nikolaj

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by nikolaj 19y ago
OLPC seems like such a great product, yet Negroponte's incessant high-horse complaints about incoming competition contribute to a lack of confidence in the product.. he should just embrace competitors and continue to promote the strength of
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by nikolaj 19y ago
As a developer who works with designers alot (cukerdesign.com), the things I have found most often in contention are 1. white space, 2. when fonts Need to be a certain way, and 3. colors matching (often with photoshop, comps and such, color
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by nikolaj 19y ago
i get along fine in xubuntu with 512.. ducks
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by nikolaj 19y ago
I like the significant separation between monitor and keyboard and mouse.. it feels more comfortable and ergonomic to me. I do enjoy hacking on a laptop on a sofa.. but not for more than 2-3 hours.
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by nikolaj 19y ago
i see your point. i would assume someone else has done this before in django, but regardless, i thought it was interesting as i haven't seen something like this as easily accessible for us django people.
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by nikolaj 19y ago
blah blah, if he wants a hammer for a spice rack he can use php. If he wants to build something a bit bigger, and actually maintain it and grow it over time (e.g. cabinets for his kitchen), he would be wiser to spend time standardizing the
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by nikolaj 19y ago
the difference here is that the html files are served by nginx, before django is event touched. Removing Django from the equation (and fastcgi or modpython or whatever nginx is proxying too) is where the speedup comes from. This isn't "cach
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Generate Static html cache files automatically in django(superjared.com)
11 points by nikolaj 19y ago|9 comments
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by nikolaj 19y ago
haha, democracy isn't always pretty. Meanwhile I accidentally hit the down arrow on your comment.. sorry
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by nikolaj 19y ago
what is a deck?
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by nikolaj 19y ago
this makes me want to figure out how to make a neural network.. of the 20% i understood, very interesting.
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by nikolaj 19y ago
How about we institute a down vote to prevent digg honey..err vinegar like "porn for girls by girls"
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by nikolaj 19y ago
yeah, funny that was my first thought too
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by nikolaj 19y ago
Having built many different apps in Django in the last year, I strongly disagree with this. Django has a clever admin interface that gives you easy access to every data model you can dream up, but this is only a really neat hack. Django pro
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by nikolaj 19y ago
Outsourcing actively growing and changing websites is such a bad idea. I know, because I build such sites for clients, and on all the dynamic, growing sites, it always ends with clients being frustrated with the slow responsiveness to updat
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by nikolaj 19y ago
in all the drawing/art classes i have taken, one of the first things they usually cover is the impact of serious, academic study, on many famous artists. It is the process, focus, resources, and reflection/study provided in a university th
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by nikolaj 19y ago
i think a sign of a good programmer is the tendency to engage with the computer using a language, not just pointing clicking and dragging. Bash familiarity tends to coincide with shell-aptitude.
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by nikolaj 19y ago
Awesome. Very impressive, great concept, and glad to see more people using django (i use it for almost every site).
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by nikolaj 19y ago
I run a django shop, and my technique for hiring is finding people who preferably have had freelancer experience (know how to get something out the door), know a little (preferably a ton) of bash, actively learn new things, are up on the la
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by nikolaj 19y ago
hah, reading #1 made me laugh out loud, as I spent last night hacking android, and then come to work to slog away in python! How did this happen!
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by nikolaj 19y ago
this entire post was destined to be a flame war...
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by nikolaj 19y ago
hmm i have a joyent accelerator. It is rock solid, except trying to get a recent version of python is a royal pain (python 2.3 comes installed, you have to wrangle a bit with pkgsrc to get python 2.4..). If you use python, and don't mind b
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by nikolaj 19y ago
i get the feeling people are voting up by the title, not the actual article content.. seriously, this is entirely obvious and of digg caliber.. not what i expect from news.yc
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by nikolaj 19y ago
time to bootstrap that startup that makes startups.. oh, wait...
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by nikolaj 19y ago
i think this rose to the top because we all want validations of our dislike for google and its overwhelming self-righteousness
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by nikolaj 19y ago
as an RIT CS grad ('03), I cackled when i saw your desktop.. very CSH :)
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by nikolaj 19y ago
who says jokes can't be fully functional.. imo it makes them all that much better.. remember textquake? :)
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by nikolaj 19y ago
during the San Diego wildfires, lots of people subscribed to KPBS's (local npr radio station) twitter stream as a way to get updates on evacuations. KPBS also had a really good google map up in the first few hours, and was way ahead of ever
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by nikolaj 19y ago
ah, a project for a client.. damn i tried to snuff out things like that. It's just yet another media sharing site, we (I) built it in django with ffmpeg.
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by nikolaj 19y ago
yuck. stuff like code folding and automagical code generation encourage all the wrong habits. Simple, readable, and reused code is "tight".

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