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by jacobian 17y ago
That's just not what we're trying to do with Django's template language. However, if you'd like a template language that's closer to pure Python, I'd suggest giving Cheetah ( http://cheetahtemplate.org/ ) a try. I've used it in the past; qu
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by jacobian 17y ago
I'm curious: do you have any idea what that'd cost? My impression is that anyone who's actually worth paying would cost well beyond what the DSF could actually afford. That said, stuff like this is why the DSF exists in the first place, so
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by jacobian 17y ago
We've not checked this in yet precisely because, as you say, that good review is important. We don't have anyone in our core community who's a security expert, so that's precisely why we've tried to reach out to the broader web development
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by jacobian 17y ago
I've been very happy with Rackspace Cloud, and especially with how well it scales down -- as low as $10/mo. It's not quite all the flexibility that Amazon does, but the API's nice and getting better, and for personal stuff the smaller size
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by jacobian 17y ago
"I had backups, mind you, but they were on the virtual machine itself" ( http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/6577510116 ). Sigh. When we will ever learn?
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by jacobian 17y ago
No, it's just pining for the fjords.
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Writing great documentation: you need an editor(jacobian.org)
46 points by jacobian 17y ago|15 comments
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Writing great documentation: technical style(jacobian.org)
78 points by jacobian 17y ago|15 comments
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Writing good documentation (part 1)(jacobian.org)
53 points by jacobian 17y ago|7 comments
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Thank you, Rails(jacobian.org)
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by jacobian 17y ago
How long does it take to fail over to a second data center? Can you do it in less than 26 seconds? I can't.
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Lessons from Rackspace's downtime(jacobian.org)
36 points by jacobian 17y ago|31 comments
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by jacobian 17y ago
Propaganda certainly wasn't my goal; I'm sorry the post came across that way. It's a fact that open source consistently produces incredible software; I'm trying to feel my way towards some reasons why that might be. Thinking out loud is tou
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The power of "no"(jacobian.org)
71 points by jacobian 17y ago|31 comments
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by jacobian 17y ago
Keep in mind: these are proposed features -- as in, proposed by anyone with enough smarts to edit a wiki page -- not necessarily ones that'll make it into 1.2. That proposal, in particular, is a Big Honking Deal with basically no concrete
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by jacobian 17y ago
I completely agree! If you want to help us make sure this happens, please check out the multidb branch, give it a spin, and report any bugs: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/soc2009/mu... .
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by jacobian 17y ago
This meme is a silly amateur-hour wheel re-invention and ignorance of history. Yeah, well fuck you too. As it turns out, I am an amateur, at least when it comes to POSIX, but more importantly I find this stuff fun. I hadn't realized t
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* is Unix(jacobian.org)
62 points by jacobian 17y ago|48 comments
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by jacobian 17y ago
I've spent the last two weeks at Python conferences in Argentina and Brazil, have been following the news from DjangoCon, and like to think I've got a pretty good pulse on the Python web community. I'd hardly characterize the Python web com
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by jacobian 17y ago
Minor correction. The removal of the GIL is not disallowed by fiat. To piggyback: don't forget that CPython ≠ Python. The GIL is an implementation detail of CPython, not a feature of the language. Other Pythons -- Jython, for one -- have
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by jacobian 17y ago
I worry that’s going to be the Android community — forever talking about the next year’s batch of phones, because the ones available now just are second-rate. That's my worry, too. I remember hearing for what feels like a decade that Linu
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by jacobian 17y ago
Ah, so if the iPhone is flawed that makes all of Android's flaws go away. Finally, I understand! Thanks!
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by jacobian 17y ago
That, my friends, is what's called "missing the forest for the trees." Yes, every single one of my question has an easy answer. Yup, just need to install this app or activate this hidden preference or tweak my Xorg.conf, or learn to live wi
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by jacobian 17y ago
Since you've got no problems with Android, maybe you can solve mine: - Why does the phone crash when I try to pair with my bluetooth headset? - Why do all eleventy-billion of my contacts show up in the dialer instead of the relatively small
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by jacobian 17y ago
The best single work I've read on the subject is Van Lindberg's _Intellectual Property and Open Source_ ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596517963/ ). I don't think it's quite "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old" territory -- it assumes a basic un
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by jacobian 17y ago
If I can find straight answers, I'll post 'em. Problem is I'm afraid that the answer, in each case, is "it depends; consult an attorney."
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by jacobian 17y ago
Yeah, that's really the nut of the problem, isn't it. Short of finding a lawyer qualified to speak to these issues -- which I can't afford -- my only other option is to simply avoid the GPL. Which sucks.
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by jacobian 17y ago
Well, sorry, but apparently I'm not as smart as you; even reading carefully I can't see the answer to whether a dynamic language import/require/load/whatever counts as a derivative work. > Total FUD. If you don't like the license, don't
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by jacobian 17y ago
Yeah, exactly! Just like a single distribution of Windows can't possibly compete with the thousands of branches of Linux out there. Oh, wait.
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by jacobian 17y ago
Y'know, this bug report deals with running Django's test suite, which is really a worst-case scenario. The test suite loads hundreds -- even thousands -- of models into memory, and does many complicated and costly operations. It's a unit te

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