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by jtauber 14y ago
If you're trying to explain why /dʒɑ̃ɡo/ is spelled <Django>, it's far more insightful to explain /d/ -> <d> and /ʒ/ -> <j> than to posit the <d> comes from nowhere and is just silent.
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by jtauber 14y ago
We're talking about a web framework named after a Belgian with a Romani nickname whose creator (the web framework's) desires that the web framework be pronounced the same as its namesake. If it were truly Anglicized, you would expect it to
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by jtauber 14y ago
The reason "Django" is pronounced /dʒɑ̃ɡo/ or /dʒæŋɡəʊ/ is not because the "D" is silent and the "j" is pronounced /dʒ/ but rather because the "D" is pronounced /d/ and the "j" is pronounced /ʒ/. Explaining how to pronounce it by saying "t
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by jtauber 14y ago
/dʒ/ doesn't have to be be written "dj" (it isn't in English, for example). It just is written that way in French because "j" alone is just /ʒ/ (as you quote above). When you ask "why not just say...", well that is pretty much what I sa
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by jtauber 14y ago
I wrote a little on this topic many years ago on my blog: http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/04/30/grammar_rules/
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by jtauber 14y ago
Almost every linguist (myself included) would agree. I'm not arguing about how the word is pronounced, I'm arguing about the description of how it's pronounced.
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The Pronunciation of Django(thoughtstreams.io)
33 points by jtauber 14y ago|55 comments
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Littlewood Fractals(thoughtstreams.io)
4 points by jtauber 14y ago|0 comments
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What We Used to Launch ThoughtStreams Quickly(eldarion.com)
28 points by jtauber 14y ago|0 comments
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5 Reasons to Hire an Agency(eldarion.com)
3 points by jtauber 14y ago|0 comments
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Track (Django) Site Emails with SendGrid(eldarion.com)
3 points by jtauber 14y ago|0 comments
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by jtauber 14y ago
Heroku was able to do it because it had a lot of funding in the beginning (and is now part of a public company). Very hard to bootstrap freemium, especially if there are per-user costs like with hosting. (I run gondor.io so I understand :
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by jtauber 14y ago
We'll eventually offer monthly plans with a free trial but we're looking for supporters at the moment, like the 10,000+ people that paid $50 for app.net
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by jtauber 14y ago
Over 10,000 people were willing to pay $50 to see app.net built without ever having seen it.
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by jtauber 14y ago
Sorry, that was an unintentional side-effect of switching away from requiring a credit card upfront. We'll put the information somewhere else. Until then, for everyone else: it's $5/month or $50/year.
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Habitualist and ThoughtStreams Launch(eldarion.com)
26 points by jtauber 14y ago|2 comments
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by jtauber 14y ago
I started implementing https://thoughtstreams.io the last few weeks for very much this kind of thing.
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by jtauber 14y ago
I don't use latitude yet for any calculations. The longitude is given in degrees E but the formula requires degrees W so I just subtract it from 360.
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Javascript Mars Clock(jtauber.github.com)
26 points by jtauber 14y ago|3 comments
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by jtauber 14y ago
If it's pip installable, it should work on Gondor without our intervention. If you need something else installed then, yes, you'd need to put in a support request. That's definitely the trade-off you get with managed hosting.
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by jtauber 14y ago
Actually, the majority of Gondor users are individuals, just individuals who want to spend more time developing and less time configuring and running servers. Heroku has a free tier which makes them cheaper for starting out but for various
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by jtauber 14y ago
Compared to what? Remember it's managed hosting, not a VPS (see https://gondor.io/blog/2011/12/20/why-pay-more-gondor-rather... for an explanation of some of the differences)
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Gondor Django Hosting Coming to UK(gondor.io)
1 points by jtauber 14y ago|0 comments
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by jtauber 14y ago
yep, number one thing I hear is "why wouldn't I just use my own VPS?"
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by jtauber 14y ago
At Gondor, we've had some success offering app-level consulting in addition to hosting as a way of differentiating ourselves from the bigger players. For example, not just hosting but helping the customer to get their site ready for product
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by jtauber 15y ago
You must have just missed it. A LICENSE was added around the time you posted this comment.
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by jtauber 15y ago
Perhaps https://github.com/jtauber/DCPU-16-Examples could be included too?
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by jtauber 15y ago
only issues is there's a third type to consider which is a literal number. So I need to distinguish Register, Memory Location and Literal. I considered passing around a (type, value) tuple but conditional code based on type really tells the
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by jtauber 15y ago
I did think about passing around a (type, identifier) tuple where type = REGISTER|MEMORY|LITERAL but I was put off by writing code conditional on type. The OO programmer in me dies a little when that is done rather than polymorphism.
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by jtauber 15y ago
Oh I hadn't seen this. I've actually implemented my own as part of dcpu16py.

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