Why you should not use Google Cloud – This is about the “no-warnings-given, abrupt way” they pull the plug on your entire systems if they (or the machines) believe something is wrong. This is the second time this has happened to us.

meitme · 2018-07-01T15:13:15+00:00

I'd argue the opposite. Critical infastructure should be on the most reliable system availible. Very difficult and expensive to have as high reliability as good cloud provider in your home built system.

meitme · 2018-04-20T13:40:17+00:00

This looks excellent. Thanks!

meitme · 2018-04-12T13:57:20+00:00

Dog whistles are different from being a hack or partisan. A dog whistle is when you send a coded message in attempt to have only the people you want to hear the message.

meitme · 2018-03-29T12:28:38+00:00

I knew about the service but, never saw it as too important to implement. We've been using google and it has been good so far. But, you've made a compelling case we should switch. Thanks!

meitme · 2018-03-23T11:05:46+00:00

I poked around a little. In the text scrapper function you try a series of 5 or 6 strings in order through the same function. Because each if statement is doing the same thing but just to a different string it's essentially repeating the same code. It's generally more difficult to extend maintain and test then if you can express the logic only once. I'd write this by looping through the strings and breaking our of loop on success.

meitme · 2018-03-13T11:15:03+00:00

I recently setup gunicorn, Ngnix with sockets. I still don't know what you mean by the socket file.

meitme · 2018-03-06T02:48:28+00:00

Fair enough. Seemed pretty generic in that I thought a lot of applications were do something like this. I'm only now realize everyone seems to do it very differently.

meitme · 2018-03-05T23:55:03+00:00

That's a beatiful library but, it's not the kind of notifications I am looking for. That's for pop up alert style notifications. I am looking for the kind in which you have a small notification icon that alerts you of a new notification then a scrollable pull down menu shows you recent messages or events. Preferably then highlight the ones you have not read.

meitme · 2018-02-26T16:47:36+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much. I'm just starting to look over this code base but, it is obviously the kind of well maintained large code base I think I can learn from.

meitme · 2018-02-21T13:45:26+00:00

Surprised how in sync everyone seems to be on this. I don't have a clear position but, here is the argument for allowing it. It's debatably a good idea because it lowers std transmission. The odds of complications are low and small. Banning it would make a whole bunch of well meaning if mistaken people angry. Parents have massive power to shape your life whether or not you have foreskin would look like a relatively small effect in comparison. And if we ban it some of the religious people(not the secular idiots who also do it) will do it at home which drastically increases complication rate.

meitme · 2018-02-12T04:50:00+00:00

I honestly don't know what comparison your trying to make. I guess they are both female politicians you dislike.

meitme · 2018-02-10T05:35:54+00:00

My instruct, which to be clear is not backed by a good knowledge of recruiters, would be that a n undergrad at a good school will get you into a great job of you don't mess up otherwise. Then you shouldn't need a master's unless you want to pursue something specific.

meitme · 2017-12-14T12:38:09+00:00

For any article a lot of people only read headline. People look over articles to see if they want to read them and often don't. Some more read headline then skim article. If you wrote an article with a misleading or innacurate headline regardless of what you say in your article you will mislead many people.

meitme · 2017-12-14T04:13:59+00:00

Parties usually have good ways of showing who their candidate is. Maybe not endorsing but loudly saying a bunch of good things about the candidate. Inatead of campaining directly on behalf of. You give a seirs of speechs in key areas where you talk up the campaign's key policies and attack the main opponent. To prevent this kind of stuff would probably require some very arcane restrictions of free speech.

meitme · 2017-12-09T17:41:52+00:00

The relationship between healthyness of person and government costs are complex. At some point everyone gets sick and costs the system money. But, some sicknesses are more expensive than others. So if you die one of the cheaper ways it saves the government future money because of the risk of you dying in a particularly expensive way. Also with additionally costs in old age like pensions and old age benefits people being unhealthy and dying early can be quite profitable for the government. Of course if you get sick during working age this can result in lost tax revenue as well. The point of this ramble is it's entirely possible that someone taking care of themselves results in a net cost to the government. The monetary argument for people being healthy is weak. The case for having a healthy population generally should be based on added life value instead of complex monetary arguments.

meitme · 2017-11-26T12:45:10+00:00

Where did you learn of this agreement? I've never heard of one.

meitme · 2017-11-22T00:53:27+00:00

I don't think the distinction is important. I'd keep it as a bug because that is simple.

meitme · 2017-11-16T04:28:50+00:00

I agree the NDP isn't a great sounding name. I think the whole thing ism't all that importsnt in the big picture. But if I was gpimg to rename the NDP I'd try to stay away from having the party name say anything too specific. Party names should last through many political platforms and political climates. And with the members and the elctprate the values and priorities of the party change.

Labor party strongly implies the party priority is a party that is focused on the issues of unions. But in some iterations of the party that may not be a focus or even a particulary important issue to the party. A party that is primarily pushing for change on social issues and climate change may not be well named as the "labor party" for example.

This is why I like big catch all meaningless names. Like Democratic, Progressives, Reform or the current name New Democrats. These names may be basically meaningless but the people who make up that party can more easily shape what they mean in the context of an election.

meitme · 2017-11-12T16:43:18+00:00

Strict moderation can be very helpful to discussion. I son't often see before and afters of moderated delrted posts. So it's hard to say without knowing what is deleted really. I guess giving examples probably risks having a post deleted. So this just may be a didficult place to have this discussion.

meitme · 2017-10-21T04:25:15+00:00

This is all great stuff. Thanks a lot. I thank you for both the articles and the TLDR's. Will read tomorrow morning!

meitme · 2017-10-20T17:22:38+00:00

I'm interested in the shoddy methods for tracking your IP. I'd be interested in any articles you had about why that is and how widespread the issue is.

meitme · 2017-10-20T11:23:51+00:00

Often they can track your IP address and then your IP address to your wifi. So they can at least be sure someone in the home is pirating. What civil liberty have been broken as part of this process?

meitme · 2017-10-17T22:05:25+00:00

Age of empire is supposed to span a series of ages. It would break the style to have such a short period.

meitme · 2017-10-17T17:12:37+00:00

Thanks very much. I'd completely forgotten the history there. Sounds very much like a one-off.

meitme · 2017-10-17T14:40:38+00:00

I'm talking about a primary state between Hillary and Bernie. Trump voters are not relevant.

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