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by irahul 14y ago
EDIT: I upvoted the post, and now it's no longer in gray. So, it was just one downvote. Why the downvotes? Parent post is just pointing out sites which he/she knows to be using Python and/or Django, some of which are incorrect(Gmail?), or a
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by irahul 14y ago
> ... and when we look at the um... "old" fart Java... their roster is even more impressive: LinkedIN, Google, NetFlix, Amazon. Sure it is. But I won't use Java for web stuff. I might use it for some background services, but for regular
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by irahul 14y ago
From a Django, Rails, Flask, Sinatra guy; Rails is going to be fun if you leave your pre-conceived notions at the door. Rails is not Django, and Ruby is not Python, and any attempts to make it behave like how it's not supposed to behave wil
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by irahul 14y ago
At 18m visitors, I don't think your choice of Django or Rails matters. DB tends to be the limit for even the normal applications, let alone something with that kind of volume.
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How One Flawed Study Spawned a Decade of Lies(forbes.com)
1 points by irahul 14y ago|0 comments
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by irahul 14y ago
> I never use an IDE to edit Java, What do you use? I find it extremely painful to write Java in Vim, even though I have been using Vim for quite some time and am very comfortable using it. Text based completions and re-factoring doesn'
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by irahul 14y ago
> The very best IDEs in the hands of a skilled programmer should produce code better than a similarly skilled programmer who insists on using a dumb text editor. The very best IDEs produce code at the skill level of dumbest programmers
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The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club(steve-yegge.blogspot.in)
1 points by irahul 14y ago|2 comments
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by irahul 14y ago
If you want to access the blocked sites, the surest way is to get a free mini instance with amazon(or use an existing one), and use ssh dynamic port forwarding for you browsing. ssh -D 8080 -i your_amazon_key.pem username@ec2-instance
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by irahul 14y ago
So you can serve a production site using Python's wsgiref and SimpleHTTPServer? Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for
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by irahul 14y ago
> If you did it 50 or 30 years ago, as Lisp has, you do get to define what it is. And isn't the lisp definitions of repl the same as mine?
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by irahul 14y ago
>>How do you modify small chunks of templates and then check how it looks in the browser without leaving your editor > https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup hiccup is just another approach to do html generation. This style of
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by irahul 14y ago
> That "interactive development" is how all lisp coder work, and is probably what the OP was referring to. I write Clojure and Racket, and no, I don't work that way. How do you modify small chunks of templates and then check how it look
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by irahul 14y ago
> the irb shell is not a real REPL. What is a true repl? loop { puts eval(gets) } is a REPL. Just because you don't like what irb has to offer doesn't mean you get to define what REPL is. > You can also do stuff like retrie
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by irahul 14y ago
My bad. I was talking about this alternate implementation: https://gist.github.com/2688055
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by irahul 14y ago
> I'm sad to say I really don't understand most of whats going on in this code.. Don't be:) Most of the dark voodoo there is not used(macros, implicit self), some of it is used only by toolmakers(finding request, changing traceback mess
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by irahul 14y ago
Not so useful when you have shared pool. a = 10 b = 10 show(a) Or a = 'test' b = 'test' show(a)
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by irahul 14y ago
> He is out there on github writing flames, arguing with people that have a github account completely clean and never wrote possibly a line of code at all. Exposing himself in the process to insults and so forth. I never understood why
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by irahul 14y ago
> "how many golf balls can you get in a double decker bus" > My answer to the first was "I dont know and i'm not going to try and work it out because 1) i dont have enough information and 2) its not relevant to this position. The
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by irahul 14y ago
My bad. I didn't know IE has fixed most of the warts.
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by irahul 14y ago
> I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I think he's being rude and arrogant. Sure. Wearing what he feels like wearing, something which isn't indecent and what he has been wearing on a regular basis for a long, long time is b
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by irahul 14y ago
> If I were interested in buying something from your web site, I would be less likely to bounce somewhere else as a result of seeing an uncentered container than I would as a result of being told to upgrade my browser. Depending on the
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by irahul 14y ago
> Hint: you're probably missing a doctype declaration. > If you're thinking of blocking multiple versions of a browser because of your own lack of knowledge then perhaps you're in the wrong industry. May be the doctype will fix it f
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by irahul 14y ago
The arbitrary restriction(not browsers; explicitly placed by the developers) is there to ensure people don't see a broken version. I don't know about the recent IE versions, but earlier versions needed won't center align when I say `margin:
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by irahul 14y ago
> Personally, I _like_ PHP because, at the core, it is a collection of utility functions to write webapps quickly. Here's a small set of those function that I would like to see somewhere else (like in Python for example): As another com
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by irahul 14y ago
> we can view Common Lisp, Racket, and Clojure---the three main forms of LISP seen in "the real world"---as three separate languages that, like Python and Ruby, haven't fragmented As far as Common lisp and Scheme go, there are things ou
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by irahul 14y ago
> But I don't think so. One of the reasons for this is that Jakob Moss removed his web2py bashing from this thread. Didn't edit - removed it: https://www.quora.com/Is-web2py-a-good-Python-web-framework/... . What did he remove? https
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by irahul 15y ago
> Maybe they should able to do that to anybody. Nobody wants to work for racists, assholes, or sexists. I don't follow. It's not that the employers are racist, sexists or assholes(they might or might not be; that's not what that matters
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by irahul 15y ago
> Neat followup: ask the companies who declined for a little insight. The main reason you aren't going to be getting any answers is anything the companies say can be extrapolated to prove discrimination. No one is going to invite lawsui
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by irahul 15y ago
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