Pewpewarrows

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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
> Also, not everyone works on projects hosted on a vps. ftp/sftp is very much still relevant in the real world. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
I'm sorry, but if you're a professional web developer you need to stop editing files directly on remote servers. Period. Full stop. Apologists post in threads like these time and time again, whether the argument is for them using PHP, SVN,
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
MetroTwit is the only other app with a great new Metro UI that I've found.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
No, they haven't. GitHub only recently changed their top toolbar layout to include those icons, and today expanded them with even more indistinguishable-at-a-glance ones.
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Does Rails not have an equivalent to the Django-Debug-Toolbar to easily debug stuff like this in development? As for production, going with a fleshed-out service like NewRelic makes more sense to me. If I see slow queries start happening I'
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
https://developers.google.com/drive/
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
Regarding "Don't use ancient system Python versions" and "Use virtual environments", you can knock out two birds with one stone by just using pythonbrew. It also saves you the hassle of rolling your own deb/rpm if a package doesn't happen t
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
As someone who to this day still cringes every time they need to work with the subprocess module, do yourself a favor and use Kenneth Reitz's excellent wrapper library called Envoy: https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy For reference, he'
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by Pewpewarrows 14y ago
When doing a large refactoring or removing modules all-together, leftover .pyc or .pyo files can cause some very hard-to-identify import errors.
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Sorry if the sarcasm was lost on you. GitHub very obviously has paid accounts and makes money without ads.
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
The last time I checked, GitHub has 0 ads on it. And they're clearly not making any money off of their users, because features like paid accounts don't exist. It's impossible to monetize a product without slapping tons of intrusive advertis
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
In practice it's <2% on average per site. But at this point I don't view it as any extra effort. It's just a different way of approaching my development workflow. And it might just be a placebo, but it makes me feel like the site functi
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Here is how I handle this for projects that I work on, and I haven't received a single complaint thus far: 1. Decide if the core of the site is undoable without JavaScript. Something like Google Docs or games relying heavily on Canvas/WebGL
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
The only reason Wordpress and Drupal became successful is because PHP is present on basically every shared host you can find on the internet. They stayed successful by building a community of plugins and themes. The actual internals of both
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
The same could have been said for the dozens of front-page discussions the past few weeks about Sexism in this industry.
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I'd just like to comment that, having built a medium to large Flask app over the last year, I would never recommend it as a framework for non-trivial sites. I don't even want to sum up the amount of time that Django would have solved my pro
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
The parent comment was only pointing out how incredibly fast and easy it is to get started with TastyPie. The moment you decide to create an API resource that isn't a one-to-one mapping with a database table or Model, TastyPie is still able
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Sorry, but I wouldn't give up Django-TastyPie for anything else (including Flask) for API development. Sure, I could spend a month building an API framework from scratch in Flask for a project, but why would I?
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
For those wanting to see an interesting approach to solving this problem (not written by me): http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building Associated HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Can you honestly not see that they stacked the competition in their favor by customizing the device from its stock install state? And not that it's relevant, but I like Microsoft's products. I think their direction of the latest Windows Pho
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I find it more interesting how incredibly shady and underhanded the entire "challenge" is to begin with. They get to choose the exact rules and conditions, for which they've specially customized their phones beforehand, even if it's complet
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
All of my casual chat with friends happens over Google Talk, Facebook, or Twitter. All of my work-related communication happens over internal Jabber, IRC, or Skype. AIM, like MSN and ICQ before it, has gone the way of the dodo bird in every
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
The languages themselves are pretty equivalent. But with PHP it's easier for newbies to grok things when you can just point a web server at a directory that has a "blog.php" file in it, and visit "myserver.com/blog.php" to execute that scri
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Again, because PHP has such a low barrier of entry, more developers use it. So it's only logical that you'd see more tutorials and questions for it.
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
No, I'm not implying that. Of course it's possible for a poorly written site to be built with Python or Ruby. But I've never seen a single one expose its implementation details through filename extensions, or map urls directly to files on d
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Sorry, but my primary complaints of PHP are in no way related to anything that I've "brought to it." These are all default behavior out of the box: - Error messages that are often nowhere near where the problem is, and sometimes contain no
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
Because Python and Ruby sites are built properly, and don't expose their filenames as extensions in the url (.py or .rb). In fact, their urls don't even map to actual files to begin with, which immediately avoids several large security hole
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I should have specified that those actions take place out of context. Such as showing a half-naked man riding on a horse down the beach to sell a product to women. Obviously everyone has different sensitivities, but if you cannot objectivel
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I never intended it to be a counter-argument. I was just pointing out how hypocritical it would be if you don't agree that half-naked men in advertising is as equally sexist and offensive.
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by Pewpewarrows 15y ago
I really hope that everyone is as equally offended and quick to point out sexism for every advertisement, television show, and movie featuring a very fit, shirtless man doing a stereotypical "masculine" activity (construction work, heavy li

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