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by jacobian 14y ago
Would you maybe consider making a distinction between security releases and regular run-of-the-mill update releases? I see a real value in a service to let me know that there's a new version of one of the dozens of things I depend on. But l
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by jacobian 14y ago
Yes: Django only uses XML in one very limited place, the serialization parsing framework, which isn't exposed publicly in any way. It's used for data backup/restore as well as for test fixtures, but that's it. Further, the same framework al
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by jacobian 14y ago
Obviously I'm totally biased and you shouldn't listen to me. But if you were to listen to me, I'd probably be saying something about how they're basically equivalent these days. Both are pretty productive, have clean readable code, are we
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by jacobian 14y ago
Yup, it's not the first time either -- we've coordinated with them in the past when fixing bugs that affect both frameworks ( https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2011/feb/08/security/ ).
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by jacobian 14y ago
That's 100% completely wrong. We've worked with Rails' security team in the past to coordinate releases fixing similar issues, and they've helped us out with discovering and analyzing issues of our own. They're a great group of people and I
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by jacobian 14y ago
We don't just announce this stuff on HN; there's a whole lot more: * Post security release announcements to our blog. * Post announcements to django-announce, a very low-traffic mailing list specifically for security announcements. * Post a
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by jacobian 14y ago
These aren't "drop everything, take the site down, upgrade now" issues, so yeah we'd like to save the tone for that sort of thing. ... but seriously, please do upgrade as soon as possible! There's really no such thing as a "minor" security
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by jacobian 14y ago
Related: Carl Meyer's "Reverse-engineering Ian Bicking's brain" talk from PyCon 2011: http://pyvideo.org/video/389/pycon-2011--reverse-engineering...
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by jacobian 14y ago
I'm a consultant as well. I never take stock or equity as payment; cash only. Look at it this way: if the company's so cash-poor that they can't afford to pay for work, what are the odds their stock/equity will ever be worth anything?
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by jacobian 14y ago
If you hit `/SPOOL/{TEST,IDEAS,NOTES}` you get some binary data; `file` tells me it's "HP PCL printer data". Not sure what to do next with that...
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by jacobian 14y ago
Well... 3 months is possible, but unlikely. 6-9 is more likely. 12 months is unlikely, but more likely than 3.
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by jacobian 14y ago
It'll likely be a bit longer than that. See my response elsewhere in this thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5009625 ).
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by jacobian 14y ago
At some point, yes, we'll drop Python 2 support. When really depends on how rapidly we see adoption (from users and re-distributors of Django) and how heavy the dual-version support burden turns out to be. My guess is what we're looking at
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by jacobian 14y ago
So here's the deal: Django 1.5 has "full" Python 3 support, at least from a technical level. It's done, works, is well-tested. I'm planning on putting a Django 1.5 / Python 3.3 site into production later this year. So in that sense it's "do
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Django 1.5 release candidate available(djangoproject.com)
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by jacobian 14y ago
Kick-ass; thanks!
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by jacobian 14y ago
Actually, no, I'd really like for you to address this in public. You offered to answer any/all questions, right? The highest voted comment in this thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4918790 , which is the one that is accusing y
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by jacobian 14y ago
Hey simvla - looks good, but to actually be open source you need a license. Right now the source doesn't have a license, so it defaults to "All Rights Reserved". If you intended this to be open source as the title claims, can you add a lice
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by jacobian 14y ago
Can you please respond to the accusations of spam, above? I, too, have suddenly started receiving email from Fab even though I've opted out repeatedly. I really hope this is a mistake and not part of this third "pivot".
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by jacobian 14y ago
Women in Denmark make about 10% less than men for the same work [1]. Granted, that's better than the US, where it's more like 75¢ on the dollar, but I'd hardly call that equality. I don't know enough about Denmark to know whether gender dis
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by jacobian 14y ago
Sheesh, there's just so much that's wrong, disingenuous, and outright hilariously silly about these couple of sentences that I hardly know where to begin. Let's see... * You don't have a right to attend a private event. The organizers of an
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by jacobian 14y ago
> Living in a [...] gender-equal country [...] Which country is that?
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by jacobian 14y ago
If cost is the only thing keeping you from coming to PyCon, please considering applying for financial aid. Each year we give out tens of thousands of dollars in free tickets and grants to help people get to PyCon. You could easily be one of
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by jacobian 14y ago
Yes, all the talks will be recorded and release after the conference.
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by jacobian 14y ago
Great idea - I'll see what I can do!
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by jacobian 14y ago
Most talks will be 30 minutes, some will be 45. We don't know which are which yet; that'll come when we publish the actual schedule in the next couple weeks.
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by jacobian 14y ago
If y'all have questions, I'm the program chair so fire away. I'm happy to answer 'em here.
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by jacobian 14y ago
Funny, your TODO list looks a lot like mine.
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by jacobian 14y ago
So Django doesn't have its own package management system, either. I'm curious: where did you read/see that?
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by jacobian 14y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest he was making up a metric. Yes, McCabe is a real thing. I haven't really found it that useful myself -- I'm not sure that you can adequately measure something fuzzy like "complexity" through static control fl

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