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by elithrar 14y ago
Hardly. I made the comment because it does not represent the same situation. Ruby 1.8.7 will no longer receive security patches, which is a big issue and is likely to motivate any half-decent organization to migrate. Python 2.7 and Perl 5.1
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by elithrar 14y ago
I don't believe Python 2.7 is deprecated.
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> Now to a Brit, maybe other Europeans, 60 miles feels like anything but "local". So, I get the impression that we don't understand the sort of scale of travel there is in the US. Which kinda begins to explain this fascination with big
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by elithrar 14y ago
Have you considered using Heroku or Webfaction? Apache + Django isn't too hard: the official docs cover it comprehensively: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/deployment/wsgi/...
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by elithrar 14y ago
Alternatively you can set up an alias (i.e. "all") for multiple remotes and just push to them in one hit. Useful when I'm pushing code to Heroku and GitHub simultaneously.
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> Read the comments and you'll find out that Mezzanine isn't yet compatible with Django 1.5, causing headaches for those trying to install it for the first time. Django 1.5 came out less than a month ago. Given the size of Mezzanine, it
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by elithrar 14y ago
What I find especially odd is that they have built their API-compatible replacement for a Google property on another Google property. Although App Engine is unlikely to see a shutdown in the way Reader has/will be, they're still at the whim
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Non-Retina 15" models still have a matte option.
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> If I was searching for a mail client, then mailbox would be it apparently. FWIW, the reviews on the AU App Store are very mixed - 82 5-star, 20 4-star, 11 3-star, 2 2-star and 58 1-star. Many of the 1-star reviews are complaining abou
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Is that an issue for modern games / engines? I would think most people who drop down to assembly also have a C level fallback - and people have been porting games to x64 from x86 already? Language doesn't matter so much as the API - y
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> Secondly, keep in mind that very succesful games generate billions dollars of profit, so it would make sense to spend a fraction of that if that improves your chances of becoming the next megahit. You also have to support a game aft
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> So far as I can tell from the literature, nobody has licked the user-generated stories thing. Cryptic's new "Neverwinter" MMO aims to do this. How effective it will be is another thing entirely.
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> Why can't it just look good and be easy to use? Does anyone actually care if an application is "speaking" as if it is a conscious entity? I don't think it's fair to say that a UI shouldn't attempt to have some "personality". Whether
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Does it mostly focus on Django on Python 2, or is there a good portion that deals with Django on Python 3 as well? Since the book is focused on Django 1.5, which only experimentally supports Python 3, it would be difficult for the aut
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by elithrar 14y ago
> If any of them are stationary, or mostly stationary, you might just want to run an ethernet cable. Even long ones are dirt cheap from Monoprice. For instance, I wired my iMac, my girlfriend's iMac, and leave a wire at our kitchen tabl
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> My favorite, which also appears applicable to this case is: promote him into a top managerial position, then fire him for breach of trust (top managerial positions require trust from shareholders, the board and the CEO) You can't retr
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by elithrar 14y ago
> The guy is fireable in any country. Not at all. As aforementioned, you can't legally fire him in the UK (or Australia). Doing so would immediately welcome a legal battle with Fair Work (in Australia) and your chances of winning that o
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by elithrar 14y ago
> I think that hiding things on a CC statement is a feature. There's a reason so many "adult websites" advertise the fact that they'll bill you with a nondescript name when they charge you. Bank employees learn to associate these mercha
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by elithrar 14y ago
> So clearly Etsy users back up when venturing into results and apparently expect to be at the exact same state they were before clicking through Which makes sense, given that the multiple-tabs-at-a-time is often a power-user only thing
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> hopefully instagram has better success. Instagram isn't involved here, besides being a potential source of imagery. This is all Polaroid.
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> But this also means they will compete in some of the markets. We'll see what happens. I see this as an issue now that they are two separate groups, likely with their own KPIs and numbers to meet. As we see so often with other organisa
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by elithrar 14y ago
Given Disney's successful lobbying history (see: Mickey Mouse Act for copyright extension), they might be one of the few organizations who could enact some change to the patent industry. Whether those changes would be positive (for industri
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Do you know how easy it is to port touch-friendly UI frameworks/SDK's such as MOAI ( http://getmoai.com/ ) to Ubuntu? Damn easy. Starting from an existing touch framework/application is not the problem. "Porting" a desktop application
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Hopefully porting from linux will be fairly straightforward too.. just a new UI support?, giving apps that work from desktop to mobile. Not to mention that is has most of the FFOS advantage too. I wouldn't trivialise the effort requir
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> To be honest, that's a bit troll-ish, given that WP8 uses the same kernel and user interface as Windows 8 and given the functionality of the pre-installed applications. I don't see how it's "troll-ish". To an end-user, the fact that W
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> Apparently they are quite comfortable encoding as many as 120 instantiations of their videos. There is more to it than just the number of videos (or storage requirements). You can get dedicated hardware h264 encoders easily (and relat
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by elithrar 14y ago
This is great news, especially given the Github Pages integration with Jekyll. Having a programmer-friendly blog platform without the need to worry about hosting/deployment (easy, but another time consumer) is a good thing. One thing that J
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by elithrar 14y ago
> What other standards have appeared that support calendar, contacts, and tasks sync? IMAP + IDLE, CalDAV, CardDAV? Whether they are a 1:1 feature replacement is another thing, but they are options.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> I have almost 500 HN "rep" and I still can't find any way to downvote. Is this documented anywhere? At Stack Exchange downvotes require 125 rep to cast, and cost you 1 point of rep for each answer downvote. (Question downvotes are fre
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It's very smooth on my iPhone 5, but it does have moments where you can notice a bit of frame drop (only if you've read this comment thread beforehand). From a UI/UX perspective: + Fonts and text entry are great + Search speed and interfa

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