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vangale

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Currently developing web applications in Django & Pyramid. Over 40 years of development experience (started with DEC-BASIC on a PDP-11).

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vangale··on Gary Kildall
Don't forget UCSD Pascal! (Or maybe we should)
vangale··on We're all communication hoarders
There is a setting for switching to "delete" as the default swipe action. From inside gmail: Settings -> General Settings -> Gmail default action.
vangale··on Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool
I've seen https://waffle.io/ talked about in previous posts, but haven't used it or Taiga. Github issues is painful enough in the past that, for companies I've been in at least, we used other issue trackers anyway (Jira and Pivotal specifically) so I'm not sure how market there is outside of open-source. For me, Taiga looks like a nicer solution for private projects (replacing redmine, trac, etc.)
vangale··on Show HN: Opsmatic configuration monitoring
I'm not sure how that kind of service could work without collecting that data, although I'd certainly like to know more details on "credentials that may be embedded".
vangale··on Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"
I think it's because the list is being built by pull requests. Two people submit a Log Monitoring section at the same time and the repo owner merges without really paying attention.
vangale··on Show HN: A mostly complete 2014 "Tools of the Trade"
I don't know much (anything?) about sales, but these guys look like an alternative: http://www.generationsalesgroup.com/
vangale··on Show HN: I started a low cost dedicated server host, Exelion
This looks interesting to me, but your website leaves many unanswered questions such as: can I get remote console access? how does the ddos protection work?
vangale··on Ask HN: What are some alternatives to HN?
Yet another request for invite... please?
vangale··on The C10K problem
I was definitely using this page as a resource in 2000-2001. I was going to try and use Python Medusa module (precursor of Twisted) to scale connections.
vangale··on Change your passwords: Comcast hushes, minimizes serious hack
Assuming the worst, for me, means they won't bother patching the Zimbra vulnerability.
vangale··on Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation
I haven't had issues, but I'm only using -O2. I also have to do "-march=native -mno-avx -mno-aes" because I'm on a Xen instance that doesn't allow the avx/aes instructions.
vangale··on Must-have Django packages
I would say there are two primary ways DDT helps you spot database performance problems.

The first is that "oh my god" moment when you see via DDT that your view is doing 100+ queries to the database. This leads to research into Django ORM features like "select_related" and other ways to cut down the number of queries.

The second is clicking DDT's handy EXPLAIN button on a single query that is taking a long time. Sometimes this can help improve performance by adding an index to a field.

vangale··on Django Debug Toolbar 1.0 beta released
For AJAX the https://github.com/recamshak/django-debug-panel also works, although you need to install the matching chrome extension. (Don't know if it works yet with this new release of django-debug-toolbar).
vangale··on OpenSSH security advisory
In the past I've had this in my sshd_config files:

  Ciphers aes256-ctr
  MACs hmac-sha2-512
This is one recommended way for forward secrecy https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf/blob/master/configs/sshd...

Unfortunately my favored Android SSH client (juiceSSH) couldn't handle that so I had to change to:

  Ciphers aes256-ctr,aes256-cbc
  MACs hmac-sha1
which is rather unfortunate, but still turned out to have been a good thing in light of this vulnerability (I'm running 6.2 on all my machines because of the DoS vulnerability in earlier versions).
vangale··on Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
I had Metal Machine Music on 8-track tape. This made it even better because of the infinite loop playback and, as the tape inevitably started distorting it didn't really make any difference!
vangale··on Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free
I had StartSSL certs for a .ST site and it worked fine.
vangale··on Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet
I agree with the statement that tech people are less concerned with origin and would add another reason being we understand in the open source world there's nothing stopping a Russian programmer, just as an example, from contributing to Apache (which apparently Igor did). But there are plenty of work environments where it is an issue, namely gov't bureaucracies etc. etc.
vangale··on Nginx Is Taking Over the Internet
I, for one, really appreciate your work (and anyone else who contributed to docs of course). I remember the days when we had to figure stuff out just by looking at other people's config files. I think I even got some of my earliest SO points just from posting sample nginx configs.
vangale··on CoreOS Vagrant Images
In the HN thread earlier this week Gentoo was more accurately described as being part of the build tool chain. This makes a ton of sense to me and something I thought about doing if I ever wanted to "make my own distro".
vangale··on Collection of the best fonts for programming
I wanted to add a vote for Lucida Console, but stopped when it was asking me to login. Oh well! I like the letter shapes in some other fonts better, but Lucida Console is the only one with proper horizontal width IMHO, although it could be I've just been using it too long.
vangale··on Major API - a RESTful API for QuickBooks
Similarly to aarondf, we have a bunch of CPA's who will want time clock, task, and projects in the API. We don't need realtime.
vangale··on Show HN: Soundkeep (Github for music)
It looks like you're competing with ccmixter.org, loophunter, etc. but you're still very early stage. There's no licensing information or organization/categorization (which seems kind of critical for service like this).
vangale··on Built a business on Parse? You need Zenbox
Is there a list somewhere of existing integrations?
vangale··on Is Flask catching up with Django in terms of preferred python framework?
I haven't seen any recent stats for HN companies, but here are some other stats:

StackOverflow tagged questions: Django 36000+, Flask about 3000 (Flask 675 + SQLAlchemy 1880 + Jinja2 376)

Google Groups: "Django updates" 35864 topics, "Django users" 37333 topics, Flask (no user groups)

PyPi packages: Django 2539, Flask (no classifier for flask but somewhere around 260 search results for 'flask')

IRC: #django usually has 500-600 in channel at all times of day. I can't connect right now for exact numbers for flask (assuming there is a channel) but other frameworks like Pyramid are probably equivalent and less than 100.

Now, except for IRC these numbers don't judge current momentum... but they still give a good indicator on community size. For example, in all these areas plone/zope numbers beat django but clearly momentum is towards Django when comparing the two.

vangale··on Lunch, disrupted: ZeroCater helps startups get fed
I see "disruption" as either removing middlemen (disrupting supply chain) or changing consumer expectations in a market. Adding a middleman in the supply chain isn't disruption so much as making it more efficient for producers to reach consumers.
vangale··on Format string vulnerability found in 'sudo'
Yep patch is in Gentoo, I just did a sync and 1.8.3_p2 will be built.
vangale··on Something is wrong with this picture.
One group that has always been chasing the "holy grail" of separation of content and presentation are big publishers. They want one content source that is controlled by "editors" and then the content can be rendered differently for the different avenues of publication. Maybe a transform of the content is sent to online databases like lexis/nexis or westlaw, or sent to printing press for a book, or sent to the web, or abstracts sent to a bibliography service, etc.

This is why SGML was big in the publishing industry before the web.

It's mostly achievable but there are clearly problem areas such as tables where sometimes the presentation is an integral part of the content.

vangale··on Show HN: SendWrite.com - your email just got physical
Will there be an API? I can think of a few services that could integrate with this nicely.
vangale··on A writer leaves Microsoft Word
Anyone else fondly remember Interleaf? I now have a love/hate relationship with OOWriter but expect I would pay a lot for a working clone of Interleaf on Linux. I used it both on Apollo workstations and on PCDOS.
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