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by gtaylor 14y ago
This! I'm so glad to hear this straight from one of the maintainers. Python 3.3 is the first version of Python 3 that has made me stop and say, "Wow, this really makes my life easier/better". The sooner we as an ecosystem get moving on, the
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by gtaylor 14y ago
They've been gradually removing support for older Python 2.x with each release, so it's likely the same will happen with all of Python 2 in the coming years. But that's probably a good thing. Python needs to keep improving, and Python 3 is
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by gtaylor 14y ago
From what little of their reporting that I've watched, Al Jazeera has been of very high quality, and their "third party" point of view has been very refreshing. Best of luck to them!
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by gtaylor 14y ago
There's a great reason. Browsers are advancing, and it makes sense to gradually take advantage of features as most of the mainstream browsers start supporting them. The hacks required to make older versions behave tend to pile up with time,
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by gtaylor 14y ago
> The pros and cons can change, some of them, like availability of features, support,... don't. But they do change. What features are important depends on your application. The amount of support you need, and by who, changes as well. Wh
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Sure, Apple spent billions of dollars acquiring companies and developing Apple Maps just so Google would come in and plunk theirs down...
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by gtaylor 14y ago
You can always still use CloudFront from Rackspace. It isn't bound to Amazon EC2 VMs in any way. You get much better transfer speeds when you're interacting from within EC2, but even outside it's not too bad.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
This is a really common oversight. The thing that posts like this fail to address is whether, in their theoretical application's case, downtime is a ballbreaker, or a minor annoyance. There is no one-size-fits-all or simple, formulaic solut
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I don't intend to sound harsh, but comparisons like these are absolutely useless. It's simply incorrect to make blanket statements on the pros and cons for each service without some context. The benefits and drawbacks are going to change de
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I'm really looking forward to using this, but very much dreading getting us migrated over to it. I expect we'll be spending some quality time with south, and lots of mucking with our relational fields.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
What? Did you read any of what was written? Point-by-point breakdown for you: > You want a rapid development platform No, we want low-maintenance infrastructure. > that doubles as a production system It is a production system. It
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by gtaylor 14y ago
This is a much more succinct explanation than my own. This is the point I was trying to make. Even given that I have a good bit of sysadmin skills, I am needed more as a software developer right now in the early goings. I expect, as you've
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by gtaylor 14y ago
> Can you specifically give me examples of why using a cloud provider is better for a startup than, for example, using a couple desktops in your garage? For us (a small three-man team), the full portfolio of AWS services lets us shove r
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I'm looking forward to you looking forward to competing :) Funny coincidence, though I doubt anyone would blame you in either case. Glad to see competition heating up. We all win from this.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
As difficult a time as EBS is having, it's good to see some other alternatives pop up. This will definitely put the pressure on the EBS team to clean up, if they weren't already under immense pressure to do so. A word of caution, though: Ra
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Does anyone know if this really is just one AZ? Seems like an awful lot of larger sites are down. I'd expect at least some of them to be multi-AZ by now.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I used to get really irritated with whatever phone manufacturer I bought from was holding out on updates. However, we now have enough data to have a good idea of the tendencies with each carrier/manufacturer. For example, if you choose Veri
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by gtaylor 14y ago
As someone who spends close to 40 hours a week hammering out Python, I can't agree with your friend on much of this. Particularly the "standard lib only" philosophy. Python has such a huge ecosystem of external modules that you're completel
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Thanks for providing these, they are a great service to your users. Even if we end up going with something custom (unlikely, these look just fine), nothing beats examples provided straight from the maintainers. Keep on keeping on!
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by gtaylor 14y ago
It's good to see the education space getting so much attention, it sorely needs it! Within ten years, I think we'll see a big shift towards online learning, or at least a much heavier lean on it. Shameless plug, but for those looking for mo
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by gtaylor 14y ago
If you sign up for a reservation, you seem to be able to send support a message in order to have them cancel it so that you can change to the new hotness. We had to do this for our three-year reservations when high usage reservations came o
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by gtaylor 14y ago
pylibmc may be fine, as well.
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by gtaylor 14y ago
If you sync your MacOS machine to the equivalent Google services (Calendar, Mail, Contacts, Music, Photos), you can then sync your Android to the same things. This is what I do, and have been super happy with the arrangement. Though, you ar
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by gtaylor 14y ago
For what? And how is it working out for you?
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VM export for EC2(aws.typepad.com)
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Pathwright Launches Platform To Let Anyone Create, Sell Branded Online Courses(techcrunch.com)
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by gtaylor 14y ago
I had no clue that Postgres supported LISTEN and NOTIFY. Granted, it's a new addition, but this is really slick: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-listen.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-notify.html
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by gtaylor 14y ago
Yeah, that's a pretty small sample size :) I'll gladly pay up for a good game on my Android, and do so every month when I get bored of whatever I have been playing.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
Congrats, Dodd. It's been a good few months for Co-Work.
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by gtaylor 15y ago
I hear Yahoo is getting pretty evil these days. Maybe they'd do the dirty deeds for us.

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