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by rajaravivarma_r 1mo ago
I always wondered if it would happen in my lifetime. Hope it turns out to be something interesting (AKA) dark matter.
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by rajaravivarma_r 2mo ago
Ruby is one of the languages to have the most elegant and consistent standard library. It is just few standard patterns to learn to get productive. I found Python's stdlib confusing. Is it list.sort() or sorted(list)? str.encode('
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by rajaravivarma_r 7mo ago
I was almost about to suggest the OP to move to a small town in India. Here he/she will be fighting for privacy though ;). What a contrasting culture! For humans at least seeing other people is a bare minimum. I would just go for a wal
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by rajaravivarma_r 9mo ago
May be, but over 6 years of using Redis with bare minimum setup, I have never lost any data and my use case happens to be queuing intermediate results, so durability won't be an issue.
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by rajaravivarma_r 9mo ago
I have been doing this for at least a decade now and it is a great pattern, but think of an ETL pipeline where you fetch a huge JSON payload, store it in the database and then transform it and load it in another model. I had an use case whe
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by rajaravivarma_r 9mo ago
Not related to the content itself, but people using Psychology terminologies for wrong behavior is not acceptable.
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by rajaravivarma_r 9mo ago
The one use case where a DB backed queue will fail for sure is when the payload is large. For example, you queue a large JSON payload to be picked up by a worker and process it, then the DB writing overhead itself makes a background worker
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by rajaravivarma_r 9mo ago
If Python's standard library and its backward incompatible changes are the only problem, then Ruby will be a great replacement. The language is terse and the standard library is beautiful and consistent. The language doesn't have
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by rajaravivarma_r 1y ago
I'm wondering the same, but honestly I have a soft corner for the old way of doing things as well, and I think it stems from it. The performance numbers seem to show how bad it is in real world. For testing I converted the CGI script i
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by rajaravivarma_r 1y ago
Not the author of parent comment, but from the description it looks like it is Jolla Tablet, which was crowdfunded and the delivery got delayed. After an year or so, some of the funders go the tablet. While, some of us got half a refund.
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
It is funny, how being a corporate-Rails programmer taught me this early in my career. Because building Ruby from source was the only way you could install latest Ruby versions (using ruby-build) and installing Ruby from source means its de
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
I don't have a solution for the performance problem. But for the camelCase to snake_case conversion, I can see potential solutions. 1. If you are using axios or other fetch based library, then you can use an interceptor that converts t
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
I have rarely seen a car becoming unusable after 15 years. I have seen taxis with more than 400,000 KM on the odo. Not that they never had issues, but they are pretty much usable if you replace parts. The 15 year car rule is only applicable
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
I have this idea of creating a nano/micro bot of sorts that will replace hair root, and grow hairs using the nutrients (chemical) available in the blood stream or applied topically from time to time. I know there are more important pro
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
I loved Symbian, because it was hackable. It had mShell and PyS60 that gave direct access to everything the system had. I remember backing up text messages and contacts using mShell. I accessed a heart rate monitor via BT using PyS60. Both
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
May be, but moving to Python did not take anything away. It brought more joy that you have more control over things like, on which server to run the migration and choose UAT or prod and just a list of servers specified in the command line.
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
I have tried this path of not trying to DRY everything, but has regretted and refactored to a more DRY approach eventually. The cost of remembering to fix/alter the logic everywhere is more than trying to keep it DRY. More often a meth
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
This is great. We tried ansible and gave up as it was difficult to keep configuration DRY and annoying to create conditions with no control structure. It was before ansible 2, so probably things are better now. Then we started using Python
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by rajaravivarma_r 2y ago
Is it possible to extract different patterns of text from a PDF document? For example, paragraphs, code blocks, code inlined in paragraphs etc? I tried tesseract but it recognises code blocks as tables. Also there are edge cases like paragr
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by rajaravivarma_r 3y ago
Location: Bangalore, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Depending on the location and compensation Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Python, React.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, Memcached, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Nginx, Apache Solr
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by rajaravivarma_r 3y ago
This is great. I had been long looking for something like this in Ruby eco-system. I worked on a Rails app which interacted with a bunch of micro-services and I missed the async-await so much. The problem was, when the app was waiting on AP
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by rajaravivarma_r 3y ago
Except, increasing the threads increases the memory usage proportionally. From what I have seen, the memory won't be released back and it keeps increasing until the process gets OOM'ed. At least this was the case with Ruby 3.0 and
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by rajaravivarma_r 4y ago
I like this idea. I have been recently worried about the hacker unfriendly nature of the phones as well. It is frustrating to go through a series of painful processes like unlocking the bootloader, installing a recovery image, if you are lu
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by rajaravivarma_r 6y ago
Is there any technology/start up trying to cure baldness?
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by rajaravivarma_r 6y ago
I too believed that my procrastination problem was ADHD. Almost everything I read about ADHD symptoms agreed on to my behaviour. This went on for like 8 years and one day I decided to visit a Psychiatrist. He said it could be general anxiet
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by rajaravivarma_r 7y ago
I put up something like this here https://github.com/rajaravivarma-r/focus-dns . You can give this a try.
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by rajaravivarma_r 8y ago
The ever dreamed of space slingshot seems to be the only safest, everlasting option to dispose brine.
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by rajaravivarma_r 9y ago
I really like that somebody has written in in Python. There is one similar tool which was written in NodeJS, I couldn't get that to work. One question - Is the back-end modular enough, that anybody can read the source and write the fro
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by rajaravivarma_r 9y ago
It uses both GTK and Qt, someone knows why? And what different purpose they solve?
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by rajaravivarma_r 9y ago
Python should somewhat provide a way of chaining these iterators. Coming from Ruby background, I really miss the ability to chain iterators. And the backslashes shouldn't be mandatory for wrapping method chains.

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