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by thorax 19y ago
I figured the hackers around here would understand that these things are more a function of popularity, with one of the variables being the core security design. Thinking you're "safe" using any popular software is pretty much living in den
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by thorax 19y ago
I felt very lonely-- being the only one during Guido's keynote to get up and tell him how much we didn't like the GIL (in the form of a Py3k question). I'm quite glad to hear this sentiment getting some renewed backing. I mentioned it many
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by thorax 19y ago
Like those ED-209 bloopers...
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by thorax 19y ago
That's when the hackers here step in, right?
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by thorax 19y ago
I was at Pycon this week. While I'd like to see no highlighted sponsor talks in the lightning talks (I was bumped partially due to them eating up available time), I didn't feel like the rest of the con was particularly bad. The talks from W
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by thorax 19y ago
Do you have references for "nothing even approaches"? Specifically compared to Sphinx? The only comparisons I've found are showing sphinx coming ahead in many indexing/search cases (if only slightly). See my other comment on this thread wit
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by thorax 19y ago
I see a lot of comments from those preferring Macs. As much as I respect that, a lot of people reading this site are bootstrapping startups and I'd never be able to recommend going that route unless you need to use Mac-forte apps (or are de
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by thorax 19y ago
Some random benchmarks: http://jayant7k.blogspot.com/2006/06/benchmarking-results-of... http://pagetracer.com/2008/02/15/sphinx-and-lucene-search-en...
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by thorax 19y ago
I've heard good things about Lucene, but we use Sphinx: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ For our tests, it indexed much faster than the common Lucene implementations, and for our needs was also a tad faster overall. I haven't tried the newest
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Announced at PyCon today: Find a random person nearby for lunch(noonhat.com)
3 points by thorax 19y ago|1 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
I'm reading this book currently. A lot of it is covered in traditional AI courses in CS programs, but I like seeing the Pythonic representations of some of the concepts. The site itself seems kind of neat, feels like you'd need to use it fo
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by thorax 19y ago
Tiny URLs got a resurgence in a world of SMS and Twitter. (Full disclosure: I have a simple URL shrinking service myself, http://ri.ms -- not pretty, but functional)
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by thorax 19y ago
I did it simply by renting from the bigger companies at their smallest levels for the shortest periods, asking their support team about the service and gleaning what one can from those. Does require some money to do that, though.
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by thorax 19y ago
Their comparison of FF2 and IE7 don't match mine-- FF2 is taking up incredible amounts of memory over usage versus IE7 for me. Probably the extensions, but, man, I'd love to know which ones.
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Short interactive Python puzzle. Did you solve it before the end?(jorendorff.com)
4 points by thorax 19y ago|1 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
I run/host a community of Python new entry-level scripters. This seems perfect for them to see so they'll understand a little more about what they're seeing. I'd welcome any other cheat sheets which you prefer, though. I was actually impres
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by thorax 19y ago
A friend of mine had this same issue
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by thorax 19y ago
I tried half a year program of doing small game server rentals instances. Not reselling, exactly, but providing slices of (good-priced) dedicated servers. Very low margins, lots of support headaches, lots of competition. It probably depends
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by thorax 19y ago
To provide an opposing anecdote, our startup literally got direct contacts/calls from VCs specifically due to our coverage on TechCrunch. We had been front page on Digg and that got us a crazy number of uniques, but the initial VC interest
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by thorax 19y ago
Anyone use this and/or know anything about it? Anyone create an account? Seems like a good idea, but feels like it might be a bit weird using this sort of site. How do they qualify the investors such that capital seekers don't run into prob
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by thorax 19y ago
One danger about "eating your own dog food" is that your entire company can get blind to the faults they forced themselves to overcome/stomach initially. "Eating your own dog food" gets you to find major flaws that get it working for yourse
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by thorax 19y ago
Here's another sneaky trick I just thought of. Set up a Google Blog Alert (or other blog search alert service) for the technologies you think make a good hacker. For example "python", "lisp" or "arc". As you get new personal blog alerts on
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by thorax 19y ago
This site is not a bad one to pitch to hackers, being Hackers News. There are also a few other sites: http://www.partnerup.com/ http://programmermeetdesigner.com/ In a way it depends on how discrete you wish to be about your idea. Think
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by thorax 19y ago
I signed up to try it out. I actually think the convenience could be a huge win. I already see lots of potential in the UI. Some thoughts I had: 1. Bridging the gap between digital and analog is not a bad strategy if you can bring all the a
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by thorax 19y ago
They have greeting cards, too. I think this service could do well if it emphasized that. Advice/Request: Can you add user-generated greeting cards like threadless does for T-shirts? If you do, I think your service will win. Thanks! Bye! (no
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by thorax 19y ago
They Might Be Giants
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Ask YC: Any hackers here ever in an online coding competition?
19 points by thorax 19y ago|11 comments
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by thorax 19y ago
Here's some example code in Python for talking to the GTalk servers to other GTalk-supported emails other than @gmail.com and @googlemail.com: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/618 If you're connecting to talk.google.com to send the me
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by thorax 19y ago
Would you consider creating a project at http://featurelist.org so I can submit some feature requests and we can vote on them? Why can't GTalk addresses be anything but gmail/googlemail? I have accounts that are created using Google Apps
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by thorax 19y ago
:( Very much so.

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