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vangale

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About vangale

Currently developing web applications in Django & Pyramid. Over 40 years of development experience (started with DEC-BASIC on a PDP-11).

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    Comment #38520633

    Posthog uses react for front-end and django for back-end. https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/project-structure

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    And it looks like a similar effort that was abandoned at subledger.com. It think there can be a market for something like this and hopefully this one works out.

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    Comment #21327786

    I love this video from "Every Frame a Painting" which also mourns the loss of physical comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag

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    Comment #20780230

    There's no video (that I know of) but Sourcehut has put up a website with a set of steps/instructions for email based pull requests: https://git-send-email.io/

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    Comment #15396063

    Same SS for multiple living people. It's also kind of amazing that the AT&T shareholder database was large enough to have dupes.

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    Comment #15395171

    OT but can be filed under "Falsehoods programmers believe about Social Security Numbers": SSN's are unique per person. A friend of mine worked on a shareholder database for AT&T ba…

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    Comment #14196923

    There are a number of meal replacement powders at some big chains (Krogers/Ralphs/King Soopers and Amazon at least): "Raw Organic Meal" by Garden of Life "All-in-One Nutritional Sh…

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    > THE ancient holy town of Lalibela, perched some 2,500 metres above sea-level in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, boasts some of the clearest night skies imaginable. When I lived in…

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    Comment #13749536

    I lived in Ethiopia at the end of the reign of Haile Selassie and left there right at the start of the revolution, which is why Waugh's writing on Ethiopia just horrifies me: https…

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    Comment #12688951

    At some point years ago I must have asked SO not to show me any questions with "soap" tag. Unfortunately my shiny new developer story now has "I dislike soap".

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    Comment #12466500

    I keep paper keys for google and use authy. I also use pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org ) and so I might start using this very new app https://github.com/felipelerena/passotp/

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    Comment #12399795

    For example, overstock.com. Their registration page lets you use '+' address, but their login page forbids it.

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    Comment #11594478

    If the company is big enough to have "other parts" it probably means those other parts have different missions and different tasks/skills to carry out the mission. But, having said…

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    Comment #11561910

    Hopscotch is one of the few tour libraries that can jump to steps on a different page and (mostly) perform actions on behalf of the user.

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    Comment #11064872

    It seems like having local lambda emulation would be useful as a companion to this. If I ever do some lamba development I'd love to see integration with emulators like https://gith…

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    Comment #10761970

    I was surprised at how easy it was to identify almost everything in the photo and even then Crested Butte stuck out. Weird mistake to make. The only thing that stuck out more (for …

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    Comment #10623722

    In the "story" PDF linked above by elbigbad it was said the title was added by the journal without input from the authors.

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    Comment #10613754

    Assuming you mean CSS style guides these should keep you busy for a while: http://styleguides.io/examples.html

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    Comment #10604212

    As a Namecheap customer I was very very disappointed with this post when I read it yesterday. Also, it looks like they deleted a comment on their post from someone else who was dis…

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    Comment #10509266

    This is the first time I've seen a nicely documented requirements.txt and I like! https://github.com/lyft/confidant/blob/master/requirements.t...

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    I'm surprised as well, since these services reinforce his point even more. In other words, good reputation = $$$. Also, I currently use mailgun (and dabbling with mandrill on some …