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by bryanh 15y ago
The code: https://github.com/bryanhelmig/jazzchanges Built with Django, SASS, Twitter Bootstrap, font from http://musescore.org/ and christmas whiskey. http://jazzchanges.net/ may work for you as well, currently waiting for DNS to pro
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Show HN: My Xmas project, open source jazz changes(bryanh.webfactional.com)
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by bryanh 15y ago
Indeed. Won startup weekend and have a cofounder going FT. http://zapier.com/
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by bryanh 15y ago
I checked, PyPy used about 30mb, while vanilla Python was right around 3-4mb. So an order of magnitude.
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by bryanh 15y ago
This is a massive boon to a lot of my apps, especially ones with low traffic but long lived processes (I'm looking at you Django & Rails). Webfaction is definitely one of the better hosts out there, the perfect middle ground between $4/
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by bryanh 15y ago
Just in case you want something more full featured (think IP, COOKIES, POST, GZIP, STREAMS, etc...) check out http://httpbin.org/ from the same guy that brought sanity to http requests in Python: http://kennethreitz.com/
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by bryanh 15y ago
Running the same scripts (mostly, except my Apache log lines were a bit longer) on a 1.1GB file resulted in: python 2.7.1: list - 15.7s / generator - 14.1s pypy 1.7: list - 7.5s / generator - 7.7s On a MBP 2.2ghz i7 w/8gb. Fun!
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by bryanh 15y ago
Facebook and Google (or YouTube) might be the only other internet powerhouses with enough traction to successfully pull something like this off. I hope they take a stand. It is an awful bill with awful consequences.
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by bryanh 15y ago
An excellent video on the phenomenon from the "Engineer Guy" series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Ri_HhziI0 And just in case you feel like killing about 20 minutes of your day, check out the rest of his videos. They are excellent.
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by bryanh 15y ago
Wealth does not necessarily correlate with intelligence.
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by bryanh 15y ago
Private browsing mode, available in all leading browsers. Wouldn't that effectively hide all traces of any browsing history locally, be it nefarious or otherwise? That kind of response begs the question, if you have to hide it, is it wrong
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by bryanh 15y ago
I think you make a good point, there are definitely complex situations that call for Java-esque and enterprisey tools. However, having a simple solution often trumps complex solutions when you just want to "get things done"™. I suppose it b
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by bryanh 15y ago
Sure, its okay. But compared to the ease of JSON...
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by bryanh 15y ago
All API's are not made equal. Some may not be around in 2 years, some 10 years, but in the time you are forced to work with some of them, you might lose your sanity. I'm working with pretty much every type of API through my startup Zapier.c
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by bryanh 15y ago
We're doing a similar startup ( https://zapier.com/ ) and would love to use pubsubhubbub, but most API's don't stream, so we resort to polling... again. It's unfortunate, and something we'd like to work towards changing.
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by bryanh 15y ago
Two annoying things I noticed: * Spelling correction in commit messages. * Option-Z commits instead of undos when entering a commit message.
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by bryanh 15y ago
I'm a big fan of the GitHub for Mac GUI, I still have to drop down to the terminal to handle a few specific commands (especially when the GUI gets stuck in a merge conflict loop), but it helps me quickly handle stuff and thumb through local
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by bryanh 15y ago
Yes, about 2-3% above $20, the stated IPO.
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by bryanh 15y ago
This is a good point. In my case, it was as simple as a PayPal button with an extra variable to track a product ID... pretty mundane. However, a feature to "check" (scrape) their button and ensure it is proper is probably in order.
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by bryanh 15y ago
"If my users are inconvenienced, it is my fault, always." Good quote. I had a customer become irate with me before over untracked sales in my digital delivery product. I knew that the error stemmed from their web designer using their own bu
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by bryanh 15y ago
Oh jeez, that is annoying. My apologies. Here is the better answer: http://pastebin.com/rEZhXv1z
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by bryanh 15y ago
Good discussion here: http://forrst.com/posts/Backbone_js_Spine_or_other-LZy
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by bryanh 15y ago
In all honestly, it would be by removing virtually all business interests from politics. No corporate donations, no PAC's, extremely reduced effectiveness of lobbyists, etc... Good luck getting politicians to bite the hand that feeds them.
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by bryanh 15y ago
I am very happy to see Mailgun work towards sane API's for their email offering. I'm in the process of building an internal API for external IMAP accounts for http://snapier.com/ and it has been, well, rather exasperating... I can only im
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by bryanh 15y ago
One use case is a browser in another display. Nice to CTRL-S and just glance.
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by bryanh 15y ago
Perhaps taken in context one might have read it as "if you describe your sole value as the ability to write code, someone is already working on a way to get you fired".
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by bryanh 15y ago
Just about everyone and their mom hopped onto the cloud bandwagon there for good time, but with this steady onslaught of praise for bare-metal hosting, maybe this will reverse a little. It seems like the only thing cloud really provides bes
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by bryanh 15y ago
Excellent, I have high hopes for this being a resource for real world Django. You guys have my eyes and ears!
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by bryanh 15y ago
I'm so glad Alan is back and doing these again, after the book came out he kind of dropped off the edge of the Earth. Definitely one of the few sites I checked regularly.
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by bryanh 15y ago
I'm not sure it would be that easy. During turns and such, it may send the balloon fluttering in odd or unreadable directions. During such an emergency, its highly unlikely that the forces acting will be so consistant.

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