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peedy | 10 years ago | on: Bay Area Home Prices by Transit Stop

South bay from? My summer gig is in downtown Mountain View and I stay really close to San Jose Diridon station. Looking at the schedule, the train ride can be as short as 15 minutes (SJ to MTV) and the rents here are ~$3K/mo for a 2 bedroom apartment.

peedy | 10 years ago | on: Metabase: Why we picked Clojure

> to compile the Python lxml library.

If you have to do it very often, I've had good success with keeping compiled python wheels around.

peedy | 10 years ago | on: HTML as TeX replacement

One case where HTML won't work as a TeX replacement is when you have to think in terms on a page. For example, if you're making a resume and don't want it go over one page, it becomes a tedious process to "change CCS, Print preview, repeat".

peedy | 11 years ago | on: Git: ignore file lines

I was talking about local dev install where you can activate postactivate script is run after you source activate or call workon. In prod, you will not be activating the env but running executables directly from the env.

ie, your process manager will call /path/to/env/bin/gunicorn and in this case, you'll have to configure the env variables here (in the process manager (supervisor)) config.

peedy | 11 years ago | on: Git: ignore file lines

If you're on a django project, most probably you're using virtualenv. I had a habit of just putting environment variables in the postactivate script.

peedy | 11 years ago | on: GitHub.com is down

Seems like their background workers were down too. My colleague sent a pull request before the went down and got the notification just a few minutes ago.

peedy | 11 years ago | on: Celery – Best Practices

Has anybody been able to make a priority queue (with a single worker) in celery?

Eg, execute other tasks only if there are no pending important tasks.

peedy | 11 years ago | on: JavaScript library for browser to S3 multipart resumable uploads

As making a policy involves no communication with Amazon, I used to just create a policy on the fly for every upload request that said "allow upload to this specific key(path)". The key would be unique to every upload request. Once the upload is done, I'd just start processing the upload and move it where it belongs.

Thus, in plaintext you'd have to put only your AccessID and a policy which would expire after a few minutes.

EDIT: typo

peedy | 11 years ago | on: OS X Yosemite

> At least my Mac recognizes and uses a second monitor when I plug it in, unlike the bloody Fedora 19 box that I use at work. And don't get me started on that second graphics card that the system can't figure out how to use! And the wifi Just Works(tm), unlike the Ubuntu laptop that I had before that.

You can write a udev rule for that

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