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by gtaylor 12y ago
As a sysadmin, I'll take systemd units over SysV init scripts any day. They tend to be shorter, more simple to read, and I don't have to worry about the race conditions or services not restarting correctly due to varying daemoniza
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by gtaylor 12y ago
To be fair, Upstart was pretty awful in the early goings. It seems to be a lot more reliable and predictable now, but that's a fairly recent development for us (when we upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).
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by gtaylor 12y ago
I was pretty stoked to be able to buy two Nexus 5's for my wife and I, all for about the same price as a single iPhone. That was a huge deal to me. Got a premium phone at an affordable price. Spent the difference ($600) on other, more
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Regardless of what ends up happening with the most popular distributions, there will always be another distro that will stick with something different or more antiquated for you to choose. You can even do it all yourself with something like
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by gtaylor 12y ago
I like mine, but it's time for a refresh. A better camera, a little more GPS accuracy and I'd be all set.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Shameless plug for python-colormath, which has been cooking since about 2008: http://python-colormath.readthedocs.org/ Has a lot of the same conversions/comparisons/color spaces, excellent test coverage, and in my
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Was thinking the same thing. Especially with financial charts, it saves a lot of time eyeballing and guessing. Sure, you can look at the data source for the raw values, but I'd rather just hover my mouse over the points.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
I gladly pay for MLB.tv. The blackouts are annoying, but you can circumvent them easily if you so desire.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> user friendliness, developer friendliness, and maintainability are all about using the best tools for the job Definitely. The most unfortunate part of this is that people who are newer to the ecosystem won't really know where to g
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by gtaylor 12y ago
It's a shame that Python's time/date stuff is so wonky. I see stuff like dateutils and arrow and just wish I didn't have to go elsewhere for such core functionality. Not that it's a big deal to loop in external depe
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> Pricing is a big part of domains for me and AWS pricing seems a bit high to me I suspect this is because of their partnership with Gandi to make this happen. But really, we're only talking a few bucks either way. If you are using
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by gtaylor 12y ago
I sure hope so. You've got to figure that they'd undercut the ever living crap out of the other CAs, too.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
The management panel is SUPER clunky, though. I don't have to mess with my domains often, but when I do, I like it to be a pleasant experience.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Though, I think we're starting to see a lot more crossovers appear in the US (as opposed to full-sized SUVs). A crossover doesn't imply off-roading prowess, as one of the common characteristics of a crossover is being built on a
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> If these events can be prevented without the chance of any human using the collected data for any other purpose and the data only being stored for a very short period of time, then I'd have to say I'm on the side of the N
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> One action requires you to get out a credit card and then later do more work to get a refund No, it doesn't. Hit Buy, open the app. Don't like it? Open Play store, hit Refund within 15 minutes of purchase. Done. > No free
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> Funny how the AWS status page still has a green tick (and a small discrete (i)) even though there's a confirmed problem. This really irritates me to no end. I imagine it's done to keep their numbers looking good, or because s
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by gtaylor 12y ago
This whole comment is pretty silly and trollbaity, so I'll only bother addressing what I think was your primary snark. > wait wait wait. you JUST said you were willing to shell out for a quality game upfront. After downloading it fr
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by gtaylor 12y ago
This analogy really isn't useful at all. You aren't ever going to use 100% of every tool your site is built on, and there's no shame in that. If you don't end up using everything that Django does, no big deal. There are
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by gtaylor 12y ago
As a fellow developer at a software company, I totally get where you are coming from, and can see the challenge this presents. It could absolutely require a change of direction for your company. As a consumer, I really don't like being
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by gtaylor 12y ago
I wasn't making a statement about human intervention at all. One minute it was doing well on the front page, the next minute it was gone. I noticed that something disappeared/yanked/punted/hid it. I guess this sort of pr
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by gtaylor 12y ago
It can be used as the main backend for an API just fine. It's also very easy to override just about every piece of what DRF offers. This is pure, unsubstantiated, subjective FUD. Use the tool that you are most comfortable with, change
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Wish this wouldn't have been yanked off the front page!
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Never mind the price fixing, illegal hiring treaties, misuse of patents to stifle competition, the use of third world labor in terrible conditions, and more... Again, they all suck. Trying to paint one as better than the other is pretty sil
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by gtaylor 12y ago
Nobody here is denying that they've done bad things, but name a public tech giant that hasn't done stupid/bad things. They all suck. They answer to profit, first and foremost. They're going to bend rules and push the lim
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by gtaylor 12y ago
This article is so bitter and dismissive of Microsoft that I have a hard time even taking it seriously. "Nadella begins at the altar of innovation, a word that at Microsoft has traditionally meant stealing technology. Of course he is
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AWS CloudWatch adds Log collection/analyzing(docs.aws.amazon.com)
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by gtaylor 12y ago
This has been beaten to death on HN repeatedly, so searching for previous Dart articles will tell you a lot. To sum it up, right now it compiles to JS, but it could eventually be integrated into Chrome proper, and eventually other browsers.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
wow, I was expecting to hear "We couldn't do much to remove the caches from the equation", but it looks like you guys put a lot of work into doing what you could. Excellent work, thanks for doing a quality job on this.
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by gtaylor 12y ago
> It may cost a bit more to run a fully secure CA, and that would be reflected in the cost of a certificate from those that remain, but that'd be a price that everyone should be willing to pay. I don't know, this could really d

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