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811.
by huxley 15y ago
Well, we're all the protagonists of our own story. I'm sure some people think I'm a surly bastard. My job can be pretty stressful too, but I rarely have to deal with a washroom stall covered in filth from the most disturbing case of explosi
812.
by huxley 15y ago
To do that for 300 people is pretty impressive but you do need to consider that scale matters. Think about it, a small WordPress blog on Dreamhost only costs $9/month, but Amazon needs giant datacenters to host EC2 and S3. For your event yo
813.
by huxley 15y ago
People usually treat venue staff like crap, so it's no wonder that they might be surly. They are anticipating prima donnas walking in and screaming at them (and they do). When you bring a big event to a venue you are creating an immense amo
814.
by huxley 15y ago
Very important, though once you hit a certain size, it gets hard to keep everything on one floor (most people won't believe what hotels will do to cram multiple events into their venues). You can offset the need for spreading out the coffee
815.
by huxley 15y ago
It's not really the unions, it's just markup the venues charge on everything. The worker is likely part of the regular physical plant run by the venue and it is cheaper for the venue to have someone on staff to fix things. The electrician i
816.
by huxley 15y ago
Sadly, it's not just the US. I've helped organized events in Denmark, Spain and China and anything involving hotels or conference centers is horrifying expensive.
817.
by huxley 15y ago
If only it was a question of fixed costs being divided by the number of participants, but bigger events have new and exciting fee schedules plus enough legal wrangling to make a grown man cry on the street. You will find yourself on the hoo
818.
by huxley 15y ago
We had one venue that wanted to charge us $150 per Ethernet port "to turn it on". That didn't include bandwidth charges which were included in a different line-item with WiFi which was based on buying blocks of 500 simultaneous users at an
819.
by huxley 15y ago
Power can be a real issue. We had one sponsor who wanted a large meeting room, but they didn't take into account that they were expecting all the people in the room to use their laptops for an hour. They sent someone to buy dozens of powerb
820.
by huxley 15y ago
Often it's a requirement if you have your event in a hotel. The hotel will sometimes have restrictions on who you can use to cater for breaks or lunches. People expect coffee or drinks during breaks and will complain loudly regardless of th
821.
by huxley 15y ago
Just an addendum to the Github numbers, I hadn't realized Adrian Holovaty had renamed the previous Github repository to django-old, replacing it with the brand new repository (with the SVN history, etc). So if you look at django-old's numbe
822.
by huxley 15y ago
As far as I've heard, it was just a patent application, it doesn't seem to have ever been implemented.
823.
by huxley 15y ago
I have no problem with people enjoying the medium of their choice and if vinyl turns your crank more power to you, but as far as revivals go, this is not gigantic. For 2011, a grand total of 3.6 million vinyl records were sold worldwide. T
824.
by huxley 15y ago
You'll want to make sure you have set the PYTHONPATH properly. Windows is especially fussy about this, so read up on how to set that environment variable will probably resolve that issue and many similar ones which will crop up.
825.
by huxley 15y ago
I hope it will too. Particularly now that Adrian Holovaty is back as a more active BDFL. Jacob Kaplan-Moss (the other BDFL) wrote a bit about the changes in the core team over the last couple of years in his "Measuring the Django Community"
826.
by huxley 15y ago
From following the discussion, the impression I got was that more core developers and contributors were using Github. Beyond the "key user" metric, the raw numbers also seem to lean in favour Github: there are 665 watchers on Github, 266 fo
827.
by huxley 15y ago
The terms are standard, but that doesn't make them appropriate for this type of service. This is not the first time people have squawked, other companies have received blowback for using similar terms of service. Google really should have k
828.
by huxley 15y ago
Thanks, I missed those details.
829.
by huxley 15y ago
With homebrew it's feasible if not quite completely painless. When Lion came out, I had problems with some C extensions that expect gcc, but found llvm-gcc or clang instead, though that problem is coming up less frequently. I don't use many
830.
by huxley 15y ago
The story which The Atlantic quotes from in support of their 13 million consensus estimate actually says: "The most pessimistic analysts are calling for sales of just 9 million; the most optimistic see sales of over 15 million. Consensus is
831.
by huxley 15y ago
Amazon has been trading at 137.4 P/E ratio. Now there is a stock priced for wild growth and profitability, Apple is a cheap stock in comparison.
832.
by huxley 15y ago
Probably a side effect of the increasing share of iPod touch vs other lower-margin/price models.
833.
by huxley 15y ago
Apple always low-balls their guidance and it is always well below most analyst estimates, so nothing to go on there. Even their "bad" quarter Q4 2011 had a guidance of $25 billion and $5.50 earnings per share with actual numbers of $28.27 b
834.
by huxley 15y ago
I remember (mid-80s) when my extremely noisy 20MB SCSI hard drive cost me just under $1000.
835.
by huxley 15y ago
Quick qualification, by the time it was spun off and Apple invested in them, ARM actually stood for Advanced RISC Machine.
836.
by huxley 15y ago
If you go with homebrew and virtualenv to handle the installs for your python development, most of the problems disappear.
837.
by huxley 15y ago
The SSD and the screen make it for me. I've also got a new Mac mini with a considerably faster processor and twice as much RAM, but the little hard drive in it makes the mini seem slow as molasses after getting accustomed to the SSD in the
838.
by huxley 15y ago
Doesn't seem to have a consistent one, clasp fastener or separable fastener are earlier generic terms. BTW Zipper wasn't trademarked by the creator or manufacturer but by BF Goodrich when used on their zipped-up boots. Two which surprised m
839.
by huxley 15y ago
... and Google. If people really hated Apple marketing, they probably should be ecstatic at the idea of one of their trademarks becoming genericized.
840.
by huxley 15y ago
It lead me to wonder whether its use will be exclusively limited to dead performers. I can imagine there being some interest in concerts by 1960s era Bob Dylan or say the Stones in 1967-69 being re-enacted. I'm sure purists might be dismaye

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