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ratbert90 posted:I used to use CMake, but then I switched to Meson. the author of meson is cool and chill and i like the new logo. the recently added support for cmake in meson is pretty good too. the only reason im doing all this work is that there is some stuff i need meson to do that it cant right now. i think im also waiting on the wrapdb support to allow naming local directories also i wish i could just dump a json/yaml/toml/whatever the gently caress file into meson for basic key-value pair definitions but oh well once im done with this cmake project i can start working on my 'modern' build system in earnest again 
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I finished writing all my programs for scraping data from McDonald's, Subway, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy, U.S. Bank, and Fifth Third. Essentially, I wrote a lot of scraping classes from scratch which involve calculating finer coordinates over a grid, and also one which spiders over a business directory. It's going to take a few days to run them and collect the latest data, then I'll put them online, since I already finished making the website. After that, I'll register as an official business, sign the business up for a PayPal account, and take out $50 in Google Ads. The Google Ads buy comes with some deal where they throw in an extra $100 in ads if the ad placements do well enough. I put about 900 hours into the project so far, so I hope it works. I've run into a lot of problems, like at first I cached files with the file names using the querystring from the request, then I got a bug the first time I ran into a URL longer than 255 characters, the maximum file name length, and then it took eleven hours to work around that and switch to another system. If it doesn't work, at least I can call it a challenging and engaging hobby.
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that's great, but uh, what is the service you're selling, again?
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are you making one of those annoying seo sites that pollute my googling? pls dont
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NihilCredo posted:that's great, but uh, what is the service you're selling, again?
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NihilCredo posted:that's great, but uh, what is the service you're selling, again?
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I just did a side project that uses headless chome to scrape a very poorly made asp web forms site of public records. it had a cheap captcha component that I solved by downloading the audio sample and transcribing it with some AWS speech to text service
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AWWNAW posted:I just did a side project that uses headless chome to scrape a very poorly made asp web forms site of public records. it had a cheap captcha component that I solved by downloading the audio sample and transcribing it with some AWS speech to text service cool. when is your forums search engine going to be available?
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NihilCredo posted:that's great, but uh, what is the service you're selling, again? I'll be selling CSV files containing scraped location data, competing with https://www.aggdata.com https://www.redliondata.com and https://www.scrapehero.com/store/shop/ The third one is the latest entrant to the market other than me, I feel reasonably sure. I'll also take web scraping job suggestions. As long as I can resell the collected data to other people, it'll be cheaper to people than paying an hourly rate because I'll be charging the flat $50-$100 fee, but I'll also be willing to work at an hourly rate if the client doesn't want the data shared with anyone else. Aggdata.com makes about $2.1m in annual revenue, so it'd be great if I could get a fraction of that. I think I'll eventually transition to a GIS or custom mapmaking service, something so that I'm not in direct competition with three other businesses galenanorth fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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So I've been learning AWS for the new gig, and I'm going for one if the certs. The dude teaching the course talks about how he fuckin loves Lambda, but when I was messing around with it it was a pain in the dick to debug. Is there a way to make it more tolerable? Does anyone even use it in the real world?
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Skyl3lazer posted:So I've been learning AWS for the new gig, and I'm going for one if the certs. The dude teaching the course talks about how he fuckin loves Lambda, but when I was messing around with it it was a pain in the dick to debug. Is there a way to make it more tolerable? Does anyone even use it in the real world? using lambda without some helper framework is a pain in the rear end. but yes people use it in the real world. it’s great for small event driven functions and it’s super cheap
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yeah lamda owns for responding to lifecycle events
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any of yall have a good reference for advanced pytest usage? ive used it a lot but my new job uses fixtures which are apparently invoked through lovely magic parameters??? why is this even a thing and how am i supposed to read this?
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loving everything in python is lovely magic parameters (with no docs)
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gonadic io posted:loving everything in python is lovely magic parameters (with no docs) yeah i know everyone thinks it's the least terrible of the scripting langs, and honestly it may be, but i think this says more about other scripting languages than it does about python. honestly it feels like we're due for a few new mainstream scripting langs. like what are the big ones now: - javascript - ruby - python - perl/php/lol they're all bad! and could be so much better! DONT THREAD ON ME fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:yeah i know everyone thinks it's the least terrible of the plangs, and honestly it may be, but i've never really liked using it. It's fine as long as you don't try to use it as a full-featured object-oriented language, that's where the type system really breaks down. I don't mean defining container classes and basic things like that, more interfaces and situations where you have multiple types that look very similar and/or complex type hierarchies, at which point even type-hinting every function is not enough (and half the libraries you use probably never bothered with it in the first place, anyway). e: I could do with a language that's basically python but has a more restrictive type system, oh and less reflection that too. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Private Speech posted:It's fine as long as you don't try to use it as a full-featured object-oriented language, that's where the type system really breaks down. Yeah, same poo poo I dealt with in large ruby projects. I guess it's just a matter of comfort.
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One time when I was working at a company that may or may not have a name similar to LEG I came across a python script which generated HTML by dynamically creating a new class every time you added another tag. I'm sure it looked very elegant from a functional perspective but when I get OOM crashes generating simple reports on a 4GB server you've probably hosed up. I know that's not entirely python's fault, but still. e: oh and the script already used django for some of the backend work, using the templating system was too pedestrian I guess Private Speech fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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compile time metaprogramming is the only moral metalprogramming
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:compile time metaprogramming is the only moral metalprogramming funny thing is that they were testing reports for in-house compiler performance which may actually explain it a bit
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I like how nim does it and gives you access to the AST that is treated and looks like regular code
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:I like how nim does it and gives you access to the AST that is treated and looks like regular code oh that looks really neat, I don't think I've ever looked into nim before even if I vaguely remember the name I might use that for some next thing I'll write Private Speech fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:I like how nim does it and gives you access to the AST that is treated and looks like regular code is it like lisp/scheme/racket?
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Symbolic Butt posted:is it like lisp/scheme/racket? it’s uh, like ruby sort of except it has decent types and compiles to C. has customization like disabling the GC and doing memory management yourself or using reference counting. it’s a cool language and while I don’t have any use for it professionally, I donate monthly to the project because it’s really cool. https://nim-lang.org/docs/macros.html it’s actually pretty cool
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Private Speech posted:oh that looks really neat, I don't think I've ever looked into nim before even if I vaguely remember the name it used to be named “nimrod” after the biblical character, but a bunch of idiot nerds said it wasn’t professional to use an insult as a programming language (bugs bunny used it at one point and the joke flew over peoples heads and so here we are)
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urgh lua is aggressively terrible in every way possible. dear everybody in the world: i know it's easy to embed lua but please have some consideration for your users and pick literally anything else instead. scheme, javascript, python, gently caress even perl would be better, goddamn this language is bad
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I like prototype inheritance in lua, the implementation actually makes some sense. compare to javascript's which is completely broken and useless but I know "better than javascript" is not exactly a high bar
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nim is pretty appealing. it's not exciting enough to get me to early adopt but i'd use it.
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DONT THREAD ON ME posted:yeah i know everyone thinks it's the least terrible of the scripting langs, and honestly it may be, but i think this says more about other scripting languages than it does about python. *in Shaggar voice* "PowerShell"
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i wish to know how to kindle the shaggar-signal is it something to do with bikes? do i sacrifice a bicyclist?
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:it used to be named “nimrod” after the biblical character, but a bunch of idiot nerds said it wasn’t professional to use an insult as a programming language (bugs bunny used it at one point and the joke flew over peoples heads and so here we are) I always thought it was named after the Green Day album
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Symbolic Butt posted:is it like lisp/scheme/racket? s expressions and macros. name a more homoiconic duo. go ahead, I’ll wait
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AWWNAW posted:s expressions and macros. name a more homoiconic duo. go ahead, I’ll wait S3 and S4 objects in R
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Shaggar posted:powershell is bad but its probably the least bad shell scripting language
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