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by kennu 15y ago
Unless you actually do want to serve the low-res images first, to make the pages download and render faster initially. On 3G it probably makes a big difference.
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by kennu 15y ago
Finnish people quite often find it easier to spell their name without the umlauts when appearing online. The situation used to be much worse when email headers and BBS usernames were still ASCII-only (before Unicode), but you still occasion
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by kennu 15y ago
For me that link was kind of funny and a learning experience at the same time, of how to handle it when you post something publicly by accident (be cool about it). If people downvote, I shall accept the judgment. :-)
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by kennu 15y ago
I think he handled it pretty well. Could happen to anybody.
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Why you should be careful when copy-pasting browser URLs(groups.google.com)
6 points by kennu 15y ago|4 comments
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by kennu 15y ago
The problem is, people have limits to the amount of immaterial and material products they can consume (limited time, space). So eventually so much stuff is being produced, mostly automatically, that nobody can consume it any more. The only
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by kennu 15y ago
Because it's in production and people are using it. When you rewrite a new implementation from scratch and deploy it, you make their lives miserable, because so many things will break. This is nearly inevitable. When talking about websites
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by kennu 15y ago
Introduction to PDB is interesting if you've never tried PDB yet (the Python Debugger). The presenter shows an example of launching the debugger in the middle of a Django request, just by adding import pdb; pdb.set_trace() in the view code.
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by kennu 15y ago
Having an opinionated, best practice default doesn't have to prevent customization. I have always thought Rails is better than Django in this sense. There's one clear default way to do things, and then you can customize if you need to.
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by kennu 15y ago
I wonder what kind of maintainability benefits do the separate packages bring in this case? To me, having a lot of empty __init__.py files and subdirs reduces readability, so I like to maximize simplicity.
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by kennu 15y ago
Seems complicated. I always use four simple files: settings.py settings_development.py settings_staging.py settings_production.py Where the first one has the defaults (usable for local development), and the others contain any o
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by kennu 15y ago
Should be pretty easy for Pinterest to add proper server-side validation of pinned pages. (This trick is based on removing the meta tag from the DOM in the browser.)
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by kennu 15y ago
I wrote program for that, will this do? for x in chain.from_iterable((product(*repeat(string.ascii_uppercase + ',.!? ', n)) for n in xrange(1, 2**32))): print ''.join(x) It's currently limited to 4GB though. I am also afraid it wil
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by kennu 15y ago
It's kind of interesting that Google breaks TCP/IP protocol rules (RFC 3390) and their home page has never been valid HTML either.
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by kennu 15y ago
I think storing state on servers is always a bad idea. State should be stored in a cookie in the user's browser, letting him decide when it expires.
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by kennu 15y ago
I wonder if Celery could still use SWF as its backend in the future? Instead of having to manage your own EC2 instances and databases for the Celery daemons.
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by kennu 15y ago
I think the "need" comes from the content owners, who refuse to license their material to services that don't implement a form of DRM that they approve of. It would of course be much easier if the content owners some day understood that DRM
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by kennu 15y ago
If I understand correctly, this is to protect the content during delivery over Internet. But the user agent is free to do whatever it wants with the content once it gets the decryption key. I suppose servers could decline to give the keys o
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by kennu 15y ago
Seems like it's similar to physically going to conferences and focusing on some topic 100%, instead of just watching the same video streams and presentations at home.
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by kennu 15y ago
I think that depends on which government we would be talking about. I don't think they all shoot people on sight.
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by kennu 15y ago
That seemed to be mostly a rant about what you _don't_ do with Prolog, not about what you actually can do. The example of exporting a spreadsheet to CSV doesn't sound too convincing of the language's miraculous powers.
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by kennu 15y ago
It sounds like an interesting idea for auto-saving article text or similar longer submissions, which are sometimes lost if you accidentally quit the browser or something else goes wrong.
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by kennu 15y ago
I guess that means at some point the growing number of people born on Earth will have to be shipped to space. I hope there are enough volunteers and space ships. Meanwhile, I'd also keep in mind this curve, posted earlier on HN: http://en.
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by kennu 15y ago
You are right of course, I just count it as "free" when the payment is pretty much symbolic compared to the real cost.
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by kennu 15y ago
That sounds just silly. Here in Finland, we can actually choose to either use free public dental care, or go to a more expensive private doctor and pay the difference. Dental care is essential. Even if you don't have pain, constant inflamma
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by kennu 15y ago
Heroku seems to be the only one with a "yes" in every feature checkbox.
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by kennu 15y ago
First you print a robot that will then assemble your car. Although you might need another robot to assemble the first robot..
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by kennu 15y ago
I totally agree. I've been wondering for 15 years why every website has to have a special custom design anyway. With native apps, custom design almost always works against them, as opposed to the OS's default, familiar design. Maybe in the
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by kennu 15y ago
It just sounds like a huge gamble. It would be quite lucky to get everything working by chance on the first try, without any bottlenecks in any part of the newly created config.
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by kennu 15y ago
Do you have any advice on the MongoDB issues to be aware of in this kind of usage? I wonder if there is a checklist somewhere.

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