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by tdavis 15y ago
I know this pain; I am forced to work with GAE every day now. And let me tell you, the only thing worse than not having 2.7's features is having un-patched bugs from as early as 2008--like one that prevents keyword arguments from being unic
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by tdavis 15y ago
For Javascript testing, I really like JSTestDriver for automation and Sinon for mocking/stubbing. I found bulky solutions like Selenium to be somewhat hit-or-miss and overkill for most tasks. It's very rare that with proper unit testing I r
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by tdavis 15y ago
The huge number of lambdas had a tendency to muddle the first example; somebody should tell this gentleman about the `operator` module. Other than that, looks interesting! The decorator syntax may be a more apparent way to handle assertions
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by tdavis 15y ago
Really? I thought this was rather good prose and the core message is quite accurate. As someone neither disturbed or depressed, I found it a quite refreshing read. On the one hand you can always argue that humanity isn't doing enough "meani
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by tdavis 16y ago
Almost as simple, but production-ready (fast, daemonize-able, ssl, etc.): twistd -n web --port=8080 --path=.
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Applying to Y Combinator: Tips for Standing Out(recursivedream.com)
8 points by tdavis 16y ago|1 comments
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by tdavis 16y ago
> that is true, but it's also irrelevant, since typical consulting firms actually charge much more. Again, it's irrelevant if you redefine "typical consulting company" as one of a clearly atypical group of big-name firms with tens to hu
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by tdavis 16y ago
So now your argument is that there are about a dozen "consulting companies" in the world and the rest are loose collections of "freelancers"? Banal use of semantics aside, you still haven't said anything that refutes the problems/solutions
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by tdavis 16y ago
> I think the author of this article has no experience with consulting companies. Jason has extensive experience with consulting companies, as you would know had you taken the 20 seconds necessary to read his bio before starting you
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by tdavis 16y ago
Oh, thanks; fixed!
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by tdavis 16y ago
Yes, I was. I left the company in early December after a year of creating / maintaining the web infrastructure and e-commerce and analytics products. I accepted a co-founder title in mid-2010 but decided it wasn't a good fit shortly after a
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by tdavis 16y ago
Mail in electronic format may be dispatched to "info" at said domain. Although if your feedback is on the rather poor landing page, you should wait until the new one is up ;)
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by tdavis 16y ago
Wow, thanks Jacques! I'm not convinced I've ever done something worth being thanked for, but I definitely appreciate it a lot! Closing down TS was tough (and I squandered a few thousand dollars putting it off), but in the end I'm really gla
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by tdavis 16y ago
In what way is terminology badly abused? There isn't a single use of the word "cloud" in the entire article and the only "buzzword" terminology used appears to be used accurately and sparingly. If that isn't your contention, why not explain
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by tdavis 16y ago
Check out http://readthedocs.org . It's what you're talking about for Python docs using Sphinx ( http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ )
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by tdavis 16y ago
I completely agree with you: the blog should be better linked and branded. I run into blogs every day that have absolutely no way to get to the main site without changing the URL, and it's incredibly frustrating. I wasn't trying to disprove
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by tdavis 16y ago
> b.) No direct link to the product website Except for the one in the sidebar that says "WakeMate Homepage". It's under a big white header labeled "Links". > Since I'm on an iPad, it's orders of magnitude easier to simply hit the ba
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by tdavis 16y ago
In the process of building such a service, we've already spoken to a couple lawyers about these issues and it's quite a legal gray area right now. We're working on ways to structure the system to avoid these particular requirements, at leas
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by tdavis 16y ago
Not yet, but we're building it! http://swaptitude.com
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by tdavis 16y ago
Softlayer (my preferred dedicated host for years) does this as well. I agree that it's currently impossible to beat the combination of bare metal performance and cost efficiency with the ability to spin up cloud servers within one's own VLA
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by tdavis 16y ago
Dedicated (rented) offers similar performance improvements and cost reductions without the extreme upfront cost (obviously costing more over its lifetime as a result). But these days it really seems like a blind spot. Maybe it's just that I
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by tdavis 16y ago
Python could certainly use a generic payments library—like what libcloud has done for cloud providers. And I don't want to demoralize you or ridicule the work done already. However, there are a number of problems with the implementation as
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by tdavis 16y ago
nginx in front of gunicorn is fast, simple, efficient with resources, and reasonably scalable. Today, there's nothing else I would recommend. Of course, use [d]vcs, setup.py, virtualenv, pip, and south (and a reasonable test suite!). Using
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by tdavis 16y ago
Y Combinator isn't about money. They effectively provide team living expenses for three months; assuming you're already a competent developer or creative type, you can save three months living expenses in no time. Y Combinator is about peop
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The New Sharing Economy(life-connected.com)
27 points by tdavis 16y ago|12 comments
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by tdavis 16y ago
> Is it ethical? WakeMate never actually collected any money from the pre-sales, so I don't think there's anything that could be considered unethical about it. If we had, that'd probably be a different story. > Is it advisable fr
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by tdavis 16y ago
Though biased (I wrote all of WakeMate's web-based software), I think the product is solid and works as described; Beta users have agreed. Release estimation and product management in general are clearly a different matter, but we have se
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by tdavis 16y ago
Ditto for generators. In the process you could introduce pipelining and thus give a window into the Unix way which is probably pretty relevant for a newcomer. Or I've just been around too long to know what's relevant for a newcomer.
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by tdavis 16y ago
...all this industry gossip, fanboy-bait, and the lack of user-generated content drives down the quality for me in a big way The more mainstream adoption HN receives, the more the stories will degrade to the lowest common denominator—that
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by tdavis 16y ago
Awesome job guys! A couple notes, from somebody who's done the interactive seating maps stuff before... First off, this is essentially a direct clone of Fansnap.com's UI; I'd be surprised if SeatGeek didn't get heat over it. And since Fansn

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