kingkilr

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by kingkilr 17y ago
Loving a language on account of things that have nothing to do with the language seems kind of weak to me. I love the people, communities, and tools that surround python, but if they all disappeared tomorrow I'd still use it.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Wish my DB systems course even covered this stuff. It's an interesting take on it, however in practice Cassandra does have a strong consistency guarantee when you don't have a network partition, so I think the point he tries to make about
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I don't have any numbers, but during Guido's keynote (which was twitter powered) tweetfall was too far behind live, so they switched to using our feed. We frequently got comments that we were updating faster than twitter.com was :)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The PyCon live stream we did was a pretty good case study. We pretty much hacked together a pub/sub system on top on BLPOP, so it'd be even easier going forward. Hopefully we'll open source it :/ (we've been meaning to for a while now...)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
God I wish someone would unplug me from media for a while, I've got a stack of books I never make time for :(
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by kingkilr 17y ago
It's my primary editor on all 3 platforms, I'd definitely recommend it for beginners.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
No he trashed DiP first, and then was inspired to work on something better. I'm not thrilled with the way he expressed his dislike for DiP, but good on him for working on an alternative.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
It says that to have an IQ above 160 you need to be able to see it turn both ways without shifting your gaze .
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I suggest you take a look at the 2.6 release notes ( http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.6.html ), the number of items on here that constitute simple syntax transformations is dwarfed by the number that require active work in the VM.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Python does have a machine readable grammar. The reason Jython isn't at 2.6 is not because of syntax changes, those would probably take less than a day to do, it's all the semantic changes that take time.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
As someone using all 3 OS's day to day (Ubuntu is my primary development OS, I have an iMac next to me, and I switch my laptop to Windows 7 for video games in the evenings), Windows 7 is easily my least favorite OS, it's performance is gene
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The data was opt-in (redditors had to specifically elect to enter this dataset), so it's probably biased somewhat.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The algorithm would need to be pretty smart though, for example I have friends who I'd trust to the end's of the earth on everything except for music, we have violently different tastes and no ability to recommend music to each other.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Unfortunately it's quite old, and some of the answers are rather out of date.
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Panel Discussion on Django and NoSQL(djangodose.com)
43 points by kingkilr 17y ago|2 comments
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Can't agree with you more (except I can't buy people beer in the US...). Open source is fun! I've made tons of friends through it, participate in a podcast, and every conference I have awesome people to hang out with.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Indeed. The company I work for does our own git hosting, but we mirror all repositories to github for features like these.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Honestly, I thought it was a bug until I saw this thread.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Ugh, I run chromium nightlys and this change has caught me off guard, I really don't like it.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
SimpleGeo is looking for a Designer and an Application Engineer: http://blog.simplegeo.com/post/506890585/hiring-a-designer-a... (I don't work for them)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Support for pip is a slightly different issue, pip doesn't rely on any C extensions. Out of curiosity, how does pip currently not work?
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The C in CAP and the C in ACID are not the same C. Consistency in the ACID sense means that all constraints are met, Consistency in the CAP sense means all servers have the same data.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
It's complicated :) PyPy's objects are significantly smaller than CPython ones, however the the assembly the JIT generates, plus the bookeeping and profiling data it stores take up space.
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Mytechne: a site to record the history of programming langauges you've used(mytechne.com)
17 points by kingkilr 17y ago|12 comments
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Some of the PyPy developers have started working on a branch that will provide a bridge API, allowing CPython extension modules to be used inside of PyPy. As of today the regular expression engine from CPython can be successfully compiled
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by kingkilr 17y ago
https://nosqleast.com/2009/slides/sarkissian-cassandra.pdf is pretty good
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by kingkilr 17y ago
God yes. I remember when I started with C++ I was coming from Python so I was using ' and " interchangably (I guess the fact that they were different hadn't been covered in class yet). I don't remember how I caught that I was doing it wro
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by kingkilr 17y ago
For the record, here's an alternate plan for non-relational database support in the Django ORM (I'm considering applying for GSOC with it, in place of the template compilation proposal I already put forwards): http://paste.pocoo.org/show/1
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by kingkilr 17y ago
As I said on reddit, the name isn't misleading. SQLCompiler is used for generating SQL, and assumes relational database concepts like joins, table aliases, and aggregation.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
There's a PDF from digg from a NoSQL meetup (NoSQL east I think) and it has a link to a document somewhere there wrote up on understanding the cassandra data model, it's pretty good. You'll have to google around for it though.

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