anthonyb

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by anthonyb 15y ago
The same design pressure (to make the simple stuff easier) is at work in both cases. Much like, say, Bottle and Flask looking very similar. The "basically unusable" is probably a little harsh, but I've never really understood the motivation
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Ad-hominem much?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I really don't understand the "lack of flexibility" thing myself. I've made Django and Django's ORM and admin do all sorts of weird stuff, and it's much easier to build on top of that than to reroll everything, which is what you have to do
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Sure, but good to repeat it in this case - Python's urllib/urllib2/etc. libraries are famously hard(er than necessary) to use.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
urllib is in Python's standard library: import urllib the_page = urllib.urlopen("http://www.gun.io/") print ''.join( the_page.readlines() ) I could jam it all into one line, but in Python we prefer readable code ;) ;) The Pytho
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The issue that I have with that attitude (as an experienced Python and Django developer) is that there's a lot more to it than just "swapping out Django's DB and replacing it with SQLAlchemy". You miss out on most of the infrastructure arou
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I'm pretty sure he means that there's no database support built in, ie. you need to go download something like SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, Storm, etc. If you're already going to do that anyway it's not so much of an issue, but for people who are
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The crux of the issue as far as I see it is that Facebook aren't exactly being open and transparent about the data that they're holding on you, or how it's being used. If you don't know that, there's no tradeoff being made. And in a lot of
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I can just scan the numbers and see the patterns. Column A has much more extreme ranges, lots of 40s and 70s, whereas B is much narrower. So D and E are temperature, and C and F are weights.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Companies like IKEA will probably switch to using 3D printing too, if it becomes that much better.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Wow, what an amazing reading comprehension fail. Here's the text from the article: The story goes that Milo, a famous wrestler in ancient Greece, gained his immense strength by lifting a newborn calf one day when he was a boy, and then lift
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The metrics involved here are specifically OO metrics - inheritance depth, number of children and so on, but there's at least one, Weighted Method Count, which uses cyclomatic complexity as a weighting factor. It's described on page 7 of th
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by anthonyb 15y ago
There are all sorts of possibilities - in the past I've had trouble with motivation when my employer has insisted on doing things in a stupid way for no reason, or when their development methodology boils down to "I don't know what I want..
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I do a similar thing in bash for more normal development - basically a script to run my unit tests, look for OK/Error in the output and print either a couple of bars in green or the error output in red. It runs over and over again in a sepa
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Pot, meet Kettle. You're judging me on the first word of my response, when the rest of it responds to his argument in detail . Here's another response. This time I've quoted what I'm replying to, to save you any more confusion: > Rea
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Why the downvote? It is bullshit. This is the first stage in making yourself an obsolete COBOL developer - just say "I don't have time to keep up with the latest technologies." and twiddle your thumbs for 5 years. Lots of knee-jerk defens
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by anthonyb 15y ago
This is bullshit. I have a full time job, a family and I've written a book in the past two years, and I still have time for side projects. Normally while commuting on the train or in the evenings, but still... Pet projects are a good prox
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The quote on the Mac was actually: "You buy a Mac because you’re embarrassed that you ever used anything else." The assumption there is that using a Mac will make you orders of magnitude more productive as an engineer. Possibly, if y
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I think you completely missed the entire point of the article.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The attrition rate isn't the worst part. The worst part is what's known as the "Dead Sea effect" - all of the people who can leave, do . They're usually the better ones, at which point you're left with all the clueless or unskilled peopl
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Hmm, didn't take long for the griefers to show up. Pick the largest NPC blob, spam it until you die, respawn, lather, rinse, repeat :/
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Seems pretty defensive to me. How does, say, separating out the route and the view declarations help your application? Code like this: config = Configurator() config.add_route('hello', '/hello/{name}') config.add_view(hello_world
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Compare it with Bottle's version though and it doesn't look quite so concise any more: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The point behind the line count is that simpler code on the framework side counts , particularly when the documentation is sketchy or unclear. Less code for the same functionality means that you have less reading to do when learning the fr
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by anthonyb 15y ago
yet :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Do you even really need S3 if you're just serving up static pages? A $5/mo web host or a VPS slice would probably be overkill - you're not hitting a database at all.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Not very likely. Go and have a look at the rest of their Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/thiswebhost https://twitter.com/#!/thiswebhost/status/102087912497221633 https://twitter.com/#!/oscargodson/status/102092891979132929
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I think the point behind that was not about her per se, but that she (as a "techie") was on the red carpet in the first place. In a city like LA I imagine you'd see movie stars or rock stars, and zero techies, whether they're VP of a $60B
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I doubt it. It's possible to be a troll regardless of whether you're a listener or a caller. Rating individual calls might help somewhat, but that's also possible to game, and by the time you've banned someone, it's too late - the call (com
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The way to do that in real life is to have a stack of cards with the same distribution as the dice, ie. 2 3 3 4 4 4 ... Shuffle, turn face down and turn the top one over instead of rolling the die.

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