jbronn

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by jbronn 17y ago
> ack didn’t pick it up because that’s a text file. DAMN! `ack -a` is your friend, Zed. No snark intended, that's all I have to say.
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by jbronn 17y ago
There are plenty of reasons one may prefer Django's ORM over SQLAlchemy. For example, SQLAlchemy doesn't have robust support for the most popular spatial database implementations: PostGIS, MySQL, Oracle, and SpatiaLite. Django's ORM does.
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by jbronn 17y ago
I really liked Microsoft's Windows Defender, and I was pleased to find out that they recently expanded it into a full (and free) AV suite: Security Essentials: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ It runs unobtrusively in the bac
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by jbronn 17y ago
I second the parent. The typical inventor thinks the description and drawings are important, while they are really secondary to the claims which are what is legally protected. Unfortunately, writing a good set of claims is an art that can
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by jbronn 17y ago
The distance/area objects in GeoDjango are an under-appreciated feature. The docs have a more readable version of the supported units: http://geodjango.org/docs/measure.html#supported-units
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by jbronn 17y ago
Open source software is not a one-way street. If you had spent as much effort on this gripe post as participating in the community (or even reading the docs!) then you would have had the answers to your questions rather than having to roll
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by jbronn 17y ago
The admin provides both of these features -- specify the columns you want to be clickable in the `list_display` attribute on your `ModelAdmin` class. Similarly, specify a `search_fields` attribute to add a search box for the columns you wa
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by jbronn 17y ago
For those wondering, I believe the visualizations on this page were created with OpenDX ( http://opendx.org/ ) or its predecessor from IBM.
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by jbronn 17y ago
> Sometimes it seems like Houston doesn't so much have an economy as a local oil-money leak. This stereotypical perception of Houston is false, as it does have a diversified economy. For example, it is home of the Texas Medical Center
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by jbronn 17y ago
Exactly. Ballmer obviously hasn't been on a college campus in the past few years. I personally saw the percentage of Mac laptops go from ~5% to ~40% from 2005 to 2008 in my classes. The ratio goes even higher if you go to any scientific/
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by jbronn 17y ago
> Fortunately there are no ambiguities anywhere else in the law, which is why all civil lawsuits are decided in 10mins by a secretary and an intern Unlike a simple civil contract dispute, for example, where the ambiguity usually lies in
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by jbronn 17y ago
Greg Vetter, a former law professor of mine at the University of Houston, has written about the pitfalls of 'infectious' open source licenses such as the GPL. I highly recommend taking a look at his paper on the topic: http://ssrn.com/abs
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by jbronn 17y ago
I was at TNRIS, a Texas GIS conference, and MS had a Surface there. I admit it was really cool to fly through Virtual Earth imagery with it, but it was pretty buggy. After a few minutes of light use I managed to freeze the interface, cras
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by jbronn 18y ago
sigh . This guy is intellectually dishonest. I tried to provide give two comments on his blog, both of which he _refused_ to publish because they point out mistakes he made. So instead, I'll just publish it here: (1) DEBUG=False is not