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by nigma 14y ago
PyPy was funded by the European Union as a Specific Targeted Research Project between December 2004 and March 2007. http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.doc...
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Fun with AngularJS & Cornice(blog.ziade.org)
2 points by nigma 14y ago|0 comments
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PyPy - Announcing Topaz, an RPython powered Ruby interpreter(morepypy.blogspot.com)
3 points by nigma 14y ago|0 comments
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by nigma 14y ago
Have you considered using PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (mysql_fdw) to pull data directly out of MySQL instead of the dump/load process? It would be great to know more about your new setup, i.e. do you use streaming replication and some r
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by nigma 14y ago
Give it a break. That article is 2.6 years old. Some of the points might still be valid, but there is a solution (and probably was at the time of writing as well) to every and each of the problem mentioned there. Regarding the quality of re
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by nigma 14y ago
For comparison a version in Python/Matplotlib is at http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/10/07/xkcd-style-plots-i...
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by nigma 14y ago
No doubt this is a great resource for getting to know very basics of all these frameworks. The thing is that the TODO application is way too simple and does not require solving any meaningful problems. A much better and more realistic sampl
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by nigma 14y ago
Why would you turn off KeepAlive instead of setting it to a small value?
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by nigma 14y ago
Or even easier use one of many StackScripts[1]. But what I would really like to see is a decent introduction to Salt, Puppet or Chef. This way people that are going to deploy their first server could easily build and rebuild the instance an
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Foursquare in space(blog.foursquare.com)
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by nigma 14y ago
The online playground can do live syntax and type checking as well as provide function call hints. That's pretty cool.
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by nigma 14y ago
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Sub - a delicious way to organize programs(github.com)
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by nigma 14y ago
Are you sure your app is not db or I/O bound? I would suggest giving https://github.com/mgood/flask-debugtoolbar a try and getting some numbers before making a switch.
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Easier builds and deployments using Git over HTTPS and OAuth(github.com)
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Bitbucket outage post mortem(blog.bitbucket.org)
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by nigma 14y ago
Here's a similar trick with the Python json module: echo '{"hello":"there"}' | python -mjson.tool
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by nigma 14y ago
Here's a link to the previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910743
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by nigma 14y ago
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by nigma 14y ago
Also http://httpbin.org/ . It can handle more test cases and the source code is on github.
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by nigma 14y ago
On the other hand Google provides browser extensions that lets you opt-out from advertising cookies and Google Analytics tracking. These are not vastly popular though, each at around 100k installs for the Chrome version. https://www.google
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by nigma 14y ago
In the same vein, http://hashify.me/ stores markdown documents in URL and uses bitly for "persistence". Previous discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407197/
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by nigma 14y ago
Just out of curiosity. Are you aware that all your data is fully editable through the admin panel? Or is it just a toy project and it doesn't really matter?
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by nigma 15y ago
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The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever(wired.com)
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by nigma 15y ago
QuerySet.prefetch_related lets you fetch related objects in a batch for the whole query set. In other words it does joins in the application. A really nice stuff. Take a look at docs for more info: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref
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by nigma 15y ago
Interesting, but at this stage the only functionality it provides is tasks discovery and argument passing. What I would like to see is some facility to aid with writing meaningful tasks that execute system utilities or perform work on remot
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by nigma 15y ago
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by nigma 15y ago
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by nigma 15y ago
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