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by tdavis 17y ago
One thing to remember about Twisted is that it is basically worked on by two people. It is an enormous code base for those two to maintain, develop on, and document at the same time, even if they are ridiculously smart (which they are). I
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by tdavis 17y ago
This is more of a combination of a web server and a web framework , which is what I find fascinating about it. Twisted has had a web server forever, but despite a significant amount of experience in Twisted Land, I'd never write a full a
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by tdavis 17y ago
WARNING: Nothing to see here but a vague description and newsletter sign-up...
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by tdavis 17y ago
In fact, a few months spent learning best-practices for programming in general (including version control, proper testing, automated deployment, isolated environments, etc.) will pay dividends later. Learn these things now (and apply them e
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by tdavis 17y ago
Wow, HN is becoming a really shitty filter. This update says nothing more than what's on the Apps Dashboard. How about waiting for some actual news before voting nothing up to #5?
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by tdavis 17y ago
I have no idea. GitHub isn't "certified", I guess?!
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by tdavis 17y ago
Well of course it fails to work when the reply's tone isn't warranted. In this case, the article was bemoaning IT and blaming all the problems of The Working Man on that department, which has been a theme probably since IT became a depart
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by tdavis 17y ago
no brainer for write-often read-rarely types of applications (logging, metrics I'll probably be re-writing some logging functionality in it, actually. I love asynchronous operations. AKA, "YAY! NEW TOYS!"
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by tdavis 17y ago
Who cares? He should only be using the other 7/8s when nobody else is; that's the entire point. If their virtualization isn't setup to keep people from bogarting resources on a "first come, first keep" basis, that is their poor decision to
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by tdavis 17y ago
nobody on the host machine can burst their share for a quick high-cpu job That only makes sense if there is only one other VM on the machine. Which is basically never the case. EDIT: Or they use a pedestrian virtualization layer.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I used to give them the benefit of the doubt on that. I've now changed my view to: it's probably more difficult than it looks, but Twitter makes it look impossible .
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by tdavis 17y ago
There is no legitimate reason to not escape the damn output , either. Twitter has officially reached the level of satire, folks. 63 Employees. 55 Million dollars. And twice they fail to accomplish the trivial.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Such blatant incompetence astounds me. They can't even validate a field when they know the exact format of the content it should contain?
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by tdavis 17y ago
I knew reading the post was going to be a waste of time, yet I did it anyway. That was stupid. Thanks to your link, I now feel (perhaps irrationally) absolved. Thanks!
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by tdavis 17y ago
The tipping point between amateurs and professionals (what happened to average?) is probably not empty platitudes and a sweeping disdain for one's code. And sorry, Jeff, I blog mostly to help people. The rest of the time I'm just looking fo
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by tdavis 17y ago
I thought your argument was specious, but hardly warranting a public apology. In any case, spending 30 days in airports and airplanes sounds absolutely miserable; far from an "adventure". But, hey, different strokes for different folks and
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by tdavis 17y ago
Think pie. Think pie and space shuttles. Pie = Simple and delicious. Shuttles = Complex and metallic. Pie = Shuttle Killer. 'Nuff said. If you're not going to make any sense, you might as well go all the way.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I think people of all races, colors, and creeds can come together to be offended by this hand-waving, contentless, link-baiting nonsense that somehow hasn't been flagged into oblivion yet. Maybe that's just me.
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by tdavis 17y ago
WARNING: Outraged people being outraged! Companies have been targeting specific demographics since the beginning of time. Most McDonalds commercials on the radio are recorded using black people. But not the one for their iced-mocha coffee d
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by tdavis 17y ago
Sorry to hear, my friend. I had a hunch it was coming; why move back to SF unless you were soon to be in need of a job (or fresh investors for TipJoy 2 ;)? I'm, impressed though. You stuck with it for a long time and handled the shutdown ri
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by tdavis 17y ago
Alan (of Cloudant) is tryng to take the reigns but we haven't had lot of interest (granted, only a couple days notice this week). Subscribe to boston-startup-poker@googlegroups.com for more info.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Apparently a lot of people disagree with you, given the number of Erlang articles. Not that it's a very good way to deal with the problem. Not that said "problem" can be identified objectively, anyway. Not that flagging does enough anymore
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by tdavis 17y ago
It's the only way to prune the rose bush. Shit was getting pretty wilted.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Call me crazy, but I like the way things are. Having huge, centralized bodies with easy access to all of my information sounds awful. The government knows enough about me already, why would I trust I private corporation with all of my dat
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by tdavis 17y ago
Mostly people upvote things they agree with and ignore the quality and insight of the comment entirely. The exact opposite of how it's supposed to be, but even HN is subject to herd mentality and so on.
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by tdavis 17y ago
When I was younger, my main motivation for acquiring a new set was almost never to build whatever was in it (in fact, I probably only built a few of the hundreds I received); they contained pieces or modules I wanted for ongoing projects.
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by tdavis 17y ago
The idea was to make it impossible to reply quickly to deeply-nested threads in order to let the flames settle (the assumption being that deeply-nested threads are generally just flame wars). It appears it was only made less convenient.
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by tdavis 17y ago
NOTE: #startups is about 30% startup/hacker stuff and 70% utter nonsense. I contribute mostly to the nonsense portion, but a few of us regulars were/are in YC and frequently answer YC-related questions.
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by tdavis 17y ago
How about a Hacker [News] version of this... http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-css3-selectors-20011113/#select... I don't generally engage in meta arguments, but HN is not the place for gentle Smashing Magazine intros to something as basic as
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by tdavis 17y ago
Wow, this is some of the worst writing I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot. The entire thing contradicts itself. One paragraph, web development is way too complicated. The next, he doesn't want to be a web developer because it's not com

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