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dangayle

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Technical Architect, Performance @ Shopify
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dangayle··on Rewriting Reddit (2005)
What's cool is that there is a legitimate push to make Jinja a first class citizen in Django, with other third party templating engines being available via a new API.
dangayle··on Firefox 33
Unless you have open a bunch of tabs, like I typically do. With multiple tabs, Firefox is easily the best performer.

Chrome is the only app I have on my Macbook Air that pushes it into overheating, turning it into a lap-frying iron skillet.

dangayle··on CUPS 2.0
How do you know I haven't?
dangayle··on CUPS 2.0
I have no comment about CUPS, but I will say that I find this site to be pleasant on the eyes, even if it is just bootstrap. I feel like half the reason people don't want to use Debian or GNU stuff or other free software is because the sites themselves are fugly remnants of the mid-nineties and leave much to be desired from a usability standpoint.

How hard would it be to simply wrap their boring html and drop it into a bog standard bootstrap? Like, a day?

dangayle··on Reddit
The other end of the spectrum is the Stack Overflow method, which ends up with the most uptight and pedantic users ending up with all the control, who use their power to rain havoc upon those who might otherwise have been much better moderators.

With Reddit, you at least have a chance of having a semi-decent group of moderators who can care for and foster their community without it turning into an anal retentive hell.

dangayle··on I'm Leaving Mojang
Exactly this. That money is already done and gone, with little to no benefit to the children themselves. Such a shame.
dangayle··on Notes on XKCD's “Pixels”
He mentioned in the article that it was live data (like Chartbeat or GA Real-Time) they were looking at, not aggregate (like regular GA).

Nevertheless, you're correct, and watching the peaks and valleys and plateaus between the different platforms is incredibly interesting to analyze.

dangayle··on Raft: Understandable Distributed Consensus
I disagree. This presentation was fantastic. I was going to post how much I loved it, so instead I'll come to its defense.
dangayle··on The Kennewick Man Finally Freed to Share His Secrets
Once the courts had ruled, why didn't/doesn't the Corps cooperate with the scientists, e.g., letting them study the actual spear tip? At that point, they have nothing to lose.

In fact, if they simply handed the bones off to the Smithsonian or whoever, they could've washed their hands of the whole thing. The fact that they didn't do so indicates to me that they wanted to hold onto the bones as a bargaining chip with the native tribes.

dangayle··on Fully Functional 1KB Hard Drive in Vanilla Minecraft
My nephew and his friends are 8-9 years old, and they're masters at building this stuff. The redstone, the logic, the machines, all of it. It's all they think about, all the time. Imagine what potential this early compsci education is fostering?

We just have to remind them when they're older and are running things and building amazing stuff that it's NOT OK to blow up other people's stuff with tnt.

dangayle··on Show HN: Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone
This is great. I recently ditched my iPhone for the cheapest samsung phone T-Mobile had, and I regret it about 50% of the time. I like having it when I actually need it, but the rest of the time I feel my life slowing slipping away.
dangayle··on Arrow: Better dates and times for Python
I've used this in the past. Good, well-written library. The stdlib datetime/time modules are such a PITA sometimes.
dangayle··on Friendship Paradox
Who downvoted this? This is exactly what LinkedIn does. You ask to be connected to a third party through one of your pre-existing connections. If you get connected to someone with a huge network, you can then connect with even more people without jumping through LinkedIn's hoops, or paying for their service.
dangayle··on Friendship Paradox
That makes good sense. Yeah, thanks for clearing that up
dangayle··on Friendship Paradox
I've never heard this before. It kinda hurts my brain a little to think about.
dangayle··on Friendship Paradox
Isn't that what LinkedIn does?
dangayle··on Poisson Image Editing in Python
Will try it today
dangayle··on Poisson Image Editing in Python
I do face swaps at work all the time, for kicks. I'll have to try this out. (I also have to superimpose real images together sometimes, not always just to put someone's face on the Incredible Hulk or whatnot.)
dangayle··on Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing
That diary is a fantastic read. The language, the drama, the bird's eye view of one of the most pivotal moments in world history. Beats fiction any day.
dangayle··on Hermit: a font for programmers, by a programmer
The phrase "A font for programmer, by a programmer" is a disservice to the many fine folks at Adobe and elsewhere who manage to not only be type designers, but also programmers. There's a lot of code that goes into making a good font. (Little known fact: Just van Rossum, type designer and programmer, is the brother of the Python BDFL Guido van Rossum.)

All that to say, Adobe's Source Code Pro could also be called a font for programmers, by programmers.

dangayle··on In Sweden, Sverker Johansson and His 'Bot' Have Created 2.7M Wikipedia Articles
That's exactly the point of the stub articles isn't it? They specifically mention that you should improve it by adding relevant info if possible.
dangayle··on ITerm2 2.0
Besides Firefox, iTerm2 is my most used app, by far. I love the customizability of it, the Visor mode, and how stable it it to work with. I've used it so long, I don't even remember why I don't use Terminal.app any more.
dangayle··on In Sweden, Sverker Johansson and His 'Bot' Have Created 2.7M Wikipedia Articles
I would rather have a bot written stub than nothing at all when I search in Wikipedia. Like it is mentioned in the story, some subjects are under represented while others are super saturated.
dangayle··on City of Seattle Data Portal
The problem with the Socrata stuff is that it is garbage in, garbage out.

Case in point, my hackathon group helped hook them up with our city and our entire event was based on hacking this data. But the city basically did some straight sql table dumps without normalizing everything (so you would have to query multiple sets of data to make sense of anything) AND the city redacted a bunch of data, like I dunno, the frikkin relational IDs of some of the really juicy data, making it effectively worthless.

Socrata is in such a land grab that it appears that they're not too interested in whether or not the data is any good. They just take what the gov'ts give them and dump it in.

Maybe they've fixed that a bit since, but it was highly annoying at the time (last fall I think).

dangayle··on Python 3 can revive Python
This is not correct. Arch Linux now uses Python 3 by default. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/python)
dangayle··on Inside the Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk
Fantastic story. Reads like a sci-fi post-apocalyptic novel.
dangayle··on Arrakis
Sublime Text has a built-in Python interpreter too
dangayle··on Show HN: Hipster Domain Finder
You are completely right. It's easy to ignore the rafter in your own eye. My apologies.
dangayle··on Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
Which is why it is imperative that Levinson be able to have legal counsel that can appropriately and effectively represent his case before that neutral and detached magistrate.
dangayle··on Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
I'm just sad that DRM is in the HTML5 spec at all. That's the real loss.
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