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by mazelife 12y ago
This reads like a press release written by York University administrators, or pretty much college administrators everywhere. Some facts that offer a useful corrective: 1. Rising college costs have massively outpaced inflation in the last 2
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by mazelife 12y ago
The problem is covered in Chapter 5. There's isn't really a silver bullet, depends a bit on your use case. He outlines a couple of approaches: * Try Again Later: queue failed parts of the transaction for retry, moving towards even
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by mazelife 12y ago
Does it? I don't see where he's making the claim that the reason you should listen to him is because he is a better designer than the folks at Medium. In fact, he says "[m]edium’s homogeneous design works and reads well.&
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by mazelife 12y ago
...which is why I usually turn to this: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv/0.9.4 It's a "drop-in replacement for Python 2's csv module which supports unicode strings without a hassle."
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by mazelife 12y ago
The cut-and-paste aspect of Messiaen's music is definitely one of it's many unique features. That said, it's always been my belief that Messiaen got the idea from Stravinsky, specifically the Rite of Spring, which takes the s
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by mazelife 12y ago
The article directly addresses why it's a bad idea: "it makes little sense for the district to heavily subsidize schools [i.e. charters] serving less needy children that already have access to more adequate resources. It makes eve
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by mazelife 12y ago
I don't like Amazon much either, so for books I usually go with http://www.powells.com/
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by mazelife 12y ago
Good article and actually having audio to illustrate the things the author talks about is helpful. For people interested in diving into this concept more deeply, there's a whole theoretical/analytical approach around musical expec
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by mazelife 12y ago
Seconded on the DC Metro. Flat fares would improve the experience greatly. Not only would it make it easier to calculate how much you need, but it would avoid the hideous backups that occur at many stations when the flow of people exiting t
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by mazelife 13y ago
If you're willing to get into actual NLP, then semantic similarity would certainly be one way to go. Is there any equivalent to Stanford (Java) or NLTK (Python) in Ruby land? But I'm not sure that Levenshtein will necessarily get
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by mazelife 13y ago
I second this. And if you decide you want to go really in-depth on recommender systems, I suggest taking a look at "Recommender Systems Handbook" ( http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-0-387-8
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by mazelife 13y ago
It can be configured not to expect a database. You just subclass the DjangoTestSuiteRunner to skip setting up and tearing down the DB, then set that as TEST_RUNNER. See here for an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions
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by mazelife 13y ago
At my current employer, we're working on a product that relies heavily on a graph DB (Titan, in this case). Performance characteristics vary dramatically based on the type of query you're trying to run so you have to be careful ab
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by mazelife 13y ago
uWSGI != WSGI. The name is misleading. To quote the uWSGI docs: "The “WSGI” part in the name is a tribute to the namesake Python standard, as it has been the first developed plugin for the project." There are a bunch of supported
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by mazelife 13y ago
I'm not sure I follow all the points you're making. But... 1.) I've created CSV import/export admin functions for models many times and I agree it's a minor customization. I'm not sure why changing templates i
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by mazelife 13y ago
Your remember correctly. At the moment, the momentum seems to be too move things out of contrib (e.g. localflavor, comments). The possibility of doing the same with the admin has come up at a couple of DjangoCon panels with the core devs
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by mazelife 13y ago
Good call; I pretty much always use that for Django projects that need the admin these days. I haven't done an exhaustive side-by-side comparison, but my impression is still that ActiveAdmin provides a more polished user experience.
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by mazelife 13y ago
I don't know about that. I've customized the heck out of that thing (e.g. https://github.com/mazelife/django-scaffold ) and it's quite possible, although you'll need to be pretty familiar with the so
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by mazelife 13y ago
The concluding question—"What if programming notation were more like music notation?"—is an interesting one. Music notation achieves a pretty impressive information density when you think about it. And it offers an interesting way of descri
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by mazelife 14y ago
I address this further down thread, but in a nutshell: there are effective, fair ways of evaluating teacher performance [1]. And I'm all for them. Standardized test performance is not on of those ways. Furthermore, in a lot of the schemes c
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by mazelife 14y ago
Well, in your parent comment you say "The problem is that we assume we need to test students, and not teachers." So, that does seem to be what you were saying. Of course a teacher's supervisor should be in charge of evaluating them. But t
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by mazelife 14y ago
There seems to be a common temptation to chalk student performance solely up to teachers. This despite the fact that there are plenty of things that are out of teacher's control that strongly affect how well a student performs. Here in Mary
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by mazelife 14y ago
I agree with you that, "most meeting places in the world, both online and off have their share of arseholes." You could argue (and I think there is some research to back this up) that the anonymity of the net inclines people to be more badl
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by mazelife 14y ago
Something like this, maybe? https://postgres.heroku.com/
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by mazelife 14y ago
Really? In my experience, Django has about the best documentation of any open source web framework. How are the docs lacking? The site's focus is definitely developer-centric. It would be nice if there was either a broader focus on that sit
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by mazelife 15y ago
There may be people folks who try to justify such "preferences" on evo-psych grounds, but I'd trust those citations about as far as I could throw them. Or, in other words: http://xkcd.com/775/
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by mazelife 15y ago
I certainly didn't take you to be suggesting not to hire the candidate based on their credit score, I'm saying it would make me uncomfortable to force them in to disclosing explanations for it in the first place because those reasons quite
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by mazelife 15y ago
Having attended the last couple of US iterations of Djangocon, being a close follower of the django-dev list, etc. that's not at all my interpretation. Also, spend a bit of time here: https://code.djangoproject.com/ and I don't see how yo
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by mazelife 15y ago
Your point, as I am understanding it is something along the lines of, "as a responsible employer, it's incumbent upon me to gather as many data points about a candidate as possible; sure some of them may not correlate strongly with whether
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by mazelife 15y ago
Looking at sample work is definitely a good idea. But I'd disagree with pretty strenuously with both credit score and IQ and would walk away immediately if a potential employer asked for these. Re credit score: In the US this appears to be

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