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Let me tell you the truth, though this will not be popular: Django is not a good framework. It's clumsy, inflexible and restrictive. The community is pretty much dead.

If you want to work in ruby, go for ror. If you want to work in python, go for a micro framework like Bottle.

I made the mistake of investing a lot of my time in Django. It was not worth it in the end. All my Django projects ended up being a big mess, and I had to undjango my way out of the various restrictions it placed on me.

And the community in general seems to agree - there is not much different in the django ecosystem, comparing 2 years ago to now.

My advice, go for Ruby On Rails or Bottle. Leave Django alone.
Wait, where did he say anything that was wrong? He's the only one in this clusterfuck that seems to know what he's talking about.
Once all the NFC phones arrive, and stores start adopting NFC payments, I predict an explosion of Bitcoin payments in real stores. Right now it's still too much of a hassle to pay with Bitcoin in a store I believe. NFC payments should make it a piece of cake to do that in stores that want to accept Bitcoin.
I have a few bots of my own that do weather based alerts (by state). They don't @reply anyone; they just do normal tweets.

What's so frustrating for me is how often I get slapped for spamming yet these quite-obvious @mention spam bots continue to prosper (I can never get a response out of twitter as to why I keep getting blocked; they just remove the block without actually responding to anything I asked).

I get probably 10-20 @reply spam a day on my more active account and it all follows the same pattern:

* account is nothing but @replies with just a link

This has been going on for probably a month and I've reported every single account that's spammed me.

If twitter can't figure out how to auto-block this obvious spam, it doesn't give me much hope that they'll figure out how to take care of spam in general.
Both life and liberty are rights which may be forfeit by criminal action. Simply because the justice system can revoke your life does not make your life a privilege as Ms Krapielian would have us believe.

The simple fact of the government paving all public thoroughfares does not somehow mean that it is now a privilege to walk upon them or drive on them.
This was done in InDesign. You could do it in Word, but it's going to be more difficult. If you're on a Mac I would recommend Pages. I'm not as familiar with Windows, so couldn't really suggest any software there.
Working great on BB 9780.

Thanks, just started Google Tasks this afternoon.. this is perfect.
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The patent system has been causing this problem for many years. The Wright brothers asserted that their patent covered lateral control of an aircraft, no matter how that control was implemented, and prevailed in court. Obviously, lateral control is a "blocking patent" - there is no way to work around it (and live).

The resulting litigation and threats of litigation disrupted and damaged the advancement of flying technology in the US, causing the US to lose its early lead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wright_brothers_patent_war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_Company
Agree with your first point. My wife would never, ever take "hand me downs" from folks that she doesn't know (regardless of whatever logic you throw at her). She'd rather spend the money.

Then, there are clearly other folks that think a service like this is too expensive.

Seems like my wife is one extreme (would rather spend lots of money buying stuff) and then there's another extreme (folks who don't want to spend money at all).

I'm wondering if the middle range is a large enough market.
There is a skill called "critical thinking", another called "report writing", and it seems for this course "comprehension of a market, and competing technologies within this market".

Copy paste demonstrates or develops none of these, other than "report composition", and possibly "identifying worthwhile sources".

If you think consultants, such as McKinsey, require the later skills only, and NOT the former, you are rather misguided.
This is what I did (Django for one project -> moved to Rails) and second this.

I think Django is a lot easier to get started with, but RoR is much more thought out.

OP should also read:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37113340/Why-Django-Sucks-and-How-...

Which summarizes some of the problems I had with it. Getting components to work was always a custom job; a stark difference compared with the ease of getting Rails components to work.
I attended as a recruiter, and beyond specific candidates I was interested in talking to not pitching up, it went very well.

I really appreciated the effort that particular candidates put into their "booth" (mattyb, for example) and their demo/pitch. It makes it much easier for recruiters whose day jobs aren't recruiting to start a conversation, assists memory of the candidate, and also says good things about their attitude.

General advice for candidates (would be nice if this was communicated to the candidates on the web site, and sent out via email a few days before the event):

CV/résumé: Have one - one page, preferably. On that, put your candidate number (and maybe a short description of your pitch/demo) - it saves the recruiters time trying to match that up with whatever notes they took before and during the event against the candidate number. Link to your github/ohloh/HN or other places the recruiters can find out about how good you are.

Meet the candidates description: Make sure you're on it. Make sure you have useful information in it. When you're faced with a bunch of candidates and the description is all you can go on, you will prioritise the candidates to ensure you speak to the right people, and you might entirely rule out talking to candidates based on that description. You don't want to short-sell yourself.

Demo/pitch/booth: The demo/pitch/booth is there to help initiate a conversation, so please have something prepared for people like me who don't initiate conversations with total strangers often. Try show your ingenuity and attitude by making yourself stand out so that recruiters are more likely to remember you.

Some theories for the organisers:

I think it might be quite cool to mix the format up a bit by scheduling time where each candidate broadcasts something about themselves to the assembled group. So, with 60-ish candidates, we could have 4 breaks during the day of 15 minutes (lunch/beverage breaks) where each candidate gets 1 minute to talk about their project (strictly supervised for time). That provides another opportunity for the candidate to attract the interest of recruiters.

I spent a lot of time waiting for candidates to finish talking to other recruiters. Coming up with a mechanism to reduce this would be great. Maybe a part of the schedule later in the day where the candidate indicates that they're interested in speaking with a company that they haven't spoken to yet?

Things I will try to remember next time:

As a recruiter, I should have a page with job postings and contact details (and instructions to remember to mention the candidate number) to give out to each interesting candidate, and highlight the job postings that I think they would be well-suited for.

I spent a lot of time waiting for candidates to finish talking to other recruiters, so I should have some way to leave the candidate with my details so they can find me when they have a free moment.

My memory is really really bad. I should write down more, and make sure to make the name-candidate number connection for every person I talked to.
For many, the act of giving away clothes to another new mother is very satisfying
Open and closed both have their pros and cons. A healthy market will see a mix of both.
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Agreed. Though my income of 224,000 was a bit of a stretch :-)
While these are good ideas, I don't think someone would put them in practice. It'd make that person a very unpopular professor indeed, which will reflect in the student evaluations, and he can say goodbye to his yearly salary increase, and expect criticism from the dean about student and parent complaints about below average grades.
We've been toying around with advertising on reddit since our product is designed for the reddit userbase...we've been hesitant for exactly that reason...and their advertising seems a bit pricey considering.
Ouch you're right, this is not relevant. I was playing with Language detection and confused language identification in prediction with their language API. Deleting it now.
I do disagree with the anti-trust laws. I have taken a long hard look at anti-trust, both academically and professionally, and I think these laws are among the worst.

The whole issue is not economic, it is philosophical, about ethics - i.e. what is moral and what rights people have.

Mr. Wu, with whom you agree, goes well beyond anti-trust. For him, as long as a business is considered essential to the public good, that alone is enough to justify "compulsion" (see your first quote). Do you agree with that? Or would you try to prove (as hard as that can be) that Facebook and Google are monopolies first?

You say "we should vote with our attention", and I fully agree. This is a proper way to make a change. Another would be to write articles like the one you've just written, using your own means. Compulsion should be reserved for criminals.
Ask HN: Anyone else miss not having a downvote button?
I recently broke the karma threshold to get the downvote link on comments. I'm finding myself not only not using it, but feeling slightly burdened by even having it, in that I now read comments, I find myself thinking (if only in the back of my mind) "is this something I should downvote?"

It's a small nitpick, and I think it's cool that downvotes are delayed from new users to prevent abuse, but not having the option to downvote for so long (~1 year) has me beginning to think that doing away with all downvotes altogether isn't necessarily a bad thing. Anyone else agree?
Etisalat Zantel launches NFC payments in Tanzania
They've got 3 interfaces you can use external to Gmail:

https://mail.google.com/tasks/android?pli=1

https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig

https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas?pli=1

The first being a mobile one that works fine on Android and iOS.
Yes that's very warm and fluffy but it should be obvious that an education system that doesn't create more value than it consumes will eventually bankrupt it's host society.
I'm sure HTC has lawyers, lawyers who they are using to defend them against this suit.
i am proud for the guys and have a sort of white envy (if there is such a notion)

i was flattered when once somebody called our "vsetec mety" project an nginx of databases. though it's definetely not true (even maybe vice versa)...
"People fresh out of college don't have 20k to live off of for 6 months before they can turn a profit on a business. The average household has 10k+ in debt; those people cannot start a business either."

For those grads, I suppose ycombinator and techstars suit them well. That's only a small part of the "Small Business" equation, however. There are cafe owners that need part-time help and need easy-access capital to help them over supply humps.

Not every inventor can get float money from crowdsourced places like kickstarter, either because their product is not "consumer-friendly" or because it's in a decidedly unsexy industry (like precision gauges, for example). And, while there are cool coworking or tool-borrowing libraries popping up, there are no cool "we'll work on your marketing, sales admin" places. Those take money. The SBA-for-all concept can help, I think.
The thing I noticed was that you can't pick and choose what you like (maybe I misunderstood). Basically you just get a random dress or outfit. If this were truly a netflix style system, you should be able to choose the latest fashion and swap in and out as much as you want. The benefit is the latest fashion for less. That being said, I really like the concept.
Yes, I saw that survey, but I don't see why it's base salary only; the more logical reading of it is total compensation, and I think many people filled it in as such.

150k+ is the 93th percentile in that survey, and the whole survey is I think biased towards the upper end. But even without that, calling the 93th percentile something that a merely skilled developer can "easily" make is a stretch, to put it mildly.

All data contradicts it - not just this poll, glassdoor.com, other informal surveys, but also e.g. the bureau of labor statistics (http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm)

Don't be fooled by people reporting ranges and then taking the top end. By that standard, if you go work for a Fortune 500 company people make 'up to 15 million' if that's what the CEO makes. Professional basketball players don't make 'up to 50 million a year', there are maybe a few who do that, but that doesn't make it attainable for the regular ones, or even the 90th percentile.
The idea that business shouldn't be expected to train its workforce is intriguing to me. This seems to be an underlying assumption in our society, but I don't recall ever having heard an argument for it one way or the other. Isn't a business that refuses to provide any of the necessary education for its employees profiting from a well-educated society without pitching in anything for the bill? If all governments worldwide were to refuse to invest in education in any way, the rational business decision would be to take this on themselves, or risk having no workforce with which to remain competitive. From this point of view, our enormous societal investment in education looks a lot like a subsidy.
Any experience with web2py?
I never tried anything else, but my next project will be with Bottle.
Yes, but the 'news' is that it is within the habitable zone. (For certain definitions of habitable.)
I would love to see this for (unused disposable) diapers. I bought wayyy too many 1s and have a bunch left over that I will never use. I wish I could send them into a service and get some 3s that I could actually use now.
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Where he suggested that people who were accurately describing the patent were wrong because they were...you know....missing a claim or something. Yet those interpretations were entirely right, and are mirrored by Apple's own interpretation of their patent.

Simply responding to every patent comment with vagaries and innuendo is not enlightened or helpful. It's unhelpful noise meant to short-circuit discussions about the very, very broken patent system.
Isn't Google the default search for iPhones as well?
I haven't accumulated enough frequent flyer points to downvote yet. Not sure (and don't really care) how many I need, but when I do get it in a year or two, I doubt I'd downvote anything except obvious trolls.
The pricing is a bit confusing. You can go with the 7 outfits plan however you can still only return one of those outfits per month before you get dinged.

The alloted shipments should scale with the plan imo. If I'm on the 7 outfit plan I should be able to cycle all 7 of those outfits within say 3 months as part of the plan's price.

You may need to raise the monthly to cover this, but at least it feels more inclusive and less nickle and dime. Just my opinion though.
I appreciate what you are trying to do but as a student I was consistently frustrated by peer presentations because I felt the quality of my education suffered. Likewise, while I'd be thrilled if somebody presented me with a high-quality video that would help improve my education, I would resent paying tuition to sit in a classroom and watch a recording that I could be watching from the comfort of my home in my off-hours. We attend school to learn material and context yes, but also for the experience and dialog of getting to ask questions to a world expert. That is what makes the education more valuable than reading a book. I am sad that you have chosen this as an element of your solution. However, if you publish that video or others online, please give us a link to it, it sounds wonderful.

Having students do individual research projects and then presenting can also be very hard on the students because one badly done presentation, if the material is never retaught, can create gaps in a student's education. This is particularly difficult for classes which are part of a sequence, where this lack of knowledge will impact a later class. You are creating work for yourself too, as the lectures which you teach which build upon these principles will frequently have to be adjusted to cover material which was not adequately expressed, and make it harder for you to recycle and perfect your slides.

Additionally, students in classes based on rotating presentations tend to specialize in what they presented. This gives them an unusual advantage on the test: the optimally localized behavior for a class on a curve is to learn the material, convey as little as possible while making the class feel well-informed, and then ace it on the test, thus lowering the curve. If you do insist on doing this, you should have the class' average success on the exam reflect in some way on the presenters.

This is the solution that I know http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774695 I posted it on your website as well. I respect your desire to not have your class be fearful of you. Perhaps you could trade with another professor: you address his cheaters and he addresses yours.
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Studying the history of Japan's consumer electronics industry is absolutely fascinating. It's an equivalent, but absolutely evolutionary different path.

The different approaches to similar problems, how different factors have put different evolutionary pressures on the industry (e.g. language) is endlessly interesting.

Better yet, now with South Korea a major electronics player, and India and China up and coming very quickly....I have a feeling it'll be possible for a serious study of the history of consumer electronics to be a valid academic area of study.
So what can be done to change the incentives so a different Nash equilibrium is selected? Would it be possible to change the professor ranking rules so that the reviews of cheaters do not count for the average rating? A bounty per cheater caught? These both have their own poor incentives, of course, but brainstorming has to start somewhere.
FTA: "GDP is as high as it was in 2008".

Without government debt spending, GDP has been flat for 15 years.

http://www.johnmauldin.com/images/uploads/charts/050911-01.j...

Its like saying that your annual income rose from $100,000 to $150,000 because you count the $50,000 you spend using credit cards. This is absurd. Your income is still $100,000, (oh but now you spend $12,000 a year in interest too).

There's more to write about the changes in society, but this GDP fallacy must be corrected.
Thank you. It tells me there is a significant enough difference.

You mentioned a technical issue, the handling of big raster images. Does it run out of memory quickly in comparison to Photoshop? What is the issue? I thought I remember gimp not being able to handle 16-bit tiffs or something along those lines.
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The backend for our photo sharing app Shnap (www.shnap.com) is 100% hosted on App Engine and recently we went through the process of migrating our datastore to their new high replication datastore. If you guys are on App Engine and are thinking about migrating, I hope you will find this blog post useful.
Boycott Apple. Simple as that. If you can't compete, litigate? It would be interesting to see when this claim was started. Right around the time Android started eating their lunch?
Thanks for the feedback!

I'm updating the site right now to strip dollar signs out of the input. Commas and periods are a bit trickier, and something I hesitated about for a long time. Given that I was trying to get this done in just a few hours, I got lazy and decided to simply throw an alert message if someone uses punctuation. I'm about to update the alert message to make it a bit clearer, since this might be a more common issue than I anticipated.

To keep development fast/simple, I decided against any backend recording of people's data. However, Google Analytics will probably be able to give some high-level statistics...I'll be sure to share the info if it's interesting!
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Oh, OK. I guess I agree with you then.
I wasn't thinking of hiding the comments to protect the startups public image. I was thinking of protecting the reviewers so they feel they can let loose without any hedging about it.
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>The Internet and electronics will turn learning upside down. Let's hope we don't drag our feet.

Awesome! But in the meantime I'm not going to deal with shitty UI because it might get better. I don't buy anything for my kindle other than things I expect to read cover to cover because it simply is terrible to navigate.
If one of these patents is really about using regexes to extract hyperlinkable data from text... maybe it will encourage people to use yacc for their parsing instead?
1% of users at $5.56, so less than $0.06 a month if everyone paid? that's really surprisingly low. thanks for this analysis.
Very cool - ah, didn't realize my script only scraped the first page, thanks for the catch!
May I ask how old you are? Although some of your observations are correct, I distinctly remember such devaluation of the trades going on under the last conservative government as well, not just the Labour one that came to power under Blair. Indeed, worthless degrees were lovingly satirized by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide as far back as the 70s. To ascribe this problem solely to the faults of a single party reflects a rather short-term view of the problem.
Is there any word that has been rendered more useless than the word god? That word belongs to the fundamentalists and the hucksters, and instead of trying to salvage it, it seems like time to let it go. Yes, the internet can be very good and very bad, just like everything else. What's god got to do with it? Couching things in the "language of religion" never clarified anything.
"The 1% of people will have everything and the remaining 99% will starve"

It's been tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

In the US, you try for a wealth distribution anything approaching what you're discussing and what you'll actually end up with is 1% of the population under a constant barrage of sustained small arms fire. Parents aren't going quietly watch their children starve.

Incidentally, I agree wholeheartedly that we need a better redistribution system.
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." --Steinbeck
Fair nitpick. :-)

I'll update the page in a few minutes with these fixes.
Oh! You just blew my mind. You meant "They [the US GOVT] can simply not renew their contact [with ICANN]." For some fool reason I had that backwards.

Interesting scenario, but then my questions would be (1) who would the U.S government use besides ICANN, or even (2) could ICANN just keep doing what they do with the U.S. government's sponsorship?

Shows you how much I know about what goes on up there.
The Django-Users Google Group is extremely active:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?lnk=srg

Highly active mailing list.
web micro frameworks are evil although they don't look like that in the beginning, I advice to avoid them by all means.

IMO, even though pylons 1.0 is now frozen, it is still one of the most flexible frameworks out there.