engine is a surprisingly large portion of your page load times. I wish I could bring up the breakdown I saw a while back, but it's certainly non-trivial in many cases.
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The Finance Primer for SaaS & Software Start Up Entrepreneurs(davidryan63.wordpress.com)
2 points by gthank 15y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 15y ago
Less than a year? That's really short. Have you tried busting out a multimeter on your wiring (since you sound like the DIY type) or calling an electrician?
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Why I’m weird about privacy(snarfed.org)
2 points by gthank 15y ago|1 comments
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Finance for Entrepreneurs – The Language of the Exit(davidryan63.wordpress.com)
1 points by gthank 15y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 15y ago
The post clearly says they have to add the source or delete them.
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Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
3 points by gthank 15y ago|1 comments
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by gthank 15y ago
You won't see me saying that I think Groupon is a great value or anything, but I think that you have to acknowledge the difference between the people Groupon is reaching and the people FB or Google is reaching: Groupon's audience is people
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AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy(cloudscaling.com)
3 points by gthank 15y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 15y ago
These articles are cropping up because Google (quite cleverly) utilized the "We're Open" mantra to gain a lot of momentum very quickly. Since the evolution of Android shows more and more evidence of "We're Open When Convenient/Beneficial",
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by gthank 15y ago
A lot of Spring code predates the rising popularity of "convention over configuration" (thank you, Rails, for getting this so widely accepted), so if you're in one of those code bases, you're going to see a LOT of the Java+XML verbosity
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by gthank 15y ago
Go read the relevant Quora thread http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-http-bit-ly-links-i...
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by gthank 16y ago
Because it means you're (probably) going to be running Windows on your servers, which isn't cheap.
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by gthank 16y ago
I'd settle for them managing to bill me properly for my POTS line after no more than 3 tries (it took 6 after my most recent move).
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The 10 Python Conferences Happening at PyCon 2011 (part 4)(pycon.blogspot.com)
2 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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The 10 Python Conferences Happening at PyCon 2011 (part 3)(pycon.blogspot.com)
2 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
That's an interesting point about it never making the price go up. If there were a non-trivial chance that it caused the price to go up, do you think the haggling would be less common? Since haggling vaguely offends my sense of how the wo
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Stupid Unix Tricks: Workflow Control with GNU Make(teddziuba.com)
14 points by gthank 16y ago|1 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
Azul's systems are pretty much the definition of high-volume. Nobody (sane) buys an embarrassingly parallel machine with custom hardware and software just to host their blog on it.

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