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James Gardner
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James Gardner writes Bobcat, a personal blog at jimmyg.org about programming. Since 2007, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a Python subprocess guide covering shells, pipes and redirects, plus a 2007 Safari for Windows post and EC2 network benchmarks. One commenter says the subprocess post's data flow diagram is wrong.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2007-09-03
- Working with Python subprocess - Shells, Processes, Streams, Pipes, Redirects2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-03
What Hacker News says?
If you are a Python programmer, be sure to read this: http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefe...
Comment linking /2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/
on “How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)”Submitted Working with Python subprocess - Shells, Processes, Streams, Pipes, Redirects as a story · 60 points
HN discussionThe python parts seemed OK. But the data flow diagram in the OP at: http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/working-with-python-subprocess.h... (I.e., the first blue box in the article, "what happens when you execute a command") is wrong. It implies that the command (ls -l) is read by the terminal emulator, which gives it to bash, which gives it to the kernel. This is wrong in several ways. The terminal emulator starts bash (or…
Comment linking /blog/2009/working-with-python-subprocess.html
on “Working with Python subprocess - Shells, Processes, Streams, Pipes, Redirects”Submitted Working with Python subprocess as a story · 41 points
HN discussionSee http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefe... for a cool Boto related tutorial.
Comment linking /2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/
on “Boto: integrated Python interface to Amazon Web Services”Submitted Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers as a story · 18 points
HN discussionFunny story, but someone I know claims responsibility for killing Safari on Windows. If you remember, those were the days when Windows software were kind of "bland" looking and Apple OS and software was "Shiny" with their brushed aluminium looks and glassy UI widgets (see screenshot here - https://jimmyg.org/blog/2007/safari-3-beta-for-windows.html ). So when Apple released Safari on Windows, it was more or less a c…
Comment linking /blog/2007/safari-3-beta-for-windows.html
on “Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)”Submitted Python Oddness as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI use EC2 and I do swear by it. I see the initial extra effort you need to put in to get it to work right (designing for failover etc) as: 'the more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle'. I first ported a toy app that I wrote ( http://www.instantwordsearch.com ) to EC2 - as an exercise. I personally learnt a lot in the process. Now I use EC2 for everything I do. It is a LOT of fun (imho). Interesting…
Comment linking /2007/09/01/custom-debian-ec2-amis-from-xen-images/
on “Ask yc.news: Opinions on EC2?”Submitted James Gardner: "something is going to change radically with the internet in the next 2-5 years" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCPU info: Small Instance : 1x 2.6 GHz Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 HE w/1024 KB cache Large Instance : 2x 2.0 GHz Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 w/1024 KB cache Extra-Large : 4x 2.0 GHz Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 270 w/1024 KB cache ...but since each dual-core shows up once instead of twice in /proc/cpuinfo, instead of getting 2, 4, or 8 actual cores I think it's 1, 2, or 4. Not sure if…
Comment linking /2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/
on “Network benchmarks between EC2 nodes and from EC2 to S3”Submitted Mercurial Hosting using hg-admin-tools over SSH as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHave you read this? EC2 for Python programmers http://jimmyg.org/2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefe...
Comment linking /2007/09/01/amazon-ec2-for-people-who-prefer-debian-and-python-over-fedora-and-java/
on “Ask YC: Suggestions for great "how to" EC2 articles”
