kingkilr

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by kingkilr 16y ago
Maybe this is because me and friends hosted a decent percentage of the games we played, but through thousands of rounds of Footmen Frenzy I've never seen a penis map. Starcraft I had a good deal of "sexy pics" maps, however I don't think I
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by kingkilr 16y ago
I don't know what it is, but I'm guessing it's MASSIVELY PARALLEL AND MUNCITONAL.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
So I signed in, and it basically showed me a bunch of tweets I've already seen, since they're all from people I follow.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
A small note, these slides are the ones as delivered at PyOhio (which was also recorded), which are slightly updated from the ChiPy talk.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
I was considering a startup along exactly these lines within the last couple of weeks, but for college applicants. I ended up not going forward as I wasn't personally super interested, and the friend who had the original idea said there ap
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by kingkilr 16y ago
From a security perspective, kind of... it's not like for a decade or so every other security hole was a buffer overrun (or underrun, as the case may be) or others of that ilk. That's not to say they don't serve a purpose, but it's pretty
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by kingkilr 16y ago
No, it does, however, ensure that my errors don't randomly get dumped on the page, and that instead an exception is raised and a proper 500 page can be returned.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
I may not care, but I end up knowing every time I see one of those PHP/MySQL error traces in a website. Apparently one of their problems isn't proper exception handling.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Or if you're storing information about them, say their home address, better to have it in one place than two.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Gah, I've been in this business too long (I'm 19, WTF?), my first question is, can doctors be patients as well?
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by kingkilr 16y ago
If you have any interest in Django, I'm a fan of DjangoDose ( http://djangodose.com/ ), I'm also one of the hosts though.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Honestly, I clicked it, entered by blog, and expected a clusterfuck. Couldn't have been more wrong, the results are probably as close as anything I'd expect: http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/alexgaynor.net/Top_10_Sit...
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by kingkilr 16y ago
This presupposes that a standardized test can test anything of value. I've spent the majority of my last 16 years in school, since the 3rd grade or so I've had no problems evaluating the competence of my teachers, and I didn't need a test
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by kingkilr 16y ago
> bug fixes/feature requests weighted by importance Isn't there a DailyWTF about a company that did just that and found that the testing people conspired with the developers to invent bugs, locate them, and then collect bonuses for fixi
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Probably, but python-core has no interest in maintaining multiple regular expression implementations: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101606... (this thread starts talking about regex, which is a backwards compatible
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by kingkilr 16y ago
It won't. It doesn't implement the entire regular expression language Python supports.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Don't rely on the database to not put null in a column marked not nulls? That's like saying don't rely on C to not put a struct in a char*. It's got nothing to do with application logic.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Of course there's always the counterpart to jwz's quote: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll quote Jamie Zawinski." Now they have two problems. [ http://twitter.com/diveintomark/statuses/1249729494 ]
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by kingkilr 16y ago
It's still possible, PyPy for example post-processes the assembly in the generated binary in order to identify registers that can contain GC pointers (ones into the heap).
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Refactoring the internals of the Django ORM with an eye towards supporting non-relational databases, with a prototype backend for MongoDB.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Looks like my morning is going to be figuring out the status of a few clients we have, afternoon is going to be hacking on one or more of them. Murphy willing I can work on GSOC this evening in peace.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
> Great. Now name me some successful recent high-school dropouts. I suppose I'll throw my hat into the ring. Dropped out during my sophomore year (with bad grades to boot). Now I'm going to a good college, I have a good job, and I hav
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by kingkilr 16y ago
That's correct. This was a decision made at the language summit at PyCon 2010.
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Comparing SPUR [Microsoft Research VM] to PyPy(morepypy.blogspot.com)
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Among the people I know with them none of them are the "everything is a job" type. Honestly, it may be a random result of the people I know, but I'm not sure what it is.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
There's also a really good Law and Order episode titled, "Immortal" from this past sesaon, based on this.
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Because he's not suggesting an experiment. This method involves taking data already obtained and doing analyses on it, to look for something, it's really a different way to form a hypothesis. After he finds something this way it'll go "ba
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Very much so, as a teenager I know a ton of people with Blackberrys, apparently the BBM (BlackBerry messaging) is very popular. I don't get it :sigh:
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by kingkilr 16y ago
It does on Linux, from `man 3 sleep`: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/229678/
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by kingkilr 16y ago
Celery leverages a message queue (including Rabbit, which is how we deploy it), Celery provides an easy API to define tasks, push them onto your queue, and run them on workers.

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