shavenwarthog2

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by shavenwarthog2 7y ago
In 2019 Makefiles are a useful tool for automating project-level things. Too often webapps will require you to install X to install Y to run producing artifact Z. Since Make is old and baked and everywhere, specifying "make Z" is
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by shavenwarthog2 10y ago
Dart's fascinating. It feels high level and object-oriented like Python, and can be used both web server- and client-side. Check it out!
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
This is an excellent tool for learning Unix-type systems. At < 10K lines, it's much smaller than Linux v1, but has most of the parts of a more mature kernel. The source code is clear, and well documented in its own booklet. Highly
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
<3 8tracks. In practice, my girlfriend and I play 8tracks sets at home; we very commonly listen to the same set over and over. Very commonly I'll find an artist I like with 8tracks, then switch to Rdio to listen to the rest of thei
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
I second this. I've been an extremely happy paid subscriber to Rdio for years. I generally listen to full albums on the desktop (at work), with a moderate bit of classical. Rdio lets me find out about a specific musician/compos
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
As a Python programmer, I live and die over Pylint. Yes it's annoying to configure it, but it saves me hours every _day_. The two biggest benefits are: - syntax or undefined variables in exception handlers - showing which modules are
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
Seconded. I've used Slack at two companies, both with a small, single-purpose team (< 10 people). In each case I and the other users were quite happy with the features available, and the overall design of the app. It isn't fo
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by shavenwarthog2 11y ago
I used Yahoo Pipes to find my apartment. One pipe would grab data from Craigslist, strip out irrelevant items, and send me a text if anything new and interesting appeared. Ditto for Westside Rentals. This combination worked great. If a lame
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
I'm sorry to see Balanced go. As CTO, I used their service and was always impressed. The site and docs were clean and obvious, really helpful when dealing with scary things like money. Kudos, Balanced!
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
Multiprocessing supports "managed objects", shared across multiple processes -- example: http://johntellsall.blogspot.com/2014/05/code-multiprocessin... I'm unsure of the performance ramifications v
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
I've had great luck writing quality code by writing the tests first. Testing code is in a higher level -- simpler -- dialect of your main code, thus easier to understand. Gradually the tests cover more and more code, until I'm co
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
A while back I "hacked" my Samsung TV. I spoofed a DNS entry to point to my laptop, and put a tiny webserver on it. Then I could hit the "News" button on my remote and get obscene fortune cookies on my TV! Then I turned
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
Python :-) there are libraries specifically for parsing malformed html. I'm happy using Unix tools for scraping and parsing, but you run into a brick wall rather quickly. Python is more reliable, flexible, and easier to integrate.
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
I published a few pipes -- enjoy! http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/person.info?guid=W4YBIUCXEVLHMS... They're all quite simple. The most complex one uses the "parse location into lat/long" Pipes feature
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
It's hard to tell -- I tweaked it quite a bit, and rewrote it from scratch 2-3x. I'd say 4-10 hours. Was it worth it? As a programmer, no. I'm very familiar with scraping (raw) web/RSS feeds for data, then processing it.
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
Agreed. I did a multipart Yahoo Pipes project to find my current apartment. It grabbed info from two sites, tossed out the uninteresting ones, filtered it a bit, then texted me if a new apartment in my price/location range appeared.
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by shavenwarthog2 12y ago
I'm very interested in business intelligence for my startup, and am happy to pay a service for this. Alas the OP's site seems premature. No info.
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
Sounds like the Intel i860 from the late 1990s. Frighteningly fast VLIW in theory, but in practice not so much. I think untweaked code ran at 3% of max speed.
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
Yes. For others: 1) consider installing the "unattended-upgrades" tool, to install security updates via cron. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticSecurityUpdates 2) specific Ubuntu Security Notice on
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
Agreed. I got my first job running correctly with Rq in fifteen minutes, and was able to go on to other things. Recommended!
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
Thanks! I looooved Total Annihilation, I'd love to play some more!
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
I'm happy to hate on Bank of America, but they've caught multiple fraudulent charges for me too. Good for them!
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
I agree, for some reason Evernote always rubbed me the wrong way. An alternative I really like is Springpad. You can write notes or Todos, put in notebooks with tags, or take a picture. It recognizes what a "movie" is and gives y
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
I recommend taking a look at Whoosh -- I worked with it extensively a few years back, adding a keyvalue backend for it. It seems to be designed for indexing manpages. That is, a medium-sized semi-static database with a few different dimens
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
+1 Mint. I used Ubuntu, not Debian, because things "just worked." Ubuntu over time seemed to get slower and more intrusive, so I tried out Mint. It is fast, not over complex, and things like media and devices Just Work. I&#x2
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
high performance I/O library, with Windows support. I'm happy to note it has bindings for a lot of languages, including Python: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/wiki/Projects-that-use-libuv I&#x27
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
LynxOS is hard-real-time, unlike Linux, but is Linux-compatible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LynxOS
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
On NPR the other day they said solidly red Kentucky is running their own site, and is doing really well. It sounded like they were more specific in what they wanted, and perhaps had reduced functionality thus complexity. Either way, kudos
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
Wonderful news. I've used three different major versions of CM on my antique wheezy Nook Color, and it's made all the difference. Salud!
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by shavenwarthog2 13y ago
I saw the author, my friend Lisa-ann Gerswhin give a talk recently. The startling points I came away with are: 1) There are several strong self-reinforcing loops that dramatically help jellyfish, at the expense of human-valued things -- li

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