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Would you have the same suggestion for seasoned web developers in other languages, but who are still new to Python?

I'm curious as I'm really looking to learn Python and was looking at Django for the web side of things.
Fellow Canadian here. Check out amazon.ca again if you haven't looked in the past few months.

It's still far from amazon.com, but they just added quite a few non-book items. I recently ordered three electronic items that normally I would have had to get shipped across the border.
It's simple. Judge people by their results. Period.

"we want every one of the 1000 employees to work 100% "

What you're confused about is that you equate being at work with working. I hate to break it to you, but none of your 1000 employees are not working at 100 capacity, even if you can see that they are sitting in their ugly little cubicle. It doens't mean they're working, or that they're productive.
PhpStorm ships with support for PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

It has plugins for:

* ASP
* Behat
* CoffeeScript
* Gherkin
* HAML
* Markdown
* LESS
* YAML
* NodeJS
* Dart
* AngularJS
* C/C++
* Mongo
* Apache/Nginx
* and a lot more ...

Yeah, I'd say it's full-fledged.
This is a bit of a meta comment, but: I find it interesting how DHH's Danish accent has faded significantly. I remember watching the "rails video" years ago wherein he's got a pretty pronounced accent. He could almost pass for American in this remote working video.
I am quite new to both topics as well, but it seems like there are some similarities. That is, from the excerpt in the original article, the PRNG used by /dev/random essentially takes noise from some external input, and runs it through "a cryptographic function that outputs random numbers from the continually internal state". In both cases (cryptography and random numbers,) the goal is to transform known data into something that is indistinguishable from random. The way I understand it is that the entropy in the random number generator doesn't come from the algorithms, entropy comes from noise gathered off the hardware signals. The algorithms just make sure that even if you have biased noise generating the input, attackers will still have a very hard time using that to control the end result. I think this a very interesting question by the way, and hope my previous answer didn't come off as dismissive. I am still a novice in the world of security, and so I wanted to put links in instead of trying to explain this myself, as I probably would get it horribly wrong.
I'm late, but for this there are companies that sit in the middle and block crawlers, spambots and known-malicious addresses. Here's one I use: http://www.incapsula.com/
So far I've been happy with it!
Why would I let my ignorance keep me from forming an inaccurate opinion, that would be un-American (hell, it was hard enough just to put that acknowledgement in there admitting my ignorance...I felt dirty).
I think if this was implemented in the US, the best way to do it would be to include a mandatory financial education class every x time (one a year, every quarter, etc). Have it online or at local community (YMCA, library, etc). If I had an extra 1k coming in every month, I would totally put all of it back into blasted student loans. How many would love to be able to have it go directly to student loans, mortgage/rent payments, car/credit/other loans? Get rid of a majority of the personal debt in the country, see a boom in the economy. Teach everyone (children and adults) how to save for education, emergency, health, retirement, large purchases- healthy economy.
According to the pep ensurepip was rejected: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/#including-ensurepip...
I'm jealous. I have yearned for this type of work for years and I haven't been able to find it. I loathe the commute to an office. I don't want to pay the price of living in a "tech city". I'm even tired of wasting money on clothes for an office as I am a 41 year old jeans and t-shirt kind of guy. Some people just don't have the discipline of not being constantly supervised and have that "must be at the office to be productive" thought pattern. I am not a 9 to 5 person (and most companies have changed it to "you must be a 8 to 5 person"). There is just too much time and money wasted by going to someone's office if you don't need to. I was the only iOS developer at my previous employer. I barely had to collaborate with the business as much as you might think. Most of our communication was done via email, wikis and bug tracking tools. I couldn't understand why I had to be there. It was basically just an obstacle I had to overcome very damn day. I'm currently searching for new work and so many positions are downtown (Atlanta, in my case). I just won't deal with 1 hour commutes. Gridlock is just a horrible place to waste one's life.
>BART employees were adamant that they were fighting not just for themselves but for all blue-collar union workers who risked seeing their jobs weakened or lost altogether to new technologies.

sigh... yes... let's keeping paying people more and more money out of fear that technology will overtake their job. It seems backwards to me because the more they demand, the more incentive there is to replace them with technology.
OK, that's cool...and new, right?

Now we just need lower fees to make developers happier...or a service that can match the high fees (eg. possibility of create and manage affiliates, more payment methods, discounts, etc.)
I might start working remotely full-time in a few months, so I would like to hear about some of its downsides. Can you share stories of remote working that didn't go as wonderfully as described in this (promotional) video?
I think he meant in the sense that nothing could be done. You might as well go home have a drink and prep that resume.
P2P is definitely a viable solution that makes their job significantly more difficult.

It's not nearly that clear what the NSA is doing. I've worked in the NOC and as a datacenter tech at a Regional ISP and we definitely did not have spying gear in our facilities. We had other, regional BGP peers so it's entirely likely your traffic never crossed the Internet to get to its destination. I'm still not convinced they've tapped a significant fraction of anything.

The Internet is a complex decentralized network and the NSA most certainly doesn't have the physical resources to tap more than a small fraction of it.
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No different from a coffee shop - which might also not be the ideal working environment for you.
I believe you need to re-read my comment.

And man, if your new employees need 6 months of hand-holding, you're hiring the wrong employees.
I quit the co-working place I was working out of and went to work in the public library instead. It was free and their wifi was more reliable.
Anecdote: apparently going after Chinese knock-off companies is a gigantic PITA. I've worked with those who have tried going after them. File a complaint about company ACBD. A week later, company ABCD never existed, but company XYZ is operating at the same factory. Amazing!
Is there a significant ethical difference between purchasing from a store or from a large online retailer? In one case, shipping to the store is bulk, and employees may make low wages, but they interact with other people. For a retailer Amazon's size, warehouses run on people who read orders from handheld devices and are timed for retrieval speed per box filled. Then shipping is done per parcel. How have you decided what's the right behavior to encourage with your dollars?
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They most likely make up for it (the small loss or lack of profit) by selling other items, at least that's what happens at other companies applying the same strategy. It evens out and they can boast about the huge number of SKUs they're able to offer.
One target that is overlooked very often are people who cannot relocate to another country, for example because his partner cannot/doesn't want to leave his/her job or lower their quality of life by going into a country away from family (e.g. children and availability of grand parents nearby, friends, connections, language, ...). It's not only you. For example, in today's equal opportunities world, is hard to ask a woman to leave everything to follow his partner, yet it was something we took for granted a few years back, and modeled our expectations of what you can expect from an employee.

I.e. not being able to move because of family doesn't necessarily equate to wanting to spend more time than normal with the family.

There is a huge market of highly talented people that are unwilling to move into the country (or part of the country) where you choose to set up your business. Remote working has it's costs, but it can be offset by a larger pool of experienced and enthusiast candidates.
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In addition to what 'stevek' wrote; the Europlug was designed so that it would fit many existing, incompatible European plugs.

One of the things that makes the European plugs incompatible is that they ahve different types of earthing. One example is Sweden versus Switzerland. In Sweden, the common socket has earth on the sides of the plug (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko) whereas in Switzerland the earth is a pin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Swis...).

By not having an earth, the Europlug fits both the Swiss and Swedish sockets.
Agreed. Having a big percentage of company working remotely sets up a workflow among all team members that is conducive to remote work. Whereas, when some parts of a team are working remotely, including where teams get created/dismantled for short projects every couple of months coming up with a workflow becomes difficult. That said, I work remotely and I have been productive as ever.
Bootstrap 3 introduces some pretty weird markup IMO. Foundation is a bit better, but I'm going to suggest something unpopular, which is to use a lighter-weight framework like http://purecss.io/ or http://cardinalcss.com/ instead.
The site just broke.
I'm both - so I pre ordered the book a month ago.
What kind of technology stack are you guys using? Also, is your system constantly being improved to detect these things or was it just a onetime setup kind of thing?
Because Google determines US policy and also the policy of the Castro dynasty.
Any plans to offer security rules similar to Firebase? Really love what you're doing but that's a deal-breaker for me unfortunately..
Make your life easier with better error messages
http://www.co-merge.com/ in San Diego was a good experience for me.
They really are hilariously unprofessional. They drive shoddy white vans with "PACKAGE DELIVERY" slapped on the side. It doesn't even say "LaserShip". The vans look like the kind of thing a pedophile would drive while looking for children to kidnap.
That's my point. When you switch which units are used 2 different data points are used. (Though, I didn't say it that clearly.)

I didn't even think to convert the temp though, good call.
I can't tell the difference between the different licenses. The description for each seems to be exactly the same, so what's the difference between them?
I work remotely for a company in healthcare, so we have some compliance issues as well. That said, I think increasingly server resources are moving out of physical offices, especially for smaller companies. My setup today isn't that different from a previous position where I was in the physical office.. servers are still remote, internal resources behind VPN.

I do remember feeling a little squeamish about the idea of hosting our code on github when we made the decision a few years ago, but now that seems silly. The benefits have definitely outweighed the drawbacks by a very large margin.

The employee trust question is interesting. If anything, I think I could argue that my access to resources is more easily controlled and audited when I'm remote.. Everything requires a secure authenticated connection, as opposed to some of the office environments I've worked in where I suppose lots of assets could have walked off relatively easily.
A lot of the tools they sell access to are extremely useful.. if you work remotely.
I've done some research in doing live blurs and created my own hack solution [0]. The biggest bottleneck I've always seen people run into is doing the snapshot. Your solution looks really great, but I'm wondering how you would continuously snapshot the screen without running into issues? Or, have you found another solution.

Really great read!

[0]: http://whoisryannystrom.com/2013/09/17/Live-blur-in-iOS7/
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Looks like another Wordpress install just bit the dust. Memory allocation errors on the front page and everything else is a 404.
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Both Twitter and Foundation are for idiots. You should go with something better, like SemanticUI or PureCSS (http://purecss.io/)
So your argument is "basically nothing is wrong (first two paragraphs), and if it is, it's because you are using it wrong (fullscreen = waste of space)"?
That's a special point of view, and sort of the contrary of what jakobe and others are saying.

Anyway, for an example of how fullscreen makes sense I suggest you look at video or audio editing software. You just need all the space you can get there.
My company handles clinical trials, so we run into HIPPA regulations.

We all work remotely. Every developer and QA tester has his own laptop, they have set up a VM to run the application locally, with a fake database.

No one ever goes into prod for anything.

Companies have to trust their employees - else they wouldn't hire any. You can't really blindfold a developer from the code he's creating, can you?
oh, shoot. we should do something about the min-width :( brb. we are using code mirror (http://codemirror.net/) for editor. very very cool open source -- it has vim and emacs key binding we want to incorporate soon!
I'm getting a 404 right now - HN may have killed it.

Here's Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Z5fsU_...
Is there a reason that in clojure.core/map, the second type declaration uses (U nil (Seqable a)) instead of (Option (Seqable a))?
This is magical thinking. The reality is that established players will use their positions to buy out, advertise out and just generally squeeze out any threats to their business.
tl;dr because it's not a commune

I specifically find the argument funny that amazon "steals" from me because it doesn't pay "enough" taxes, even though they pass their savings to me more directly than the state ever will
I browsed egghead.io (it looks great, btw!) and I'm trying to figure out what parts are Angular and what are simply Rails server-generated views.

The signin/signup look to be using standard Rails, but what parts are using Angular?
No I'm not confused about it. I agree 100% that even at the office you can't work at full capacity. But it's a matter of relative terms. I run ad campaigns seven days a week (I don't work at full capacity on weekends, but it's 5-12 hours of some focus) and I've experienced working full days remotely too. I'm not saying you can't have the motivation to work at similar capacity at home, I'm just saying it doesn't work for everyone and it's harder even for motivated people like me. Companies with thousands of people don't have all A-players, we can't pretend that's the case, and for many I'm sure there's a noticeable difference between productivity in the office (due to a variety of factors) vs. working from home.
What we do is the primary account pays 40, the rest 10 each.
Ugh, I have Amazon prime in Canada and use it constantly, but amazon.ca has an incredibly smaller selection of items than .com. Amazon seems to be slowly expanding it, but still only 25% of the inventory of it's American counterpart. So jealous.

Border/customs tariffs from American websites ruins any cost savings (like paying $20 in fees for a shipping a $40 item [1]). That is the root problem, given the geographic nearity.

http://www.ups.com/content/ca/en/shipping/cost/zones/customs...
http://www.sharedesk.net is not good enough? :( Well...we're soon going to surprise you :P
If you're worried about that, there's this much more dangerous thing called lightning that is going to freaking terrify you.
Interesting. Do you have the link for that article? I'd love to read it!
Stop preaching mediocrity
VPN still comes up.. Things like test-environments, analytics databases, etc. It's easy enough to do in the cloud though.
This is ridiculous. "Reasons you shouldn't buy products from Amazon:"

- They sell e-books which are bad inherently

- They don't pay taxes everywhere

That's 80% of the list.

You should have noted that this list was for people who avoid stuff like Ubuntu for not being F/OSS enough, because this list is clearly intended for the hardcore anti-capitalist pro-freedom types.
It's lack of support for the Open JDK somewhat kills it for me (I run Linux): https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/webhelp/system-requiremen...
It's not a secret and it's easy to talk about.

Investments is in their cashflow statement. Per their 2012 Annual Report, with units in millions of dollars:

Purchases of property and equipment, including
internal-use software and website development
(3,785)

Which also booked elsewhere under Investing Activities in their cashflow statement.

And profit:

Net income (loss)
(39)

Amazon's free cashflow with investment would be about 4 billion dollars on the 2012 figures. In fact after investment they still booked $395M of free cashflow.

Anyone can read these figures. You, me, Amazon's competitors. The Annual Report doesn't give the raw numbers, it gives a detailed discussion of what the numbers mean, how they are evolving and so on.

This kind of disclosure is required by law so that investors aren't punished by unhappy surprises. There are some good books around on reading these kinds of figures, I recommend Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean.
I love this idea. I've heard of http://coworkbuffalo.com/

Unfortunately there's nothing like this near me at the moment. I hope it catches on.
You don't need to trust Google. They seeded the project and now it is open source ("uProxy has been developed at the University of Washington, with help from Brave New Software. The project was seeded by Google Ideas.")

uProxy is better than Tor (as long as you have a friend you can trust that has access to the content you are interested in). The problem with Tor and other proxies is that you don't know who controls the proxy or exit node, so can't trust it. Is your government running Tor nodes and logging everything and tracing it back to you? Maybe. You can't know.

uProxy is good.
Are there any co-working spaces near you?
I figured this was a result of their use of Craigslist data. The best part about Priceonomics is the ability to find the average selling price of an item on Craigslist. I figured Craigslist sent them a C&D, so they buried the search.
Nothing is stopping anyone from using any given VID for their own purposes of testing. If its in your own garage as the article mentions, you can use whatever you want. However, once it's out in the wild (even if it's just the few hundred devices), the USB-IF (and their lawyers) apparently can squash it.

The fee is $5k if I recall. As others have mentioned, if you are planning on making a real product, it's something you can roll into the cost. Although I completely understand the difficulty of someone just looking to sell ~100 devices.

I wonder if there's a way to allow a "Bring-your-own" VID? As in maybe switches or something to set the VID by the purchaser?
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The idea that you need to click on GUI buttons to get anything done is regressive to the extreme.
Been using Zurb on a free-time site for about 9 months. I've been consistently impressed with it. It gave me a good place to start, and customization has been a breeze.
You're assuming labor is as mobile as capital, which it isn't. If labor were as mobile as capital, no-one would offshore factories.
Looking through the last several years of my Amazon account, I've purchased over ~$170K in product from them, ranging from Cisco switches/firewalls to jeans to phones/smartphone cases and even some more.....avant garde items for my wife.

Inventory sucks? Reviews meaning nothing? Incorrect!
Not exactly, there were items I buy regularly that used to be Prime eligible and were moved to add-on items. Amazon was borderline lying about that because they removed it from being Prime eligible for 1-2 days and then made it an Add On Item.
When I was trying to promote PhpStorm to replace NetBeans, after I told about the code formatting options, a colleague told me it was possible with NetBeans...

You had to select Formatting in a dropdown to display those options (yet, they were limited in comparison with PhpStorm)...

After that day I forgot that NetBeans exist, seriously, a dropdown that changes the UI? What did the developers have in their minds?
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Not true. I just placed an order with two add-on items (totaling $7) and one non-add-on item ($20). The two add-on items were shipped separately.

Also, I'm pretty sure everything that's actually sitting in an Amazon warehouse is prime-eligible. The stuff that isn't is the stuff going through 3rd party sellers that don't use fulfillment by Amazon.
We buy some food items from Amazon. Specifically boxed cereal. You can get a 3 or 4 pack of cereal for about 150% the price of a single box of cereal in NYC, shipped free with Prime.
Are we going to be getting these comments any time Google is mentioned from now on?

Yes, and I think rightly so. What evidence do you have that this will not happen? None - which is the less evidence that the people saying it will happen have. Google has earned that rep and, until 1-3 years have gone in which they've not done something like that, people will continue to bring it up.
Alas, most people (including me) are idiots, so the Bootstrap/Foundation debate is important to us.
The effectiveness of remote working is directly connected to the office environment, company culture, and processes.

The initial transition to remote working is especially hard - you require infrastructural and organisational changes to accommodate remote workers, and there's an up-front cost (not just financial) to that that dissuades getting started.

I previously worked in an environment that had a culture of face-to-face meetings, informal chats and the like, and it really would have required a total change in culture to implement frequent remote working. By contrast, about 25% of my current engineering colleagues frequently work from home - we've got Google Hangouts and the appropriate equipment and infrastructure to pull it off.

There are real upsides and downsides though - obviously a remote worker saves on a commute, but they do tend to miss out on the more social aspects of an office. Like, "Let's go get lunch," or "It's Matt's birthday, let's all have some cake." Those are definitely some of the perks of working with pleasant colleagues.
For my own education: Python with a good standard packaging system and solid, standard async capabilities would be solidly going after the same areas Node.js has done so well in? If not, why not?
No need to click on anything. Everything's accessible through the keyboard.
Foundation. Main reason being Foundation is built on SCSS and bootstrap is built on LESS.