zedshaw

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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   > Previously, there was no config file, and you didn't have this problem. This is false, there is a config file. Look in examples/configs/ for examles of config files. People really don't get this. There's a config file, and a config
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   The post is against all the people who say stupid things like "mongrel2 doesn't have config files I can put in git" when I've got config files I put in fossil. It's a stupid statement that's just false, and this was the latest reason they
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   Nope, I'm not, I'm pointing out the idiocy of assuming this is a probable risk. The chance that someone does this on accident is non-existent at best, and recovery is simple. The only remaining option is that someone does it intentionally
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   That add-on looks bad ass. Thanks!
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   1. It's a slow Sunday, go outside. 2. There are not millions of web servers, unless you mean deployed then there are way more than millions. 3. You're right, the only reason anyone cares is because I wrote it. Just move along and don't go
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   Hey, you live in SF? Can I pick your brain sometime?
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   It's really hard to load those in C and keep the dependencies and bloat down.
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   You keep using the logic phrases that you seem to not understand. It's not a false dichotomy, it's a generalization that has no external validity. It has internal validity though.
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   by zedshaw 16y ago

   Whenever someone wants to shoot down a new system that is weird, they pull out djb. "DJB did this thing with qmail and everyone hated it, but he wanted it his way and that's why nobody uses qmail." It's another fear buzzword for sysadmins.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I'm glad I could help clarify your FUD. > which is, in essence, a Unix take on the Windows Registry Ah, the windows registry canard. You are the canard king man. Let's see you've pulled out djb and windows registry. I think your next
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I usually find that when people request something weird, it's because they have a "special sauce" idea they want to implement and not tell me about. As for sqlite3 being overkill, go check out the code for loading the config with sqlite, an
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Ah the old DJB canard. I will counter your DJB with Alan Kay who's work inspired and/or created a huge amount of our modern technological world.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    So you meant "official" then. I actually don't mind your rebuttals and over throw attempt, I live for that kind of debate. You just tend to write one-liners that really have no meaning and provide nothing useful as feedback. For example,
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Exactly. With m2sh the regular small usage case is very easy, and you get tons of capabilities other servers don't have. It's not preventing you from working how you work now, just gives one more step. But, for everyone else, and the futu
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Already get those. There's folks who want to use redis, couchdb, just about anything that can store configurations. I think the thing most existing sysadmins don't get is that this is written for people who have to manage mongrel2 servers
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I think you win a prize for seeing into the future.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    A couple people have mentioned this, and really I'll tell you a little secret: The config loading in Mongrel2 is all abstracted away and could support anything. I haven't done anything explicitly to let you write a "config load module" but
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    What? You should totally be into .ini files. I mean, one incomprehensible difficult to automate bizarre ass user interface file is no better than any other.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    > At any given moment your server cannot be guaranteed to be in a configuration that is specified by your dump file, or by any version of your dump file. It's a database, and one that's used by the entire world to reliably store data gu
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I think me and you have some different definition of canonical: http://www.wordnik.com/words/canonical All I see are things about religion, dressing like the status quo, and other things that say "old way of doing things". I think you me
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    > Instead of having a simple text format that is the configuration, he encourages everyone to write their own. Uh no, you obviously didn't read the article where at the end I show you the default format we provide to you in m2sh. I thi
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I don't think it's a valid comparison between your large data set and my configuration storage, but cool that you went simpler and got more out of it.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Yeah, there's no "true programmers", and you're probably going to get fleeced if you try to hire one without some serious capital that isn't your own (read: investors who don't expect the money back). How exactly did you go about learning t
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Thanks, I think I fixed it but the ticket is kind of vague: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/tktview/08a86ff3098eae91d8c... Update it for me if I didn't understand what you think should be done.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Thanks. I appreciate it.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    I work on Jazz mostly, but older Jazz. Which means I play a lot of scales. :-)
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Doubt it. He may have used a chapter of text to explain something, but who he explained it to probably could understand it in a chapter of text.
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Please don't put it online in HTML just yet. I need to get it edited, and I'm afraid people will put versions of the book up in HTML format with errors and problems. Once the book is 1.0 then I'll have it online and anyone else can put it
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    Yep, the plan is to create a better site, offer the book on lulu.com in dead tree and ereader formats, and put it up in HTML format. I won't do any of that yet though because I need to edit it and don't want people getting bad web pages fro
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    by zedshaw 16y ago

    "Higher-order functions, ... list transformations" you just said four words that are an entire book on their own.