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by vforgione 9y ago
Privacy is a major concern for the project, and the directors regularly meet with private and public collaborators. There are also community meetings that take place so that people in the city can ask questions and have their concerns addre
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by vforgione 9y ago
The code for the sensors is on GitHub. I’ll try to find if the actual boards are hosted anywhere. https://github.com/waggle-sensor
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by vforgione 9y ago
I am the lead engineer for Plenario. We act as the public API for AoT. Both projects are a part of the Computation Institute at UChicago and I work very closely with the engineers on their team, as well as with people from other partner org
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by vforgione 9y ago
> Edward Snowden’s NASA spying revelations ಠ_ಠ
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by vforgione 9y ago
I have been working with Elixir for a couple months and I just adore it! I found it easy to get up to speed and working competently in a relatively short amount of time. The ecosystem, docs and developer community are robust and getting str
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by vforgione 9y ago
When Elasticsearch rolled out a new half float type that I found to be very useful for something I was working on, I added it as a new type to the elasticsearch-dsl-py project. I've done other small contributions to other projects, but
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by vforgione 9y ago
For simple arithmetic I find that extremely confusing. I also would have guessed that the equals was an assertion for the addition.
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by vforgione 9y ago
> 6 - 1 = 5 > 6 Stopped right after the author explained that line. What benefits does this offer over LtR programming languages? I would consider debugging this as a form of punishment.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Exactly this. Every production Flask project I've seen has a massive requirements file to bolt on functionality that comes built into Django. The second I realize that I need an auth system or may potentially have a DB migration, I sel
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by vforgione 9y ago
I did, but something about Alpine rubs me the wrong way. I know it's probably irrational, but my gut always goes to Debian. I really can't justify it. Maybe I should give it a better chance.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Very cool. I'll have to give it a whirl. I haven't taken a stab at a custom image in a while. Thanks!
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by vforgione 9y ago
The downside to pipenv is that there aren't any good docker images to work with it. I've tried a few times, but I've never given enough time to learning the guts of Docker to make anything stable enough to run with it.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Twine[0] is the tool I've been using for PyPI archive management and Pipenv[1] is looking promising as the next iteration of pip. Twine makes the packaging process _slightly_ easier, although setuptools is still a bit of a pain. Pipenv
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by vforgione 9y ago
This could actually be a cool idea. It seems like the Fulton Market boom flopped and all the real estate went to condos and luxury apartments. Moving a major tech hub into the loop could have some interesting outcomes like balancing the opp
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by vforgione 9y ago
> National governments debate and mostly dither. Cities act, cities do. This is very similar to a sentiment that was shared by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel[0]. He made a case for running for mayor of a, albeit third largest city in the cou
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by vforgione 9y ago
I absolutely think property owners should be able to limit their exposure to risk. I also think that security deposits are great. What I don't buy is being charged non refundable fees in place of what was once a simple deposit in the e
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by vforgione 9y ago
Or they can charge a security deposit. If my pet causes damage it comes out of that; if the cost exceeds the deposit they can demand the additional amount. That's the way it used to be - the recent trend of admin fees (pet or otherwise
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by vforgione 9y ago
I spent $200 two years ago to register my dogs to avoid non refundable pet admin fees and pet rent. It's saved me almost $5k in bullshit charges. When landlords stop gouging, I'll stop finding loopholes.
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by vforgione 9y ago
There's a Chrome icon, but no Firefox or Safari or Edge or any other browser. Not even a generic. Can we please stop with the implicit homogenization around Chrome? /rant
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by vforgione 9y ago
Also excellent. Someone else in this thread made a similar joke and has an all too literal response. I'm starting to think our irreverent sense of humor for our city's politics doesn't translate well.
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by vforgione 9y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a reference to the "vote early and vote often" phrase that is typically correlated with Chicago, and especially with the Democratic machine politics. Source: Chicagoan. And I found this hilarious.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Seconded. I've been trying to find good write ups on production deployment best practices, especially people who have used it commercially for over a year.
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by vforgione 9y ago
Thank you for this. As someone interviewing with a handful of companies in SV and considering relocating, this whole thread reenforces a whole host of misgivings I have of the area. Maybe I'm too Midwestern, but most of the comments re
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by vforgione 9y ago
About a year ago I got really fed up with the way the logging library in python works. I was trying to inject request ids (Flask app with a custom before_request hook to create the ids) into every log entry and ran into numerous issues - sh
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by vforgione 9y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Technologies: Python, Elasticsearch, Postgres Résumé: https://tinyurl.com/vforgione-resume Email: vince.4gione [at] icloud.com Backend specialist