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by davidwtbuxton 10y ago
What does Pyramid borrow from Laravel? I thought it grew from repoze, which was started a while before Laravel.
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by davidwtbuxton 10y ago
Git init / clone on case-insensitive HFS+ sets `git config core.ignorecase true`, which can lead to confusing behaviour where it ignores a change in the case of a filename. > The default is false, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1)
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by davidwtbuxton 10y ago
Ha! Reminds me of Nick Lowe's reaction to David Bowie's Low. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f6/a2/a1/f6a2a1ca4... https://tomhuntington.files.wordpress.com/2009/
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by davidwtbuxton 11y ago
Django works well on App Engine. If you are using CloudSQL you can use vanilla models, but if you are using the datastore then you can either choose not to use Django models at all (use ndb/db instead) or use django-nonrel or djangae w
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by davidwtbuxton 12y ago
Was just me expressing my distaste for Amis in general and London Fields in particular. He is highly regarded in the UK, but I cannot fathom why (I'm a Brit). I think London Fields and Time's Arrow employ a lot of clever but bad p
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by davidwtbuxton 12y ago
Infamous Authors' Outlines for Great Works of Bad Literature * Martin Amis' UML diagram for London Fields * EL James' Balsamiq mockups for Fifty Shades Of Grey * Dan Brown's PowerPoint decks for The Da Vinci Code Couldn&
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by davidwtbuxton 13y ago
The order of items in the dictionary isn't stable, but the order of .keys() is guaranteed to be the same as the order of .values() (as long as you don't modify the dict in between calling one then the other). http://doc
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by davidwtbuxton 14y ago
Related: django-mini, a command-line tool for running Django management commands without a full settings.py. https://github.com/davidwtbuxton/django-mini I wrote it to make it easier to run tests for plug-able Django apps.
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by davidwtbuxton 14y ago
I think Adobe will make a killing on the new subscription pricing. I think the customers with volume licenses will most likely still buy them because a) it will still be cheaper to buy outright when you know you will need a license for hund
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by davidwtbuxton 14y ago
Also helped that InDesign was less than half the price of Quark and that Quark had been gouging customers for years. Most design departments would remember the premium charged just for the PowerPC version of XPress over the 68k version. The
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by davidwtbuxton 14y ago
I think I am more in favour of the un-elected House of Lords than you are, but I rather liked the proposal in the recent draft that elected Peers serve for 15 years. Having long terms would make them less influenced by the political wind (I
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by davidwtbuxton 14y ago
I didn't see the link to the documents quoted in the article, so here is the request and the documents provided in response. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/open_standards_when_sp...
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by davidwtbuxton 15y ago
Perfect Dark benefited greatly from the N64 expansion pack, and was a lot less fun without it. I'm not certain it was better than Golden Eye (mostly because I found the second level very frustrating) but it had better graphics and a much mo
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by davidwtbuxton 15y ago
Interesting, it could be my 10.6 system was an upgrade from 10.5. Might have to boot my PowerPC MacMini and see what it says...
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by davidwtbuxton 15y ago
As great as Adam and Joe are, the term pre-dates their podcasts. I always thought it was coined on the language log, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.h...
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by davidwtbuxton 15y ago
You are most likely running 10.7 and it was installed clean. Previous versions of Mac OS X made that directory group-writeable by default (and 10.7 upgraded from a previous system will keep the old permissions). Here's the line for 10.6: