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by zeemonkee 16y ago
> I don't know if you've noticed but these two are having some very large impact in the world right now. Dictators of 30 and 40 years are being cast off. I'm sure the Jacobins had a totally cool Facebook page. > Now you could say th
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
> That doesn't mean it will never happen. The world is changing rapidly, it stands to reason that even more big changes could happen. Rapidly compared to what ? 1900-1960 arguably saw more significant cultural, technological and politic
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
"I believe my generation will overthrow the arbitrary and brutal authority of corporate capitalism and bigoted conservatism in favor of rationalistic, libertarian socialism driven by a scientific approach and a concern for universal social
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Fine if you are a huge social media personality like Scoble. If Scoble got fired from Microsoft then he'd make himself a martyr and his social cred would only increase. He'd lose nothing. If you are a small-time schmuck with a wife and kids
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Only if you are referring to John McClane. "The man who learned better" could be Alan Rickman and all the other villains whose ass he kicked.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Having recently been forced to use one maybe I have a little bit of perspective. The problem I believe, is, fundamentally, the need for managers to justify their existence. Whereas other roles in the organization - engineers, salespeople, s
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
That's very true. A project I'm working on at the moment has some of the worst code I've seen. Copy and paste crap everywhere. No understanding of good programming practices or web design. A mountain of technical debt. Yet, the company is
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Good to hear Quixote is still going. It was my favourite framework in the pre-WSGI Django/Pylons days.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I'd throw in a few more goodies: - signed merchandise (box sets, t-shirts etc) for first / largest donors - competitions (win the chance to appear as an extra/meet the stars) - deals with networks (e.g. get Fox or HBO to agree to match 50%
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
In a sense, Star Trek did - it was a franchise rescued from obscurity after being cancelled by its huge fanbase, and went on to make the series of movies, TNG and so on. There may be earlier examples, but it's the first case I'm aware of wh
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I wonder if there is a germ of an idea here. Crowdfunded TV shows (or movies). Somebody proposes an idea for a TV show, gets some talent on board who sign up if it gets X amount of cash, people vote with cash donations (maybe with signed me
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
So because one QA guy is bad, the whole profession is bad ? You could say that about any profession, including developers.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
> If they wanted to make housing affordable, whether rented or to own they could get rid of the green belt, or encourage much denser housing. The infrastructure problems could be solved by application of sufficient money and compulsory
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I agree, it's one of those things that really hurts the UK as a whole - and it's much worse than the 1850s, when you had much stronger regional economies (think Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow....) It hurts the South-East because it puts the
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
> Seriously, did Silicon Valley step on your mother's grave or something? You sound like Oscar Wilde's definition of "cynic": someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Not bad going, two ad-hominems and not a si
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
- crushing conformity ? check. - love of me-too and sequels ? check. - living off the glory days of the past ? check. - patronage and network trump talent and originality ? check. - overwhelming sense of self-importance ? check. - lack of c
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
It's not just ugly, it's unmaintained.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
With Django - or any ORM it's a good idea to keep an eye on the SQL that your application is running. Use the django debug toolbar[1] and run your SQL queries against a profiler. Most of the time, that's where your serious bottlenecks will
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Then prepare to be disappointed. What you happen to believe is completely irrelevant to how the world works. There are lots of people who work hard. Immigrant fruit pickers, waitresses, WalMart greeters. I'd question whether they get what t
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Arch Linux uses Python3 as the default system Python, which I found a bit daft as almost every Python library I use relies on Python 2.x.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
SQLAlchemy is ported at least, don't know about all the low-level drivers though.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Simple. Charge customers who insist on IE6 for the extra development work required to support it.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
The argument seems to be BigCorp vs. startup. You can also work in a relatively sane, small-to medium sized stable business.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I use Fabric at work, with South for migrations. One useful technique I've found is to have Fabric deploy to a "staging" install on the target server (we still use SVN). It runs unit tests in that install, and if the tests fail, it stops de
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I do it for my day job (and my last few day jobs). I have built a few of my own, but nothing with the intent of making money. The real impediment for me is not the technical side (I can do that myself, and I know enough people in the busine
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Current debate aside, just like to say thanks for Pinboard from a happy customer. Good example of something that "just works", so you must be doing something right :-)
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I can understand the obsession. As pointed out, the UK is massively centralized around a single city. Media ? London. Finance ? London. Politics ? London. And so on. There may be local centers of excellence elsewhere - and devolution has be
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
I suspect most Americans have annoying personal requirements like bills and mortgages to pay same as Europeans. College students don't have these overheads, but they don't have experience either - so coding for next to nothing is a good exc
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
Best in the world ? Try Inverness, Scotland.
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by zeemonkee 16y ago
If I'm going to work for nothing, I'll work for myself, or as a fully-vested partner. If I'm going to work for a salary, I'll work for at least the going market rate for my skills. I don't care if you're Joe McStartup or IBM. It's your drea

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