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mid 30s for my child heading to UNH as well, despite major "scholarship" award.

1x Raspberry Pi 3: Retropie powering a converted cabinet

1x Raspberry Pi 3: Home-assistant.io, perennial WIP

1x Raspberry Pi 1b: Prototype of Pandora streaming box w/pianobar and an LCD char display

1x Raspberry Pi 2: WIP for next rev of Pandora box

Also, he very clearly states he borrowed code from 2 of his other projects that made it faster/easier.

Am I the only one that finds it annoying to have each layer's stats in different units? We have: TB/mo, reqs/sec, queries/day, reqs/min, searches/day.

or http://wfh.io

How did we survive? Skills, connections, and some luck. It wasn't that everything vaporized, just a lot of fluff companies built on VC with no profitable business model. Just as when times were good a lot of unqualified people got into the business, when it imploded they got out.

You don't mention where you are located and if that matters (i.e. remote work OK or not).

Aside from spam, I mean marketing emails, what email do you send or receive that needs HTML?

Very nice, thank you, definitely using this in new code.

Very nice and thanks! Writing a replacement for Xively/Cosm/Pachube was on my TODO list, but now I don't have to. I'll take this for a spin later, and hope to contribute if there is anything I have to offer.

locate indexer cronjob should never be enabled on a production box. Problem solved.

Probably nobody is looking at this thread now, but just in case... I've had similar code I use in Flask apps for awhile now and this project inspired me to turn it into a legit Flask Extension:

https://github.com/noise/flask-queryinspect

Yeah, it's more of an advanced topic for commercial prod sites, but worth mentioning as trying to do the migration prior to a code push is also not going to work (no migration to be done) and could confuse those new to these tools/libs.

In any case, good job on a well written set of posts.

That technique used for migrations will fail with a real production app where you want to avoid downtime. The process outlined is:

1. deploy new code to prod

2. run migration on prod via a one-off dyno instance

However, in step 1 you are pushing code that relies on new tables/fields that don't yet exist, causing errors and likely downtime for the app.

To avoid this, you can instead have Alembic generate SQL from the migration and then apply that SQL to the prod DB directly prior to deploying the updated code.

Well all these threads are just pure speculation anyway. My point was that he was hinting at a Facebook Platform style initiative that is very different than just making an awesome VR headset. That's not to say there won't still be value in the hardware outside of the FB ecosystem, I was just trying to call out that particular aspect of what may come of this deal besides $$ to drive HW development.

That was a very nicely written piece and he had me going until this part: "We're on the cusp of what I think is not The Next Big Platform, but rather simply The Final Platform – the platform to end all platforms"

The problem is that under FB, this will end up being the metafaceverse.com platform, that you can only access under their umbrella, just as with the current FB "platform". And you will be subject to their terms and conditions within their walled garden both as a user and a developer.

That's not the kind of platform the internet needs. This won't be another WWW but another AOL.

In your analogy, sending is not free. Both Netflix has already paid postage to deliver all of the letters (their CDN/bandwidth costs) and each recipient has already paid for their mailbox (cable modem service). In this case the ISP wants Netflix to pay extra money to to deliver their letters even though everyone has already been paid and they weigh about the same as all the grocery flyers and other junk mail already cluttering your mailbox (think youtube).

Same here. Coincidence? I think not. They even added details about how much Drive data I have, a passive threat that it might not be safe if I don't cough up for the paid account.

I have no mix - can't stand the glossy, especially for code work (or anything dealing with text). Glossy is great for photos and watching video, which I do very little of on my laptop screen. You can pry my last-matte-edition Macbook Pro from my cold dead hands!

http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle

MyBatis (formerly iBatis) might be a good option. It's been years since I used it but it's a lightweight alternative to Hibernate: http://blog.mybatis.org/

Webvan was the best thing born of the 1st dotcom era, sadly it was unsustainable. Their timing was perfect for me - I was car-less in SF with kids and the local grocery store had recently gone under leaving me with a bus trip in order to grocery shop. Delivery to my 3rd floor walkup was awfully nice in comparison and well worth the approx. 10% markup. They had really nice crates too, I have 3 that I still use for various things.

For example, I have real-life experience from this event:

http://programming.oreilly.com/2007/07/365-main-datacenter-p...

And that was a top-tier datacenter at the time. Good luck doing better on your own, and just punt if you are using the cloud.

+1, I've been working remotely from Portland for 11 years now, great place to live but tech jobs are scarce vs. Boston, NYC, SF.

I think you mean NodeSH, not OS. I don't see any aspect of this that tells me it's an operating system.

"Node is not a perfect language by any means, but..."

Also, Node is a framework, the language is Javascript.

I suppose just as an incentive to not default. If you keep the degree, in theory you are more employable. If you have to give it up to default on the debt, maybe you'd think twice?

Not entirely. From the article - 31,440 for Seton, 10,104 for Rutgers. They are saying max merit aid is 21,000 at Seton, so tuition w/max merit aid is 10,440. I don't know about Rutgers specifically, but it's not uncommon for public state schools to offer up to 8,000-10,000 merit aid, covering the bulk of the tuition. So you'd be looking at paying 10k/yr vs 0-2k/yr, still a huge difference.

This assumes no need-based financial aid, and doesn't touch on housing, which is assumed to be 10-13k these days regardless of public or private.

I'm not advocating this, but why couldn't they take your degree away? They can't take your education away, but the degree is just an agreement/contract that says you upheld your part of the bargain - passed tests, etc, and paid the university, and they in turn give you a certificate of achievement. If you default on the loan which was a substantial portion of the payment clause of that contract, why can't they revoke the degree?

I realize the loan in these cases is not directly from the university.

Nope, that wasn't me.

Thanks for this, I had been looking for a good/simple ID generator in Python and was about to resort to building it myself.