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by tav 14y ago
It's not. The reasons that one might use `plumbum` are similar to the reasons that one might use `fabric` instead of just running local/remote shell scripts, i.e. - Ability to leverage the richness of Python to pre/post-process the inputs/o
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by tav 14y ago
It's a sad day, the day a hacker refuses to look at something because they'd "have a very hard time getting others to do the same". By that same token we should avoid looking at the likes of Haskell, Erlang, Rust, etc. You are absolutely r
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by tav 14y ago
Together with Python e-learning courses this could be a real winner. I say this because back when I tutored compsci students, my most effective method was to use shared (GNU) screen sessions. The pair programming and the ability to see how
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by tav 15y ago
When Youtube refers to Vitess as being RPC-based, they are not referring to Sun RPC (callrpc), but rather to the generic design pattern of exposing service calls over the network. In particular, Vitess makes services callable [-] using eith
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by tav 15y ago
You can also be the 988th kind person to tweet this. The use of the Tweet count to create the custom "tweet this" message is pretty cool.
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by tav 15y ago
Yes, you can compile PyPy to JavaScript. There even used to be a JS backend as part of the RPython translation toolchain, but it got dumped since no-one was interested in working on it [1]. There've been more successful attempts like RPytho
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by tav 15y ago
schmerg and I added support for this in UglifyJS about a year ago. Use the define parameter to define values for constants, e.g. uglify --define DEBUG=true It will then replace all uses of the DEBUG symbol to true. And when you set
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by tav 15y ago
The Link: header has been a part of the HTTP spec since forever. The following example from the HTTP/1.1 spec [1] should look familiar: Link: <http://www.cern.ch/TheBook/chapter2>; rel="Previous" We should be applauding Goo
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Why Bitcoin Will Fail As A Currency(tav.espians.com)
66 points by tav 15y ago|87 comments
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by tav 15y ago
Skype claim to have already fixed the bug with their release last month on April 14th: http://blogs.skype.com/security/2011/05/security_vulnerabili... Sadly the fix seems to be only for the 5.x series and there's no indication for holdout
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by tav 16y ago
Discussion about it: http://mollyrocket.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=10
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Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces (Video)(mollyrocket.com)
1 points by tav 16y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Is anyone interested in gitapps.com?
9 points by tav 16y ago|0 comments
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by tav 16y ago
Thank you for the compliment — I was going to write an article a few weeks ago, but ended up spending the evening redesigning the blog instead: http://tav.espians.com/new-site-design-for-2011.html Procrastination has its benefits I guess,
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by tav 16y ago
Let me get this right. Due to convergent needs, dozens of Fabric users post various ideas to the issue tracker and mailing lists. And over the years, some people hack together personal branches solving some of these issues and, despite the
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by tav 16y ago
Whilst forking is always a possibility, I'd rather contribute back to the project and help improve Fabric collectively. The community is made up of really nice guys and it'd be great if we could figure out a way of getting the various ideas
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Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment(tav.espians.com)
183 points by tav 16y ago|32 comments
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Why stories like Egypt are fit for HN(tav.espians.com)
2 points by tav 16y ago|2 comments
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by tav 16y ago
I've also explained this in another comment, but basically, the call to `normpath` in his code takes care of this, e.g. >>> normpath('ExistingDir/../../parentRestrictedDir/passwords') '../parentRestrictedDir/passwords
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by tav 16y ago
You've overlooked the critical call in the previous line: def is_secure_path(path): path = posixpath.normpath(path) return not path.startswith(('/', '../')) The call to `normpath` normalises the path, e.g. &#6
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by tav 16y ago
I'm writing an https frontend in Go which proxies to App Engine. It increases the bandwidth bill slightly, but means that you can take full advantage of the App Engine APIs. You can see the work in progress here: https://github.com/tav/amp
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by tav 16y ago
Adam, nice work on getting Charts on HTTPS! I understand that Google is a large company. But, with Google Maps in particular it seems to be a business decision rather than a technical one. What can we do to help swing a decision in favour o
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by tav 16y ago
Good catch, thanks! Unfortunately, it's now too late for me to edit, but perhaps someone with appropriate powers can make the correction?
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by tav 16y ago
Not true according to Google: If there's one point that we want to communicate to the world, it's that SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more. Ten years ago it might have been true, but it's just not the case any more. You too c
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by tav 16y ago
On a related note, it would be great to have a listing of all the service providers who do have comprehensive support for open APIs over SSL. Here are a few to get the list started: * Bing Maps * Facebook * GitHub
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HN Petiton: Get Google to support SSL on all of its APIs
72 points by tav 16y ago|21 comments
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by tav 16y ago
I'm surprised at this sentiment. Could you elaborate by any chance? The reason for my surprise is because a significant portion of the Wave code base is geared around the user interface — which was, in many ways, the least attractive aspect
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by tav 16y ago
You can see the top 100 here: http://top.searchyc.com/submissions_by_points Google's New approach to China article is #1 atm — http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800
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by tav 16y ago
Original post with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870029
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by tav 16y ago
It's not a new trend. App Engine has had issues for a long time. Here's an article I wrote early last year about some of its problems and proposed solutions that the GAE team could use to fix them: * http://www.espians.com/why-app-engine-i

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