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by alexpopescu 13y ago
Niiiice!
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
For everyone thinking this is a text-to-speech plugin for vim (boring): it is not . It's a voice controlled vim (quite cool).
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
I use a combination of all these 3 tricks as I have my dotfiles shared between Mac and Linux. Basically my pythonstartup.py contains the extra check for os: AP_AUTOCOMPLETE=False import sys try: import readline exc
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
It was only yesterday that I thought about using animated GIFs for demoing code typing. That's what I liked most about this post!
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by alexpopescu 13y ago
URIs are pretty much immutable. My impression is that what the OP suggests is a guaranteed lifetime of the content associated with the URI. As for this second part, "once it's published it should always remain out there", I'm not very sure
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I've recently seen this slidedeck [1] from guys on Twitter's data team where they say that most of the time the data mining process is basically: 1. Your boss says something vague 2. You think very hard on how to move the needle 3. Where’s
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty sure timely and imposed awesomeness is exactly what is needed.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
> It's expensive, Even if we like it or not, the rent is ridiculously expensive. (someone new to SF that will probably never get used to the peeing in the streets)
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
A couple of places, please.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Is this sort of an announcement that Google failed to buy Evernote, so they decided to create a project that does exactly the same things and that will be discontinued after a while because it's not Google's focus?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I always wondered if back in the days of typewriters there was a similar conversation going as there's today about keyboards. Where there the IBM, Apple 2, Das keyboard fans?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I find the "advice" in the post a bit confusing. Finding an answer on SO or a forum or a book will help you solve a specific problem (thus making you a "productive" coder). But I seriously doubt it will make you code faster in general if th
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
There's no decision made on this yet. So far, as @coffeemug explained in the previous comment we decided to focus all our efforts on improving the server and getting it closer to "production ready" state, instead of spreading our resources
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Still not, but the new protobuf spec (and rewritten existing drivers) should actually make it pretty easy to get one. I've also heard of a couple of people working on Java and Scala drivers (they were following the new protobuf spec branch)
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
As far as I checked, today is 2013...
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I also heard that they can see in the dark thus you can cut the light when you leave them in the office. On the other hand, I've seen it in the movies that they can disappear... I assume that's what they do before someone can actually try t
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Wait... where is this post saying what's going on with Andy Rubin? Let me understand: you have a guy that leads one of the most adopted projects coming out of Google and then you announce a new person to lead that project without mentioning
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
How is this any different to the status of other projects in other environments?
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I don't think that using a client side generated id is actually a real step in optimizing. Except the case you block all writes to the db.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
My comments about Xcode were uninformed, based only on the fact that I don't run into tons of complains about it. The only time I fired Xcode to compile a project, it took me quite a bit of time to figure out where it places the compiled fi
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Years ago (but not as long as tolmasky's "exclusive"), I would have given everything to get a Mac (I was living in a place where Apple's product were neither available nor affordable). I spend most of my time on my computer programming (or
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
"I'm not a Django person" 1. Using PGBouncer seems to be the ideal solution, but I'm not sure other databases actually provide a proxy. I haven't heard of something like this for MySQL (a) I might be wrong, please provide a link, b) I'm kno
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Email can be a good todo... inbox. But a todo inbox is completely different to a todo list (which has deadlines, priorities, dependencies, etc.)
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I probably fall in the category of those that think that authors of open source projects do have a responsibility for the code they share and its maintenance. The main reason I'm saying this is that I feel that the open source world is not
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Not long ago I've tried to find out what are the most popular versions of Python available. I've started by asking people heavily involved in the Python world. Statistically irrelevant, but the majority of answers I've got back were: 1. pro
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I don't have a similarly stylish and philosophical story as coffeemug's but the thing that changed the way I perceive criticism is something I've read a while back: before coming up with any answers or remarks, ask 3 questions about the ori
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
The main difference is what happens if you chain together multiple operations. Are these executed one by one (each resulting in a roundtrip to the database) or executed all at once (single roundtrip to the db). As a side note, each programm
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Both solutions are lazy. While ReQL requires .run(), the Django ORM requires you to do 'list()' (or probably other form of iterator over it). I'd say the only difference is that one is explicit and the other one is implicit.
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
I appreciate your feedback. Really really helpful to us (you should see what it triggered on #irc ;-)
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by alexpopescu 14y ago
Probably this is only "semantics", but I find these two quite similar :). I like the idea of having the query being executed only when needed, but I'm not sure that's always possible (or optimal with large result sets). thanks, alex @ rethi

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