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babayega2

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About babayega2

Python developer in sub-Saharan Africa.

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    Comment #48823237

    Is there a pooler handling schema switching in PostgreSQL? like something in front of django-tenant ?

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    Comment #46173289

    Maxima is the clone. I remember using it 20 years ago. very nice.

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    Comment #43432846

    But it is in the Schengen area. I have a 1 year Schengen visa and I have been going there regularly without problem.

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    Comment #42609891

    Very nice package. I used it recently for a project where I needed to detect faces in images as tasks with celery [0]. I wonder if there is an equivalent for OCR. [0]: https://gith…

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    Comment #38082362

    One of the open source wysiwyg editors I have been trying to use is BlueGriffon. It does what you want. But it hasn't been updated for a while. I remember codeigniter soe something…

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    Comment #37047526

    It took them time. I had asked the same problem few months ago [0]. I needed a tool to subset a huge PostgreSQL db. The choices where Condenser [1] and this Jailer. Since I'm not a…

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    Ask HN: What are the open source tools for database subsetting?

    I have a very huge Postgres database that I need to clone locally (like 0.01 if its data) and do some tests. I have tried to use Jailer [0] (complicated to use. Like after installi…

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    Comment #35850363

    One of the funny/sad consequences of watching Silicon Valley, is that a lot of my friends (in my African country where only 4% has electricity) think that the startup need to expan…

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    Comment #33720339

    Coupled with DOMPurify [0], it helps much to simplify the messy JavaScript, HTML. Yin [1] has book on that. [0]: https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify [1]: https://leanpub.com/react-…

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    Comment #29959956

    Eric Li, from China has a big take on that: the West thinkers, including Fukuyama, stopped thinking since they assumed history was written. No more authoritarian state would outper…

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    Comment #29456323

    5 years ago, I built the same SMS gateway without using the AT command "Explicitly" [0], but by letting Kannel handle that for me. Thus, I had an endpoint generally usable. Kannel …

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    Comment #29185464

    My experience is that on AWS there are hidden costs. Paying for traffic, and other stuff.

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    Comment #29133403

    That's why we use DigitalOcean a lot in Africa. You know upfront how much you will spend.

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    Comment #28903404

    This is a good feature. I'm enjoying it actually.

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    Comment #28882379

    From my advice, try to stay on Python. I am currently doing the opposite. Moving an old Java stack to Python/Django. Been able to do so under 9 months. I think upgrading to Python …

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    Comment #28865257

    Absolutely. I will migrate to it ASAP since my Streisand is mired in 16.04. good job guys from Algo.

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    Comment #28865227

    Two days ago, I purchased a subscription online and my bank app thought it was a security incident, blocked the transaction and discarded the online virtual card I was using, infor…

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    Comment #28834691

    3 years ago I installed Project Streisand [0] on one of my Digitaocean droplets which configured automatically different VPN protocols and my favorite one has been Wireguard. To th…

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    Comment #28645202

    True. I use VPN to get behind the geoblocking on my banking app which is prohibited to work in my African country. Also viewing movies banned in my country.

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    Comment #28292061

    Exactly. And when you have your special barber, he would cut your hair even when you have no money. That's another assumption a lot of non-black peoples do not know. I'm black Afri…

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    Comment #28052423

    Job seekers in game development are many. These companies will never lack developers.

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    Comment #27728243

    Awesome way to combine Tailwind and Django. I wonder what's your recommendation is someone wants to build the backend in Django and the front in any js they want... Say Angular and…

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    Comment #27728187

    Also very interested

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    Comment #27624064

    I have lived in 4 countries, and 3 continents and everyone I have lived with agreed that it's not useful for the whole family to know how much you make. Last year I learned that le…

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    Comment #27350649

    Absolutely! We have been doing so for the last 20 years. Reducing child mortality at the fastest rate in East Africa. Women education is one of our top achievement from those years…