Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Yes to all of this and I'll throw in my two cents on our web server setup which is nginx + uwsgi (which has served remarkably well).
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
That's a risk you run using services provided for by anyone other than yourself. My bank could suddenly go under and I would have to switch banks... It's not just in the software world, that's anything.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Good article, terrible title - I instantly said to myself, "WTF? Is this an article about the 'masculine' CEO and the spineless techie? Fuck that." but I read it anyway because I didn't want to be "that guy".
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
TLS series is wonderful - HTDP is great too, it assumes the student doesn't have programming experience which means they start out with simple stuff (and use Scheme for the implementation language!).
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This is not a helpful comment. Additionally I do not agree - while there is a difference between academically focused individuals and industry focused individuals they absolutely should not be mutually exclusive. That's a social generaliz
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Learn you lots of Algebra; then go learn you some functional programming (in particular LISP, HTDP: How To Design Programs and SICP are great for this). Then I would pick up Randall Hyde's books on "How to Write Great Code" series - he star
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Mid day is my least productive, usually. The other ends of the spectrum (morning and nights) are my most productive.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
While I generally agree with you, there are some applications out there that get distributed multi-node environments "right" without using Erlang. It's just much harder to do because those problems are (for the most part) solved BY Erlang
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
It's a distributed multi-node key-value store. They built it using Erlang (I almost consider that, alone, a "feature").
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I have - I left a a very stable job and pursued self-study for 9 months. I still pursue it, but not in a rigorous fashion as I had for those 9 months; once my startup levels out a bit more and I can hire more people to do my job, I will pro
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This is a good example of what was meant, IMHO. There are interesting cases, though, where multi-selecting items and then acting on them could require using a query parameter. "action=remove", "action=update", "action=validate" or something
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I've found a painful lack of examples too. There's a lot of written material but few concrete examples from what I've found...
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I've been reading a lot of these articles and would like to think that I've implemented a RESTful API. I use GET for the get_all, get_one methods; PUT for create and PUT for replace/modify (as in replacing a field, not appending to it), HEA
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I do believe it is "wrong" to watch pirated content but like I said in another comment, the problem has two sides. People are doing things that "come naturally" to them on the internet and Hollywood is trying to map an old business model on
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This really is the most level headed and correct response IMHO. Hollywood is responding, not to the internet as a modality of speech, but to the rampant piracy of materials that legally makes them money - they are doing nothing wrong by p
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I basically use nginx the way people would use Apache and Varnish I use as a webcache. Others have explained it thoroughly.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Not sure why you got down voted, but your view IMHO is correct.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I disagree, I think this was a very appropriate move for Google. Consider that Google has shareholders to answer to (they can't just take a community vote, like Wikipedia). I'm actually thoroughly thrilled with what they did, when I visited
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
nginx, Varnish, and uWSGI are oh so awesome together. My app (I run a Pyramid based application) is lightning fast, and very easy to configure (much easier than mod_wsgi).
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I'm still going to argue the point, there are no distributions in the sense of Linux. There's just "FreeBSD". "BSD: Berkeley Software Distribution" You're being pedantic here, again, I meant it in the context of linux distributions (that's
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Why is that anymore dangerous than knowing how rm, rmdir, and chmod work on the commandline? Python's os module is not exempt from permissions - it's obviously "dangerous" if you run the interpeter as root then start doing silly things like
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
There are no "distributions"
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This is just as crucial as building your API properly , IMHO. I should be able to piece together my API integration from a mixture of examples, good documentation of deep features and caveats, and intuiting API methods. For example, this A
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
The body's own clock is amazing . I've done this to wake myself up in the mornings successfully too! I do it like this: when laying in bed right before falling asleep I imagine a flip-card clock and the whole thing is spinning, just spinni
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Primarily because BitBucket is slowly getting better and I would rather be on the native platform? Plus, we have all of our tickets in BBucket ATM and I'm not too keen on moving them over (I would probably hire a VA to do it, but still...
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
I love hg, and bitbucket is the best we've got - but man, the developers at BitBucket have their heads stuck in so deep in the sand!!! GitHub "won" because the developers were not only innovative but they listened to their user base. BitBuc
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
This is a great comment, OP should take this one to heart.
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
FOAF+SSL!!!!!!!!!! There exists a rather elegant alternative to passwords for authenticating a user's identity - it's been around for a while but the user barrier is too high: FOAF+SSL. The idea is you generate an X.509 cert and install it
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
A good analogy would be the difference between being a brief writer for a law firm and being a fiction author - you have "writing" in common (hopefully "good writing" at that) but the intricacies of each domain make it appreciably differe
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by Ixiaus 15y ago
Software has a huge presence in aerospace! But, programming an avionics system (or even less important support systems) is nothing like building a web application.

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