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by zepolen 16y ago
> Haven't been able to make very good capuccino yet, but I'm told that's a matter of milk-frothing technique :) You won't get anything better than a semidecent froth on amateur machines like this no matter how good your technique is. Th
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by zepolen 16y ago
Peak on a decent traffic site will be roughly 2x-3x the average. 5x-20x would be a blog that gets 10 visitors a day and after being posted on news.yc gets 100 visitors.
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by zepolen 16y ago
So worst case they will be doing 4 req/s instead of 2. I know what you're trying to say, but at Quora's numbers, as OP said, it truly is irrelevant.
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by zepolen 16y ago
You don't really appreciate Python until you try and program in something like Java again. The following code is readable and I have required a variation of it in a program before: sorted([ord(c) for c in set('letters in this
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by zepolen 16y ago
The very definition of hacking is using something in a way it was not meant to be used. Last time I checked, the top left of this site still said 'Hacker News'. If you find hacks stupid, why are you here?
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by zepolen 16y ago
Either you do it correctly (as in list manipulation, in place) or do it pythonically. That code is somewhere in between. The pythonic version would be s.replace(c, '')
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by zepolen 16y ago
Also, I prefer to be able to know what the software on my computer is actually doing, especially when it comes to internet communications.
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by zepolen 16y ago
Still not open source? No thanks.
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by zepolen 16y ago
Is 14 any way programming related or is my hunch correct and I've got to find an album which has all those songs in it?
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by zepolen 16y ago
There is no reason to keep using a (visibly) empty toner cartridge, in fact, it can cause 2 issues: a) When the cartridge has no toner, there is still a 'buffer' of toner that is in the developer roller that transfers the toner to the drum.
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by zepolen 17y ago
Not that I doubt what you said, but the 'due diligence' comment reminds me of this: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/89kto/student_finds_cel...
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by zepolen 17y ago
Shame it [gmails version] doesn't work like that though.
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by zepolen 17y ago
Does Redis block when writing to disk?
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by zepolen 17y ago
Yes, being event based helps a lot, but the reason nginx is faster than other event based webservers is that it tries very very hard to add as little overhead as possible; For example not copying memory around unless absolutely neccessary.
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by zepolen 17y ago
I don't understand when people go crazy with their servers after getting mentioned on the social web because of the load. It's short lived, no need to panic, just make the page static. wget http://www.mysite.com/page-being-hit-all-the
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by zepolen 17y ago
An online TOS is not worth anything unless you can prove to a judge that the user did indeed read and agree to that exact version of the TOS. For example, a user can edit the html, print it out, and claim that was what he agreed to wh
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by zepolen 17y ago
I wish he would do an explain on the original slow query. 12 million rows is not that much, this looks a lot like he was just missing an index on device_id.
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by zepolen 17y ago
and probably never will.
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by zepolen 17y ago
Most people (even geeks) use google to find a site they don't remember the exact url for, and google does a very good job at finding that url, regardless if there is a .com with the same name. Eg. searching for 'python' gets you python.org
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by zepolen 17y ago
Computers were still a niche tool 40 years after their invention. I think that once people realise applications that apply to the mainstream they will become as cheap and as widespread as inkjet printers.
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by zepolen 17y ago
I am awake 30 hours more a week than on the regular 8 hour sleep. By the time I'm 50, I've have been conscious 5 years longer than most people. I don't think you'd meet any older person who won't trade 20 of their older years to be 5 years
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by zepolen 17y ago
Yep, a process per core. The beauty is that since your app has to be written to be multiprocess capable then you can also extend past one computer when the need arises. You pay a memory tax overhead though.
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by zepolen 17y ago
I know this is 'hacker' news, but 100,000 is much more readable.
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by zepolen 17y ago
I feel tired as the day ends, but never that I'm too tired to think stage until just before I'm ready to sleep.
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by zepolen 17y ago
I've got a different experience; ~14 hours is the maximum sleep needed to completely recover. I get by on 2 hours of sleep a night all week and just have an extended 14 hour sleep on Sunday. I've been doing this for about 3 years now so may
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by zepolen 17y ago
Yes, that's why I use their (slightly overpriced) services. It couldn't possibly be the features, reliability, ease of us, awesome documentation and almost instant availability.
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by zepolen 17y ago
Why are real threads so important? Does anyone have an example where threads would be much better than using the multiprocessing module?
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by zepolen 17y ago
Nice effort, but time taken to get to fully loaded state is a useless metric. My homepage takes 2 seconds to load according to google, however what it doesn't/can't realise is that after 150ms (ie. the html page and css is downloaded) the p
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by zepolen 17y ago
How would Postgresql fare?
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by zepolen 17y ago
While this is a good overview of the css float property, I just hate that they specify its usage for the 3-column layout; that's not what it was intended for. Almost every time someone calls css 'terrible for layout' it's because they are t

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