noise | 2 years ago | on: The Truth about College Costs
mid 30s for my child heading to UNH as well, despite major "scholarship" award.
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noise | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
1x Raspberry Pi 3: Retropie powering a converted cabinet
1x Raspberry Pi 3: Home-assistant.io, perennial WIP
1x Raspberry Pi 1b: Prototype of Pandora streaming box w/pianobar and an LCD char display
1x Raspberry Pi 2: WIP for next rev of Pandora box
noise | 9 years ago | on: Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun
Also, he very clearly states he borrowed code from 2 of his other projects that made it faster/easier.
noise | 11 years ago | on: StackExchange System Architecture
Am I the only one that finds it annoying to have each layer's stats in different units? We have: TB/mo, reqs/sec, queries/day, reqs/min, searches/day.
noise | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: RemoteCoder.io – A jobsite for remote programmers
noise | 11 years ago | on: Andreessen Goes on Tweet Storm About Burn Rates, Says to Worry
How did we survive? Skills, connections, and some luck. It wasn't that everything vaporized, just a lot of fluff companies built on VC with no profitable business model. Just as when times were good a lot of unqualified people got into the business, when it imploded they got out.
noise | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)
You don't mention where you are located and if that matters (i.e. remote work OK or not).
noise | 11 years ago | on: Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode
Aside from spam, I mean marketing emails, what email do you send or receive that needs HTML?
noise | 11 years ago | on: Arrow: Better dates and times for Python
Very nice, thank you, definitely using this in new code.
noise | 11 years ago | on: Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data
Very nice and thanks! Writing a replacement for Xively/Cosm/Pachube was on my TODO list, but now I don't have to. I'll take this for a spin later, and hope to contribute if there is anything I have to offer.
noise | 11 years ago | on: Improved default settings for Linux machines
locate indexer cronjob should never be enabled on a production box. Problem solved.
noise | 11 years ago | on: Django Query Inspector
Probably nobody is looking at this thread now, but just in case... I've had similar code I use in Flask apps for awhile now and this project inspired me to turn it into a legit Flask Extension:
noise | 12 years ago | on: Flask by Example – Part 2 – Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic
Yeah, it's more of an advanced topic for commercial prod sites, but worth mentioning as trying to do the migration prior to a code push is also not going to work (no migration to be done) and could confuse those new to these tools/libs.
In any case, good job on a well written set of posts.
noise | 12 years ago | on: Flask by Example – Part 2 – Postgres, SQLAlchemy, and Alembic
That technique used for migrations will fail with a real production app where you want to avoid downtime. The process outlined is:
1. deploy new code to prod
2. run migration on prod via a one-off dyno instance
However, in step 1 you are pushing code that relies on new tables/fields that don't yet exist, causing errors and likely downtime for the app.
To avoid this, you can instead have Alembic generate SQL from the migration and then apply that SQL to the prod DB directly prior to deploying the updated code.
noise | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist
Well all these threads are just pure speculation anyway. My point was that he was hinting at a Facebook Platform style initiative that is very different than just making an awesome VR headset. That's not to say there won't still be value in the hardware outside of the FB ecosystem, I was just trying to call out that particular aspect of what may come of this deal besides $$ to drive HW development.
noise | 12 years ago | on: Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist
That was a very nicely written piece and he had me going until this part:
"We're on the cusp of what I think is not The Next Big Platform, but rather simply The Final Platform – the platform to end all platforms"
The problem is that under FB, this will end up being the metafaceverse.com platform, that you can only access under their umbrella, just as with the current FB "platform". And you will be subject to their terms and conditions within their walled garden both as a user and a developer.
That's not the kind of platform the internet needs. This won't be another WWW but another AOL.
noise | 12 years ago | on: When Everyone Wants To Watch 'House Of Cards,' Who Pays?
In your analogy, sending is not free. Both Netflix has already paid postage to deliver all of the letters (their CDN/bandwidth costs) and each recipient has already paid for their mailbox (cable modem service). In this case the ISP wants Netflix to pay extra money to to deliver their letters even though everyone has already been paid and they weigh about the same as all the grocery flyers and other junk mail already cluttering your mailbox (think youtube).
noise | 12 years ago | on: Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat and Google Spreadsheets Go Down
Same here. Coincidence? I think not. They even added details about how much Drive data I have, a passive threat that it might not be safe if I don't cough up for the paid account.
noise | 12 years ago | on: New Mac Setup
I have no mix - can't stand the glossy, especially for code work (or anything dealing with text). Glossy is great for photos and watching video, which I do very little of on my laptop screen. You can pry my last-matte-edition Macbook Pro from my cold dead hands!
noise | 12 years ago | on: Your code may be elegant, but mine works
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