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by andr 15y ago
Great to have this, but I very much dislike the idea of changing the base Form classes just to get a different rendering. What I've been doing in Django is using Jinja template macros to create my own rendering for the standard form classes
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Microsoft Anti-Gmail Ad(youtube.com)
5 points by andr 15y ago|2 comments
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by andr 15y ago
Unrelated: I clicked through to Monotask, liked the idea, but got an error when I tried to sign up for the form.
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by andr 15y ago
Isn't Deutsche Bank the only bank with HQs still on Wall Street?
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by andr 15y ago
Try replacing "easy" with "easier" and it might make more sense.
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by andr 15y ago
As a techie, I'd be more convinced if I read a few words on how you determine relevancy. You don't need to reveal your secret sauce, but you need to convince me it's good enough so that I don't need to look at Twitter anymore.
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by andr 15y ago
You could show an aggregated list of popular articles from all users and have a Login or Personalize button.
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XKCD collects predictions for next 90 years as of today(xkcd.com)
2 points by andr 15y ago|0 comments
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The Information Essay(nplusonemag.com)
2 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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by andr 16y ago
The EU's ability to intervene into local politics is not as direct as you think. Every EU law needs to be signed by individual countries before it's valid in there. Only after the law is signed and the countries break it, can they be held a
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Duke Nukem Forever delayed(youtube.com)
1 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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Fake Hacker News (HN parody Twitter account)(twitter.com)
5 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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by andr 16y ago
Perhaps this is off-topic, but going from $0 income and $0 savings two years ago to mid-6 figures has not affected my happiness. The things that have made me happier have all been free or fairly cheap.
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New MacBook Pro lineup with ThunderBolt, quad-core CPUs released(macrumors.com)
12 points by andr 16y ago|1 comments
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by andr 16y ago
Unless you have 0 savings, with average skill and above-average ambition you can choose what to work on, within reasonable limits (you can't go from PHP to programming space shuttles). And if you no one wants to pay to do what you want, do
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WWF, a new green file format (PDFs you can't print)(saveaswwf.com)
2 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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by andr 16y ago
Think beyond the workplace. A lot of what we read during the day (Twitter, HN, etc.) is noise, even though we give it value. Ever gone on a vacation for 2 weeks and realized nothing important happened while you were gone? It's not that we s
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by andr 16y ago
Somewhat related: "The weak regrets his words more than his silence; the strong regrets his silence more than his words; the magnificent regrets nothing." -- N. N. Taleb
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Ask HN: Advice for self-publishing books
80 points by andr 16y ago|20 comments
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by andr 16y ago
Why not label it as an outliner? It would help more technically-oriented people to quickly understand what it is. Also, Dave Winer would be all over it. :)
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by andr 16y ago
This is an interesting change to the GMaps infrastructure. In the past, all map tiles were pre-rendered, but now it looks like they are being generated dynamically. Anyone got any inside info as to what lead to that change?
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by andr 16y ago
One of the key lessons in finance is that you can't make money doing what everyone else is doing. Every known technique is being applied a lot and can rarely bring you abnormal returns. I suggest reading through the links other commenters p
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Second BP oil spill, this time in Alaska(in.reuters.com)
1 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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Seth Godin on how business plans should look today(feedproxy.google.com)
2 points by andr 16y ago|1 comments
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8 biologists on the meaning of synthetic life(nature.com)
18 points by andr 16y ago|2 comments
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by andr 16y ago
The person with the highest IQ in the world was a bouncer in a bar? A good reminder that pure intelligence does not equal ambition or life skill.
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by andr 16y ago
I think their surest way to fail is to do a very close Facebook clone. Let's not forget that those upset by Facebook's privacy are but a vocal minority. Catering for them won't be enough to get everyone to move. For most people Diaspora wou
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by andr 16y ago
The most important result of this endeavor would not be the implementation, but an open, de facto standard protocol. Has anyone seen any mention that such a protocol would be formalized?
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Goldman Sachs Has Zero Trading Loss Days in Last Quarter(zerohedge.com)
3 points by andr 16y ago|0 comments
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by andr 16y ago
The one thing shows like 24 get perfectly right is that intelligence and warfare is now much more about computer scientists analyzing data than people on the ground.

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