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by gtaylor 13y ago
Yeah, it's probably not the best idea. Looks like someone opened a pull request to fix it: https://github.com/hylang/hy/pull/499
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by gtaylor 13y ago
South has worked well for us, but 1.7's built-in migration squashing/rebasing has me excited by itself. I have to run some really hackish custom stuff to do this on South right now.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
We use Django heavily at Pathwright. It does a very good job for us. We're all looking forward to 1.7, as it will be another solid step forward for us. I'm probably going to offend some people with my phrasing, but the Django comm
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've used NewEgg for about 9 years now, and have built several boxes during that span. I did receive some bad RAM once, but they shipped the replacement the same week, and have been really good about refunds in the past. Mistakes happe
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by gtaylor 13y ago
And I am thankful for this! You guys do great work.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Because it's a bit petty and flat out wrong. Many laws exist not for moral reasons, but to keep the whole system running. If we were allowed to murder one another without consequences, society would be vastly different. If we were allo
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Nobody is imposing porn selling on Google.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
On the flipside, a frequently updated browser that is constantly improving is a bit of a moving target. Because of the ease for them to push out updates, vulnerabilities can be fixed and pushed out to the vast majority of users in short ord
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Also, there are plenty of non-US countries that now have legislated in filtering at the ISP level (which the US doesn't mandate on a federal level). This hasn't been updated since the UK adopted their silly filter, but here's
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Pornography is awful stuff. It exploits the way our minds work, and ruins peace and happiness. Is it OK for you to tell someone else what they are allowed to watch? That's the sticking point, and what is being done by Google (and
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by gtaylor 13y ago
That prudish stereotype is a bit over-blown by a smaller (but louder) subset of Americans that really are prudish. I'm in the "bible belt" (southeast US), and even here there's plenty of people who don't get too u
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I wish software companies would stop trying to play moral police like this. It's so entirely subjective, and as you mentioned, moral standards vary wildly. But whatever. I'm sure this is going to keep kids from seeing "graphi
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I don't personally use the OSS drivers, so their status doesn't weigh in on the buying decision at all for me. My 5870 is meant to drive up to six monitors, something the OSS drivers can't do right now (I have three).
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by gtaylor 13y ago
The community drivers are pretty limited if you need to drive more than two monitors or need to work with non-trivial OpenGL applications or games. Neither open source driver has very good power management, either. They both leave a lot to
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've tried to use it to mirror an old Hg repo in git, but ran into some really weird errors with branches in Hg causing vague errors. I couldn't get any help on the mailing list, and I ended up giving up right as the project said
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by gtaylor 13y ago
On a somewhat related (non-mobile) note, I really regret buying my AMD 5870 three years ago. Things have changed quite a bit in that nvidia has done some serious work on their Linux binary drivers, while AMD's has been utterly unimpres
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Indeed. Their application metrics have been incredibly useful for us at Pathwright. It's nice always knowing what views are slow, which comprise the bulk of our CPU time. The SQL time breakdowns are handy to. You can, of course, do all
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by gtaylor 13y ago
You can get some decent beef with the new C3 instances, but you have to pay a good chunk of the year upfront (called a reservation) to get the sane rates. If you do that, the prices are OK. But you don't come to AWS just for EC2 instan
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by gtaylor 13y ago
As someone who still stinks at basic layouts, the extra examples here are really helpful: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#examples It's good to see how things are done after all of the bells and whistles
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by gtaylor 13y ago
As far as target audience for this, $183/month is a pittance. From their product site: "Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I found it pretty ease to peruse. The "awesomeness" is pretty subjective (see other comments on this post), so I appreciate them not getting too opinionated.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
As a backend-oriented dev, I find value in posts like this, as it's not my core competency. I like to keep an eye on what's going on outside of backend land, even if I only go there periodically.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I can't help but notice you replying to basically everyone with how wrong they are without providing specifics. Can you either provide some substance or find something more constructive to do?
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Isn't there a way to make a relocatable virtualenv? I'd be inclined to just do that, compress it up and distribute the entire virtualenv (our deploy environment is homogenous to the extreme).
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I hadn't seen sqlx before, but this looks super convenient. Thanks for the tip!
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Given that this is a link to a personal blog, you've got to get your expectations set correctly leading up to reading a post titled "Christ, I hate Blackboard". You have to go into it knowing that you are about to read a rant
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Setting aside the validity debate for a moment, this is unsettling to me (as a US citizen) in that we all know the US has the ability to use their monitoring data to do this very thing (and much more), so should they choose. The big differe
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by gtaylor 13y ago
A healthy sense of skepticism is helpful in cases like this (both ways). Do you have a source to share to show how this specific instance was a prank? I wouldn't put anything past the Ukranian government now, and they could have just a
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by gtaylor 13y ago
It's possible, but without any kind of answer we are all just guessing.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Apparently, there isn't very much documentation/open accounting, and they aren't willing to discuss options to reduce the bill. That doesn't inspire confidence. It is a lot of work for a small team to itemize and pu

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