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by pydanny 13y ago
As soon as you involve Amazon, that's surprisingly not true. Really. O'Reilly makes more on e-book sales directly through their on-line store then they do on print. However, every e-book they sell via Amazon, their margins are ver
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by pydanny 13y ago
This sums up all the reasons why I never wanted to go to medium.
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by pydanny 13y ago
Do learnpythonthehardway.org Once you are through with that, come back and ask for more. :-)
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by pydanny 13y ago
Wow, I wrote about this today: http://pydanny.com/travel-tips-for-geeks-preventing-theft.ht...
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by pydanny 13y ago
Congratulations on self-publishing your work. I know how much work it is (published a book this year, working on a second) and I know what it's like when you get criticism. Keep up the good work and a big lesson we learned was this: Ta
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by pydanny 13y ago
Wait a second... they trusted Microsoft? ;-) Seriously though, if you don't play ball with the NSA, they come after you, your business, and your family with the full weight of the US government. Your wealth or status means nothing agai
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by pydanny 13y ago
These slides are inspiring!
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by pydanny 13y ago
So what? It's cool. Don't cheat.
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by pydanny 13y ago
This is the most awesome use of browser windows ever.
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by pydanny 13y ago
I would be delighted to see a book on Flask. While most of my work is in Django, there are times I use Flask. And... while Flask is simple enough there are times it would be nice to have a go-to reference for common tasks.
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by pydanny 13y ago
I agree 100%. Your country or company isn't going to make a difference when the people maintaining it are threatened or bribed by a force that can and does leverage power outside their jurisdiction. Honestly, the problem has to be addr
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by pydanny 13y ago
Great idea, but it turns out to be not that much was to be had by the amount of grief and shame I've accumulated: just $66.66 so far. I seriously need to write down a list of "unwritten rules that get you spanked". :P
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by pydanny 13y ago
Let me see what I can do on my end. Again, I'm willing to give all proceeds to the PSF or whoever. Are there published guidelines on this or is this one of those unwritten rules I've stumbled into?
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by pydanny 13y ago
I didn't know this was something you weren't supposed to do. Seriously, if I could delete this link, I would. If this is a problem, I'll donate all proceeds to the charity of your choice. I'll post images of how much is earned.
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The new Python Cookbook is out (amazon.com)
112 points by pydanny 13y ago|32 comments
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by pydanny 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of Two Scoops of Django. This screencast looks awesome! Okay, now to your questions: First, the screencast for creating a HN/Reddit clone is a tutorial. It's a good place to start when developing in Django
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by pydanny 13y ago
What I don't like about the new Flickr is that if you look at single photo, it's presented on a black background. While this is stylish, it's also feels distracting. I miss the white background.
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by pydanny 13y ago
Well, to be honest, acdha did most of the work for this project. At the time I was stuck being yanked back and forth between several projects per day.
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by pydanny 13y ago
Thanks for speaking up! FWIW, you did most of the work for the migration and rebuild. I apologize for not naming you when most of this was your work. :-)
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by pydanny 13y ago
Because the designer who insisted on the flash banner wanted to use flash. :P
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by pydanny 13y ago
Just wanted to say that I helped build this site. It's 2009/2010-era Django site built on feincms with a PostgreSQL backend. Originally it was a Plone site but after a year we realized it was too hard to meet the deadlines of NASA VIPs. So
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Nearly live DjangoCon Europe Notes(reinout.vanrees.org)
2 points by pydanny 13y ago|0 comments
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by pydanny 13y ago
I changed the text in places and took out the leading sentence. Thanks for this comment.
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by pydanny 13y ago
It wasn't intentional. I've been asked to post this on my blog for years. At the same time, I've had a number of people I respect state that it's not a good idea. I wasn't sure how to handle things, so I wrote this in one big chunk. However
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Django: The Easy Form Views Pattern Controversy(pydanny.com)
14 points by pydanny 13y ago|5 comments
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"Hello, world" -- Gevent vs. node.js(blindvic.blogspot.ru)
2 points by pydanny 13y ago|0 comments
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Saving for retirement by investing in Bitcoin (hardlyfunny.com)
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by pydanny 13y ago
The only problem with virtualenvwrapper is setting it up can and does cause problems for beginning developers new to the shell. Otherwise it's really awesome. :-)
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by pydanny 13y ago
Correction: It's not by "pydanny", it's by "pydanny" and "audreyr". She just doesn't do the whole Twitter/HN/blog thing as much as me. Seriously, do you think I could write a section including code that discusses "the impossible condition o
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by pydanny 14y ago
Please, please, please don't ever do credit card chargebacks. Merchants get charged nasty fees each time that happens.

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