wacowz

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   by wacowz 10y ago

   A good number of countries require visa. Being granted a visa is often an uphill task, with demands made for your bank statements, proof of income to ascertain you have a job to come back to, proof of hotel bookings for where you are headed
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   by wacowz 10y ago

   I often see stories of people quitting their jobs and travelling the world and how awesome it is. It's sth I look forward to doing but being the holder of a Kenyan passport, I highly doubt I'll actually manage to "travel arou
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   by wacowz 10y ago

   The numbers for pyparallel are quite impressive.
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   by wacowz 10y ago

   It's often the case that some work needs to be done outside of the request/response lifecycle, eg external api calls, data aggregation, sending notifications etc. Most of it is essentially IO bound. We happen to have lots of such
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   by wacowz 10y ago

   Every time I read an article like this, all I can think is, this is what Elixir and Erlang are built for. I love Python and use it on a daily basis, but developing concurrent systems in Python is beginning to look like a questionable choice