kingkilr

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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   I (author of multiple-database support for django) am extremely uncomfortable with the approach these guys are taking. The proper approach would be to work with Django itself to make things more flexible (when you're subclassing something
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   It's not a virus, it just unpacks wurkeug, jinja, simplejson, and probably some other stuff. Pretty much it's an epic hack.
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   I'm not the only one! I feel better knowing there's at least one person out there as crazy as I am :)
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   SimpleGeo Launches(simplegeo.com)

   44 points by kingkilr 17y ago|29 comments
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   I had a friend who I was talking to and he was having trouble with Firefox. I asked him to check what version he was running, he told me 1.9.1. It was a minor miracle I realized that that was his Gecko version, because I was stuttering ar
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   In a related bit of cleverness I've heard that the JVM doesn't actually put NULL checks in it's generated ASM, instead it installs a SIGSEGV handler that catchs the null pointer exception and does the right thing.
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   I'd say the problem is less that it's inflammatory and more that it's totally useless. NoSQL as it is used encompasses a whole array of totally different technologies, everything from a bigtable style column store to redis, to memcachedb.
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   Not a senior (just a lowly sophomore) but I figured I'd chime in: Figuring how I'm going to balance the contracting work I regularly do with another very short term contract this week, and class.
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   by kingkilr 17y ago

   Eh, I use Ubuntu as my primary OS, and I have for a number of years. I'm running 10.04 now, and it's good (obviously, or I wouldn't use it day to day), but I don't think it's any more than incrementally better than 9.10.
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    HOWTO: Recruit Rock Stars (stu.mp)

    2 points by kingkilr 17y ago|0 comments
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    What I've heard is that facebook is using Cassandra exclusively for inboxes (and that they're using hbase for a bunch of other stuff).
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    The argument is that memcached is unnecessary because of the speed of Cassandra, and the fact that .6 includes it's own, built in, row level cache. [cite] http://twitter.com/ericflo/status/9402946197
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Dunno, I did one this past summer (concurrently with a GSOC project) and I found it to be a good experience, and a good way to get some real world experience on my resume to pad a ton of open source stuff. That being said there's no way I'
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Mercurial, and the others of that ilk.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    I'm running ubuntu 10.04 right now (upgraded this morning), it's just not that annoying. I'd like it to be fixed (I think the chromium close/redize/minimize buttons look much better), but I think the flurry about this is over statued.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Hopefully this means git will be coming to google code! (one of the big reasons they rejected it in favor of hg was that git was so inefficient over http before)
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    I'm not involved with them in any way, but their faq says that though their product is amazon specific ATM if you want to work with rackspace or a private install to contact them directly.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    I thought he said the reason Linux performance was better was because the locks were better?
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    We're using redis, exclusively, to power http://pycon.djangodose.com/ (A live stream of everything going on at PyCon).
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Nothing. Django provides no HTML for you out of the box (excepting the admin's own HTML, and some of the auto generated HTML for forms).
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Stuff like this is why I'm convinced the PyPy guys have the right approach. Write it once in a high level language and then compile it into different targets.
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    How do we kick our synchronous addiction?(eflorenzano.com)

    96 points by kingkilr 17y ago|68 comments
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Interesting, thanks.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Does anyone know what exactly is meant by the claim that the new Active Record is, "built on top of relational algebra", particularly in light of the fact that not even RDBMS are strictly relational algebra?
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Yes, but it's not now. Unladen Swallow isn't exactly alone in blazing this trail, Rubinius is using LLVM as well.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    I'm not an expert, but PgPool also servers as a local connection pooler, so for those purposes it won't be obsoleted.
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Why would I use this over Readernaut: http://readernaut.com/
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    Guido doesn't want to share the pony: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3569/3401670115_54e1d32200.jp...
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    A pretty, rendered version of the markup is available here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/
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    by kingkilr 17y ago

    I remember being in 8th grade in 2004 and writing an essay arguing that the FISA courts were antithetical to our notions of liberty, even if they didn't actually break the law. Little did I know that FISA warrants were the least of my worr