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by jnoller 16y ago
This is pretty awesome, I might be using it a lot!
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Google's MapReduce in 98 Lines of Python(clouddbs.blogspot.com)
14 points by jnoller 16y ago|0 comments
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by jnoller 16y ago
Part one (defining the cloud): http://www.nasuni.com/news/nasuni-blog/private-versus-public...
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Defining Public and Private clouds(nasuni.com)
1 points by jnoller 16y ago|1 comments
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by jnoller 16y ago
Actually, a lot of people do write them this way. When you take something you can write quickly and with no dependencies other than python, and instead pull in swig or cython - you now have two problems instead of one. As the author shows,
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by jnoller 16y ago
Ugh. Google entering this pretty much wipes out the space - companies like bit.ly are going to need to work on seriously differentiating themselves from the pack, and even then I don't think they're long for the world. I can honestly say I
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by jnoller 16y ago
This is awesome Jacob, and good work from Django Core - there's a few things for python-core to consider here as well.
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by jnoller 16y ago
Wow, this is awesome (I hope!) news for Jesper and the rest of the bitbucket team. I hope Atlassian treats them well - it should be interesting to see what they do with things.
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What’s (real) the cost of a Gigabyte in the Cloud?(nasuni.com)
45 points by jnoller 16y ago|8 comments
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by jnoller 16y ago
This is just an update, unaccepted, to the specification which makes WSGI play nice with Python 3. Note that PEP 444 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0444/ is still being worked on. I made my opinion known in the mailing list thread,
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by jnoller 16y ago
It's not just that; PEPs aren't versioned. Having a spec which just "magically" changes doesn't help anyone in the community trying to code to the specification. Personally (and I said this in the thread) I think this is more than just proc
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by jnoller 16y ago
Well, the larger HN community seemed to not take kindly to my comment, which seems odd in and of itself. Regardless, I concur with you - I can't speak to business people directly as it's not my particular domain, but yes - I've seen the sam
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by jnoller 16y ago
I don't know - they probably do, god knows it allows me to make something that doesn't look like a series of cat turds, but formulaic designs don't last long term. You need something which really differentiates you from the pack.
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by jnoller 16y ago
That's a really good point - but I think a really big issue is that a lot of programmers (and I don't know why) seem to think that a good User Interface (API, Visual, Docs, etc) is just not needed. That; and the attitudes range from "who ca
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by jnoller 16y ago
You know Zed - this was a really good read. There's not much I can personally disagree with here, especially your final point (which I won't give away so people will read it). Very well written; and some great advice. I much prefer this t
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by jnoller 16y ago
That's pretty cool; and I didn't know about codelesson - if I ever had the time to put together a decent class, I'd try this out for sure. Grats to Zed.
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by jnoller 16y ago
The reason I posted this to HN is that I, and the other PyCon organizers strongly encourage startups (especially ones involved in OSS) to submit talks. The talks must be relevant to the Python community in general, but we strongly encourage
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PyCon 2011 Call for Papers is open(us.pycon.org)
3 points by jnoller 16y ago|1 comments
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by jnoller 16y ago
It's not easy, but in my estimation - it has to be done, or we're going to be stuck with the crap we've had for years and it will just keep going and going. It's going to hurt; but man - can you imagine if it succeeded?
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by jnoller 16y ago
If you're not optimizing for your users - the poor schmucks who are forced to use you day after day, you're abusing them and making their lives hell. If you're in the business of abusing your users because they're not the people writing the
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by jnoller 16y ago
I completely agree - so much midtier and enterprise software is a complete mess because of these things. People have to be willing to listen to customers, but say no when it serves the greater good. You must kill ruthlessly - but you must h
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by jnoller 16y ago
Agreed, I'm really looking forward to his response
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by jnoller 16y ago
This is a group of people, comprising the top angel investors in a given area, investing lots of money, into a lot of companies, supposedly discussing - in private - how to "divide the market" and "set prices" and "exclude/marginalize compe
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by jnoller 16y ago
I'm not going to disagree with that. As I said, I hope this is a mistake.
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by jnoller 16y ago
They are a group of people supposedly conspiring to generate the worst possible terms for the people they are providing money to, while trying to force out or marginalize competition. IANAL though - even if not illegal, it's still pretty st
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by jnoller 16y ago
I'd like to know the laws too, this could be construed as collusion, conspiracy and probably a few other things.
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by jnoller 16y ago
I do hope he's wrong, or that this a mistake of some sort. The rise of Angel investors has seen a lot of ideas and entrepreneurs get needed money when they might not have under the traditional VC model. Something like this, if true, will ca
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by jnoller 16y ago
Holy Shit! I'm really happy for the Urban Airship guys, this is a pretty big account/partnership for them.
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by jnoller 16y ago
Bullshit. We (python-core) are obsessed with backwards compatibility. Adding new features that aren't in old version is the source of this problem. Python 3 is by far, the biggest intentional deviation from the "don't break existing scripts
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by jnoller 16y ago
Except no one installs ActiveState. For most, most of the market, the RedHat supplied version of python is python.

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