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by jacobian 17y ago
Before y'all go celebrate the mainstreaming of copyright reform, keep in mind that the white-only British National Party won two seats in the same election ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8088607.stm ). So neo-Nazis are twice
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by jacobian 17y ago
I'm sorry, but this isn't about free speech. These people are calling for violence and murder against an entire class of people. You're okay with a " Facebook group ... twitter hashtag ... IRC channel" dedicated to promoting murder and
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by jacobian 17y ago
That's right: our policy ( http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/... ) is that, whenever possible, trunk be kept stable. "People should be able to run production sites against the trunk at any time." This isn't hyperbo
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by jacobian 17y ago
Heh, d'oh. Fixed; thanks.
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by jacobian 17y ago
I [...] expect Python to die well before the end of my professional career [...] Why? I do invest my time in longer term languages such as Scheme and Haskell. What makes Scheme and Haskell "long-term" languages?
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by jacobian 17y ago
You can not fault an entire community for the actions of a single individual. You can when prominent members -- leaders, even -- of that community step up to defend those actions. In any community there will be opposing opinions on defin
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by jacobian 17y ago
A number of smaller Python-based projects were denied, but the Python Software Foundation was pretty generous in accepting projects that are using Python rather than working on Python itself. If you check out http://socghop.appspot.com
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by jacobian 17y ago
Even when Josh worked there I think you'd be hard-pressed to make an argument that Sun "backed" PostgreSQL in any strategic sense. It's true that Josh is an extremely vital figure in PostgreSQL's community, but he doesn't contribute code as
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by jacobian 17y ago
"I suspect this is very bad news for Postgresql. Sun is a major backer [...]" Actually, that's incorrect; Sun is a backer, but hardly a major one. A quick glance at Ohloh's contribution metrics for PostgreSQL ( http://www.ohloh.net/p/po
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by jacobian 18y ago
Remember: the plural of "anecdote" is not "data." Here we have a single programmer -- about whom we know very little -- and his personal experience. It says nothing about the state of the industry as a whole My personal experience, by the w
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by jacobian 18y ago
Y'know, I think that most of the time what looks like a coincidence is, in fact, a coincidence. YC lists about 70 startups, and TechStars about 20. I think with that many companies coincidence is more or less guaranteed -- a sort of weird p
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by jacobian 18y ago
The thing is that actually very little of this is unique to Django. The types of tools you need to deploy dynamic-language-based web applications don't differ depending what the "P" in LAMP stands for.
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by jacobian 18y ago
Exactly - the conference is being taped, but videos won't go up online until after things wind down.
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by jacobian 18y ago
Credit where credit is due: half of this tutorial is by James Bennett ( http://b-list.org/ ).
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by jacobian 18y ago
It's a pretty esoteric feature, I'll grant you, but it's needed to implement several useful, more user-oriented features. The big one is deferred fields, which in certain situations can give apps enormous performance gains. If you're intere
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by jacobian 18y ago
I'd view the conditional view processing as complimentary to the cache engine; you can't have too many layers of caching really. Also, conditional view processing can save bandwidth since unmodified responses don't need a body. Bandwidth is
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by jacobian 18y ago
The interesting details are in the release notes: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.1-beta-1/
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by jacobian 18y ago
Man, that's a terribly nasty thing to say. Try to have some compassion: the man just discovered that he has a substantially higher than average risk of developing Parkinson's. He's dealing with that knowledge by blogging about it, just as m
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by jacobian 18y ago
I'm a bit confused: what form of "action," exactly, would Opera like us to take here? That sounded snarky and sarcastic, but I'm really not sure what a public debunking of ad copy is supposed to do? Rockports don't actually "make me feel li
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by jacobian 18y ago
Anyone using lighttpd might want to check out mod_secdownload ( http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/lighttpd/Docs:ModSecDownloa... ) as an alternative. Nice and lightweight.
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by jacobian 18y ago
There's so much of this that's just factually incorrect it's really hard to give the weight of the article any credibility. To start, "Dojo" != "The Dojo Foundation". The foundation is a nonprofit (US 501c6, as it happens) entity that exist