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by wizard_2 16y ago
I love python and Django but this highlights one of the main things I don't like about Django development, the thousand of packages you end up using.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
And that is a very large controversy. Governments can't even get voting machines that a) work correctly and b) are tamper resistant. It scares me to death that the same contract/bidding system that produces the many monstrosities that supp
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I don't buy this, you have to plan the versions of your "api" if I'm going to change a field into a required field I have to have a plan for clients who don't supply it. You skip all the business and validation logic with direct db access.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I love how this is all possible albeit not practical.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Ditto - the firt few tools were small and only used by my team, the next few were big and used by everybody eventually, working on round 3...
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I'm being asked to create webservices so other developers don't do direct database access and their stuff wont break when things change. How do you manage that?
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by wizard_2 16y ago
This got sent to my dba team. =)
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Stolen from the html5 boilerplate  <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script> <script>!windo
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by wizard_2 16y ago
How is https like an electric fence?
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I am in NYC. I've never worked with any over seas developers though.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Thanks for your advice!
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Ask HN: I've got a full time job I love & extra cash, I want to invest.
8 points by wizard_2 16y ago|7 comments
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Try to get the cops to care about this. Try to get campus security to care about this. Try to get your campus IT department to care about this. (They probably don't want you running servers anyway.) Law enforcement has bigger issues. In a w
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I started as one of those kids (now I'm twice their age) and it why I'm a good consultant. I got experience and made mistakes when I had the time and freedom to. I got to try things I probably wouldn't today. (Mostly because I didn't know b
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I recently spent about a week trying to hack Django Bursar into something useful. I was woefully surprised at the lack of payment libraries available in python. I highly recommend stealing as much as you can from existing systems (including
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by wizard_2 16y ago
They don't really care about the companies name or if it's a company credit card.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
What's the major difference between wepay and someone else like Square? I've recently received my square reader and I'm liking their service well enough.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
You will get used to it and if you're ever up before dawn and see it change to blue again you'll be even more weirded out. The hardest part is explaining to other people, but even they've stopped noticing. PS And yes, it lets me get tired a
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by wizard_2 16y ago
The cpu load can be mitigated with frontend https accelerators or proxies (think nginx as a load balancer doing the https). The real problem is the first connection. Browsers don't fall back to https, if nothing answers on http they'll give
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Can I have nyc.ww.com cnamed to nyc.wizard-domains.com (which I'll add for this purpose!) I see that it's taken but inactive. Otherwise nycme.ww.com. =)
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I grabbed that out of an older project, most of my newer ones only have a save.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I'm pretty new to perl scripting but most of my cgi's at work look like this near the beginning. How is that crazy bit of code better? (Post_only is just a function that returns the function or a 404 if the request isn't a post) # Dispa
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by wizard_2 16y ago
While I have no doubt it sneaked its way in though some means you weren't expecting, I've never seen air install automatically. It often is shoehorned in though flash, but there are numerous prompts about what it's about to do.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
What app did you make?
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Same dam story for me too - I'm not a big gamer, I don't have time to play normally and minecraft has won over starcraft 2 for the past week.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I can tell you first hand the police don't have the manpower or knowhow to track people on the internet. They're good but they need help.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I feel your pain, I was robbed earlier this week and they took my laptop (among other things). There are two things you can do. 1) Report the serial number and your police case number to the genius bar. If this guy ever goes for service the
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by wizard_2 16y ago
Who sees your credit card statement? You get it mailed, you see it online, its fairly private.
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I'll second that, as a New Yorker who works in midtown I see tourists all the time. Mostly people ignore them, often we give directions or advice (like don't stop in the middle of the sidewalk, don't leave your purse on the subway seat, thi
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by wizard_2 16y ago
I'm one of the 9 million new yorkers who take the subway to work every morning and work in midtown. If I had to rely on a net connection for music, photos, etc I would be without a great deal of the day. (During transit, at 5pm, in some off

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