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Nice round-up of the features of the main contenders in the Comet server arena
Startups and Work: Europe vs the US
"Business-wise, I prefer the US. However, outside of that, there's a lot to be said for Europe. I also think that some of what's good about business in the US is coming to Europe, albeit slowly in some cases, in Europe. People my age here can see what's going on elsewhere, and try and copy what they like. A lot of what's good about Europe, though, might be more difficult to import into the US, especially the livability of the cities."
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Business-wise, I prefer the US. However, outside of that, there's a lot to be said for Europe. I also think that some of what's good about business in the US is coming to Europe, albeit slowly in some cases, in Europe. People my age here can see what's going on elsewhere, and try and copy what they like. A lot of what's good about Europe, though, might be more difficult to import into the US, especially the livability of the cities.
My first week of django — Reinout van Rees' website
A Plone veteran shares his impression after one week with Django.
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Light-weight. That's really something completely different from the towering stack that is Plone. Change a .py file and django will just restart itself.
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Simple customization mechanism, especially for templates. Basically what Plone had with the portal skins. With two differences that make it a bit more maintainable. (a) by convention, every add-on stores its templates in a subdirectory named after itself. So that does away with many name clashes and the one-global-namespace problem Plone had. Just a simple convention. (b) There's a list of template directories in the global config file. That's the order of directories in which Django searches for templates. I'd say that feels much more practical than anything that plone has right now.
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plope - Wherefore CouchDB for ZODB Users
"All in all, CouchDB is a neat piece of software. If I ever have to build an application that needs to store data that needs to be accessible from programs written in langauges other than Python across HTTP and I don't need to use a relational database, it seems like a great solution."
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I didn't understand why
folks were excited about CouchDB given that a good number of its
features (append-only storage and "schemaless design" in particular)
have been present in ZODB for a
little under ten years now. Even more in particular, I was really
baffled as to why Python developers were excited about such a system
given the availability of ZODB. -
I think I understand a bit better now. ZODB and CouchDB are quite
similar in a lot of respects, but CouchDB beats ZODB on a narrow set
of goals that seem to be becoming more important - 10 more annotations...
Quick Django Benching
"Before beginning these tests I assumed that since Lighttpd and Nginx were so fast otherwise they'd perform best. As you can see, deploying Django under mod_python is fast. It's no wonder it's the recommended method for deployment."
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Before beginning these tests I assumed that since Lighttpd and Nginx were so fast otherwise they'd perform best. As you can see, deploying Django under mod_python is fast. It's no wonder it's the recommended method for deployment.
America’s Debt to Income Ratio as Compared with Other Countries |
"Japan has the highest positive income (in gross terms) at US $2,892 Billion. Similarly, the US economy is $1,594 Billion. At the other side of the spectrum, Great Britain’s income to debt ratio is a US -$7,677 Billion, and that of France is -$1,890 Billion."
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the UK is just like your friend that spends exactly what they make, or even beyond their means to try and impress his/her friends. This is worse than living month to month – it’s like living a month to two months behind! And now, the UK is accumulating new debt at a faster rate than the economy. If the UK were a private citizen, it might be time for him/her to sell off what they can and move to Panama, or declare some type of bankruptcy.
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In effect, most of this debt will probably be neglected, because you can’t send a country to medical collections, or into foreclosure.
Slicehost vs Linode
"I discovered something annoying about Slicehost: they use x86_64 servers, which, per se, doesn't really matter to me - I use open source code that can run on any number of architectures. The problem is that this particular architecture uses more memory than plain old x86. Significantly more."
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I discovered something annoying about Slicehost: they use x86_64 servers, which, per se, doesn't really matter to me - I use open source code that can run on any number of architectures. The problem is that this particular architecture uses more memory than plain old x86. Significantly more.
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I don't really know what sort of response times, uptime, and all that either Slicehost or Linode have, so there are potentially some big intangibles there that are not quite as easy to draw pretty charts for.
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Virus Bulletin : News - AV-Test release latest results
"a beta version of GDATA's AVK 2009 topped the charts for both 'malware' (measured against 1,164,662 samples) and 'ad- and spyware' (94,291 samples)"
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GDATA's AVK 2009 topped the
charts for both 'malware' (measured against 1,164,662 samples) and 'ad- and spyware' (94,291 samples)
LLVM-GCC benchmarks
20% to 30% reductions in execution time when doing number crunching.
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Running the same calculation compiled from LLVM-GCC gave a mean execution time of 38 seconds with the same SD - thats a saving of 30% in this example.
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The code i was running for this test is typical scientific number crunching with 64bit ints, so this is obviously a very useful advantage and time saver on a calculation that would take longer to run.
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MacVim vs vim-cocoa - vim_mac | Google Groups
here's a list of things that MacVim does which vim-cocoa doesn't. In
short, MacVim offers more OS X integration and has many "small things" that make life easier
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you can hit ⇧⌘T
to open a file with a gui browser in a new tab -
MacVim includes its own font (well, the open source DejaVu Mono font)
that has an italic version, so italic text can be displayed. OS X'
default fixed width font Monaco cannot display italic text - 14 more annotations...
On the Relationship Between Python and Lisp
"Python is growing, but not towards Lisp. As Python becomes more popular, I expect advocates of other languages will try to claim it as a descendant of theirs"
Django vs. ASP.NET MVC
"When I started looking at Django, there was a simple 4 step tutorial that I followed to get up to speed. I read through it and over the next couple days I got my simple app up and running. There is nothing like that for the ASP.NET MVC stuff"
Performance comparison of FreeBSD 7.0 to FreeBSD 4.11 and Dragonfly BSD 1.12
"the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed.... In all cases measured, FreeBSD 7.0 performs significantly better than both FreeBSD 4.11 and dragonfly 1.12 in both SMP and UP configurations."
Git's Killer Feature
"The Git index is the killer feature of git. Now obviously Git has many other things going for it, but I was searching for the real differences between Git and Mercurial and this appears to be the trump card of Git."
Rails is the best thing that ever happened to Python
"As much as I may like Ruby more as far as language design goes, not only does Python boast a very solid implementation, it has several advantages over Ruby that go beyond the interpreter."
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