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by arocks 14y ago
A decade ago, Python being widely used in Google and the creator of Python being employed by the company was a big endorsement for the language. Now Python is quite mainstream. Actually, Guido was allowed to devote 50% of his time at Google
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To a certain extent, isn't SOA trying to be a more business savy model of enterprise APIs?
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Thanks for the update and for creating such an indispensable tool. Regarding your last line, is there any plans to integrate South into Django mainline code in the near future? Is there a place to read the philosophy or roadmap for this?
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by arocks 14y ago
Flash is still a great platform for developing games while HTML5 catches up in terms of a consistent cross platform experience. However I find the open source development tools to be much more convenient. For e.g. FlashDevelop is an excelle
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by arocks 14y ago
The article might be a brilliant bit of satire but many young parents can actually relate to it. Children are exposed to interactive toys like tablets at such a young age that traditional toys like a Kaleidoscope barely holds their interest
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by arocks 14y ago
I think the article stays away from a criticism of C++ as a language (being politically correct, perhaps?). Despite knowing most of the answers to the interview questions in the article, I think I wouldn't call myself an expert C++ programm
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by arocks 14y ago
Outlook is the IE6 of the email design world.
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by arocks 14y ago
I was trying to extend AbstractUser with just one extra field and realised that it was not easy. But then you are correct that it is how rest of Django works.
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by arocks 14y ago
Creating the admin part for the new User model is quite a bit of work. You will have to not only create a new ModelAdmin but also create new forms and/or views for all the CRUD operations.
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Probably the user model, permission system, flat pages, media handling and comments system. Or probably extend all of that. I am not saying that it is impossible. But merely pointing out that Python web framework ecosystem is rich enough th
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by arocks 14y ago
The target audience for a CMS and a Framework are quite different. CMS is aimed at the end-user while frameworks are for programmers. This is significant if you look at the popular languages for CMSes like PHP or ASP. In these languages you
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by arocks 14y ago
I have found Inkscape to be quite an under-appreciated tool. It is much easier to learn than Illustrator for a beginner, quite light on systems resources and has great keyboard shortcuts. Earlier when there was a logo to be designed I used
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by arocks 14y ago
The Microsoft Word example is not entirely accurate. Most office application are in fact having well defined interfaces through OLE [1]. This works in several languages like Perl, VB, Delphi or Python. [1]: http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/perl/wo
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by arocks 14y ago
Agree. As I was looking into various ebook production tools that are commandline based, Sphinx and pandoc struck me as two very good solutions.
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by arocks 14y ago
It would be interesting to compare this with another author's experience [1] using Sphinx. He also notes that EPUB and MOBI outputs are more challenging than PDF ones. [1]: http://pedrokroger.net/2012/10/using-sphinx-to-write-books/
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by arocks 14y ago
Reminds me of a Sanskrit sloka roughly translated as: The wealth that cannot be stolen, neither abducted by state, nor can be divided amongst brothers, Neither it is burdensome to carry, The wealth that increases by giving, T
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by arocks 14y ago
This list proves nothing. C++ is often used for performance reasons or even as a target language. Facebook's HipHop compiler converts PHP into C++. I would argue that it means that Facebook develops in PHP rather than C++. Similarly Adobe's
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The state of Python in India(devworx.in)
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Microsoft has a history of maintaining backward compatibility even at the expense of a less clean design. In that context, bringing back the start button sounds very plausible.
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by arocks 14y ago
With Lua JIT being one of the fastest dynamic language implementations and having none of the 'ugly parts' of Javascript, the project sure sounds promising. Less than one-tenth of Node's memory usage makes it even better.
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by arocks 14y ago
Forgive my naivete but can't this by achieved by using opaque teflon-coated insides? Teflon is already used as non-stick coating for pans. It might not lower friction as much as the video suggests but it should be better than glass.
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by arocks 14y ago
Seems like taking a lot of trouble for a one-time activity (getting a licence). Perhaps he couldn't decide on one, like he couldn't decide on how to furnish his apartment. Given his obsession with minimalism, it is one less detail to worry
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by arocks 14y ago
Buried in a very misleading article is a good point: > (Apple) did not rewrite the OS X desktop that runs on Macs, nor did it try to re-imagine the desktop computing paradigm. Apple created something entirely new that was always designe
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by arocks 14y ago
Aggressive pricing happens to any market which gets commoditized. It leads to more competition among the existing players to innovate and differentiate themselves. Today, a tablet is a commodity product. Making a faster and higher resolutio
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by arocks 14y ago
For a purely functional language like Haskell, this would not be a very good advice. Any kind of I/O would involve monads and other imperative constructs. Better implement an algorithm involving trees or graphs to better appreciate a functi
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by arocks 14y ago
> Read the profiles. Know who you’re contacting This is the most annoying part. I have been contacted several times for various technology lead positions because of the buzzword-hits approach that lazy recruiters use.
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Ah, powerpoint presentations where the truth is somewhere between the bullet points. I would have preferred a blog post which gives the author enough breathing space to justify his claims. Haskell's single biggest problem is that it looks u
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by arocks 14y ago
Unlike the popular belief that Windows 8 is a bet-your-company on this kind of decision for Microsoft, the article makes it clear that technically the OS API remains the same at the lowest level. To me, this makes the whole Metro interface
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by arocks 14y ago
Thanks for this. I have been on the lookout for a lightweight OS like Crunchbag to upgrade my desktop from Ubuntu 10.10. Being a intermediate user, I do not want a lot of bells and whistles but appreciate a more responsive system. I manage
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by arocks 14y ago
I think your comment narrows down only to medical devices. While I have noticed this problem mostly in workstations used by hospital administration which are networked and more prone to viruses. In any hospital, communication between depa

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