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Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by eli » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 12:24 PM UTC

piggity wrote: post #36

eli wrote: post #31

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The English language lacks an appropriate word for this situation (singular personal pronoun that could apply to either gender). Many people feel using "he" to refer to both genders is sexist and will instead rephrase the sentence or use "they" as a singular (which is controversial). Using "she" is just another option. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Gender-neutral_la...

I much prefer gender neutral language to using "she" or "he". Unless of course we are talking about a specific example like "John foolishly unscrewed the cap on his radiator while the engine was running". In which case I would generally try and mix the gender across examples. "Jane stabbed herself in the eye with a pencil when she was rear-ended by John on the way to the hospital"

Those aren't pronouns. Making up fake names would get very confusing for the reader.

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by zackattack » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 12:44 PM UTC

mryan wrote: post #50

zackattack wrote: post #41

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if anyone wants to port the Ruby script to python, put it on kickstarter and ill start u off with $50. i want a link to my webpage, CompassionPit, on the page for the final tool though. and one on the kickstarter page if ur feeling generous =) p.s. anyone think we need a developer-tools kickstarter? paul, lmk before i give it to my friends at tech stars

A Kickstarter for dev tools would be a great idea. As well as new projects, it could also be beneficial for large changes to existing projects. Some combination of Kickstarter and bounties for GitHub issues would be interesting. My only concern would be for the potential drama caused by members of the community who find the idea of paying for open-source development abhorrent.

Concern? That's free marketing. zackster@gmail

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by BrandonM » Thu, Apr 19, 2012, 7:33 PM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #49

BrandonM wrote: post #43

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Why does the script need to be in Python? Isn't Fake S3 just a server that you run and connect to from any codebase? I'm curious because Python is the language I use most, but I could easily see myself writing a Fake S3 in golang or clojure or even C.

i don't know golang or clojure or c and this is a selfish-borne request that i figured would be worth making because of global benefits.

I don't have anything against the request, and I would actually be interested in writing a Python version. I was just curious what the motivation and goals would be.

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by knewter » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 2:04 AM UTC

andrewflnr wrote: post #44

mr_luc wrote: post #35

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On my last project, we used Dragonfly. Holy cow -- trivial to switch between file-backed and s3-backed storage in the various environment config files. It was a lifesaver, because the wifi at the place I was couch-surfing was a little spotty.

This dragonfly? https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly It's kind of hard to google for "dragonfly".

Yeah, that one. That dragonfly is effing amazing and I <3 it. I have proselytised for it for quite some time now and I'm still depressed more people don't use it. I actually found it when I started contributing to refinerycms.

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by zackattack » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 1:52 PM UTC

BrandonM wrote: post #53

zackattack wrote: post #49

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i don't know golang or clojure or c and this is a selfish-borne request that i figured would be worth making because of global benefits.

I don't have anything against the request, and I would actually be interested in writing a Python version. I was just curious what the motivation and goals would be.

Yep yep, the motivation is just to give back to the community, and simultaneously reward me for the stimulus initiative

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by BrandonM » Fri, Apr 20, 2012, 10:45 PM UTC

zackattack wrote: post #55

BrandonM wrote: post #53

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I don't have anything against the request, and I would actually be interested in writing a Python version. I was just curious what the motivation and goals would be.

Yep yep, the motivation is just to give back to the community, and simultaneously reward me for the stimulus initiative

I think I'm not being explicit enough. What would you use a Python version for, for which the Ruby Fake S3 implementation isn't suitable? I'm purely looking for a sample use case here. What problem does a Python Fake S3 solve?

Re: Fake S3 – Save time, money, and develop offline

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Post by zackattack » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 7:45 AM UTC

BrandonM wrote: post #56

zackattack wrote: post #55

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Yep yep, the motivation is just to give back to the community, and simultaneously reward me for the stimulus initiative

I think I'm not being explicit enough. What would you use a Python version for, for which the Ruby Fake S3 implementation isn't suitable? I'm purely looking for a sample use case here. What problem does a Python Fake S3 solve?

some people aren't comfortable with ruby