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After seeing a few of these kinds of posts over the last few, ahem, years, I am going to take a stab at organizing a Los Angeles based Hacker News group. Let's start really small. Send me your email address if you are interested in

A) being on an email list B) getting together in person (only one meeting for now)

iphpdonthitme of gmail

iphpdonthitmeon Ask HN: Hackers in LA?

I'm on the Westside. It's not an HN group, but this group is pretty hackery: http://socal-piggies.org/scp

Send me an email at iphpdonthitme gmail if someone actually manages to rope people together brave enough to endure LA traffic.

iphpdonthitmeon Ask HN: I need to ask a Google employee a question?

I once emailed Peter Norvig about about one of his Amazon book reviews. Surprisingly, he replied back within a day.

iphpdonthitmeon Ask YC: AI/NLP for legal analysis?

I think this company tries to do stuff with legal texts: www.cataphora.com

iphpdonthitmeon Ask HN: how to push to a live site?

Hmm, I don't think I understand the diference. Aren't you both in the capistrano case and the 'span codebase' example adding a table for example, so wouldn't both cases require repeating sql sequences?

Although maybe what you are saying is that you can make 'dumb' sql changes which break compatibility with past code vs 'smart' sql changes and code changes which are backwards compatible?

iphpdonthitmeon Ask HN: how to push to a live site?

- Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications by Cal Henderson

- Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer's Library) by Theo Schlossnagle

http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/

... and a whole buncha links on google with "scaling", although "scaling mysql" seems especially popular

iphpdonthitmeon Ask HN: how to push to a live site?

What's an example of a db change that "smart" people can do where Capistrano allows you to be less smart?

iphpdonthitmeon Carbs kill cells that regulate appetite

You can't really trust anybody when it comes to science relating to diet. ANY scientific result would have a party that would potentially benefit from it.

iphpdonthitmeon wtop: "top" for Apache, plus powerful log grepping

never mind - requires 2.5

iphpdonthitmeon wtop: "top" for Apache, plus powerful log grepping

Should this work with python 2.4? I get the following error when installing:

/usr/local/src/wtop-0.5.6]# python setup.py install running install running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib copying logrep.py -> build/lib running build_scripts creating build/scripts-2.4 copying wtop -> build/scripts-2.4 copying and adjusting logrep -> build/scripts-2.4 changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/logrep from 644 to 755 running install_lib copying build/lib/logrep.py -> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/logrep.py to logrep.pyc File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/logrep.py", line 370 return [(key,op,castfns[key](value)) if op != '~' else (key,op,re.compile(value)) for key,op,value in conditions] ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.4/wtop -> /usr/bin copying build/scripts-2.4/logrep -> /usr/bin changing mode of /usr/bin/wtop to 777 changing mode of /usr/bin/logrep to 755 running install_data copying wtop.cfg -> /etc