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by ch0wn 14y ago
I hope they will continue to coexist. Competition is great. I personally prefer Flask, mostly because I built my own little framework on top of Werkzeug before and know the code quite well. Also, I'm not a huge fan of the single-file approa
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by ch0wn 14y ago
It's not unthinkable that the total energy consumption will shrink. Take Germany for an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany
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by ch0wn 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3644016
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by ch0wn 14y ago
I agree. I came back after reading to upvote it, because I really enjoy the ongoing discussion, but found it removed.
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Euphony - A MIDI visualizer in WebGL(qiao.github.com)
10 points by ch0wn 14y ago|3 comments
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by ch0wn 14y ago
I'm not an expert in CPython's internals either, but import lock does not need to equal global interpreter lock. I do agree though, that this behavior isn't intuitive at all.
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by ch0wn 14y ago
I got one of these. The display is really good and the watch is surprisingly robust. Updates on the screen happen really slowly, so I guess it's a real E-Ink display.
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by ch0wn 14y ago
There is this old rant about the PSD file format, which I was instantly reminded of when reading the article: http://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoade...
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by ch0wn 14y ago
It's not just Bing results. They use their results instead of running their own content crawlers, but they use some own algorithms for ranking, spam filtering and so on. Also, Bing is not their only source, if I'm not mistaken.
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by ch0wn 14y ago
Totally! If Google would actually dump Java in favor of C#, there would be the huge problem of all the apps that need to be ported. With a tool that has already proven to be capable of doing that, the required efforts are already massively
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by ch0wn 15y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=django+mailing+list The top three links give you everything you need to get help.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Sorry for being unclear. For the actual transactions, there is a TAN required, but for sniffing around your transactions, seeing all your bank account information and so on, all you need to log in as the 6-letter password.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
My bank upgraded from a 4-digit pin code authentication to a 6-letter ([a-zA-Z0-9]{4,6}) system. About legacy databases ... Naturally, I complained and they told me it wasn't that big of a deal, because the actual transactions were protecte
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by ch0wn 15y ago
That was my first thought as well. Could be a good explanation for their sudden Linux engagement.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Very true. Dual-boot has always been a great barrier to overcome for me. Maybe I can force myself into installing Linux twice for that reason.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Why would Google - or any other company for that matter - spend time and money on something as complicated and error-prone like that? They would never be able to sell it to anyone and it could ruin their brand substantially if it ever came
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by ch0wn 15y ago
I'm familiar with building and hosting deps in general. The problem I had was that I tried to build debs for every single dependency which turned out to be really hard to automate. That's why I'm really interested in seeing an approach with
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by ch0wn 15y ago
> [...] you can knock out two birds with one stone by just using pythonbrew Would you recommend using pythonbrew on a production system?
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by ch0wn 15y ago
> The trick is to build a debian package (but it can be done using RPMs just as well) with the application and the whole virtualenv inside. I would love to read an article describing some best practices for doing that. I tried it once a
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Great analogy. I never got the arguments telling you it's so simple to change little things. When is this ever useful except for when you just get started? It only takes a couple of hours until you leave the zone where small modifications a
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by ch0wn 15y ago
While I'm still with Ubuntu and quite happy with it, Arch Linux and Linux Mint seem to get a lot of traction recently.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
This is exactly what my bank requires. Worst part after I told them that this is irresponsible: A few years ago they only allowed a 5-digit PIN for their web login .
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Politics in Germany are really interesting these days. Even if the Pirate Party should fail in the end, the discussion it brought up is already very beneficial.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
I can't wait for all the applications that are going to be possible with this technology. I haven't been that excited for a particular browser feature in a long time!
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Whenever I come across a site that refuses to let me sign up with a secure password, I either leave right away or send them a short mail first. There were times where I had to rely on password managers too, though. Banking sites are one com
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Or even better: rsync tunneled over ssh.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
The normal user will still be able to use them for free. Google, however, can't use the uploaded data for free, but has to invest quite massively in order to prepare it for consumption.
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Depends on what you define as being productive. I personally perceive learning as something productive.
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The first few weeks of Papermill, an Instapaper client for Android(papermill.me)
8 points by ch0wn 15y ago|3 comments
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by ch0wn 15y ago
Is there any resource explaining how flagging works on HN? To me it has always been a black box. Is there a manual reviewing process involved or is it all automatic?

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