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by joeclark77 9y ago
I think you first need to explain what "the Etsy of Food" is. What do you have in mind, exactly?
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by joeclark77 9y ago
It's easy for beginners to learn programming, and it doesn't necessarily ever reach a performance bottleneck where you outgrow it and need something different. Python has libraries for practically everything, so you can use it fo
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Mainly I got into it because I hated debugging code for missing semicolons and curly braces. I'm a neat freak, and Python is, too.
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Yeah, it just means that you can distribute the system across a cluster. Since we only talk about the CAP theorem in the context of distributed systems, you have to assume "P" has already been chosen. So the theorem is really ab
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Thanks for the link, that's just the kind of thing I've been gobbling up lately.
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I think there's opportunities in manufacturing high quality goods, "made in USA", even in small quantities. Tools, knives, furniture, machines... things that will last. Check out reddit's r/BuyItForLife/ -- a
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by joeclark77 9y ago
I find this question interesting because over the past year I've been reading everything I can find in the library about work, the history of work, pride of workmanship, craft, job satisfaction, motivation, and so on. There are two sc
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by joeclark77 9y ago
RDBMS is probably fine. If you want to try something new and shiny, a document store (like MongoDB) is probably better than a graph DB, because nested comments and replies can be easily and naturally represented by nested documents -- obje
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by joeclark77 9y ago
Does anybody know how to get themes working properly in iTerm2 on a Mac? I've downloaded all kinds of themes and some look good, others look bad, but not one of them looks like it's "supposed" to look like from screensh
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by joeclark77 10y ago
so then we'll have two options: the Kernel's original recipe and the extra Rust-y flavor
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by joeclark77 10y ago
And add to that that the 3-4-5 triangle is still a useful way to establish a right angle without any tools (apart from a piece of string).
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by joeclark77 10y ago
One UX design firm I know uses cheap document cameras (I believe IPEVO makes several inexpensive and portable models) so they do pen-and-paper prototyping during videoconferences without any need to scan things in. It's much more inte
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I'm thinking cow.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Grinberg's tutorial is pretty good. The book version is "Flask Web Development" (O'Reilly). There are some bits of it that are out of date. You can use my "flaskula" repo as a reference with some fixes: htt
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by joeclark77 10y ago
There's a game called Fruit Ninja where you can do this.
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I actually wrote a blog post about my experimentation with ORM (here: https://joeclark.svbtle.com/understanding-the-m-in-mvc ). From the viewpoint of a database geek, somebody who cares about his database, those gadgets you
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by joeclark77 10y ago
It depends on the application. Do you care about how things work inside your database? Do you want to understand how the subsystems of your app (like authentication, security, the API, etc) work? Flask allows you (and forces you) to make
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I think the first objection one would raise is that you don't need an ORM at all. It all depends on the application, of course, but ORM means giving up a lot of control (and transparency, and understanding) of your database in excha
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Queen Victoria supposedly told her daughter on her wedding night, "Just lie back and think of England." Whenever I have to deal with PayPal, I think to myself "Just lie back and think of SpaceX." If Paypal helps Elon M
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by joeclark77 10y ago
How about you can leave no inheritance to your kids if you want to, but you keep your hands off the rest of us's stuff? If you want to talk about "fairness", freedom is fair. Stealing from others (even if done through the m
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I've heard it said that to kick an addiction, you have to achieve a mental change where you stop wanting the thing you're addicted to. Consider someone who is addicted to overeating. He could go on a fast for a while, as lon
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by joeclark77 10y ago
A number of last-minute executive orders have been coming out. For example, he deliberately expanded the number of people who would have access to the Flynn wiretaps in the last few days of his Presidency. This can only have been done on
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by joeclark77 10y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if all of Obama's sleazy tricks orchestrating leaks, etc, ended up making Trump stronger and putting Obama in prison?
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by joeclark77 10y ago
IMHO if reverse time travel were possible, we'd be up to our ears in tourists from the future already, so it's not. However maybe forward time travel (faster than usual I mean) could be possible. But... how would it make any mone
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I agree they need to go back to the chronological ordering of tweets. It would also be nice to have a couple levels of tweeting, like "conversational message" versus "I really mean it this time", so followers could filt
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I think it could be possible to launch the rocket from space, using a booster of some kind to get it out of Earth's gravity. The bigger problems, I think, are (1) navigation, given that we don't have precise measurements of how t
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I would think the biggest problem is convincing them that you're reliable enough to show up at work on time every day, respond to questions and problems professionally, etc. Technical skills can be learned and demonstrated, but being 1
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by joeclark77 10y ago
I had a conversation with some researchers at a major biology/genomics research lab in Maine last week and they pushed back hard when I asked if they were mainly looking to hire PhD candidates. Apparently it's a real problem that
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by joeclark77 10y ago
"Self service" checkouts at grocery stores. I get the idea that the bagging area is also a scale, and that's supposed to keep customers honest. But it leads to so many darn problems, the devices aren't really "sel
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by joeclark77 10y ago
There was an Ask HN about backpacks just about 40 days ago (link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369197 ), and a lot of good recommendations were made there. I ended up buying an Osprey Flapjack, which has been the

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