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by wkd 9y ago
Bad link, remove the trailing slash
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by wkd 9y ago
I've used apistar quite extensively in two different projects (one launched) and so far I like it. One disadvantage is you can't use wsgi middleware, but after rewriting our middleware to components they ended up being much neater
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by wkd 9y ago
We use different files for "soft" requirements, dev/test requirements, and a freeze.txt containing all production requirements and then we default to installing from freeze.txt but can update from the other files. It's s
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by wkd 9y ago
> Encrypt all data at rest in the database This is funny, I've actually inherited a project where the original developer had this idea, he used the same function to encrypt everything: even the news posts available on the front page
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by wkd 10y ago
At home I use Dropbox for some files and Resilio Sync for others At work we make heavy use of version controlled configuration management where we can recreate any machine from just rerunning the ansible playbook and duply backup for databa
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by wkd 10y ago
While I agree with you I'd like to caution some users about rushing into dockerising everything in their production environment. If your environment setup is not repeatable and you don't have your configuration management under co
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by wkd 10y ago
This, it depends more on the product and the requirements. I've worked in companies that are just a few employees and are running databases larger than this. I've also worked for a company with ~100 employees whose only 'data
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by wkd 10y ago
Completely agree, for example chrome has been observed flushing full state data to disk at regular intervals even with no changes since 2010[1] which is eating battery and SSD lifetime. Firefox does this too as far as I know. Not to mention
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by wkd 10y ago
I don't understand why some developers insists on using semver and not follow the spec, in my opinion that is the only 'problem' with semver. If you need a version and don't care about following the spec just use a times
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by wkd 10y ago
I tried it a little bit 2 years ago. My experience was pretty much: 1) Encounter unexpected behaviour with standard features 2) Ask irc for help 3) Response: shrug must be a compiler bug
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by wkd 10y ago
It's part of their principles [1], it's not for everyone but it doesn't need to be, there's enough distros available that tries to appeal to everyone. 1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Lin
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by wkd 10y ago
I just want to say that it's likely not the amount of plugins it's the weight each have, likely you have a few heavy ones causing your boot to be slow. I use ~20 plugins and startup time is still under a second when opening a 3500
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by wkd 10y ago
HTML5 media is quite a can of worms, I remember reading the return types of HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType() [1] which is ['probably', 'maybe', ''] for the first time thinking it's a joke. [1]: https:/
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by wkd 10y ago
What advice I give in terms of computer security I see more like being sanitary similar to washing your hands, it will not make you free of germs but it will greatly reduce the chance of getting an serious infection. The thing you should re
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by wkd 10y ago
"Despite reporting the problem to the author on Friday, and following up the report via Twitter this has not yet been fixed, but after four days I assume I'm not alone in spotting this." Giving someone a weekend to fix someth
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by wkd 10y ago
I'm struggling to see which VCS you deem superior, I'm assuming you are not referring to SVN, Mercurial maybe? The learning curve to git is not great but as far as I know nobody has publicly released an option that's improved
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by wkd 10y ago
I use tig ( https://github.com/jonas/tig ) because it doesn't require me to leave the terminal and I find it does everything I need from a git UI without getting in the way