sametmax

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by sametmax 9y ago
Problem is, most softwares that are NOT in the official repository are made for Ubuntu TLS, not debian stable. So if you want to install VSCode, Telegram, Skype, Stremio, Sublime Text, Python 3.6, clipgrab, steam, dukto, tilix, etc. You kno
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by sametmax 9y ago
Ease of use. Uwsgi is faster, but it's not the place in my stack where i need speed. The cost of transforming nginx packets in wsgi object is very small compared to all the rest.
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by sametmax 9y ago
Varnish, nginx, gunicorn, Django, redis, celery, postgres most of the time. Sometime a bit of crossbar.io. Laravel is a nice framework. I prefer it to symfony, espacially since they love Vue.js which is now my fav front end lib. But the def
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by sametmax 9y ago
It doesn't matter. In France, there are 70 millions people. Remove old and young ones, and the ones that are not clients in your bank. Then spread the usage on the week, then on 24h, divide by the number of requests that actually hit y
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by sametmax 9y ago
You got muppy for that: https://pythonhosted.org/Pympler/muppy.html Also objgraph: https://www.darkcoding.net/software/finding-memory-leaks-in-... If you are lucky to use Python 3.6+, you got trac
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by sametmax 9y ago
The only metrics is economic. The question is how much does those performance constrains cost you ?
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by sametmax 9y ago
> Memory is typically the scaling bottleneck for Python workers for web servers. Wut ? When I have performances problems, my RAM is full with varnish cache, redis stored objects and postgres buffer. Python is like, low, low on the list.
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by sametmax 9y ago
> why is it so typical for a Python we worker to have its memory grow infinitely with each request processed? It's not. The cases where it happened to me during the last 10 years and dozens of web projects spanning on multiple frame
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by sametmax 9y ago
> One web request should not be served by one process at a time It's doesn't have to be. You can use asyncio and deal with many requests at a time by one process. > I love python, but it is not suitable for backend work at
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by sametmax 9y ago
Reading the title I though it would be talking about 3D0, the team behind Heroes of Might and Magic, and how they screw up the HOMM3 steam remake because they lost the source code. I could have related since it's one of my favorite gam
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by sametmax 9y ago
> We then learned not to trust gossip, not to trust uncorroborated sources, etc. If it needed any more proof (than facebook, fox, ads, gov propaganda...) that this never happened, I think the Trump debacle should be final evidence this i
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by sametmax 9y ago
Problem is, this way journalists won't have anonymous sources anymore and you will be able to track any citizen filming power abuses.
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by sametmax 9y ago
You'll have to get used to the fact they are getting the credibility they deserve now. Not that they don't lie. That we all do anyway. But that they have the same skill as us.
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by sametmax 9y ago
When you arrive on most sites with ads, they don't make you to accept anything. They don't give you a term of service to read. You just click, and download the code, and it executes. It's an implicit contract, which means the
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by sametmax 9y ago
The same kind of rich people has existed for ever. It's fair to always take them in consideration.
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by sametmax 9y ago
This assumes the exchange is symmetric, and that enrichment only happens with exchanges. Neither of these are true.
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by sametmax 9y ago
# Portability Having a terminal that works the same in Windows, Mac and Linux. # Browsing UI I have autojump and I know all the cd shenanigans, but really I want my terminal to make it easier for me. I want an url bar where I can see my fil
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by sametmax 9y ago
> I wonder if we developers have a subconscious bias towards tougher way of building things instead of a much easier way. That and the fact you we don't know everything that's possible and stick to what we know. But, there is
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by sametmax 9y ago
It's trendy to be against the most basic things nowadays. People ran out of important subjects to rumble about, and realized that change is hard. Instead of actually making the tough decision to involve themself to improve things, they
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by sametmax 9y ago
Well made ads are actually selling to people that would want to buy, not just any target that could buy, so it makes sense.
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by sametmax 9y ago
Yes. You missed that it's an ad disguised as an article. Maybe someone need people to invest in lithium, or to make lithium based companies look good, or to divert attention to lithium from other things... All in all, someone from an
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by sametmax 9y ago
It may be true now, as modern block buster lipsync is atrocious (at least in France). But 20 years ago people cared a lot about it. I remember distinctly this wonderful line from the 5th element: - Are you classified as human? - Negative. I
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by sametmax 9y ago
And all cards are not created equals. They are literally tokens of how private companies see you. When I started being a consultant, I had suddenly very low and very large ups and downs on my bank account. It was very irregular and my bank
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by sametmax 9y ago
When everything works, electronic payment system are way more convenient. But that's a big problem with our current societies: we keep trading "good for democracy" to "convenient for best case". People use electroni
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by sametmax 9y ago
That is such a dangerous trend. I perfectly understand the appeal though. Automatic book keeping, no more cash to move around that can temp thieves, less mistakes and cons. But for the society ? This just get rid of another grey area, a saf
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by sametmax 9y ago
+1 for numbers.
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by sametmax 9y ago
Apache is using concurrent threads and nginx is just doing monothreaded asyncio. Is has consequences if you have many users, and depending of the average length of connexions. For a few users and short connexions, you probably won't se
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by sametmax 9y ago
Yeah but you are much more productive using them from a higher level language binding. E.G: QT used from Python with PyQT.
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by sametmax 9y ago
> And likely, you need a better job. Hardly. My job consist in dev and training. I go to those companies, and I'm paid because they can't get things done. Then I go to another one, rinse and repeat. This situation plays very mu
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by sametmax 9y ago
> That's great for you that your life is so comfortable but do not assume it applies universally. I'm an independent contractor, I just go from company to company. I just witness it, it doesn't apply to my life. > I hav

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