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gpsarakis

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About gpsarakis

Senior Software Engineer - https://github.com/georgepsarakis/

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    Sphinx does indeed a very good job and is continuously improved. It is very fast and with small memory footprint. We also built https://techusearch.com which uses Sphinx indexes (t…

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    Interestingly enough, there is one unofficial API http://pygments.appspot.com/ , but supports an outdated version (1.5).

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    Comment #8943163

    Great work! Do you consider PyPy support also?

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    Sure you can :). Naturally transfers via SSH "suffer" from the encryption overhead but prevent MITM/network sniffing etc. The author points out that (only) in a trusted LAN you cou…

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    pigz does parallel compression, taking advantage of multiple cores. I am not really sure if you can achieve this with scp.

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    Thumbs up for pv which shows the progress bar. Using parallel compression may have serious impact on CPU resources, so it needs to be balanced. Have you also done any testing with …

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    Great read! An effort on a DSL using PLY (Python LEX-YACC implementation): https://github.com/georgepsarakis/quick-bash . It is actually a transcompilation to Bash from a functiona…

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    Probably you can, if you implement upload callbacks which can be passed through the success_action_redirect parameter. Not sure though.

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    It says that it only stores metadata locally not objects themselves (although it could probably have an option for that too and serve as a general S3 cache). Nice effort, Redis is …

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    Taking a quick look at the source code directory structure https://github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/master/src , I believe that you could create a minimal, customized build containing…

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    CSS selectors are much easier to remember than XPath. Python's BeautifulSoup allows you to select elements with selectors and is very convenient. XPath is a bit more verbose and mo…

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    Nice post! You mentioned that you implemented this wrapper for backups. Apart from creating a virtual file system for sandboxing perhaps, isn't this generally slower? Maybe I am no…