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I think they really need a killer feature in the 3.x branch to drive adoption. Any ideas?
I agree entirely with this approach.

Especially when I consider that we're delivering a 350KiB minified Javascript hit on initial load just for jquery and a load of plugins.
I don't think any laws are being broken here. Energy will be lost in the transmission.
Agreed, this is how most frameworks work. They rely on the developer to put in proper security controls. One of the first things I do after I start a project from scaffolding is go through and filter out values I don't want the user to set such as user_id.

This isn't to say it should be this way, just that it's pretty standard behavior.
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ESPN Starts Opening the Doors to Its Data
Android's browser is called Browser, it's not hard to see why some might call it just "Android" instead of "the Android Browser".
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You just took five minutes of my time telling me how bad something was and not one second offering an alternative. For all the bad things your critique basically just boiled down to "not it's not" without offering proof or links.

Do you see something wrong with this picture? As a reader all I've got from your comment is angry guy doesn't like SEO and thinks all SEO blogging is for shit.

I apologize for being so blunt, but this is not a very useful comment. Perhaps the goal here is to establish how much you know, but even then it really fails to convince the reader. It'd been great if it had been a bit more constructive. Obviously you believe you know what you're talking about.
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I find a lot of 3.x new features to be improvements from 2.x but everyone still uses 2.x. I fear that we will be on Python 4.x by the time 3.x adoption starts to actually happen en masse.

From what me and my coworkers have discussed we are basically all waiting on Django to get Python 3.x adoption. I've tried submitting multiple patches for this and helping Django as much as possible but they don't seem to want outside help.

Come on Django, come on, a lot of us are waiting for you.
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Exactly. Being unable to accept and digest changes gives you a feeling of living on the edge (sinking ship), being crushed by life's urge to change you - it's horrible. I've been there, not long ago.

Aging people often seem to experience that - there are the ones who get along with their age's demands and sacrifices, while others become addicted to plastic surgery (patching the ship).
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The candidate should have experience with technologies like Ruby on Rails, AJAX and some experience working with public cloud providers like Amazon.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop front end features that meet business needs, using HTML5, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript.
Work very closely with product management, graphics designers, software architects in an iterative model to incorporate feedback and support continuous development.
Use tools present in the Ruby world like cucumber, Rspec to support test driven development.
Produce high quality code, must be passionate about front end performance.

Requirements:

6+ years commercial software development experience with at least 3+ years in front end development.
At least 2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails.
Expertise in JavaScript/AJAX/HTML/CSS.
Extensive experience working with UNIX flavored platforms.
Excellent communication skills and problem solving skills.
Must be familiar with public cloud technologies like Amazon’s EC2, S3.
Distributed source control experience like git, at least 2+ years.

Nice-to-have’s:

Experience working with a start-up
Experience working with back-end programming languages like JAVA, Clojure, C++.
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Source-code compatibility with Python 2.X?
The non-fucked Unicode support is a good driver.

Having ported programs that accept multiple types of strings from Py2 to Py3, Py3 is DRAMATICALLY easier to work with here.

The biggest downside is that in order to upgrade from Py2->3, I needed to patch half a dozen different libs.
Why are you loading 10x times the jQuery filesize in just plugins? Certainly you have a lot more bloat to trim before you should consider eliminating jQuery entirely.
Y! had "Labs"?! Seriously, there hasn't been enything innovative from Y! in years (or maybe I just overlooked it?).

Don't know if that's good or bad news for G. But since they messed up their UX after MM was removed, I guess this is the logical next step.
It's DJango.
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I really wish they shared score data, as thats most relevant to me. headline data only drives more traffic to them. You apparently have to be a premium partner to get the "good" data.
http://developer.espn.com/docs
I think it could be reasonably inferred that when someone says "the world stops turning", it's being used metaphorically. Kind of like "stop the presses".
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I'm not interested in playing the "try to be right on the Internet" game with you.

Just as well, it seems that we agree on so much that focusing on where we are saying different things devolves into pedantry precisely because we agree on the important matters.

As I said elsewhere:

We probably agree that this feature should be taken out and shot, but are quibbling over which charge should be read off the indictment before giving the order to fire ;-)
Awesome! Thanks to you and icebraining for the responses. The Non-Commercial distinction makes sense.

To be clear though, would a CC BY or CC BY SA license be fine, then? It's not listed on the OSI Approved Licenses list (which is the issue others took earlier in the thread, or so I thought), but those would appear to serve the same ideals that approved licenses do. If that wouldn't be fine, I'd love to better understand why not.
Not sure why this article offended you so much. It was all rehashed info but it wasn't that bad.

Just because Google can somewhat crawl and parse certain JavaScript doesn't mean it's good for SEO. I think you would be doing a disservice to your company to act like you can just load your site with client-side loading content and act like Google is going to retain your content. I've countless anecdotal examples of content hidden behind JavaScript not being found by search engines. In fact, it's a celebration whenever Google announces they managed to crawl a common piece of JS (Disqus, FaceBook)

Internal links are not irrelevant...What on earth would make you think this? It's not hard to prove that internal anchor text passes the relevance to the linked-to page by using a made up word to link to an otherwise orphaned' page to rank.

Regarding 404's....Let's pretend I have a great piece of content that has amassed hundreds of links. Marketing has deemed that the content is no longer worthy of being present on the site and has removed the page without consulting you. You have the option of letting it sit there dead with hundreds of links pointing to it, or you can 301 redirect it somewhere to pass the amassed link equity. Yeah, you go ahead and keep your 404.

Finally, links are just something that agencies tell you to sell their services??? Are you suggesting that gaining good links will do nothing for your site's natural search traffic? Ok. Sure.
my main source of stress is information overload. most of the news and blogs i read everyday are not directly actionable, and it's taking up mental space.
It's a very complicated application with a huge amount of HTTP endpoints. We're talking over a million lines of code.
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I second that. Pointing out what a good SEO strategy is and how it opposes the points described in the article would have been helpful.

If somebody interested in improving their SEO skills should not read well-known SEO blogs then what does the OP suggest?

I personally follow SEOMOz and a few established SEO and link building blogs, but would be interested in hearing other suggestions.
Isn't this what Klout is all about?
Search versus Execute
If you scroll down on the sales page, theres a wireless/ethernet controlled cash box that can be purchased.
Why I Work At A Startup
Human Friction and Innovation
I find it unfortunate that we now equate "intensive static typing" with "serious systems." I know of almost as many serious systems written in Clojure as I do in Scala, and I think it's fair to say that they're pretty much polar opposites as far as typing goes.
How is 6+ hours from netbooks not enough?
That would have been a nice driver, too bad they didn't do it.
I've been playing around with Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) and its slightly extended version BYOB (http://byob.berkeley.edu/) over the past couple of days.

It's simple enough that after an afternoon of basic instruction, my 5 year old managed to create this entirely on her own while I was cooking dinner - http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/hobart/2372941 (try pressing various keys - I know that "g", space, "8", "m", up arrow and the green flag all do something, but there may be more in there as well).
Which JavaScript property names can be unquoted? When can dot notation be used?
So the only difference is that there's some inane talking performed by some of the most highly paid people in society who argue not on morality but on stupid technicalities as a prelude to sticks being taken out and my fellow men and women being beaten.

Rationalisation is truly the root of all evil and you're falling for it. If violence is not OK then the context shouldn't dictate exemptions. Most members of society call it arrest when a police officer forcefully restrains someone and locks them in a cage. Some of us call a spade a spade and use the proper word for it, which is kidnapping. It's easy to side with the biggest gang in the land, everyone else does it, right?

These arguments are in the same vein as those used by the British to justify colonialism, which is that they built roads, rail and developed the economies of those countries. While true, it doesn't change the fact that a line was overstepped and the action was oppressive at it's core. The effects of such actions ripple through the generations. And so it is with our legal system.

To protect (the rich from the poor) and serve (those with money).
So how does one become a 'Premium Partner'? Can't seem to find out how.
As I've said pretty consistently: getting Django onto Python 3 is not a technical code-porting issue. In fact, experimental Django-on-Python-3 branches exist and, so far as I'm aware, run pretty well.

The problem is and continues to be the social and community issue of gracefully deprecating our way out of Python 2.x, which we're basically doing at a rate of one Python version per Django release. All the patches in the world can't really make this process go faster :)
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LDAP/kerberos (or similar centralized account system) or "anonymous" account (no password) alleviates auth problems. Routing traffic to the machines is as problematic with HTTPS as it is with SSH. SSH tunnels can be used instead of pagekite.
Ok, you really don't need to know everything about SEO to do a non-terrible job of ranking. Do these things and you can get traffic with SEO.

1. Title tags that get clicks (not kw stuffing or plain exact match)

2. Write content that is unique and semi-frequent. (update once a week or so at least)

3. Acquire links.

#1 and #2 are the basics that you need to do to even have a shot to show up for a given query. #3 is what is going to get you on the first page.

You can do #3 by having great content and doing social promotion, using email newsletters to blast your content out to people so they can share it, or if you're in a boring industry and nobody likes you, you can buy or build links via the numerous link building services out there that can hit any number of link sources.

At the end of the day, natural links are viewed as better, but paid links can get the job done in some cases.

Given a certain bar of content quality, the quantity and volume of links is still the most important ranking factor on Google and Bing as far as I can tell.
AFAIK only PIN pad units require encryption but my knowledge could be out of date.
Isn't this a massive security risk? You're allowing 3rd party scripts to run in the comtext of your website.
What's the other five?
I'm hoping the data available at the "premium partner" level will come down to the basic users as time goes on, and it's just to make sure nothing is overwhelmed the first week or so.

For those curious, the API limits for basic users:

>1	Calls per second

>2,500	Calls per day
When I was there (and this was a while ago) I felt like they were more focused on emitting papers than helping us get anything done.
How about a Giraffe? :)
Thanks you for the downvote. But if you try this query: "film no baby", you get the same result again, just because IMDB if a first choice for Google for any query related to "film". The query "film end of baby" shows different results. This downplays the presence of any intelligence in Google's results.
He's talking about the United States, and RP is distinctly British, so probably not.
Wanna help me troll Reddit /startups/?
Up vote this so that the elitist nerds will freak out:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/qi4zt/best_home_page_ever/
Thanks, your're awesome!
But what is preventing you from reducing your information overload. Stop following some of the news,blogs etc. To me
though passive information makes me feel aware , too much of it comes in the way of actively improving oneself.
There is no simple solution for local storage
True enough, but for work within your company these conditions are likely already met. And while your company could easily have an internal central repository server (we use RhodeCode in our lab), not everyone might want to (or have permission to) push into the central repo.

I know a company that essentially only commits changes to their subversion server once they're ready to be shipped to the client. Their developers just work on (unrevisioned) private copies and distribute changes to one another manually. Makes me cringe. I've been introducing some of them to DVCS as I interact with them (they send me a zip file full of code to look at, I send them back a link to a repo containing their zip file contents and my patches), but I don't think they're quite getting it yet.
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Who graduates from college, who doesn't and why it matters
It's an area ripe for disruption. Apple is already a payment processor (iTunes) and has easy to use touchscreen devices (iPad). Seems like a good fit to me.
Don't bet on it. A lot of sports data is highly encumbered by copyright.
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Y U NO READ THE README???

No seriously, are you implying that

a) you consider small talk a language for kids
or
b) this is a complete and dynamic development environment with live debugging etc.?

I wish the OP best luck with the second, but I think he's not quite there (nor he needs to be, since the very nature of this project seems completely different from, say, squeak)
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That is how Github wikis work. Don't have my laptop here, but I think the tab/link is "git access"
You definitely don't need a degree to start or run a business (and I'd argue that some, like MBAs, actively hurt you when you're running a tech startup). But if you're getting a job with an established company, you do. There's an irony there, but nonetheless, it's true.

(I'd still never tell anyone not to get a degree though. The skills and connections are undeniably useful.)
Traffic growth remains strong, particularly ex-US
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=foursquare.com&sa=N
http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/europes-square-izettle-rais...

izettle is European version of Square. They use EMV off course.
It's interesting that the trait of unmade decisions is framed in the context of stress.

My experience on the flip side is that a couple of kids I went to school with, who have since been very successful, actually made decisions very quickly. To the point where some must have just been guesswork or ini-mini-miny-mo (although no doubt the fact they were successful means it'll be dubbed as "instinct").

So while I'm still pondering decision 1, they already decided 5 things. Sure, 3 failed, but 2 were good decisions. And since I noticed that in them, I've noticed it in other successful people.

It's not a broad brush assessment, but something to think about. Two steps forward and one back it probably better than one step forward in the long run. So just make the damn decision and see what comes of it.
I've always been fond of referring to such a thing as "source available" - and commercial software such as Radiator where you only get an un-obfuscated version of the source with a purchase as "source supplied".

"Available" just seems like a better word than "open" for this sort of case.

(the author apologises for overuse of quotes in the above but preferred to be consistent even at the potential cost of some irritation and/or incorrect usage)
I don't think they do, myself. Adoption will and is happening gradually. More and more libs are being ported, and new Python coders often learn "Python 3 and how 2 differs" (rather than the other way around), e.g. thanks to Lutz' book. Eventually there just won't be any reasons left to use 2, and the usual reasons to use the latest version kick in - incremental improvements and continued maintenance.

The migration was always expected to be a long-term thing, and so far has been pretty pain-free imho. But then I haven't written any code that doesn't run in 3.x since 2010, finding that 3 increasingly meets my deps and is more enjoyable and productive to code in, and when I do need to support 2 that the common subset of 2.7 and 3 is large enough to do many things.
I'm pretty excited for the small changes like zero-copy and the 'x' file open flag. Oh, and the new OSError exception hierarchy.

Some of these things could be back-ported to Python 2.7 as libraries but I'd much rather see a bigger push to move onto Python 3 instead.

I look forward to even more Python 3 awesomeness in the future. Each release is a compelling reason to start porting.
I think the fact that Google is pushing Chrome on Android, which according to reviews wipes the floor with the standard Android browser, more or less proves your point.
It's not a bigger risk than people loading jquery from google, or including google maps or analytics or kissmetric or twitter or Facebook code.
While this is cool, all of these that I clicked on weren't really "launched" so much as they have a splash page. I'd be interested in seeing what actually launches down the road.
It's your decision. Are you ready for March, 19th?
You know what would make me hate it even more. Any Tom, Dick or Harry sending me frivolous badges, esp. spammy, advertsy ones. No thanks.
And this is understandable, but as long as the branches for 3.x Django are "experimental" or created by a third party I'm not willing to put them into a stable production environment. Maybe Django just needs to come up with a 3.x branch to develop as stable along side the 2.x branch till 2.x starts to die out?
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I’m getting sick of the bullshit.
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Another option that I used for a side project is http://developer.fanfeedr.com/.
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I have a feeling netvarun dint mean it in a "take ALL the money and leave" way.

Singapore is seen as an up and coming startup haven and the goverment is trying really hard to build that entrepreneurial ecosystem (and i should say they are doing a pretty good job!). But that hasn't yet negated 2 issues with starting up a business in Singapore.

I'm sure you've heard the argument about how small a market Singapore is so I shall not go down that path. The govt has been very supportive of early stage startups with grants ranging from 10k to 100k. But have you noticed that very FEW startups have actually made it big? I've spoken to several startup founders and all of them seem to voice the same opinion: its easy to raise a seed round in SG(<$100k) but anything more than that its gonna be very difficult. Singaporean VCs are risk-averse and are only focused on whether the startup has solid numbers to back its requested funding amount. Nothing else. Cant blame them as well. We Asians are wired that way. At this point of time, Singapore is a great launchpad. Not a place to grow. If we want to grow, we got to move.

With the influx of Silicon Valley investors, angels and incubators, the situation might improve though. And if you think your product is suited for the US market anyway, why stay in Singapore?
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Really nice!

But I do not get the C64 editor look stuff.
I mean why not add syntax highlighting and make this more eye friendly (neither requires abandoning a cute color scheme)?
I never had a C64, I saved 2 years so I could afford a 286, I used GWBASIC and, soon after, TurboC++. Neither had syntax highlighting. I don't think it helps kids who are getting into programming if the looks of these dev environment were regurgitated either. :)
I am not really that excited about any of these features that's in 3.3 (or even in Python 3).

The biggest problem I have is that Python 2 works "good enough" and upgrading to Python 3 does not have many benefits, other than lots of work and slower performance. I guess a lot of people feel the same way, hence the slow or non existing adoption of Python 3. I guess Python 3 might end up as Perl 6 if this continues since we keep investing time on Python 2.x libraries and features.

What we need is a reason to upgrade and the killer feature of Python 3 could be performance. I would upgrade to Python 3 in a instance if it offered a lot better performance than Python 2.

How do we achieve better performance? Adopt PyPy as the reference implementation for Python 3 and all future references. Making PyPy a centerpiece of Python 3+ would probably mean it would mature faster.

PyPy is focused right now on Python 2.X, but I would rather see it focus on the future of Python and being a killer feature of Python 3+.
I would suggest Spider as its symbolize WEB. Though it has been used but it signifies the most with the product Webengage is.
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AdamHome - "I could just take one little look."
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So basically, it's useless unless you pay a lot or sign some nasty contracts?
I must say that this episode is the best example of how to handle such cases.
Homakov found the issue and made his point without any sign of maliciousness.
Github, also handled is extremely professionally by accepting it and fixing the problem and then publishing a full report on it, rather than get into a pissing match with Homakov and getting law enforcement and lawyers involved.

BigCo's should take a note.