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by macavity23 11y ago
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by macavity23 11y ago
Great post. Every app designer should think about this.
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by macavity23 11y ago
You're confusing the motivations of individuals (Teachers) with the emergent properties of systems (Schools). It's entirely possible to have systems where all actors' motivations are positive, yet the outcomes are not.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Many products succeed with zero advertising.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Looks great. Perfect for talking to React Native clients. Do you have any performance numbers?
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by macavity23 11y ago
Utter nonsense, pure clickbait froth. The watch is a great v1 product (read some iPhone v1 reviews and compare) and the new model should be announced soon. The new atv is FANTASTIC, and at $149 they will sell a ton of them. And the iPad Pro
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by macavity23 11y ago
My experience was similar. An even bigger push in my case was the async stuff in 3.5. It's going to be a little while before pypy supports 3.5, but once that happens, Python will be very well placed. Something like Tornado + pypy + py
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by macavity23 11y ago
Try living somewhere you don't see the sun for three months and see what happens to YOUR sense of humor.
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by macavity23 11y ago
A good article, but it should mention async network programming (probably with http://www.tornadoweb.org/ ) which is the major driving use case behind the adoption of async programming patterns.
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by macavity23 11y ago
There's also power... a wifi module will probably double the power draw on this thing. Lots of projects don't need it.
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by macavity23 11y ago
As a ten year (now-cured) Java/J2EE developer, I whole-heartedly agree with you that Eclipse is a bloated, slow piece of crap. IntelliJ is much better, very quick and responsive. It's actually a great demonstration of how Java app
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by macavity23 11y ago
This looks great. Hopefully this can be configured to set off a big fat alarm if any unexpected syscalls get called. Will be a huge security win.
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by macavity23 11y ago
PyPy3 stable is compatible with Python 3. PyPy4 is not, yet.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Agreed. The Oculus acquisition still has me scratching my head. I don't doubt that VR will be a major technology, if the Oculus manages to follow up on the promise of the DK. But it seems so very different to FB's current market a
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by macavity23 11y ago
AIUI they actually ARE higher physical quality: I believe the way experts tell cultured diamonds from 'natural' ones is that cultured ones have far fewer flaws. (IANADD) But you are absolutely right of course - the physical qualit
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by macavity23 11y ago
Apple Pay's privacy is much better. AIUI: Apple knows nothing about your cards (they are all encrypted on-device), and nothing about your transaction except that there was A transaction (since Apple just sees a token that gets passed f
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by macavity23 11y ago
I always found it instructive that the WWW conquered the world and not Xanadu. X is a much more elegant, rich environment where hyperlinks are more meaningful and it would have been a better world in many ways - but it needs coordination be
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by macavity23 11y ago
This! USB is the only hope for a universal standard. It's already there for all personal items.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Agree that Python 3.5 is a turning point. Async/await in the core language is HUGE, and really makes Python a great language for the future. Tornado + py3.5 is a very easy and monster-performing platform.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Oh my gods, I can't up vote this enough. This should be mandatory reading before one is allowed to use a text editor. Though PostgreSQL is as good a choice as MySQL. Technically better (AIUI) but with a less gigantic support base.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Interesting comment, but you're missing a critical reason we can't go straight for the goalpost - we don't know where it is! Yes, our computation architecture is sub-optimal for the situation we find ourselves in, but we only
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by macavity23 11y ago
Excellent article. I was a contractor in the UK for ten years and this hits all the most important points. Thanks for posting. Once you have a 6m+ contract under your belt, look at recruiters again. As distasteful as they are (and they are
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by macavity23 11y ago
To succeed in financial dev you need to be comfortable working in a heavyweight, slow large-corporate environment. Think lots of meetings, lots of time estimation & metrics, using Java, C# or C++ (shudder), people caring what you wear.
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by macavity23 11y ago
Except with the iPhone, which couldn't run native apps when it was launched.
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by macavity23 12y ago
Right. A good ORM should deal with all your common cases (if not, your schema probably needs improving), and it saves you writing a lot of boilerplate code. For the edge cases where you need complex joins and/or extra performance, don&
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by macavity23 12y ago
I find DRF far superior. Nice consistent API once you get the hang of views and serializers, and the built-in browser UI is just awesome.
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by macavity23 12y ago
Phones, laptops & ipads don't have microphones designed specifically to pick up conversations from the other side of the room...
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by macavity23 12y ago
17.42:1 by mass or volume?
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by macavity23 12y ago
I hope it does get ugly, because that's the only way this 'fast lane' horseshit is going to stop.
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by macavity23 12y ago
It's not valid, as has been discussed about a dozen times in the thread. Peering arrangements to consumer ISPs are not symmetrical, and never have been.

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