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by dragonsh 7y ago
Schools are built by good teachers technology and other innovations comes next. Also most schools make mistake like OLPC, giving emphasis on technological advances not on content and teaching. Many schools focus on technology still trying t
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Probably someone from mercurial community also do the same for mercurial. My guess with python api's it will be a much easier job.
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by dragonsh 7y ago
It’s nice to see this based on matplotlib. A picture is worth a thousand words and be able to visualise your machine learning model is nice baked directly in sci-kit. I think Python is pretty under appreciated language. I feel it’s due to f
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by dragonsh 7y ago
This is the results of software patents, do not entertain software and algorithm patents and this will not happen. Hopefully USA can reform to follow Europe and rest of the work in this. Even if the patent is invalidated, it has already cre
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by dragonsh 7y ago
In my view humans built on top of failures as much as on success. I see following things which were propelled by OLPC: 1. No frills cheap laptops like EeePC, I don’t think computer manufacturers would have tried cheap laptop if its not for
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Given the progress both Mariadb and postgresql has made I think you will not go wrong with either. In both you have support for json now which one you chose depends on your use case. Mariadb - If you want easy horizontal scalability with
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by dragonsh 7y ago
No kubernetes will be a bad choice for your use case. But if you learn all the intricacies and manage a behemoth besides your own application it will help in your resume to brag that you are a modern devops and a fashionable one using kuber
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by dragonsh 7y ago
An ethical hacker will bring down the systems. Indeed I believe that whatever security is in place there is a possibility of a hack. So by using ethical hacker you let the whole system die and see if company can recover or continue either w
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by dragonsh 7y ago
In current times given the proliferation of technology in every business and our daily life, it will be hard for any company to say they are not an IT company. But it will require a fundamental change in thinking for many companies to move
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Its a great addition to Memcached. Using it since very early years when setting up java/php based systems to improve performance. This is nice feature. I hope other software can write documentation in satirical form like Memcache. [1]
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by dragonsh 7y ago
In our startup we do all our website and web app mock up in inkscape. Even artwork for our physical banner and posters we do using inkscape, krita [1] and then use scribus [2] to generate print quality pdf's. We are overall very please
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by dragonsh 7y ago
An article put forward by marketing. Not sure why many HNr's like this kind of article. By no stretch Shopify is bigger than eBay, market cap is a game played by investors and this kind of article are used to boost it. If someone is ho
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Have very close friends in Taiwan and among majority (especially the middle aged and older generation) its an accepted fact that the chance Taiwan had to declare itself sovereign state, independent of China has already passed. Most are hopi
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by dragonsh 7y ago
It's not a stretch given majority of those companies are economically dependent on China as China is dependent on them, also some of their major customers are in China. That's the reason Taiwan selected KMT to forge closer ties wi
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China launching it's digital currency – things known so far(technologyreview.com)
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by dragonsh 7y ago
We are exploring using Python data classes and typehints directly. This way can remove all dependencies and rely on standard library. As first step we are exploring marshmallow with data classes like the way we are dealing with jsonschema u
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by dragonsh 7y ago
In our startup we use marshmallow [1] to validate and make REST API type aware. So marshmallow models validates the data types based on validation rules for request/response. In place where we need client to be able to define the valid
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by dragonsh 7y ago
I have tried golang, Java, C++, js and recently rust. I can still confidently say python code is the most readable of them all. Indeed so much so that python style is adopted by swift language and it does look cleaner than others. Obviously
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by dragonsh 7y ago
May be different people have different experience with Python. After c and Perl had been using it for over 15 years and among the languages I have seen Python code is one of the most readable one so far, again subjective as I like sparse an
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by dragonsh 7y ago
I like Python because of zen of python [1]. This fits my brain and had been very helpful. Indeed in 2004 I chose Django instead of Ruby On Rails just because explicit is better than implicit. Overall Python is productive and good. Yes it ha
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by dragonsh 7y ago
No I am not an affiliate of Taiga. In our startup we use self-hosted Taiga. We neither subscribed or paid to Taiga. Their system helped us and served as one example of a beautiful API based app. So as my startup don't pay anything to T
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by dragonsh 7y ago
> people (albeit in quotas) If you know the history of this issue it is based on reinterpretation of Basic Law Hong Kong people asked for limiting legitimate spouses and children of Hong Kong residents to re-unite as a family in Hong Kon
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by dragonsh 7y ago
How Hong Kong can be gateway to liberal values when it itself cannot be liberal enough to reconcile with the fact that everyone in Hong Kong is a Chinese citizen (except few permanent residents) following Chinese nationality law. Unless it
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Yes possible they choose something. We have been using it for quite some time. It also server as an example how to build a nice single page progressive web app for the team. Although we don't use coffeescript, its' nice implementi
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Our startup is one of the happy users of self-hosted Taiga [1] [2], it is much better than a combination of Jira and confluence. It has all the features and much more with both a complete open source and SaaS offering. It supports both &quo
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by dragonsh 7y ago
It will trigger an error to review the code. It still is bit of a trouble to debug async code with sync code. " Note that as a side-effect of this change, Django is now aware of asynchronous event loops and will block you calling code
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by dragonsh 7y ago
Django is a better monolithic framework. But in Python world users will be equally productive with any WSGI or ASGI based framework. With Django 3.0 alpha there is an issue with orm which is still not async, so not sure how mixing async cod
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by dragonsh 7y ago
This is a good tutorial on using spacy with Python. In my application we are leveraging voice recognition in chrome browser. Probably will explore use of spacy for NLU and NLG to built a natural language interface for our application. So fa
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I am pretty familiar with it and how it failed the Hong Kong people, when government worked in the interest of billionaire real estate developers. The house ownership ratio will itself reveal the reality. Singapore learned from Hong Kong bu
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by dragonsh 7y ago
As I said in my earlier comments please read through the declassified documents completely. Britain has no interest in giving democracy at the expense of its economic interests. Even from 1960-1997, Hong Kong has been a cash cow, profit gen

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