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by thraxil 14y ago
I'm a programmer in NYC and I also do art on the side (I've shown in galleries in the city here as well as London and Berlin). Honestly, most of the art scene here (with some very exceptional exceptions) is boring, incestuous, and more inte
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by thraxil 14y ago
Has Google ever sold any product off? Could they, even? They don't build isolated products the same way that many other software companies do. Everything they build is built on their own infrastructure, not some commodity stack. Even if the
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by thraxil 14y ago
OK. That sounds reasonable and pretty comparable to what I expect to see from a full-stack framework.
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by thraxil 14y ago
"Yes, one solution is to run a concurrent web server like Unicorn, but this is very difficult on Heroku since concurrent servers use more memory and Heroku’s dynos only have 512mb of ram, which is low for even processing one request simulta
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by thraxil 14y ago
Yep. I do mostly Django development and my project template just automatically sets up a virtualenv in a 've' subdirectory and sets the shebang line in manage.py to "#!ve/bin/python". From there, I just run "./manage.py whatever" and I neve
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by thraxil 14y ago
Having used nginx on other projects, I'm sure you're right. My blog setup is pretty old and hasn't really needed any improvements. On newer deployments, I'm still using Apache+mod_wsgi to manage the Django processes (it's a setup that has b
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by thraxil 14y ago
I'm constantly amazed at how poorly Wordpress is able to perform. 2.5GB virtual server with a cache in front of it and it went down? My blog is a Django app running on a 512MB Rackspace VM with a basic Apache, mod_wsgi, and Postgres setup.
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by thraxil 14y ago
Worth noting that a lot of the profile pics in the search results are NSFW.
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by thraxil 14y ago
Zed is a master of subtle provocation (and not-so-subtle, if you are familiar with his other projects). I suspect that he doesn't actually think that it's easier to become a real designer than it is to be a programmer. But there's a certa
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by thraxil 14y ago
I run a Tahoe-LAFS grid that spans a couple drives in my home machine and my office workstation. The majority of "archival" stuff I need to store that's large and relatively infrequently accessed (music, ripped DVD backups, hi-res TIFF scan
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by thraxil 14y ago
The motionCAPTCHA author seems to be hilariously clueless. Read through the comments on the site from a year ago. A bunch of people, including Aaron Swartz, point out that it misses the fundamental point of a CAPTCHA (being a task that's ea
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by thraxil 14y ago
Sometimes the correct approach is to ignore the error. If printf or equivalent in a hello world program can't print to stdout, what should it do instead of crashing? Send an email? I don't think I've ever seen a hello world for a language w
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by thraxil 14y ago
You can also just look at the server logs. That's what most of us did before Google Analytics (and still do).
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by thraxil 14y ago
My understanding is that the static linking is a temporary measure to keep things simple and let them focus on getting the language stable. Dynamic linking will come later.
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by thraxil 14y ago
Yes and no. I wrote the Python version in probably under an hour. My girlfriend had gotten into playing some stupid Facebook version of Boggle and I just wanted to see her face when I came out of nowhere with implausibly high scores. I didn
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by thraxil 14y ago
Spolsky has an old article on how the UI of the software used affects the community: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswi...
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by thraxil 14y ago
Nice. Implementing the same problem in Clojure has been on my todo list. Now I've seen yours though so I guess I'll have to think up another problem :)
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by thraxil 14y ago
Yeah, it was only a tenfold improvement because I was only benchmarking the solving of one board at a time, so a significant amount of time was spent on overhead, reading in the word list from disk, etc. I suspect if I ran multiple passes o
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by thraxil 14y ago
Aha. Someone posted this up here. That's why I've gotten a huge burst of comments on the site in the last couple hours.
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by thraxil 15y ago
Digging through code a bit, it looks like plupload accomplishes the resize by handing off to Flash or Silverlight, so I don't think it would work in a pure JS environment without either of those.
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by thraxil 15y ago
I was there when Chad launched Testosterone back at PyCon 2006. Good times, indeed. I don't think naming a test app "Testosterone" is particularly sexist, especially next to a lot of what we've seen happening recently, but I think he's maki
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by thraxil 16y ago
It's opt-in.
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by thraxil 16y ago
I think you need to work on this a bit more. It seems that a very large percentage of the web apps I work on, which include a few JavaScript libraries but are primarily written in Perl or Python get classified by Github as "JavaScript". I'v
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by thraxil 16y ago
As a diehard mutt user, I wish them the best of luck.
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by thraxil 16y ago
Were you actually intending to link directly to the comments section rather than to the top of the article? Am I the only one that finds that annoying?
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by thraxil 16y ago
It seems to me that this would actually be easier for software to bypass than a regular image based CAPTCHA, it just consumes a bit more bandwidth. Pulling individual frames out of a video is simple, so you just pull a few frames out of the