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dochtman
8,644karma·837submissions·August 2, 2010
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Professional Rust maintainer.
https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/ https://github.com/djc https://xavamedia.nl/
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Very nice post, thanks! I'm looking at experimenting with Mongrel2 to see if it would be a nice fit at work, where we still use apache2/mod_wsgi (we have modest needs) to interface our Python + CouchD…
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I'm sure there would be some speedup, the question is whether it would be worth it (and I suppose that can only be adequately be assessed by the developers, who now have to maintain C code instead of …
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It's not that revolutionary anymore... Twitter has been doing it for quite a while now, and see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3236820 for more discussion. Personally, I've rewritten a bunch of…
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If you have thoughtful comments to write, please start a blog and respond at your own pace!
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Another day to be proud of our Dutch representatives.
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Asked Mark Nottingham on Twitter, 430 is used in this other draft RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nottingham-http-pipeline-01 (It's 430 Would Block.)…
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It looks fairly bland and aged (and especially bad when compared to screenshots of the commercial AtMail webmail client).
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AFAICT the best alternative, interface-wise, is Roundcube, and it doesn't seem particularly exciting (it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a lit…
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Look at this recent Mozilla thread, asking the same question: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_t... It offers reasons why it's a bad idea, and an alternative (in HTML5 inst…
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What happened to 430?
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I just wish we could stop supporting 2.4.
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Why in the world does this page require me to login?
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This is the guy who has been tirelessly maintaining the timezone database for the past 25 years. You might not know about this, but timezones change a lot , so it's quite a bit of good work. If you u…
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Are there no slides or transcript, or blog posts? It would be nice to have something that can be skimmed through. I don't use Ruby, so I'm not sure how much of the talk would apply to me, but we use C…
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It's also often described as duck typing...
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So what has become of that effort? We're 7 years in now, did they actually go ahead with their plan?
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Pretty sure Python is 2.7 (but don't remember sources).
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You know Mozilla's working on that, right?
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You should put that on the pypy site somewhere.
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Yeah, because Linus deciding to name 2.6.43 3.0 is clearly inspired by Google Chrome.
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It also badly needs prettier URLs.
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The difference between North America and Western Europe is quite striking. Is that really mostly due to HFCS?
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Because I just dislike magic.