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Hey HN! Andrew here ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/agconti/ ). I'm the founder of Reactive Streaming, ( https://www.reactive-streaming.com ), a platform as a service that enables pr…

As someone who works in Django a lot, their non-standard approach to defining models is wild. ie. Their approach in accounts models.py: https://github.com/saasitive/django-react-bo…

Django fits this bill.

That’s cool and I hear you; that’s a complex relevancy definition. ( Maybe surprisingly? ) This is type of query is natively supported by Postgres. That support is robust and matur…

The Postgres docs suggest using another column. My guess is that an expression index would be too large if it held the tokenized value of all of your FTS documents. These things ca…

I'd argue that relevancy is more your application application's design then the underlying system retrieving the results. For example, putting the same dataset in Postgres or ES wo…

Absolutely. - Using a `SearchVectorField` is a must after 500K rows. - Make keeping this field up to date easy for yourself by populating it using `SeachVector` with a Django pre_s…

I can deeply vouch for the performance and joy of implementing Full-Text Search with PostgreSQL and Django. I just finished a a project where we chose Postgres's FTS over using Ela…

My open source project: building best practiced apis fast with Python3 https://github.com/agconti/cookiecutter-django-rest

Hey sheraz — thanks for the feedback! Your recommendations look great, especially libclould. What do you think can be beefed up in getting started docs? Getting setup on your lapto…

Hey ya’ll, I’m the creator of cookiecutter-django-rest. I’m super happy to share this release with you. This is a big one. What api frameworks do you use? What kind of enhancements…

cookiecutter-django-rest now supports Django 1.11+! cookiecutter-django-rest takes care of the details so you can focus on making your api awesome. Scaffolding a project takes seco…

is that you Mark Watney?

> no one can sleep away your exhaustion for you. This is a really eloquent reminder.

The sites down, here's the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5fXNOBY...

From the Tao of programming, 1.2: The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten …

Mike Bostock's talk on visualizing algorithms is one of my favorites: https://vimeo.com/112319901 > Visualizing Algorithms – A look at the use of visualization and animation to und…

Startups as investments are very risky with long payoff horizons. With their limited funds, this is a poor investment for the average investor. I can't help but feel like this will…

Evaluating a framework by the number of files its dependencies are broken into is a a pretty poor measure of quality.