So, I'm moving my web development (both here at mee.nu and at my day job) over to uWSGI. I've been using Green Unicorn, which is quite good, and CherryPy load-balanced by Nginx or Pound, which also works fine, but uWSGI has a lot of neat features, some of which I need, and doesn't work with Node.js, which is always a bonus.
uWSGI doesn't install on Windows, though really just due to some minor differences in the Python standard library, which could be fixed if someone cared enough to do so. But no-one wants to actually run uWSGI on Windows, so no-one cares.
If you install Cygwin on Windows, which provides something very like a Linux environment, uWSGI does work. Installation is really slow for no obvious reason, but it works.
But... The reason I needed it installed locally is that I use PyCharm as my IDE, and PyCharm needs all the libraries installed so that it can check your code. Turns out that PyCharm can't make head nor tail of Cygwin, so the entire exercise was pointless.
PyCharm can use a remote environment to check your code - you can point it at a Linux box with everything installed to your specification and it will run the tests there. This works, but is fiddly.
The other alternative is to just get a Mac. I'm sure something I need doesn't work on Mac, but I don't know what it is yet, so right now that looks like a good idea.
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With Homebrew and Perlbrew, the set of things I need that don't work on a Mac is quite small these days. Fink and Macports were always iffy (especially for several months after a major OS release), and Apple has a nasty habit of breaking the Perl they supply, as well as sticking to a particular release for a long, long time.
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Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, December 07 2014 05:18 AM (1CisS)
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Yeah, there's a few things like TokuMX (which is becoming the main database used at my day job) that doesn't have a Mac version, but it can be compiled on OS X, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I need IntelliJ, Adobe's Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Chrome and Firefox, and a bunch of open-source development stuff - Python, Ruby, uWSGI, Nginx, MongoDB, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch. All of that should run fine on a Mac.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, December 07 2014 11:51 AM (PiXy!)
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I set up a cloud server running GitLab and Python and Ruby environments for code checking. In a real dev environment those should be split off to their own server, but for a just me environment, it should be fine.
Works pretty well, since the host server is incredibly fast and is located right here in Sydney. Since I probably won't be getting a Mac this side of Christmas, this is a good thing. There's a small delay in syntax checks, but not enough to bother me so far.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, December 07 2014 07:15 PM (PiXy!)
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The Surrender Monkeys have returned to The Pond, Pixy.
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The other toy I want - the Philips BDM4065UC 40" 4K monitor - has now also shown up in online stores, at a price of AU$1049.
The advantage of this model is that it's so big that the pixel density is relatively normal, so it will work fine with Windows without fiddling with scaling settings.
It's not a professional quality monitor, but it's not rubbish either; it's a VA panel, so closer in quality to IPS than to cheap TN.
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Thursday, December 04
At Least 700%
Feeling crabby today, partly because the humidity in Sydney has been around 700% all week, so here's a picture of a cat.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, December 04 2014 06:18 PM (jGQR+)
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No idea; I've been swiping these from Google Image Search.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, December 04 2014 10:59 PM (PiXy!)
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Ah, I see. I don't remember a scene where Yuno uses a cat as a booster seat in a cafe!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, December 05 2014 09:00 AM (jGQR+)
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I do remember it, somewhat. She didn't know it was there when she sat down. Or didn't know it was a cat and not a cushion. One or the other.
Hard to know which season/episode it is, since they aren't in order. And if they were in order it wouldn't matter. I may need to re5-watch this again. (The 5 may be a lowball estimate.)
Posted by: Mikeski at Friday, December 05 2014 06:46 PM (luDkn)
Funny thing about the computer goodies I most want this Christmas: Adjusted for the current exchange rate and Australia's federal sales tax (which is included in list price) as opposed to American state and local sales taxes (which aren't), Apple's Retina iMac and Dell's P2715Q 4K monitor are actually slightly cheaper in Australia than the US.
Given how some manufacturers treat us downunder (coughLenovocough) this is refreshing.
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Unless you live in an American state like Oregon, which doesn't have a sales tax...
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, November 30 2014 10:39 PM (+rSRq)
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It was very convenient when I lived in Vancouver, Washington. Washington doesn't have a state income tax, and Portland Oregon was just across the bridge for sales tax free shopping. Although technically one is supposed to pay a "Use tax" equal to the sales tax you would have paid had you bought it in state, they only got serious about collecting that when you were buying things they could track, like cars.
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, November 30 2014 11:54 PM (TJ7ih)
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Pixy, please fix http://ace.mu.nu/index.xml. It's been broken for half a year. It seems like a simple problem, but since you haven't fixed it for so long, I'm guessing it's not. Here are the issues as I see them:
1: the links on the page connect to the wrong page. For example, http://minx.cc/?post=353444 instead of http://minx.cc:1080/?post=353444. So if I open 20 AoS pages at once, they all hang at "One moment, redirecting you to your requested page." Can't you just cut out the middleman and have the first link go directly to port 1080? Also, why does it have to go to port 1080 in the first place?
2: If I make the click to allow the page to be redirected, it goes to the wrong page anyway Ex:
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=353444/
instead of
http://minx.cc:1080/?post=353444
The top one loads a ridiculous amount of crap and renders the page too wide to be conveniently readable.
This issue is causing me to read Ace less and less, which makes me unhappy. The Jawas' RSS works fine. Can't you just cut and paste the code or something?
Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Kevin at Monday, December 01 2014 12:49 AM (qhnv4)
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There's a reason why the Jantzen Beach Shopping mall is one of the biggest in Oregon. It's the first exit on I-5 in Oregon when you're travelling south, and the parking lot there is always full of Washington state license plates. Washington's sales tax is something like 6% so it's even worth driving to Oregon for grocery shopping, not just big ticket items.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, December 01 2014 02:02 AM (+rSRq)
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The thing is, some tech companies (both hardware and software) like to slap a 50% markup on products in Australia even after you account for exchange rates and sales tax. Adobe was really bad about this; Lenovo still is. Apple used to do this, but cleaned up their act a few years ago.
It's bad enough that our Post Office - run by the government - offers a reshipping service so we Australians can shop online in the US. And yes, their US office is based in Portland.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, December 01 2014 11:22 AM (2yngH)
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Actually, Washington sales tax varies, since it has a local component as well. If you get into Seattle, it can top 10%, and typically you're paying in the neighborhood of 8-8.5%
Ah, here it is. I have a table listing the rates (part of my state Business and Occupation tax form). The lowest anywhere is 7% in unincorporated Klikitat county. Most places are around 8.5%, and Seattle tops out at 9.5% (But I think that doesn't include a city tax - and they wonder why businesses are leaving.).
Posted by: Mauser at Monday, December 01 2014 11:46 AM (TJ7ih)
