jamongkad

Your experience really resonates with me. I too suffer from occasional panic attacks. What techniques do you use to suppress them?

I'm curious as well...and while I'm at it do you store the analytics in a db?

I agree. I'm a huge proponent on giving it a try and seeing where you are from just doing it.

Exactly as painful as it might seem. Automated tests can only get you so far. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and dig into the code base.

Agreed that is why I always walk to work and rarely bring my car.

No you're definitely not the only one. My company uses EC2 for our production environment and I loathe the management interface with a passion. Amazon should definitely hire a UI expert to give that damn thing a face lift.

I'm an interested party as well. As a student of machine learning I would love to learn the techniques you've applied. I'm doing a data mining startup and this would be very helpful.

I think the rabbit hole goes a little deeper than that don't you think?

> content tube sites that have some really quite excellent taxonomy, categorization and deeper search functions - surfacing the content that each viewer wants is a unique experience for each person.

Fascinating what sort of sites have this feature?

Wow looks like web.py for PHP. I think I've seen a similar project whilst lurking around Github the other day.

Nice but is there any mention in the article about support for just writing plain old SQL? I love the ideas of ORMs (my app now currently uses SQLAlchemy) but I find myself dropping back to SQL when things get a little complex. I think new age ORMs should leave support for dropping back to SQL. Cool project nonetheless.

I rock it old school and still prefer web.py over anything.

How does Flask compare with web.py?

Word...though I think you'd be pleased to know that Kohana is one of the better engineered PHP code bases out there.

Personally I would go for either CodeIgniter or it's more well built cousin Kohana.

You would be referring to the book written by Toby Sagaran would you? If it is I second your notion, an excellent book btw. Really got me into algorithms and the like.

Upvote I used to dig BeautifulSoup. It's latest release is slower than it's predecessors. That's why I use PyQuery nowadays, it's based on lxml and uses a jQuery like API to access the DOM.

Gambit Scheme does it better I think.

I find this incredibly useful for internationalizing apps! I can tell I'm going to have alot of fun using this lib.

Agreed not everything in Python is well thought out. Lambdas and .join comes to mind.

Pylons.

As long as Python continues to not utilize multi-line lambdas. Then Perl and Ruby will continue to be a usable Lisp. But I don't think that's a bad thing. Python is Python and that's that.

Speaking as someone who is tangled in a love triangle between Python and PHP. I do agree that PHP does have it's strengths. For the programmer just making a living, it's quite ok to etch out just using it.

In terms of web applications, what you can accomplish in PHP you can pretty much do in Python. But the difference comes in when you do "care" about the tools you're using.

When you want that extra power. When you want something sane to work with.

Python and friends give provide that for you.

I do love PHP, it's deployment is a snap and the frameworks we have now are kick ass. But Python is such a joy to work with it. And the longer I work with it, it gets harder to come back to PHP.

Why isn't SQLite a part of this list?

Upvote for iPython, it quickened my learning of the language 10 fold. That and slime.vim is a match made in heaven!

You basically put into words what I wanted to explain in the first place.

Thank you! but it's still not very clear to me. I'm having trouble trying to visualize how this should play out. :\

Could you please provide an example for this?

If I were to start over again I would have started with Scheme as a good first programming language.

Just out of curiosity why do you say that turning into a custom software development shop is a waste of talent?

Granted yes I'm very much with the rest of the HN community that we should concentrate on making products and all.