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We'd all like to think that. Unfortunately, there's a pretty widespread tendency to tell people who bring -ism issues to attention that they're Doing It Wrong, You Should Do It This Way That Wouldn't Upset Me Instead.

So while they might be reacting with their opinion of a better solution, there's a lot of form of using that exact form of argument to attempt to silence.

Also, she was the one in the situation; perhaps she's got good reasons to do it this way, rather than whatever way is being suggested? And isn't it kinda arrogant to think you (the group you, not pyre) know better?
I wouldn't submit a pull request because I'm not interested in ever using this project. It accomplishes one narrow goal and would need to be rewritten to do much else -- and the twisted requirement is onerous.

I guess it's a special effort for people to write good, simple software? Whether a quick hack or not, I think most of us would come up with something a lot nicer.

Anyway I guess I wasn't supposed to look at the code even though it's open source ...
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It depends, actually. For stuff I write in my spare time, it's actually perfectly easy to write C# in Emacs and drive the compile with a short waf script instead of a solution. You'll pick up at least some csproj files if you grab packages from NuGet, but it's not horrible to manipulate them in nxml-mode, and again, it's easy to keep all of your own stuff in simple waf files.

The downside of going this route, of course, is that using VS.NET or MonoDevelop can be a bit of a pain. When working on Kiln, I instead do most of the actual editing in Emacs, and use VS.NET as a solution manager/debugger/decompiler. Not ideal, but functional. You'd also have to go that route if you wanted to use Azure, I believe, since I seem to recall they want the solution file, not the assemblies.
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I've never really understood the TWSS joke, probably because I'm missing some cultural context. I really, really hope I'm not this kind of asshole about other things without realising.
> And so far no one has found a metric to measure ... writing software

How about ...

* Number of new features delivered per week (and size of said features)

* Number of new users per week

* Number of page views per day

They're fuzzy metrics at best, but saying "writing software can't be measured" is just defeatism. It's not fine art, it's not a Jackson Pollock painting, it's a craft. It has utility. We can get a grasp on that. Even the pretty bits are ultimately there to make it more useful to people.
Kind of offtopic, but since you're a core dev ...

One of my pet peeve with Django is the reliance on settings.py. This makes it a PITA to use Django's components in apps that aren't necessarily Django apps (or web apps for that matter).

For instance Ruby on Rails got separated in components and you can now import ActiveRecord in any project, without it being a Rails project or having a Rails project structure. Ditto for their database migrations ... you don't even need to use ActiveRecord to have the migrations DSL in a project. Doing this with Django's ORM is really, really ugly, mostly because of the reliance on a Django project structure. Why can't it be configured like any other Python library, in a pythonic way? Why does it need a global "settings" module?

Another pet peeve I've got is with the definition of an app. I hate what Django means by "app". It's totally un-pythonic. First of all the definition is unclear ... is it a module declared in settings.py? Not so fast, as some functionalities (e.g. manage.py test) expect those modules to have a "models" sub-module, even if it is empty.

Why does Django need apps anyway? It only needs apps for auto-discovery of model definitions. This goes back to Django's admin, which is a cool piece of software that I love, but how about declaring somewhere the modules that represent models, instead of building an unpythonic project structure?

I'm happy to hear that along with Django 1.4 you guys are working on project templates (really, that's awesome). But please strive to make it more pythonic / decoupled.
> What's to laugh at?

The fact that this is a pretty big incentive to change the situation of "some people [having] no choice but to use flash".
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With this kind of move alternatives are going to start to pop up and HTML5 gaming is going to start to pick up.

Adobe seems pretty desperate here.
.."private Indian businesses tend to pay promptly and are very reliable" - no sir, they're not.

And this Government bashing, is only partially correct. It is not that hard to exchange money across borders like it has been described in SISO case. Seems more like an issue of the company, and its people at hand.

The cost of traveling and meeting people to collect money in cash is exactly what you wouldn't want to do when working on the SME tier. That doesn't scale, rather burns.
True, the article is basically a rant, but I tend to agree. I've felt like the agile train left my station long ago and it wasn't for trying. After being invited to attend a free 'workshop' from one of the holiest purveyors of agile out there, I left with the feeling that it definitely was all for those who did not know how to actually 'do the work'.

The trends I've been seeing and trying to do are as follows:

* full stack responsibility. You own the task front (js/html) to back (db), including testing.

* no f-ing standups. Communicate normally with your colleagues, no prescribed check in with them.

* no iterations. Release whenever; it may sound crazy but kanban style release whenever you're ready to push features out, in my mind, is the way to go.

* engineers, again, run the company. This in my mind is the biggest thing - having those 'with power' also be engineers and the product being the most important product.

All the above are the opposite of what I've seen with the agile movement. Keep teams small, keep them close and your product will reflect that.

Another huge, HUGE thing is to get the fucking mba management types out of the office. Can't stress this enough: if you can't code, you don't belong. You're making a tech company but you don't understand the basics of how the product is made.. So, you own a furniture making company and you don't understand what glue, oak, and lathes are..? Fail.

That's my real life experience and opinions regarding agile. I've tossed away all the agile stuff for a new project I'm doing and like the poster says, it's all based on common sense. You can run your company or project any way you want. I have friends that have millions in revenue every year with their small shops and they don't do any agile stuff. Yet they're one of the leaders in their space and when my friend, the engineer ceo, told me "we have no iterations or deadlines except when it has to be done by", that was a big wakeup. I was thinking "THAT'S how I want to do things".

So, it can be done. Good luck. :)
web2py is great. Really. I'm quite sure some people are confusing web.py (toolkit behind reddit) and web2py - I know I was a couple of years ago.

web2py is super complete, but doesn't get in your way, and doesn't require you to learn everything up front. It's DAL is much simpler (and in my opinion, much more effective) than an ORM -- but you don't have to use it.

Its templating system is just plain python inside {{}}, where you need to add "pass:" to dedent if it cannot be inferred from the code, but that's it. No need to learn a new templating system.

The community is super awesome. Starter applications like issue trackers, minimal facebooks or twitters etc. are often posted on the mailing list inside one short message (not as an attachment -- the whole thing is posted inside the message text, and takes no more than two screenfuls)

Really, give web2py a try if you haven't.
> if you're designing a system that's going to require more than 6 servers you might end up paying for a license

Even if you don't have to pay for the first licenses, you'll pay for subsequent upgrades. And designing for the Microsoft makes it harder to migrate to anything else - that's probably why Microsoft invented BizSpark in the first place.

Stackoverflow shows you can get a very significant audience on a half-Microsoft stack, but they have a lot of interesting (as in "different from the ones I have") server management problems because of that. That makes their podcasts much more worth listening.
I can't stand Torrentfreak for their sensationalist, tabloid, hypist style. They LOVE to title like this, did so many times in the past, and then you find out "in Spain" or "in Germany". Things like this are why I often wish online advertising never happened and nor did anything else where pageviews are considered more important that truthful, accurate and honest sharing of information. </rant>
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Sounds like you had the experience and nightmares an average Indian has in India dealing with bureaucracy, from what I've heard.
I've spoken with a field engineer about building something similar to PlanGrid, but their concerns revolved around the ability to convert to AutoCAD automatically. From what I gathered, generally on a site people will draw everything out on paper, and then take the plans back where people will draft them up in AutoCAD. Unfortunately, CAD isn't an open source format. If these guys can make that happen, I think this would be HUGE.

If anyone from PlanGrid reads this, here's another idea that makes this useful (if you haven't already done this) -- for site checks, right now field engineers just have to go around and check things off to confirm they are where they supposed to be on the plan. You can use the camera on the iPad to snap a shot and attach it to the coordinates in your plan to actually guarantee it's there.
It would be interesting to measure if the odds of failure somehow correlate with chosen technology stack.
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Yes, that's one of the mechanisms by which centralized empires can inhibit development. But on the other hand the lack of them can mean too many wars which destroy advances people are trying to build, and a lack of trade that prevents regional specialization.
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Amazing .. off to pack it into an iOS bundle and wire it up to an editor. ;)
Around here I've seen a considerable drop-off in TeX fans over the past 4-5 years, with more students opting for Word. It didn't used to be a viable option, but now many conferences (outside a few very-math-heavy areas) offer both LaTeX and Word stylesheets and let you choose, and Word has improved in a few key areas, mainly citation support and auto-hyphenation. Zotero users also seem to like the Word integration. Figure placement still sucks, but figure placement isn't really TeX's strong suit either.

I personally still prefer TeX, but the gap is smaller than it was 10 years ago. The auto-hyphenation is probably the single biggest change, since the easy way to spot 2-column conference papers done in Word used to be the horrible whitespace in justified columns caused by its inability to break words. (This heuristic still words sometimes, because auto-hyphenation isn't on by default, and not all authors know about it or use it.)
Or they've decided that Flash has already lost to HTML5, so they're looking to squeeze as much money as they can out of Flash's remaining developers on the way down.
Crimson Editor.

It has a very fast startup time, even on older machines. Also, its syntax highlighting is simple enough to add new languages. Including your own toy language. This helps tremendously when you're still exploring potential syntax.
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The ancient email phrasing is "Spam is about consent, not content."

Having said that, you do make a very good point.

If a bot could find things I like, and put it in a sensible pinboard, then I'd probably follow it.

I don't care about Pinboard skimlinking any affiliate links, even ones I'm using. (another post in this thread explained how bots would avoid that limitation with redirects.)

I do mind, a little bit, if a bot owner is making hundreds of dollars a day by manipulating flaws in Pinterest, because arms-racing could make Pinterest much less useful.
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It's LuaJIT (FFI). Legacy wrappers involve mostly C code and a lot of code managing metatables.
Is it okay if we object to her behavior based on the "Two rights don't make a wrong" rule, or is that somehow also hypocritical.
Measuring something in order to manage it does not automatically mean that the management consists of incentives or punishment - and if you don't do those things, people have no reason to game your measurements.

There most definitely are useful software metrics that can provide important information to management, mostly in the form of identifying problems and risks, which can then be adressed before they become urgent.
I'm going to quote what I thought was an excellent idea on another (heated) thread.

"To think that it is impossible to tell and be entertained by non-PC jokes is as moronic as thinking that you cannot write (or enjoy) crime fiction without being a murderer."

What would make you change your mind about this statement? Would you be convinced if I presented peer-reviewed research that said that presenting sexist situations did affect people's view of the competence of the other sex, and more research that showed the opposite was true for more serious crimes?
And your qualifications for being able to make this decision for us all are?

They wouldn't stop using the bot when she asked them to because it made her uncomfortable. It's been pointed out in these comments that she could have sued this company into a hole in the ground with a chat log and that fact. I think "Judge will probably say it is" says it's sexist.
I don't know about many but here is one such case.From thinkery.me about page (http://thinkery.me/about.php) :

"thinkery was lovingly crafted by compuccino in Berlin, Germany and Alexander Kirk in Vienna, Austria. (Remote-working works :)"
Perfect example of Poe's Law :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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That's even more nebulous. Yes, those things are perfectly measurable, but how do you translate x number of new users per week into code?

Isn't that what software development is all about. It's about collapsing this cloud of uncertainty into concrete deterministic expression a.k.a code, which only solves the problem as you understand it.

If software development were that measurable, software developers would be as well paid as CEOs or sales people. But we are not. Because there is no way to demonstrate almost any relationship between what we do on daily basis (stare at screen and type on the keyboard as management often sees it) and sales and revenue. Some places go as far as to think of their development organization as overhead, a cost center.
Why does web2py appear bad to you?

It is less popular than django, sure. But it is reasonably popular - with books about it coming out and selling well, and a lot of users, see http://web2py.com/poweredby including pycon registration websites.
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> it makes little sense coding Python in Visual Studio

There's a VS plugin for Python now. It still feels heavy compared to other editors but its atuocompletion is actually pretty decent.

http://pytools.codeplex.com/
based on forum activity web2py was the second most popular python web framework (after Django) last time I checked. It is primarily unpopular among developers who haven't used it.
Asking you to think about the makeup of your audience and to take their feelings into account is such an onerous task?

We're not asking for Thought Police, we're looking for some bloody _politeness_.

I, for one, advocate innovation in humour. (",)
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Should be "Fuck Boring Lecturers" :D Bad teachers will be bad teachers, no matter how they're teaching.

And yeah, I'm totally doing this. I don't have the money for a degree, but that doesn't mean I can't learn.
Exactly. I think the cloud exists over who exactly the target was, and the news in the UK only seems to be blowing up because they seem to think all the new evidence is more credible . . .

Here we are: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/mar/13/media.cityn...
I wanted to make a purchase, but your web site is turning into a perfect infinite loop to PayPal. It just keeps trying to forward me to PayPal, abort, retry..abort..retry

Fix your code and you get the money?
In all honesty I did not realise LaTeX needed saving.
It was clumsily worded but I think we all know he didn't mean to imply that all of Russia was running botnets; he was alluding to Russian organized crime.
> I would write my OWN bot, that responded to TWSS with a quotation from a notable woman.

I'd write a bot that would answer with a TWSS-trigger and watch the IRC channel going up in flames :]
> I feel like lately the discussion has become more intelligent. Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

Knock on wood. (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAoh god damn)
Jessamyn finds some of the TTSS jokes to be funny and has even indulged in some herself. Therefore, I don't think TTSS is sexist, per se. Tired? Yes. Childish? Yes. Sexist? No.
We need to monetize the investigation of Enceladus. Bringing back alien life from another planet would give us the opportunity to adapt their sensors and tools into our technology. Could we patent the blueprint of the alien life to reward the company that brings it back here?

Could the government say: "whatever company brings back an alien life form from enceladus can receive just compensation for any company who uses it for 50 years?"
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Let's be honest. Software development is not an art form. That's pretentious bullshit. It may have some creative aspects, but far fewer than it has aspects of craft and, yes, engineering.
I have a friend who has a Tunisian contractor. The guy went AWOL for a while and fell into major depression. He's back on track, but for a while, he was in dire financial straits, but couldn't figure out how to motivate himself out of his depression. He got injured in that revolution too. I had a long conversation with this guy. He was offered the money, but rejected it on the grounds that he couldn't accept money for service for his country. So he signed some papers saying that he refused the money, waiving his right to get it later. Later, he needed that money and couldn't even pay ISP or phone bills, which is why it was so hard for him to get in touch.

Basically, I think his story indicates to me that there were people who were given money? Or maybe they were promised, but never received it, don't know.
James McKaskill ported LuaJIT's FFI to standard (PUC) Lua, but there are a few differences. I don't know for which one it was developed.

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> how do you translate x number of new users per week into code

You talked about turning code into metrics, now you want to turn metrics into code?

It's the other way around. Scrum translates delivered code into metrics. You track history. You would say "last week we delivered 4 new features and signed up x new users. That's above our average." It's not entirely nebulous.
"We" lost that war well over a decade ago.
'For the ad seller, the bandwidth used to serve non-dumb users is a net loss,

Depends. If the goal is a click or a conversion (actual purchase) then I'd agree. However, that's not the only benefit to advertising. When was the last time you clicked or purchased something from a television commercial?
My own "agile" process for certain kinds of development involves breaking down all tasks to less than an hour and estimating time to 10 minute granularity and planning on weekly releases.

For boring web apps built on the right framework I find this keeps everybody very happy. Devs aren't chasing their tails, you can make and keep promises to the client, etc.

Of course you've got to be building the kind of app where there aren't surprises, but those exist.

As for the other project, the whole thing is a machine where you put a 600 million fact knowledge base in one end and it manufactures 'potempkin villages' (little knowledge bubbles about particular domains w.r.t a point of view) on the other end. Once it's done, I could use it to generate micro test cases for the rest of the system, but in the short term that doesn't bring in revenue or delight customers.
There's a blog post from Salvatore somewhere talking about how he marshalled time series data into strings which made me thing the naive/straightforward approach was suboptimal. I always thought ZSETs indexed by time_ts would be a good fit for this.
Well said. And sorry for jumping up and down at you; hot-button issue, misunderstood your tenor.
Since the string is of a fixed length, that only works if you finger's diameter is 1/11 of the pizza's diameter.
This is cool, but if you're looking to work with time series data, you should definitely have a look at RRD. A lot of the operations you'd want to perform on time series data are available internally with RRD. RRD can also do some cool stuff like generate graphs.
This kind of somewhat understandable but ultimately clueless ranting just tells me one thing: no way in hell I'm ever going to trust a programmer who cannot (or can not be bothered to) distinguish between marketing bullshit and the real thing.

This kind of attitude will show up in other matters, most importantly understanding what actually needs to be developed, what the priorities are and why they are important.

I'm surprised how many people here seem to be ignorant of Agile. Take for instance the certification scam accusation that is liberally thrown about: only Scrum has certification, and even that has always been controversial. As far as I know, no other Agile flavor tries to sell certification. But even so, Red Hat sells certification, does that make Red Hat Linux a scam?

There are scammers and greedy consultants in every area of IT. None of that has fuck all to do with Agile in particular. So why are people so hell bent on using this against Agile?
I think he's saying that the trips abroad more than make up for the trouble in doing the business.
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To clarify, I was referring to the technical people working in the porn industry, not the performers per se.