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New comment by gthank in "Rust for Python Programmers"

gthank — Wed, 27 May 2015 13:14:33 +0000

Python 2 will store Unicode as either UCS-16 or UCS-32, depending on how it was compiled. The horrible monstrosity that is the default "string" (those are scare quotes; I know how the formatting on here works) in Python 2 is not Unicode, so it obviously doesn't use UCS-16 or UCS-32.

New comment by gthank in "Rust for Python Programmers"

gthank — Wed, 27 May 2015 12:48:24 +0000

TL;DR Write it in Rust, export via FFI, bind from Python via cffi.

The long version is: go watch this video from PyCon that will answer this question and probably others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CwJ0MH-4MA

New comment by gthank in "The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers"

gthank — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:28:17 +0000

Somebody has to build the containers and/or images, and it's on them to make that an automated, repeatable process.

New comment by gthank in "Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha"

gthank — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:12:52 +0000

Please tell me those discussions are on the mailing list.

New comment by gthank in "PostgreSQL 9.4 Released"

gthank — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:50:46 +0000

If you honestly believe that all you have to do is stand up a bunch of instances of Mongo/Cassandra/whatever and you instantly get acceptable HA, then you need to read the [Jepsen series](https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen)

New comment by gthank in "The Future of Markdown"

gthank — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:34:41 +0000

Having used them both a fair bit (though not to write novels, like some of the people on here): Markdown source is prettier to look at. This might seem minor, but it's the primary goal of Markdown. If I'm writing something highly technical, I prefer RST; if I'm writing something closer to plain English, I prefer Markdown.

New comment by gthank in "Seven habits of effective text editing"

gthank — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:33:15 +0000

I use Eclipse (now that I no longer have an IntelliJ license) for doing heavy-duty Java, but if I can get away with it, I prefer to do things in MacVim. Eclipse is just too clunky feeling when I want to do simple text editing tasks; it totally throws me out of my flow. That's why I'm on HN right now, as a matter of fact. So clearly, I am not an unbiased observer. That said: have you tried Pathogen/Vundle? Vim plugin management these days is light-years better than the equivalent Eclipse nightmare (I've given up on about half my Eclipse plugins as things constantly break).

New comment by gthank in "The new Secure Password Hashing API in PHP 5.5"

gthank — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:27:00 +0000

It's PHP. They obviously wanted a broken language. Now the devs are taking that away from them.

Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

gthank — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:33:44 +0000

Article URL: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/jobs/all/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079616

Points: 1

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New comment by gthank in "Distrusting git"

gthank — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:27:19 +0000

I'm pretty sure it hoses Norton's "security" software, too. Of course, if you can't handle documented file system options, I don't trust you to detect exploits….

New comment by gthank in "GitHub Flow"

gthank — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:28:11 +0000

Jenkins.

New comment by gthank in "Crustache is a fast C implementation of Mustache"

gthank — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:11:30 +0000

For a lot of dynamic languages, at least, the templating engine is a surprisingly large portion of your page load times. I wish I could bring up the breakdown I saw a while back, but it's certainly non-trivial in many cases.

The Finance Primer for SaaS & Software Start Up Entrepreneurs

gthank — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:33:22 +0000

Article URL: http://davidryan63.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/the-finance-primer-for-saas-software-start-up-entrepreneurs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2869537

Points: 2

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New comment by gthank in "LED, CFL and Incandescent bulbs side by side"

gthank — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:03:56 +0000

Less than a year? That's really short. Have you tried busting out a multimeter on your wiring (since you sound like the DIY type) or calling an electrician?

Why I’m weird about privacy

gthank — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:52:27 +0000

Article URL: http://snarfed.org/2011-08-03_why_im_weird_about_privacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2859858

Points: 2

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Finance for Entrepreneurs – The Language of the Exit

gthank — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:37:31 +0000

Article URL: http://davidryan63.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/finance-for-entrepreneurs-the-langauge-of-the-exit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847406

Points: 1

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New comment by gthank in "Emacs violates GPL since 2009"

gthank — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:24:38 +0000

The post clearly says they have to add the source or delete them.

Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet

gthank — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:22:44 +0000

Article URL: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/11/dont-call-it-the-next-tech-bubble-yet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752350

Points: 3

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New comment by gthank in "Groupon is Effectively Insolvent"

gthank — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:21:40 +0000

You won't see me saying that I think Groupon is a great value or anything, but I think that you have to acknowledge the difference between the people Groupon is reaching and the people FB or Google is reaching: Groupon's audience is people who are actively looking to spend money, whereas most of the people who see Google or FBs ads are doing something else entirely (and would probably not notice if they just went away).

AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy

gthank — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:12:20 +0000

Article URL: http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/aws-dedicated-instances-hypervisor-security-and-multi-tenancy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2389832

Points: 3

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