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by jacobian 15y ago
I still don't get the popularity of Starcraft. Is is the blowing things up or the playing against friends? There are a ton of games that let me blow things up while taunting my friends. As someone who doesn't play Starcraft am I missing any
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by jacobian 15y ago
Oh, I see. So the problem isn't that Yehuda's asking for money, but that he had the temerity to state his qualifications. Again, we gotta grow up. Yehuda's contributions to Rails 3 were important. What's wrong with taking credit for that?
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by jacobian 15y ago
Let me get this straight: so a prolific, proven open source contributor makes some money, and the community gets a problem fixed. This is a bad thing? Who loses here? What if Yehuda's company gave him 25% of his time to work on open source
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by jacobian 15y ago
Does anybody have any reference to the scaffolding features? This might be the first I've heard of it. Yeah, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/django-admin/#djan... and https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/django-admin
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by jacobian 15y ago
Sadly, we don't live in "a world where people aren't putting pornography on their slide presentations" — we live in a world where it happens pretty regularly. Sexism is deeply embedded in the culture of the software industry; in that contex
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by jacobian 15y ago
Please read the whole context: https://img.skitch.com/20120320-fmsc5mciy8e7n3nxhakmegxxg9.p... "Women" are being presented in a list of "great perks" -- along with "food trucks", "top shelf booze", and "dark chocolate". This is pretty muc
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by jacobian 15y ago
> But Django is in a position to put pressure on others by simply creating facts and that hasn't happened. How exactly does one create a fact? That would be a neat trick. > I'm sure you could have found a way to talk to web servers
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by jacobian 15y ago
I think the problem is that our definitions of "as soon as possible" diverge. To wit: * Database drivers (psycopg2, MySQLdb, etc.) weren't updated for Python 3 until... last year some time, I think? Django supporting Python 3 is somewhat ac
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by jacobian 15y ago
> If "porting code is relatively straightforward" it would be a good idea to get that port done and let people decide for themselves when to use the new version. In fact, that's exactly what we're doing. Django's going to support Python
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by jacobian 15y ago
If you think you're tired about hearing about Python 3 try sitting in my seat! I got asked "when's Django moving to Python 3?" about thirty times a day at PyCon, and I think the other core devs did, too. We realized that although we had a p
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The Django community in 2012(jacobian.org)
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by jacobian 15y ago
* We have about 30 people with the commit bit; at any given time I'd guess about a dozen are active. * "Even 100k" implies that you think a six figure salary is reasonable for programmers. This is true in some rarefied echo chambers likethe
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by jacobian 15y ago
> A "year or two" of the core Django team's time is easily several million bucks. Ahhhahaha, ahhhahahahahahahahahaha! Good lord I wish this was true!
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by jacobian 15y ago
The general advice I give is: "Python 3 if you can, Python 2 if you must." That is, if you can use Python 3, you should: it's the future of the language, and it feels it. I find Python 3 significantly more pleasant than Python 2; nearly a
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by jacobian 15y ago
I've written about this on HN before; see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3600402 . The situation hasn't changed. If you want to work with Django on Python 3, go ahead; the code's right there for you. We need the help: it's going to ta
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by jacobian 15y ago
It's available; see https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/django/ . This is in "ready to merge" status, i.e. it's technically ready to the point we want to merge it into Django proper. I hope to do so soon, possibly as soon as next month at th
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by jacobian 15y ago
okal, please turn DEBUG off. It exposes a number of things you don't want the public to be reading.
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by jacobian 15y ago
That's awesome - write about what you do, please? The Python3 web world is still in its infancy, and I'm really interested to hear how it goes
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by jacobian 15y ago
It is, however, a question of "when", not "if".
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by jacobian 15y ago
Yes, although in the end Vinay moved in a different direction (single shared source instead of 2to3). I'm really interested in diving in and figuring out some of the pros and cons of that approach; I hadn't thought it as going to be possibl
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by jacobian 15y ago
Yup, it was. PEP 3333 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/ ) was accepted and finalized this summer.
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by jacobian 15y ago
You can find the code here: https://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/django . I'm still trying this out myself, but one interesting thing to note is that Vinay chose to use a single-source strategy instead of running things through 2to3.
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by jacobian 15y ago
I'm not aware of any timing attacks against Django. If there are attacks that we should be aware of please be a good open source citizen and report them to `security@djangoproject.com`. We take security reports very seriously, and want very
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by jacobian 15y ago
Jason Kottke writes: When I heard the news, my immediate reaction was not positive. [...] No one I know is filled with joy when using Adobe products...mostly the opposite. Typekit is a great service; I hope Adobe keeps it that way. ( http
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by jacobian 15y ago
> ...but what sets them apart now? As a very happy user of some of Python PaaS services [1], there are a few reasons why I don't see myself switching to Heroku: * These services are written by our community, for our community. The
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by jacobian 15y ago
Over the last couple of years I've been having a couple of problems at work: increasing lower back pain and decreasing attention span. I had no reason to assume either had anything to do with my desk: I, too, rock the Aeron and think it's c
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by jacobian 15y ago
Please read what I wrote more carefully. I didn't say that the the Fulcrum developers were stealing. I said that I would feel like I was stealing from the Pivotal developers by using a free clone instead of paying for the original. Sinc
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by jacobian 15y ago
I don't think I'd feel comfortable using such a direct clone of someone else's software. From a cursory glance it doesn't seem that Fulcrum brings anything new to the table, so using it would make me feel like I was stealing from Pivotal. H
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by jacobian 15y ago
> I think Django should make this official. Good call - I just did. There's a "download" link in the sidebar now.
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by jacobian 15y ago
Also see http://readthedocs.org/projects/django/ for a couple of other formats: ePub and manpage (that's a long manpage...)

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