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by gtaylor 13y ago
Am I crazy in thinking that there's zero chance Github would pay a "ransom"? Seems like they'd just work with their vendors/providers and mitigate it to avoid setting that precedent (making them even more vulnerable
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by gtaylor 13y ago
At the same token, having frontend JS devs that don't have much experience in writing backends can leave you with a mess to clean up or completely re-write in the future. I think this "benefit" of using the same language for
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I think it's a noble effort, but I'd be strongly concerned with the ease of use/digestion/maintainability of something that strives to cover most major cloud APIs. This stuff moves fast , and I can't imagine having
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by gtaylor 13y ago
You're right, maybe they shouldn't do anything at all and just accept the status quo. Comments like this just boil my blood. Get off your tail, stop being apathetic, be a part of the solution.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> Part of his complaint, though he didn't state it, is that it's just too damn hard to get the elected officials to ACTUALLY REPRESENT the people who they SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENT. And I think that's a fair criticism of our go
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I was wondering that, too. Seems like he'd be better served contributing to mod_wsgi if he's got the itch to play again. It's going to be a whole lot of work to catch up again.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Stop whining. Call and write your representative, be a part of the solution. We know it's bad, we know the going will be tough. We need to get off our collective asses and put the pressure on to fix it instead of ranting and perpetuati
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Ditto for Python (int 0 at least).
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> On the one hand: really fucking cool. I just don't see how this could be considered "cool". There are plenty of other marvels of modern computing that aren't so sinister. I think a better word for this is "scar
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've had super spotty luck with DO, and the support hasn't been great. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for reliability and good support. Also, my Linodes seem to have much more consistent CPU performance. With DO it
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by gtaylor 13y ago
As a fellow Linode user, I find this to be a pretty silly comment. This will save some customers a little bit of money and provide some storage breathing room. It's an important latest step to firm up their offerings, and I commend the
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I'm sure some of the smartest people in the world would have no trouble finding other better uses of their time. Being afraid of what these guys would do if they went private is a boogeyman type argument, just like this scary "ter
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I find "why are we only now getting upset" remarks to be as silly as the "what are you hiding?" ones. The reason there was zero support/interest in that the essay is that it failed to hit close to home to the genera
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've been wanting to try them. Does this security breach have any implications for the US data center, or was this pretty localized to the European arm?
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I thought we were talking about compressing swap space? That's not really DDR-anything, it's slow-as-a-dog, last resort type stuff. Depending on the compression algorithm, compression level, and a number of other factors, this cou
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Looks neat, but some of these animations run pretty slow on my i7 running Chromium on Linux. I've got an Radeon 5870 with proprietary drivers, and I understand that Chromium's acceleration situation is weird, but I guess I was dis
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by gtaylor 13y ago
The downvotes have already spoken to this to some extent, but who cares? My Macbook Pro is slow enough in general running OS X, and especially so when RAM gets tight. I'm not sure I'd want to add this additional overhead. I see th
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> If you are a Django developer, by all means leverage advice such as this. If you are not, consider looking to alternatives that meet your performance target out of the box. Before you do any of this, consider what your performance need
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Until they get caught again, potentially facing an even bigger crapstorm.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Disclaimer: This is not directed at disposition in particular, it's more of a general observation. > I'm not trying to be a negative nancy, nor saying stop making noise, just that it's been going on for 12+ years (if not l
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by gtaylor 13y ago
One of the reasons we like it is that it IS a LOT easier than rolling our own at our current low-manpower state. It is MORE convenient for us. We end up with a bunch of infrastructure that for the most part runs, updates itself, scales itse
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by gtaylor 13y ago
As an addendum for everyone else, the ET team has been super helpful, and is much more active in their support forums than most of the other AWS teams. These guys seem eager to earn your business, and have iterated quickly. Big thanks goes
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I don't know how I managed to miss that, but thanks for pointing this out. The bitrate and framerate settings plus this have us sitting pretty for using Elastic Transcoder now. Exciting stuff!
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by gtaylor 13y ago
The big thing that's tripping us up with using Elastic Transcoder is that there's no way to see how much billed time each encoding job took. We factor our encoding time in to what we bill our customers. They've been iterating
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I'm working on a personal project that uses Python for most of the page rendering and Go for the heavy lifting (receiving a large stream of data that I have to process quickly and efficiently). The ecosystem has a long way to go (compa
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I've seen it growing in popularity firsthand. The projects I'm involved with have seen large increases in contributors, mailing list activity, traffic on Github, downloads on PyPi over the last four or five years. PyAtl and some o
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by gtaylor 13y ago
Good catch, I had no idea. Glad to see this!
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I wish the admin started as an external project and stayed that way (for the sake of getting some love and attention). But of course, then we wouldn't be able to show shiny tutorial videos and people wouldn't get it automagically.
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by gtaylor 13y ago
I'd be pretty miffed if they did this. You need only look at the comments contrib to see an example of something that was OK'ish when it was incorporated, but has languished since then. Now I question the need to even have it in c
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by gtaylor 13y ago
> I guess what I'm trying to ask is, what is holding Django back? Why do you think it's being held back? I'm just not seeing the barriers in using newer tech. We stay pretty cutting edge, and haven't had any issues do

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