Hey Simon, thanks for creating Django with Adrian. I was deeply interested in programming from a young age but learning Django in my teens sparked a passion for web development that has yet to feign so many years later!…
Please tell me you're legally allowed to talk more about Megaupload and the work you did - sounds like an absolutely amazing blog post, would love to hear as much as you're able to discuss. Also, I have a project in…
It's kind of amazing anyone chooses to go into healthcare having to work like this. It's the absolute last field I would ever want to go into, even as an engineer who wouldn't need to actually practice medicine. Seems…
Interesting idea leveraging a cheap Android. I wonder how difficult it would be to modify an instance of a regular headless browser in order to convince a website you're using an Android browser. Not sure if Androids…
Yeah, Chrome is the worst choice for this use-case - see my last comment on this thread for more on that. Can you speak a bit more on what you'd like to use a headless anti-detect browser for over regular headless…
> I think using anti-fingerprinting is itself a fingerprint. I imagine it would be easier to hide in the noise of regular browsers. That's what I thought originally too. The problem is the "leaky-ness" of Chrome and…
How would you actually use an anti-detect browser programmatically? Would you need to write a custom Selenium driver for it or equivalent for Playwright? Even if the browser is built off something like Chrome, you'd…
Don't remember where I saw this but: "The act of purchasing physical books and the act of reading them are two entirely different hobbies and practices". Additionally, if someone downloads your book for free, and barely…
I've built all my web backends in either Flask or Django - what are the selling points/advantages of using Rust vs. Python in this context? Certainly not arguing against it but am very curious and unfamiliar with Rust.…
Trash language is a bit harsh. I'm not sure I would try to put an R project into production or build a huge project with it but, at the very least, R/R Studio was the best scientific calculator I've ever used. Was…
I just want to be able to choose which I want on a day-by-day basis. Some days I am much more productive in the office because I need to, say, communicate with a bunch of people or there's some sort of back and forth…
I can see why you're saying that, but the use of commutative diagrams communicate the structure between the functions and objects of interest - it is this perspective which is core idea to category theory. So I'd argue…
I see people do that all the time - inadvertently click an ad because it's one of the first few results that pop up. Not only that, the number of ads shown before the real result has increased too! Just the other day,…
In the exact same boat. Strongly prefer writing notes for many reasons but no easy search really sucks. I currently use Notion mainly as a personal wiki and to-do tracker. Each day gets a new page where I jot down notes…
I feel very similar but have struggled to set aside enough time to find a better replacement. For work I often build one-off scripts, web scrapers/automaters, data tools, and backend web apps/APIs. While I don't…
Every time I look at an update to this library my jaw drops to the floor. Once I find some spare time, I've been meaning to dive into the source code to get a feel for how you're pulling of the marvels that are rich and…
Lifelong US citizen here - I've barely heard anyone mention it in person my whole life. If it wasn't for reading about it in discussions like this, I would probably never even think about it. iMessage, social media DMs,…
I would have never recognized this syntax as modern day C++ without being told. The language has evolved so much in the last 30+ years that I don't know how anyone is able to keep up unless they've been doing it for…
PHP 7 & 8 introduce lots of improvements. I used PHP 5 when I got into web dev and remember moving to Python as soon as I could. At work I've had to use PHP 7 and have been very pleasantly surprised at how solid it is.…
I've never heard it used like that but actually makes a lot of sense if thinking of an asterisk as the glob wildcard. Plus it sounds much better when spoken aloud in the context compared to asterisk or star
I don't disagree but I wish Python had builtin support for runtime type checking. I've thought about switching to Go or Rust for certain projects but Python's rich ecosystem makes it hard for me to switch, so for now I…
Agreed. I'm past the "it's like writing pseudo-code - so cool!" honeymoon phase and onto the "some sort of static typing is actually pretty useful" as a developer.
If he reports all relevant transactions involving this Ether to OFAC, will he avoid legal repercussions? I noticed a commenter on Twitter brought up the Tornado Cash issue so I wonder if he didn't know before he moved…
He resides in Colorado according to his Linkedin. I don't know a whole lot about crypto - is there anyway he can meaningfully use the donation given the Tornado Cash sanctions? Could just simply being in possession of…
You can do the same thing with csvsql from csvkit: https://towardsdatascience.com/analyze-csvs-with-sql-in-comm... Since csvkit comes with so many other tools, I'm not sure I see a reason to use q over csvsql
Hey Simon, thanks for creating Django with Adrian. I was deeply interested in programming from a young age but learning Django in my teens sparked a passion for web development that has yet to feign so many years later!…
Please tell me you're legally allowed to talk more about Megaupload and the work you did - sounds like an absolutely amazing blog post, would love to hear as much as you're able to discuss. Also, I have a project in…
It's kind of amazing anyone chooses to go into healthcare having to work like this. It's the absolute last field I would ever want to go into, even as an engineer who wouldn't need to actually practice medicine. Seems…
Interesting idea leveraging a cheap Android. I wonder how difficult it would be to modify an instance of a regular headless browser in order to convince a website you're using an Android browser. Not sure if Androids…
Yeah, Chrome is the worst choice for this use-case - see my last comment on this thread for more on that. Can you speak a bit more on what you'd like to use a headless anti-detect browser for over regular headless…
> I think using anti-fingerprinting is itself a fingerprint. I imagine it would be easier to hide in the noise of regular browsers. That's what I thought originally too. The problem is the "leaky-ness" of Chrome and…
How would you actually use an anti-detect browser programmatically? Would you need to write a custom Selenium driver for it or equivalent for Playwright? Even if the browser is built off something like Chrome, you'd…
Don't remember where I saw this but: "The act of purchasing physical books and the act of reading them are two entirely different hobbies and practices". Additionally, if someone downloads your book for free, and barely…
I've built all my web backends in either Flask or Django - what are the selling points/advantages of using Rust vs. Python in this context? Certainly not arguing against it but am very curious and unfamiliar with Rust.…
Trash language is a bit harsh. I'm not sure I would try to put an R project into production or build a huge project with it but, at the very least, R/R Studio was the best scientific calculator I've ever used. Was…
I just want to be able to choose which I want on a day-by-day basis. Some days I am much more productive in the office because I need to, say, communicate with a bunch of people or there's some sort of back and forth…
I can see why you're saying that, but the use of commutative diagrams communicate the structure between the functions and objects of interest - it is this perspective which is core idea to category theory. So I'd argue…
I see people do that all the time - inadvertently click an ad because it's one of the first few results that pop up. Not only that, the number of ads shown before the real result has increased too! Just the other day,…
In the exact same boat. Strongly prefer writing notes for many reasons but no easy search really sucks. I currently use Notion mainly as a personal wiki and to-do tracker. Each day gets a new page where I jot down notes…
I feel very similar but have struggled to set aside enough time to find a better replacement. For work I often build one-off scripts, web scrapers/automaters, data tools, and backend web apps/APIs. While I don't…
Every time I look at an update to this library my jaw drops to the floor. Once I find some spare time, I've been meaning to dive into the source code to get a feel for how you're pulling of the marvels that are rich and…
Lifelong US citizen here - I've barely heard anyone mention it in person my whole life. If it wasn't for reading about it in discussions like this, I would probably never even think about it. iMessage, social media DMs,…
I would have never recognized this syntax as modern day C++ without being told. The language has evolved so much in the last 30+ years that I don't know how anyone is able to keep up unless they've been doing it for…
PHP 7 & 8 introduce lots of improvements. I used PHP 5 when I got into web dev and remember moving to Python as soon as I could. At work I've had to use PHP 7 and have been very pleasantly surprised at how solid it is.…
I've never heard it used like that but actually makes a lot of sense if thinking of an asterisk as the glob wildcard. Plus it sounds much better when spoken aloud in the context compared to asterisk or star
I don't disagree but I wish Python had builtin support for runtime type checking. I've thought about switching to Go or Rust for certain projects but Python's rich ecosystem makes it hard for me to switch, so for now I…
Agreed. I'm past the "it's like writing pseudo-code - so cool!" honeymoon phase and onto the "some sort of static typing is actually pretty useful" as a developer.
If he reports all relevant transactions involving this Ether to OFAC, will he avoid legal repercussions? I noticed a commenter on Twitter brought up the Tornado Cash issue so I wonder if he didn't know before he moved…
He resides in Colorado according to his Linkedin. I don't know a whole lot about crypto - is there anyway he can meaningfully use the donation given the Tornado Cash sanctions? Could just simply being in possession of…
You can do the same thing with csvsql from csvkit: https://towardsdatascience.com/analyze-csvs-with-sql-in-comm... Since csvkit comes with so many other tools, I'm not sure I see a reason to use q over csvsql