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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> Even if they're free they still cost your time. This. Free books are very far from being actually free. Reading a book can take anywhere between 15 to 50 hours or more. So the cost of the book itself often is a small shar
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by gedrap 10y ago
I checked the link from the archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140701160526/http://resrc.io/ and from what I can see, it looks like the main issue (vetting of the links) wasn't really solved
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by gedrap 10y ago
Totally agree with you on this point (not the OP's link specifically, but the awesome-x trend in general), too many of them add craploads of crappy links just for the sake of a high number. Maybe it's just that my learning style i
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by gedrap 10y ago
Bored Panda | UI/UX Designer | Vilnius, Lithuania | ONSITE Bored Panda ( http://www.boredpanda.com/ ) is a leading art, design and photography community for creative people. Our submission platform helps artists and cr
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by gedrap 10y ago
Yeah, but being a powerhouse doesn't mean they don't introduce silly bugs. They do. E.g. on Facebook, a year or two ago, you could use dev tools and change hidden input field's value when writing a post and post to anyone&#x2
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by gedrap 10y ago
A benefit (usually) of S3 is that since it's operating over HTTP, you don't need any additional things to make the files accessible. In case of EFS you would need a HTTP server running. Maintaining a HTTP work is extra work, extra
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Racism is spreading like arsenic in the water supply(theguardian.com)
5 points by gedrap 10y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
In some cases you are right. If all you need is a simple landing page, with a simple form or two, then by all means - do it. However, if your application is more complex, you should be careful. Chances are, you will add your own layers. And
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by gedrap 10y ago
Comments on this thread gave me loads of food for thoughts and I missed the thread to comment on it, so decided to write a short post: https://medium.com/@GedRap/when-working-with-other-people-yo... tldr: We would like
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When working with other people, you will deal with battles(medium.com)
2 points by gedrap 10y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
I don't think Facebook is wrong. It just so happens that video works better on Facebook (and probably other social networks), where the stream of information is huge. People, most of them anyway, suck at describing things. Most of them
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The Inner Workings of a Subscription Box Company(reddit.com)
2 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
I don't really get the point. So at the moment, today, tech industry isn't dead / crashed . So we can find people who said that it will and point at them that they were wrong. And if the crash comes tomorrow, are we going to
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Why building a data science team is deceptively hard (2014)(codecademy.com)
4 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining (2012)(highlyscalable.wordpress.com)
2 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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How are integrated circuits fabricated?(electronics.stackexchange.com)
2 points by gedrap 10y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> shame them if they chose not to It's not unethical to potentially harm your own business. I'd say it's just bad for the business, that's all. Offline companies occasionally run silly/trying to be too cl
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by gedrap 10y ago
Exactly. >>> Obviously no. Know your audience. But on a regular site? Not doing so is literally leaving money on the table. And that's why they are ubiquitous. This. Most (all?) of the mentioned ones are run by companies, not
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The big gamble: the dangerous world of British betting shops(theguardian.com)
6 points by gedrap 10y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
Basics of RegEx, in my opinion, is a very subjective thing. Personally, I'd interpret it as 'able to write a simple expression with a few minutes of googling', where simple expression is something like 'up to 5 lower cas
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> I have 10 years experience with references. I have code that I've built, deployed to production still running today. I have cultivated my own clients, gathered requirements and built something that delivers business value.
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by gedrap 10y ago
This sounds more like an issue with the application design rather than Flask, Python, or even Web development. How easy or hard it is to test software is often a good indicator of the quality of the underlying design - if it is too hard to
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by gedrap 10y ago
I think it's just that even though the company formally is called Alphabet now, people still call it Google and that's fine. Not like Alphabet/Google is working hard on rebranding or something.
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by gedrap 10y ago
What exactly do you mean by 'errors were only triggered on runtime'?
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by gedrap 10y ago
Yeah, forgot to mention it when writing :)
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by gedrap 10y ago
But does it really matter now that Flask is so popular? Probably not :)
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by gedrap 10y ago
One tip if you are about to write your first large (well, larger than 500 lines of code) Flask application: check some example applications for ideas of separation/architecture and some popular modules. The minimalist nature of Flask,
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by gedrap 10y ago
Why is it a big deal? It's been sitting for three years because it was just working and given it's minimal nature, there were not many things that should be changed. So not much point to make a release.
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> Call me a skeptic but as if they had lower latency and higher resolution. $80k is a tiny budget for the military, and consumer displays and graphics hardware are the state-of-the-art, not military ones. Any argument for this st
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by gedrap 10y ago
One of the cases was banning of michaelochurch ( https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/ ), who was heavily criticizing YC, Paul Graham, and VCs in general and was relatively popular, banned for swearing or something like tha

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