kevin1024

I’m still using Hubot. What are these alternatives you refer to?

I would love to see a IIGS MiSTer core. Could this work be ported somehow?

> Pricing divulged upon application.

Sounds expensive!

I run this in a couple retro systems and it's great: https://www.scsi2sd.com/index.php?title=SCSI2SD

Fond memories of trying to draw an ampersand back in college when my exams required me to write c code with a pencil on paper. I think I ended up making them backwards.

Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction.

https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstracti...

I work for a small company in Kailua building real estate websites. The tech community here is small but super fun!

What's your skillset? Hit me up - kevin at realgeeks dot com

[Hawaii ONSITE] Salesforce / Java Engineer

We're looking for Salesforce and Java developers to work with us here in Hawaii to improve our existing infrastructure, add new features, build the technological foundation of our business.

A typical day for a developer might include working with our sales team to improve their workflow, working with our front-end and backend developers to improve our products, and help build some new infrastructure to take our business to the next level. As part of a small and growing team, you will have a chance to really make a difference.

We're looking for a developer well versed in Salesforce and Apex. Knowledge of Python, Ruby, Go, and JavaScript are a plus.

We are looking for someone to work here at our office. We're located in the great beach town of Kailua, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.

At Real Geeks we build software tools to help real estate agents do business. We are bringing modern technology to the real estate world. You’ll be working with our team of developers and designers building cool stuff at our headquarters in Kailua, Hawaii.

Please apply by sending your resume to careers@realgeeks.com

Very cool solution! I've also seen claims that the private methods of modules should not be tested, since they don't represent the public interface of the module and refactorings are likely to change the private methods. If the private methods are complicated enough to warrant testing on their own, ideally they should be extracted into their own module. Not sure if I agree but it's something to think about!

> Do not use raidz1 for disks 1TB or greater in size.

Oops, I'm doing that on my home NAS. Does anyone know why this is bad?

Author of VCR.py here, thanks for the great blog post! I really like seeing real-world use cases like yours. The decorator you created is very cool. I'm considering adding something similar to VCR.py itself where it introspects the test to automatically name the cassette.

Kailua, Hawaii - Real Geeks - Full-stack Rails dev

Real Geeks is looking for a top-notch Rails developer to help it expand its business. We are a small team with big ideas taking the online real estate world by storm.

Our CRM is built in Ruby on Rails and we have some ambitious ideas to take it to the next level. We run hundreds of real estate websites running a CMS built in Python+Django with a MySQL datastore. * Real estate data is all stored in MongoDB, served up over an HTTP API written in Python/Tornado * Varnish for our front-end caching as well as load-balancing our MongoDB servers * Redis for general caching, non-persistent datastore use and task queue, Celery for deferred task processing * Puppet and Fabric for server administration

We are also a bit of a polyglot shop with code written in Go, Python, Ruby, and JavaScript all running in production.

Real Geeks is based in Kailua, Hawaii on the windward side of the beautiful island of Oahu, and is looking for someone willing to relocate to Hawaii. It would be great if you were up to go surfing with us at the end of a long day of programming.

Send your resume to careers@realgeeks.com

ipv6 support is one of them.

Hi Ed,

Pleased to meet you. I may be in communication soon regarding the results of my testing with python2.6 + Pyrax.

Thanks for the classy response! I'm excited that you have a paid maintainer for Pyrax and are willing to consider python 2.6 support. Things are looking good for the future.

Hi Jesse, I'm glad you're doing this. I love seeing the great people Rackspace is hiring and I'm excited about the improvements you could bring about.

I work for a Python shop that hosts everything on Rackspace. We have a mix of both dedicated servers and cloud servers, and we use cloud load balancers and Cloudfiles.

Here is my experience I had with Rackspace Cloudfiles and Python.

I started using a library I found on Rackspace's github, called python-cloudfiles (I contributed back some bugfixes to the library as well). One day, the project suddenly, without warning, disappeared from github! Where did it go! What happened? All my deploys are broken! Well, it turned out that it had been moved to another github account (rackerlabs) and support had been dropped, and it will be removed completely in August! I had to open a support ticket to figure out where it went. I wish there had been better communication here.

OK, so I started looking at Pyrax, which is the recommended replacement library (I think?). Looks pretty good, except it requires Python 2.7, and Rackspace only supports Centos6 (at least for dedicated servers), which has no official package for Python 2.7 (2.6 only). I could create a custom package to upgrade Python, but I find it kind of strange that Rackspace is providing a library that I can't run on their servers without adding custom packages.

Also, I noticed you recently added a commit to the python-cloudfiles package pointing to python-swiftclient. Is this an alternative to Pyrax? Can I use any of the openstack tools with Rackspace Cloud Servers / Cloud files? If so, should I build my apps on the openstack tools or on Pyrax?

Anyway, I hope you can clear some of this up.

Interesting that they decided not to do a responsive design. Instead, it serves up different HTML if you send a phone user-agent. I've been trying to decide if this is a good idea for my own project.

Kailua, Hawaii - Real Geeks

We are a small team working to take the real estate world by storm. We are looking for Python hackers and a designer. Come live and work in Hawaii in our office by Lanikai Beach. Send your resume (or portfolio) to careers@realgeeks.com

I'm working on a HTTP testing library based on Ruby's VCR library[1]. I've got it to a pretty basic state where it is somewhat usable. I'm definitely interested in this area. Ruby's VCR uses the Webmock library as a backend (though it can use other pluggable backends) to mock out all the HTTP requests. I had to sort of grow my own Webmock - maybe I can integrate HTTPretty instead so we don't duplicate effort.

[1]: http://www.github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy/

> Computers can't grade everything... Papers are out of the question.

I'm currently taking a Coursera class where I write an essay each week. Then my essay is reviewed and graded by 4 other students. I grade 4 other students' essays. This works really well.

He's already a legend in my book: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/26/mariana-trench-ja...

Real Geeks (Kailua, Hawaii) - Full Time.

Real Geeks is looking for a top-notch software developer to help it expand its business. We are a small team with big ideas getting ready to take the online real estate world by storm.

We are looking for someone comfortable with web programming, familiar with scripting languages such as Python and Javascript, knowledgeable about database systems (we use MySQL and MongoDB), and willing to learn. Design skills and Javascript / CSS mastery is a plus. We are using the newest open-source technologies to create dynamic websites for the real estate sector.

Hundreds of real estate websites running a CMS built in Python+Django with a MySQL datastore - Real estate data is all stored in MongoDB, served up over an HTTP API written in Python/Tornado - Varnish for our front-end caching as well as load-balancing our MongoDB servers - Redis for general caching, non-persistent datastore use and task queue - Beanstalkd for a simple task queue - Celery for deferred task processing - Puppet and Fabric for server administration

Real Geeks is based in Kailua, Hawaii on the windward side of the beautiful island of Oahu, and is looking for someone willing to relocate to Hawaii. It would be great if you were up to go surfing with us at the end of a long day of programming.

Send your resume to jobs@realgeeks.com

Check out this (awesome) talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNOAtZIgIk

There are a number of areas in which unsupervised feature learning outperforms the hand-programmed models we have been fine-tuning for decades.

Here's a nice post about Panic's status board: http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/

supervisord doesn't know how to kill child processes that fork off from the processes you start.

Your wsgi server is almost never the bottleneck - see this talk by Graham Dumpleton at Pycon - http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE

By the way, if you do .limit() / .offset() pagination, by the time you get into really high offsets, queries will start going slow again. Mongo has to do a scan up to the document at offset that you are asking for.

You can combine limit() with count by passing true to the count function. So if you only care about counts greater than, say, 10000, you can do db.collection.find({criteria:'123}).limit(10000).count(true) and you will only get back a max of 10000. This puts an upper bound on waiting for some large counts to come back.