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by jacobian 16y ago
To add a bit of context, I suggested Eric as a keynoter and encouraged him to give this talk, so the idea that the Django core team -- of which I'm a member -- isn't responsive is bullshit. In fact, we've had a "what's wrong with Django" ta
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So "the author" is Alex Martelli, a long -time Python user, contributor, and winner of the 2006 Frank Willison award which is given each year for outstanding contribution to the Python community. I highly doubt he's "ignorant" of anything
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It is apples-to-apples if you're comparing cost, which (I think) is what UA really cares about. But they didn't do the math explicitly and, like you, I was curious, so: A small instance costs 8.5¢/hr, so if it handles 35,000 connections wit
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Yeah, damn those jerks who make a Linux distro that people actually want to use. Betcha those asshats also care about making awesome software more accessible to new users! What dicks.
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The code's all there: see https://code.launchpad.net/openstack . "nova" is the name of the compute component. As I said upthread I find Launchpad's UI confusing, but I think http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~hudson-openstack/nova/trunk/fil...
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by jacobian 16y ago
I'd agree that OpenStack has the potential of being a Really Big Deal. They've really got a killer contribution incentive: fix a big or write a good feature and you'll get to use it on Rackspace's infrastructure (or anyone else who hosts an
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by jacobian 16y ago
It's not just you, I promise. I find Launchpad's UI barely comprehensible at best, and every time I have to use it I die a little inside. I haven't heard a single good word about Launchpad from anyone outside of Canonical...
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by jacobian 16y ago
Thanks a bunch, Jesse -- I really appreciate you taking the time to answer in such detail! Like I said, it's slick app and I totally see myself using it, so this is just icing on the cake.
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Slick. I can see myself using this frequently. I have a couple questions/comments: - It's not exactly "secure", right? AirDropper has access to my file while it's "in transit" so AirDropper's really only "secure" if I trust AirDropper. You
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by jacobian 16y ago
Indeed - relying on someone else's infrastructure for production installs is always a risky business. Even once PyPI's infrastructure gets better (there'll soon be multiple mirrors, automatic fallover, etc.), it's probably still going to be
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by jacobian 16y ago
I see, because women can't be programmers, amirite? Your misogyny is showing, and it's ugly. More to the point, this is sexist, offensive, and should have no place in technical circles.
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by jacobian 16y ago
> Not only does GitHub use twitter, but they also have status.github.com hosted on EC2. Heroku has a status site on Slicehost. Heh, that's a bit funny: Github's hosted on Rackspace Cloud. They have a status page which is hosted on EC2 v
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by jacobian 16y ago
It's fine to state where you work if: - It's relevant to the question (i.e. the question has to do with a particular application at work). - You're at an industry/trade show (where "where you work" is more important to fellow attendees than
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An iPhone, drawn entirely with HTML: <img src="iphone.png">
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by jacobian 16y ago
These are all great questions — indeed, they're ones I've asked myself. Only time will tell, I suppose. However, the impetus behind Hidden Hires is a cry real need: although Django's community is growing at a rapid clip, it's still a niche
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There will be a screening process, yes, and diversity of experience will be one of the factors we take into account. Nobody wants to hire or work with a one-trick pony.
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Wow, you could teach a class on rhetorical fallacies from your comment alone. Let's try to unpack it here. First, you've tried to claim access journalism as part of accepted journalistic ethics. In fact, access journalism is not part of a
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Gizmodo doesn't get to have it both ways. If they want the perqs afforded to journalists - things like press passes - they need to follow the established ethics of that profession. If they want to be outsiders and invent their own ethics, t
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> Can you go into more detail about how Python fixes maintenance? It's pervasive, so there isn't any single feature I could point to. Python embraces a general philosophy that starts from the observation that programmers spend much mo
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by jacobian 16y ago
>> well, with Python that doesn't happen. At least, not at all frequently. > That's a bold statement. It happened to me just last week. Look, different strokes for different folks: I'm not trying to suggest that you should
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Python fixes maintenance. You know that sinking feeling when you crack open 3-year-old code written by your predecessor's predecessor and realize it's a load of garbage and that you'll never be able to fix the bug? Yeah, well, with Python t
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by jacobian 16y ago
Did you read the root post in this thread? Why do you need to do this? I'm trying to honestly engage with the ideas presented here, and what's clear to you isn't clear at all to me. Why do you assume I'm operating in bad faith? Apple is
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by jacobian 16y ago
Hm. It would seem that similar logic would apply to, say, an ISP which "distributes" GPL produces over its pipes and applies additional restrictions via its EULA. This sort of "if you touch GPL in any way" reading isn't a very positive one
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Hi, fledging. I'm one of the creators and lead developers of Django. So I suppose you probably hate me, too. That's a shame: most people who hate me have at least met me once or twice; wish I'd had at least had a chance. Ah well. Anyway, I'
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It was "Scoop" Nisker, a longtime reporter and commentator on KFOG in San Francisco ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Nisker ).
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Please give the RC a try - we put it out specifically for people like you, and we try really hard to ensured backwards compatibility. If you find bugs now, we can still fix them before the final ships.
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by jacobian 17y ago
Nothing at all. Personal opinion, blah blah, etc.
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by jacobian 17y ago
I think his point is a bit deeper than "I don't like it". How so? Everything in this article -- and nearly any point one could make about a programming language -- comes down to a matter of taste. Take your example -- Python "has objects,
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Someone doesn't like something. News at 11.
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by jacobian 17y ago
Just plain old JavaScript - no framework. Most of the JavaScript in Django's admin predates JavaScript frameworks entirely (in fact, Simon Willison wrote getElementsBySelector for the admin, which at least partially inspired jQuery and the

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