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by j4mie 13y ago
The Brighton to London trip is just over 50 minutes on the fastest currently available route, which has two stops (East Croydon and Clapham Junction). The BBC article linked in another comment [1] mentions that the train used to make this v
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by j4mie 13y ago
Similar idea, same tech, more mature (but more complex?): https://github.com/globocom/thumbor
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Is Unicode Safe?(jefftk.com)
7 points by j4mie 13y ago|0 comments
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by j4mie 13y ago
I'm not a Rubyist, but if I'm reading the section of the README that describes the design [1] correctly, the closest Python equivalent (architecturally speaking) is Waitress [2]. [1] https://github.com/puma/pu
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Logstash joins Elasticsearch(elasticsearch.com)
242 points by j4mie 13y ago|57 comments
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by j4mie 13y ago
And here are the docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/
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by j4mie 13y ago
It would be nice if GitHub added better support for column-oriented data in diffs, too. This article shows how it could work, with an example implementation in a fork of GitLab: http://theodi.org/blog/adapting-git-simpl
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Google Latitude retired(google.com)
2 points by j4mie 13y ago|0 comments
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by j4mie 13y ago
Django was released a year after Rails.
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by j4mie 13y ago
I'd love to see a 2013 update on some of these numbers.
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Amazon RDS Service Level Agreement(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by j4mie 13y ago|0 comments
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by j4mie 13y ago
Five years ago, I used the previous closed-source version of NuPIC for my MSc thesis to build an evolutionary simulation of a predator/prey relationship to evolve camouflage patterns. The NuPIC network was the "predator", trying to categori
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A Year of MongoDB(speakerdeck.com)
275 points by j4mie 13y ago|129 comments
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by j4mie 13y ago
I find it's really useful for beginners to clearly understand what's actually happening under the covers before they start adding magical stuff on top. They can always add magic later, if they prefer that approach.
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by j4mie 13y ago
Thanks, this is great advice. easy_install comes preinstalled on a Mac, which is where the confusion arose. Will update the article when I get a chance.
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A non-magical introduction to pip and virtualenv for Python beginners(dabapps.com)
241 points by j4mie 13y ago|82 comments
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Voyager 1 has left the solar system(agu.org)
307 points by j4mie 14y ago|63 comments
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Government Service Design Manual(gov.uk)
2 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments
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Performance Heisenbugs and Premature Optimisation(dabapps.com)
1 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments
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by j4mie 14y ago
See also "Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong": https://gist.github.com/datagrok/2199506 The activate/deactivate magic is responsible for some real nastiness in deployment scripts, and total confusion for beginners who are thrown
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Split-Second Social Media Analysis with DataSift and Redis(dev.datasift.com)
2 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments
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by j4mie 14y ago
This article is two-and-a-half years old. Even if it were true at the time, things have moved on an awful lot since then.
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by j4mie 14y ago
This blog post is essential reading for Python developers who see doctest.js and think "ew, doctest": http://blog.ianbicking.org/2012/10/02/why-doctest-js-is-bett...
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A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps(apple.com)
620 points by j4mie 14y ago|486 comments
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Twitter acquires Clutch.io(blog.clutch.io)
177 points by j4mie 14y ago|37 comments
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A journey into optimizing Hadoop jobs(dev.datasift.com)
1 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments
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Travis Pro Update: Deploy Keys(about.travis-ci.org)
1 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments
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Redis Sentinel beta released(antirez.com)
191 points by j4mie 14y ago|23 comments
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by j4mie 14y ago
I love Flask for simple stuff, but I'm a little concerned that, as someone who considers himself a relatively advanced Python developer, I don't really understand quite a lot of this. I have no doubt that if I dug into it then it would all
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Chrome Apps: JavaScript Desktop Development(dailyjs.com)
5 points by j4mie 14y ago|0 comments

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