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by huxley 13y ago
For a big subset of stuff, the Django forms are perfectly fine once you grok what they do, but in recent years, I've usually supplemented them with CrispyForms [1] (used to django-uni-form) and FloppyForms [2] --either individually or
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by huxley 13y ago
File a bug on this, it does sound like it shouldn't have disappeared like that.
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by huxley 13y ago
I'm curious about what you think is "magic" in Django? It does have a lot more included than Flask/Werkzeug/Jinja2 but it did start in the era before Pip/VirtualEnv existed so a lot more had to be included. Aft
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by huxley 13y ago
Just FYI, note 3 in your PS refers to processor latency not GHz.
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by huxley 13y ago
Well, this is just the alpha release of the Django 1.6 so production recommendations (other than "don't use this for production yet") are probably a bit premature. If you are very concerned about this, you should bring it up on the django-d
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by huxley 13y ago
That 404 page is a relic from the past. Take a look at what makes up their search page and you'll see that it is almost 1 MB uncompressed. That's for a page that displays a logo, a navbar, a text input and a button. Sure, the page has reall
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by huxley 13y ago
I notice that MySQL is being used, is that a hard dependency or can/will we be able to use Postgres?
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by huxley 14y ago
The hubbub was due to some bugs in iOS location services and wasn't ever directly accessed by Apple or shared with 3rd parties. http://www.apple.com/ca/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Lo... All smartphone providers track the same sort o
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by huxley 14y ago
Just over 2 years, they bought it May 10 2011. http://about.skype.com/press/2011/05/microsoft_to_acquire_sk...
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by huxley 14y ago
Might have meant the WebKit nightly builds ... http://nightly.webkit.org
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by huxley 14y ago
I live near the middle of the area destroyed in the Halifax Explosion. It was pretty significant, but didn't obliterate the whole town. The Richmond district (which is in the east part of the Halifax North End) was almost completely wiped o
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by huxley 14y ago
Often it's just pure chance, one drop looks like a killer and you get nothing but scuff marks, other times it looks like a minor drop and your phone shatters. Here's an Android Authority video of the iPhone 5 and SGIII getting dropped from
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by huxley 14y ago
Agreed, I've been using Django for a few years now and I've been learning new things from it. Particularly helpful as I'm starting to transition to Class Based Generic Views in some of my projects.
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by huxley 14y ago
Wow ... I knew the English language was capable of such a construction but I never thought I'd read "expect better reporting and questioning from El Reg"[The Register] The Register (and The Inquirer after it) ported the classic British tabl
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by huxley 14y ago
I believe you're referring to the Unladden Swallow project, which unfortunately is "pining for fjords". The project didn't make the progress expected and folded. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unladen_Swallow
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by huxley 14y ago
9. I agree it's a miss but since then: * Gateway was bought at a firesale price by Acer * IBM sold off their PC business to Lenovo * both Dell and HP have been in the doldrums in terms of PC/laptop sales and they both desperately have trie
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by huxley 14y ago
The reason for the similarity in their chips was that Intrinsity did most of the custom design for Samsung's chip, Apple also worked with Intrisity and subsequently acquired them.
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by huxley 14y ago
By that argument, no director could have been said to have ever created a film. The cinematographer did the photography, the scriptwriter did the writing, the SFX department did the effects, etc. Woz did a spectacular job with the Apple I d
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by huxley 14y ago
Do we really? What browsers don't support at least TLS 1.0? Or is it other user agents?
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by huxley 14y ago
I think that was a common misunderstanding/misreporting, Dean Kamen proposed using the Stirling Engine to power the Slingshot (the Slingshot being the waterpurifier which is mentioned in the linked article). At least according to How Stuff
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by huxley 14y ago
A good popular history of the other side of the "Fall of the Roman Empire" is "Terry Jones' Barbarians". I scare-quote "Fall of the Roman Empire" because even though Rome itself was sacked, the Eastern half of the Roman Empire kept going fo
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by huxley 14y ago
Steve Wozniak was working on the prototype Apple I as a hobby and that's all it would have been without Steve Jobs. Jobs convinced him it could be a business. Jobs had to sell his minivan and Wozniak's calculator to build the first batch of
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by huxley 14y ago
Pentalobes have been used in MacBook Pros since 2009. It's not that hard to replace them, you can pick the screwdriver for the Retina MacBook Pro and Airs for $12.95 from iFixit or as part of a set of different drivers. You might even find
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by huxley 14y ago
Gemlock sounds more like Yolk: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/yolk/0.4.3
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by huxley 14y ago
I became a much better developer after I tried to port my Django apps to dotCloud and Heroku, using these PaaS forced me to really learn how to use git, virtualenv and pip. Chef and vagrant are going a long way towards giving me most of the
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by huxley 14y ago
That's just one of the formal definitions: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corollary check out the second definitions part a and b: 2.a : something that naturally follows : result 2.b : something that incidentally or naturally a
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by huxley 14y ago
The jobs are divided a bit differently but the combo of gem/rvm/bundler is matched quite nicely by pip and virtualenv (with virtualenvwrapper adding some nice conveniences) This article covers some of the equivalent jobs using Ruby and Pyt
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by huxley 14y ago
To be exact, he dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA program to join Microsoft.
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by huxley 14y ago
Apparently this forest on the border between Belarus and Poland is quite amazing (It was mentioned in "The World Without Us"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Białowieża_Forest
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by huxley 14y ago
Maybe Haskell is the exception but I find it hard to believe that a compiler can do that for you, IMO, the only way to have a decent shot at being safe from XSS is to sanitize your inputs with a whitelist.

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