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And here's an attic wrapper script I wrote that makes it easy to use: https://torsion.org/atticmatic/

Haven't used their full stack, but their "support" leaves a lot to be desired.

Push vs. pull for backups is an interesting philosophical issue, and there's some good discussion of it below. For many setups, pull really doesn't make sense. For example, one of the machines I backup is my personal laptop, and I back it up to a completely untrusted VPS. Therefore I want to be able to encrypt locally and push that encrypted data to the remote VPS. Pulling wouldn't work here, because then I'd have to hand the keys to my laptop to the VPS.

The scenario you're describing, however, sounds like the opposite in terms of trust. And in that case pull may make sense. However it doesn't sound like attic itself natively supports that sort of config. I could envision a sort of hybrid approach where the local machine encrypts to a local attic repository, and then the remote backup server pulls a copy of it. There's nothing stopping you from setting that up, either with attic as-is or with this wrapper script.

Great question. I do think this should be part of what attic provides out of the box, but I still really wanted to use attic despite the fact that it doesn't include this sort of functionality. I'll try contacting the attic devs and see what they say about it.

If someone is looking at trying attic and wants something a little nicer to configure and run than the very basic shell script from attic's Quick Start[1], check out the wrapper script I wrote to make this a little easier[2]. It's still somewhat "1.0" right now, but it does the basics for me. See the included sample config files for an idea of how the configuration works.[3]

[1] https://attic-backup.org/quickstart.html#automating-backups [2] http://torsion.org/hg/atticmatic/file/tip [3] http://torsion.org/hg/atticmatic/file/tip/sample/config

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Still, your second example is an order of magnitude faster than the example with Django. That's likely because Django loads the world on startup, parses all your model files, checks your database settings, etc.

While this is a valid objection to the design as stated, there are solutions. For instance, the insight behind Bitcoin is that instead of the one-IP-one-vote policies of previous distributed protocols and the sock-puppeting that ensues, proof of work means that it's one-CPU-one-vote. And schemes like proof of stake go even further so it's one-coin-one-vote.

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Not to mention that a bike's wear and tear on the road is exponentially less than the damage incurred by a passenger car or SUV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_axle_weight_rating

It sounds like using Excel correctly is as a prototyping tool or a means of doing one-offs. If that's the case, then Excel is to a proper business intelligence system as shell scripting is to a real programming language. Each has their place.

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The technology exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Znch-RfhRI

Yes.

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Sure, polling suits a lot of use cases just fine. I'm just wondering about the ones it doesn't satisfy.

I found it interesting that this is ostensibly a notifications API, and nowhere is there any way to actually get notifications except by polling. I definitely understand why a push notification API would be a bad idea, but is polling with Last-Modified really the state of the art in notification APIs? What if you want to find out almost instantly when an event occurs, and not just at the granularity of your poll interval? At the API level, what do people use for this? Comet-style long polling? WebSockets? pubsubhubbub?

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"This is one of the great tensions of the web era we are living in and increasingly so as the open web grows. We actually don't violate any particular rule, it was simply an arbitrary decision that we aren't aligned with the spirit of what they want."

I found this quote interesting, particular the phrase "open web". A single site like Twitter, which can arbitrarily shut down accounts based on alleged TOS violations, seems very distinct from a truly open, federated web.

All the more reason not to be a sharecropper and build your application on an open platform. If you know you're working in an environment in which everyone is looking out solely for their own interests, you might as well start out on even footing rather than with a Facebook or Microsoft holding the keys to your project's success.

That's a valid point, but you can do things to mitigate this, like splitting up your program into processes that have different dependencies. For instance, if you have a UI process and a core logic process, you won't need to import your giant UI library twice.

Not if you use the HTML history API: http://html5demos.com/history

Admittedly, you need a modern browser for that. But you can always present full-page-load HTML to users with older browsers and then provide AJAXy history-ified goodness to everyone else.