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srj55··on Ask HN: What’s your go to deployment process for personal Django projects?
Seems to be the way to go. I'm waiting for docker to run on Windows 10 home.
srj55··on Haters
Sloppy work in this article. I wonder what drove him to write something like this. It sounds like he's a true hater ...of haters!

haters are just part of life. No need to get worked up on them and make sloppy, weak arguments about them.

> "I've been able to observe for long enough that I'm fairly confident the pattern works both ways: not only do people who do great work never become haters, haters never do great work"

He's a social scientist doing work on human behavior?

srj55··on RQ – Simple Job Queues for Python
huey is solid. I use it in prod.
srj55··on Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
I would love to use this, but I'm not willing to send my code to Kite.com. Sounds great for open source projects!

Sorry.

srj55··on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
I'd be interested.
srj55··on Printing a wall-sized world map and what I've learned from it
Or this one: http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/product/maps/wall-map...
srj55··on McMaster researchers may have found a way to restore metabolism to youth levels
small world. I'm a few hundred feet away on Chatham St.
srj55··on Reddit: Lessons Learned From Scaling To 1 Billion Pageviews A Month
hmm...no love for django here.
srj55··on Is Wine Bullshit?
moi aussi!
srj55··on Startup selling itself for $800.
Don't think I would buy this for anywhere near $800
srj55··on Show HN: idea for the future of document editing
Nice effort here...this is a really tough problem to solve "correctly".
srj55··on Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
This is a bad idea. Not only is it against Southwest policy, it also pisses off people like myself who actually go and check-in "exactly" 24 hours before and end up with a "B-7" boarding pass!!!!!

Clearly, Southwest has their reasons for assigning boarding priority 0-24hrs before flight on a first-come-first-serve basis, or else they would just assign priority during payment (early-bird checkin $10 notwithstanding).

Possible Reasons: 1) Loyal customers can get a "one-up" on new fliers or people who don't really care when they board and where they sit. 2) People who don't change flights within 24 hrs of takeoff can also take advantage of this --the rest might be "penalized" in this model.

Sites like "checkintomyflight.com" break apart the aformentioned model.

But, this is hacker news. So, congrats on building this service.

srj55··on Python 3.3.0 released
Python 3 support in django is coming soon....!
srj55··on Zimbabwe residents synchronize toilet flush
Haha, Is this true? ...reference?
srj55··on Twitter announces profile page changes
Agree. I also use the iPad in landscape and this app is definitely a big step back.

So much wasted/unused space.

srj55··on Why I went from Python to Go (and not node.js)
"As a Django developer, there wasn’t a straightforward and obvious way to just do things in the background on a page request. People suggested I try Celery, but I didn’t like that option at all. A distributed task queue? What? I just want to do something in the background without making the user wait; I don’t need some super comprehensive ultimate computing machine. The whole notion that I would need to set up and configure one of these supported brokers made my spidey sense tingle"

It's not really that hard. I just latch on to a broker that I'm already using elsewhere in my stack (Redis). Celery makes it super simple to run a command in the background.

srj55··on Glances - an easy CLI overview of your system (CPU, mem, I/O)
explain?
srj55··on A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed
just got the UX32-DB71. Took out the HD, put in a 256GB SSD, and 10 GB RAM (CL-11).

Discrete graphics. 1080p screen.

In my opinion, this is the best ultrabook on the market right now.

srj55··on 17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine
Not to diminish his work in any way, but markov chains are (were?) part of the senior finite math curriculum in Ontario.

E.g. We used them to examine weather prediction models in gr. 12

srj55··on Celery 3.0 has been released
looks like redis is getting improved support in this release. Anyone using redis instead of rabbitmq?
srj55··on Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes
This is getting off topic, but it doesn't really matter how Canada is doing financially (from what I hear, we're doing quite fine).

US still has a better standard of living. Canadian housing is getting ridiculous and needs to be controlled. We need cheaper housing. If I were a young person buying a home, I'd rather be buying in California instead of Toronto.

BTW, I'm Canadian.

srj55··on Dropbox adds drag and drop
nice to have, but don't see myself ever using this feature. I normally just drop files into my drive-mapped Dropbox folder.
srj55··on Multi-player piano
look at the js file

var key_binding = { 65: n("gs"), 90: n("a"), 83: n("as"), 88: n("b"), 67: n("c", 1), 70: n("cs", 1), 86: n("d", 1), 71: n("ds", 1), 66: n("e", 1), 78: n("f", 1), 74: n("fs", 1), 77: n("g", 1), 75: n("gs", 1), 188: n("a", 1), 76: n("as", 1), 190: n("b", 1), 191: n("c", 2), 222: n("c#", 2),

		49: n("gs", 1),
		81: n("a", 1),
		50: n("as", 1),
		87: n("b", 1),
		69: n("c", 2),
		52: n("cs", 2),
		82: n("d", 2),
		53: n("ds", 2),
		84: n("e", 2),
		89: n("f", 2),
		55: n("fs", 2),
		85: n("g", 2),
		56: n("gs", 2),
		73: n("a", 2),
		57: n("as", 2),
		79: n("b", 2),
		80: n("c", 3),
		189: n("cs", 3),
		219: n("d", 3),
		187: n("ds", 3),
		221: n("e", 3)
	};
srj55··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
wow, lots of pyfans