Let's say I have something in python that was developed on python 2.5 and is in maintenance now. The correct question is why would I demand python 2.7 suddenly?
Actually, I just recently started a new project and I'm coding it in Python 2.7 despite the fact that I much prefer Python 3 (byte/str makes sense in Python3, str/unicode in Python2 was and is a mess). The reason is that Python 3 does not have a decent MySQL connector. I hear complaints about thrid-party developers (mysqlf included) not supporting Python 3, but core Python language bindings that we depend upon don't yet even support Python 3. Here, let me quote to you directly from my project's FAQ:
Why no Python3 support? There is no MySQL connector for Python3 yet.
According to `git blame` I added that entry on 2013-12-04, just about a month ago.
I've seen a few Slashdot links to this "medium" website recently. I think it hosts single pages from different authors in a format that is supposed to be comfort able to read on a tablet computer. Just my guess, I don't have a tablet that will show this type of page (just a hacked e-ink Nook running Android).
I now check where the link leads before clicking it in the fine summary as well as the comments. If it leads to "medium" I don't even follow the link anymore.
You have unimaginably gigantic explosions and these scientists just say "Boy we really need to dust now."
At least your mom writes dates in her diary entries. None of the blog's posts have dates, so when you're reading them you have no idea if the info is one week new or ten years out of date.
I must say, though, that this thing is a bear to build on my Kubuntu 12.10 machine. I'm not done yet, and I don't see the end in site. It is _not_ a simple./configure make make install make clean, and the engine that does the work is a separate package from the UI (which runs in a web broswer)!
Then perhaps you'd like to post this as well: Twister will never see widespread adoption if users have to compile it for their platform. Unless and until pre-compiled binaries are available, most people will avoid it like the plague.
Sure, Firefox never got widespread adoption. I happen to remember when we had to compile it (it was called Phoenix back then).
It's just a bloody simple system of differential equations. n bodies, each has a location (3 coordinates) and a speed vector (3 coordinates), so you have six equations. The speed is obviously the derivative of the location, and the theory gives you the equation to calculate the derivative of the speed. Look up Fehlberg or "Adaptive Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg" and you are there.
That's Newton.
With relativity things get hard, quick. Both time (thus, speed) and space (thus, speed and distance) dilate, mass changes (thus, the attractive forces between bodies and thus their acceleration, and thus their speed, and thus their location), and some other oddities.
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the arrogance of those so-called "UNTOUCHABLES"
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the public's apathy. The real issue is now that the spying has been brought to the forefront of attention, the time has come for society to decide which fork in the road Western society will take: the ever-present surveillance route or the privacy-respecting route. The government agencies, and at their bidding the established media, are taking the stance that spying is the new norm. Twitter and Slashdot readers think that privacy should be the new norm. Arguably, neither have been a 'norm' until now.
I second this. I've moved people from Windows to Kubuntu telling them that it is Windows [7|8|9] and they love it. Just don't tell them what it is called.
Tips: Firefox instead of Rekonq, Lancelot instead of the default KDE menu, remove all desktop widgets and 'lock' the desktop and panel.
Elimination is a stupid move. It's a triumph of marketing at the cost of we who must run this shit.
And make no mistake: it will be elimination. Elimination of your software from many clients' servers / desktops.
People like me won't run your software anymore. I cannot risk having your developers changing code running on my critical systems without so much as telling me what they change. I can usually infer the 'why', but they must tell me the 'what'. You don't mention if your customers have access to the code source or not, but in either case a concise human-formatted changelog is such a basic requirement that I am actually disturbed about an upstream provider even considering removing it.
Technically one could run a webserver on a spot instance, but the availability of said server will be inversely proportional to datacenter load instead of proportional to website demand. Do you not see why that is a bad idea?
EC2 is inherently scriptable. There's nothing stopping you from using the command-line tools to fire up an instance, and let it run, and store its results to S3, and then decommission the instance.
You are correct that what you propose is easy and well documented. However, that is not what the OP needs.
The OP needs lower-priced spot instances, which are intermittently available and designed exactly for this workflow. When the entire AWS datacenter has some spare capacity, these spot instances turn on for those who requested them to run (usually to crunch data that is not time-sensitive). The use and configuration of these instances is not so well documented, probably because you cannot run a webserver on them and that seems to be the focus of much AWS documentation. However, it is exactly these 'spot instances' which are in my opinion the genius of the cloud: they let the heavy, non-time-critical work (i.e. scientific computing) be done when the webservers and mailservers aren't so busy, thus flattening out the daily CPU demand curve.
I called Bank Leumi monthly for years about Firefox-on-Linux compatibility and they always told me that "it is in the works". I finally left the bank for another bank (Poalim) after sitting with the new bank's manager in his office with my Fedora laptop (~2009) checking that their site works on my system. When it did, I changed banks and wrote letters about why to both banks' presidents.
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I hear complaints about thrid-party developers (mysqlf included) not supporting Python 3, but...
One of those typos makes me laugh, especially given the context.
Let's say I have something in python that was developed on python 2.5 and is in maintenance now. The correct question is why would I demand python 2.7 suddenly?
Actually, I just recently started a new project and I'm coding it in Python 2.7 despite the fact that I much prefer Python 3 (byte/str makes sense in Python3, str/unicode in Python2 was and is a mess). The reason is that Python 3 does not have a decent MySQL connector. I hear complaints about thrid-party developers (mysqlf included) not supporting Python 3, but core Python language bindings that we depend upon don't yet even support Python 3. Here, let me quote to you directly from my project's FAQ:
Why no Python3 support?
There is no MySQL connector for Python3 yet.
According to `git blame` I added that entry on 2013-12-04, just about a month ago.
Here is the project for those interested in a database explorer with a focus on breadth, not depth:
https://github.com/dotancohen/squeal
I've seen a few Slashdot links to this "medium" website recently. I think it hosts single pages from different authors in a format that is supposed to be comfort able to read on a tablet computer. Just my guess, I don't have a tablet that will show this type of page (just a hacked e-ink Nook running Android).
I now check where the link leads before clicking it in the fine summary as well as the comments. If it leads to "medium" I don't even follow the link anymore.
That is my point. All projects start off this way.
You have unimaginably gigantic explosions and these scientists just say "Boy we really need to dust now."
At least your mom writes dates in her diary entries. None of the blog's posts have dates, so when you're reading them you have no idea if the info is one week new or ten years out of date.
I must say, though, that this thing is a bear to build on my Kubuntu 12.10 machine. I'm not done yet, and I don't see the end in site. It is _not_ a simple ./configure make make install make clean, and the engine that does the work is a separate package from the UI (which runs in a web broswer)!
Then perhaps you'd like to post this as well:
Twister will never see widespread adoption if users have to compile it for their platform. Unless and until pre-compiled binaries are available, most people will avoid it like the plague.
Sure, Firefox never got widespread adoption. I happen to remember when we had to compile it (it was called Phoenix back then).
It's just a bloody simple system of differential equations. n bodies, each has a location (3 coordinates) and a speed vector (3 coordinates), so you have six equations. The speed is obviously the derivative of the location, and the theory gives you the equation to calculate the derivative of the speed. Look up Fehlberg or "Adaptive Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg" and you are there.
That's Newton.
With relativity things get hard, quick. Both time (thus, speed) and space (thus, speed and distance) dilate, mass changes (thus, the attractive forces between bodies and thus their acceleration, and thus their speed, and thus their location), and some other oddities.
I hate to be the one to tell you that it already exists:
http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/
Actually, even two wheels has not been successfully accomplished yet. Though, to be fair, zero wheels has been done.
It's not about USA per se.
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the arrogance of those so-called "UNTOUCHABLES"
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the public's apathy. The real issue is now that the spying has been brought to the forefront of attention, the time has come for society to decide which fork in the road Western society will take: the ever-present surveillance route or the privacy-respecting route. The government agencies, and at their bidding the established media, are taking the stance that spying is the new norm. Twitter and Slashdot readers think that privacy should be the new norm. Arguably, neither have been a 'norm' until now.
While I applaud the move, it is about competitive advantage for Google.
Google already knew which emails you have or haven't read. So does every other email client, web-based or IMAP / POP3.
I second this. I've moved people from Windows to Kubuntu telling them that it is Windows [7|8|9] and they love it. Just don't tell them what it is called.
Tips: Firefox instead of Rekonq, Lancelot instead of the default KDE menu, remove all desktop widgets and 'lock' the desktop and panel.
Elimination is a stupid move. It's a triumph of marketing at the cost of we who must run this shit.
And make no mistake: it will be elimination. Elimination of your software from many clients' servers / desktops.
People like me won't run your software anymore. I cannot risk having your developers changing code running on my critical systems without so much as telling me what they change. I can usually infer the 'why', but they must tell me the 'what'. You don't mention if your customers have access to the code source or not, but in either case a concise human-formatted changelog is such a basic requirement that I am actually disturbed about an upstream provider even considering removing it.
you'll find sympathy in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis".
Quote of the century.
Nice finds, but some disturbing comments on those videos. Thanks.
I would love to hear some of that material. My Gmail username is the same as my /. username if you wouldn't mind.
Thanks!
Technically one could run a webserver on a spot instance, but the availability of said server will be inversely proportional to datacenter load instead of proportional to website demand. Do you not see why that is a bad idea?
EC2 is inherently scriptable. There's nothing stopping you from using the command-line tools to fire up an instance, and let it run, and store its results to S3, and then decommission the instance.
You are correct that what you propose is easy and well documented. However, that is not what the OP needs.
The OP needs lower-priced spot instances, which are intermittently available and designed exactly for this workflow. When the entire AWS datacenter has some spare capacity, these spot instances turn on for those who requested them to run (usually to crunch data that is not time-sensitive). The use and configuration of these instances is not so well documented, probably because you cannot run a webserver on them and that seems to be the focus of much AWS documentation. However, it is exactly these 'spot instances' which are in my opinion the genius of the cloud: they let the heavy, non-time-critical work (i.e. scientific computing) be done when the webservers and mailservers aren't so busy, thus flattening out the daily CPU demand curve.
The OP should start here:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-tutorials/
And end here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/tutorial-spot-adv-java.html
Now, Oona is cute, a hacker and is into Kung Fu.
Got me to read the fine article. Oh, and pics :)
https://plus.google.com/photos/116317362025285673698/albums/profile
Then change banks, and tell them why.
I called Bank Leumi monthly for years about Firefox-on-Linux compatibility and they always told me that "it is in the works". I finally left the bank for another bank (Poalim) after sitting with the new bank's manager in his office with my Fedora laptop (~2009) checking that their site works on my system. When it did, I changed banks and wrote letters about why to both banks' presidents.
I, for one, am glad that we are not on dotchan.
I resemble that comment.
- dotancohen
When are we gonna get a Linux distro with the modern version of MonoDevelop.
Call it a trap all you want, it's still a dream of mine to write MVC 4 apps under Linux, using the most recent version of MonoDevelop.
If you need MonoDevelop then you are ostensibly a developer. As a developer, can you not build and install it yourself?
Second Raspberry Pi, is a low end NAS device for system backups
How are you connecting the hard drives? USB?
Thank you! I'm actually learning Asterisk for work and I do have a Raspberry Pi. Your post is very helpful.
Mods!