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Double indentation looks rather ugly though. I like the "K&R" style much better (as shown in comment from bpicolo): def some_descriptive_function_name( one_parameter, another_param…

Chomsky and Superbowl Party: http://www.thebrushback.com/Archives/noamchomsky_full.htm Perfect article for those on HN who follow pro sports ;)

This shall be a great fit for the NAT/Bastion instance, since the high-availability setup has a few drawbacks: https://aws.amazon.com/articles/2781451301784570

You shall read this first: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1331150 There was a rather significant change to the kernel ARP caching behavior introduced in early…

Looking at the examples from the official documentation, I agree with your sentiment. Indeed, the conciseness can cause some confusion to people familiar with the existing scoping …

Also from http://stackoverflow.com/a/16553503 by the author of SQLAlchemy: > Do you have any estimates on how much time is wasted, compared to the rest of the application? Profilin…

I feel rather underwhelmed by the performance improvement touted by adequate records. Perhaps someone from the rails community can do something like this: http://techspot.zzzeek.or…

So, with T2 instances and General Purpose volumes, Amazon is now officially in the overselling business. Kudos to them for finding a way to do it fairly. Looks like extra tough tim…

The jmespath library from boto is quite similar to this, and possibly has way more traction. Some differences: - jmespath uses `body.translations[0].language` instead of `body.tran…

This is not strictly about Ruby vs Python. Having used Pyramid (+SQLAlchemy) and Rails, I think the former is plenty fast enough such that no user cares about silly optimization, w…

Here: http://trac.imagemagick.org/log/

In my opinion, the full explanation is too long to be put as code comment, but is just right as the commit message. The best way is to keep the commit message, but add a short comm…

Good article, but I think it touches too little about persistence. The trade-off of EBS vs ephemeral storage, for example, is not mentioned at all. Getting your application server …

Here's my old school setup: Deployment: `easy_install -U` from a local pypi Packaging: `setup.py bdist_egg` and `setup.py bdist_wininst` Dependencies: declare in setup.py, fetch vi…

With SQLAlchemy, I have done similar optimizations against mssql by changing a few lines of ORM code. Without SQLAlchemy, I imagine I'd have to change dozens of hand written SQL qu…

I am pretty sure SQLAlchemy will translate that into: UPDATE purchase SET downloads_left=%(downloads_left)s WHERE purchase.id = %(purchases_id)s; By the way, the posted code has an…

> I don't know if you've looked at the graph of a Git repo where people merge instead of rebase We use merge instead of rebase. Here's a snapshot of the graph: | | | | | | | | | | …

Outside of US and EU, it is quite difficult to find a reputable and affordable dedicated hosting provider. We use AWS extensively in ap-southeast-1, and their new C3 Compute Optimi…

Try replacing /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params with the one from http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample Also, the packaging is done differently by ubuntu and nginx upstream, so I don't thin…

It looks like the Multi-AZ setup is using block level replication such as DRBD instead of the built-in replication: > Database updates are made concurrently on the primary and stan…

Sriracha made its debut in Malaysia approximately a month ago, being sold for MYR 21.90 (28 oz) and MYR 13.90 (17 oz) by Ben's Independent Grocer in Solaris Dutamas. Pretty nice pr…

> I don't think you can through the postgres/mysql parser in 5ms, much less optimizer, planner, and execution stack. Yeah... except no. I just set `log_min_duration_statement` to 0…

I like your comparison of SQL to JavaScript. However, personally I love SQL and always use an ORM. My vow is to never have a line of SQL in my application source code. This is perf…

Perhaps a more advanced camera technology that detects asshole driving behavior instead of speeding? Rich dudes pay to get ahead. Increased revenue for the police department. Impro…