Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 16y ago
In a previous comment I conceded the fact that some trappings of an excellent Python deployment solution would require more knowledge than is common to the average "I want a site that I can post content to" user. However. I still think a we
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
True, there are many possible configurations, but a few (I don't have widespread experience with Python based hosts because most of my Python work has been on my own servers) hosts I've used have mod_wsgi installed with a WSGIDaemon process
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I still disagree. I don't use Django so I actually don't know what you have to go through in order to install it but a python app can be packaged and installed on a shared host with mod_wsgi installed. All you need is an index.wsgi to act a
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Au contraire - it is the implementation details (create database tables for you? handle install exceptions gracefully? blablablabla) and not the platform (in the case of PHP/Python/Ruby/Perl from personal experience) that makes installati
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Tell HN: SDHN mid-month meetup (Feb 16 6PM)
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Why San Francisco? Move to San Diego and pay a lot less ... I'm out here building a startup and there are many others doing the same.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I did it on the spot within a matter of three weeks. I had already saved up enough to support my lifestyle at the time for three months plus I have a consistent source of passive income. My lifestyle was extremely frugal. I never ate out, o
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I'm with you on this. I've taken to seeing everything as "stages". Instead of trying to fit my music, writing, or x hobby in I assume to undertake it as fulltime project in segments over the years. Two years ago, I stopped working, lived of
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I understand what you are saying but I think the author is targeting PHP programmers that simply pound it out for the sake of a "job" - to me, he is talking about the difference between "coders" and "programmers". I will agree with you and
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I don't personally, right now, but I have a friend working for UCSD that uses RDF, RDFS, and OWL-DL quite a bit with their ontology there. I also have a friend in biotech that uses it a lot. I've used it for past projects (NDA, can't really
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I see a lot of RDF bashing. Particularly from the "Web 2.0" crowd. It has warts, no doubt (is anything borne of the human mind without warts?), but it also has its strengths. A lot of people say it is a failed technology but it's less the f
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
XHTML has revolutionized page markup. Not because everyone is using it but because it blazed the path for better standards that the other document types follow. Also, many of the changes in XHTML were brought over to HTML5 - which does ha
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
FOAF is irrelevant in many respects, I'll give you that; but, RDF certainly does exist outside of academic toys. Big names that I know of that use/publish RDF: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/07/the_world_cup... http://wiki.f
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
No I'm not. What in my tone makes you think I'm kidding? Could you please provide a counter argument instead of a flame bait comment?
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
XML is not a failure and it's also not a failure on the web (XHTML? RDF? FOAF? &c... huge successes ). OpenID also isn't a failure - it could stand to be supplanted by something better but it had to start somewhere .
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Walter Pitts was a renowned self-educated logician and helped create the foundations for Artificial Intelligence. Read his story (he's relatively recent).
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I agree, I think the restructuring decision will be beneficial - ever since Larry and Sergey gave up their majority control (they now control less than 50% of the company, I think) Eric and the board have been taking Google down a slightly
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
HTDP (How To Design Programs) and the Schemer series I highly recommend. The Schemers are really easy to read and HTDP goes into greater detail on many of the topics. This was my order of execution in learning Scheme: Schemer series ->
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I'm a fellow autodidact, have been for six years - pursuing my own liberal curriculum and technical specializations. I'd be interested in having a chat over email about your curriculum and the other things I don't get to talk about with oth
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
Yeah, it being a merger of interests rather than a strategic takeover will serve both the companies well.
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Ask HN: Any experience with the Mercury PL? [repost]
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Ask HN: Any experience with the Mercury PL?
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
A couple of suggestions from my experience as a self-educated engineer: 1. Become a programmer and not a coder (see below) 2. Don't skimp on theory, algorithms, data structures and math 3. Learn many different languages between OOP and Func
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I open source software when I feel it will benefit the greater community. But I've never felt pressure from the community to make any of my production code free . As a matter of fact, I think any pressure on developers to push their softwa
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
This poll is not representative of the question I asked. I asked if there were people interested in a supplementary meetup mid-month for those that cannot make the end of month Friday night meetups.
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
This. I've traveled quite a bit before building my startup and I can attest to A) how distracting the experiences across the world are (why travel and bring work from your country of origin and not travel and work in your destination countr
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I applaud Gabriel for his (non)accomplishments - particularly in finding appreciation for all of his brain-children, no matter what they've become. I don't think it is a defense mechanism, I think it is a healthy appreciation for the life-d
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
My argument isn't necessarily on the same topic, so it won't be sound, but it does have some intuitional merit: consider any person that is at the peak of any given trend, whether it be a self-made entrepreneur, a political figure, a scie
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
The first problem is a society that doesn't, inherently, teach happiness to its newest members - we are reared with the idea that hard work and submission are the rules of this game. That in turn produces a large population of generally cra
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by Ixiaus 16y ago
I've seen numerous ideas, such as this, in many of the bigger companies I've worked for; the ones that come up with it seem to forget the fluid nature of the web. What they should worry about is the search ranking for any given url and heav

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