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by Denzel 13y ago
I think, this is just a guess, he's referring to when a person lobs the ball over the net to you and it hits the ground first before coming back up; you have to time your stroke perfectly to hit it back or risk missing the ball on the
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by Denzel 13y ago
That's interesting. I'd love to hear more about your problems with it. My email is in my profile, feel free to drop me a line. I deployed a small but moderately complex crawler backed by a database with Scrapy. It had some custom
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by Denzel 13y ago
I did not create Scrapy; you would have to thank Pablo Hoffman [1] for that. :) He's the co-creator and lead developer. [1] https://github.com/pablohoffman
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by Denzel 13y ago
I have to agree that Scrapy is oriented more towards long-running spiders. For a one-off script, I'd probably do the same thing as you.
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by Denzel 13y ago
Why not just use Scrapy[1]? It's built for this sort of thing, easily extensible, and written in Python. [1] http://scrapy.org/
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by Denzel 13y ago
Sure, it can be accomplished in a variety of ways: swapping a migrated replica; breaking big schema changes into multiple incremental migrations that minimize the amount of time the database is locked and back-filling data; or spinning up a
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by Denzel 13y ago
No. You can migrate big production relational DBs with much less than hours of downtime; sometimes there's no downtime at all. Please, either qualify your statement, or stop speaking in such an absolute sense.
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by Denzel 13y ago
>> Surely by 7th grade you can see that there are problems there. Perhaps by 12 grade in the private school, he could have turned things around. My parents didn't have the money to pay for private school. Both myself and my middl
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by Denzel 13y ago
Just to provide context, underfunded was my nice way of saying exactly what you describe. Kids have been stabbed and gun fights have broken out inside the school. That was my fault for not making it clear, I apologize.
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by Denzel 13y ago
>> The truth is blacks and Latinos need to step it up. This generalized statement, specifically. I don't enjoy treating "blacks" as a group anymore than I like seeing "latinos" or "whites" treated as
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by Denzel 13y ago
Good question. It's one that puzzles me every day. While my ethnic background appears to have had no bearing on my life, it most certainly affected my parents' lives.
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by Denzel 13y ago
Interesting, I'd be all for hearing more about your observations. Feel free to shoot me an email: [HN name].morris1 'at' gmail. >> None of your brothers classmates made it beyond high school? I can't say for sure b
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by Denzel 13y ago
I know what you're trying to say, and I understand that you believe you have a set of individuals with upbringings that are relatively equal, for all intents and purposes, but as an African-American your comment rubs me the wrong way.
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by Denzel 13y ago
Ah, you are correct. I figured I was missing something. Thanks!
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by Denzel 13y ago
Isn't it incorrect to simply compare the capacity of the Hyperloop vs. the High Speed Rail. Shouldn't the transport time also be taken into account? I mean, simplifying of course, if the Hyperloop can carry ~3,000 from A to B in 3
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by Denzel 13y ago
Great to see such a quick response! Definitely a cause for pause. I plan to sit down with the paper tonight to fully understand the implications.
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by Denzel 13y ago
Off-topic: What exactly does ASAIK mean? All slang definitions online point to, "as soon as I know," which frankly makes no sense.
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by Denzel 13y ago
Well, first of all, you aren't reading the Ruby source to understand Rails' idiosyncrasies, you're reading the Ruby source to understand Ruby's idiosyncrasies applied to Rails. Secondly, this article is far more verb
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by Denzel 13y ago
This is right on time. Currently working on a site that makes use of multiple cards per customer. Great job, once again, Stripe!
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by Denzel 13y ago
Not really a brain teaser: the only case being the default, and the rest simply being labels, makes for a very straightforward program.
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by Denzel 14y ago
I can't talk about specifics in public, but shoot me an e-mail (address in profile) and I will provide you with some guidance if you'd like.
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by Denzel 14y ago
You are correct, we are in the middle of a "Great Dev Drought," keyword being "Great" or rather talented. I don't have any hard data for you per se, but I can tell you that of the ~100 candidates we've interviewed for a junior Rails positio
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by Denzel 14y ago
Nice! I enjoy the concept, execution, and the release to GitHub. It's always interesting to see how others solve their problems. Keep up the good work and contributions to the community.
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by Denzel 14y ago
Early 30s? Let me tell you, it most certainly IS NOT too late to go back to school if you want to. My mother is mid 50s and planning on going back to school for accounting. She's always liked accounting, and wants to pursue it after she ret
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by Denzel 14y ago
You paint a very black and white picture when we all know that the landscape isn't truly that polarized. Firstly, given two candidates of equal knowledge, one with no degree and one with a degree in art history, I would _look at the work hi
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by Denzel 14y ago
Where exactly did you work? Maybe it's just New York City or maybe it's just my company but we have no problem maintaining diversity in our tech team as a byproduct of interviewing and acquiring qualified candidates. We have multiple race
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by Denzel 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation chc, and grn. Indeed, invoking the method indirectly with send or method does produce 10. Nice!
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by Denzel 14y ago
Agreed. I understand exactly what you're saying, and I don't dispute the semantics. I guess my only problem is that in this case "t.attr" isn't really equal to 5, therefore making a = t.attr = 5 differ from t.attr = 5 a = t.a
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Are you an advanced rubyist?
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by Denzel 14y ago
TL;DR - It's confusing, but not a big deal. Change it or don't. I, like you, at one point didn't know about SVBTLE. I clicked through links on HN and found some pages that looked strikingly similar and at a quick glance thought, "wow, this

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