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My opinion: make it clear that they will not be drug tested nor do you care about how they may choose to relax in their free time. This will set you apart from many large corporate environments as well as indicating that you value a programmer's productivity rather than their conformity.
The question is, why not the framework create it automatically ?
why one has to create it manually every time a project/app is created ?
Atleast a default template directory and a standard base.html on a project level will reduce the repetitive work.
I don't think it entirely wears off. I bought a Civic SI (no Porsche, but still fun to drive), and while the novelty wore off, it's still a lot of fun to drive, and still just as thrilling to put your foot down and speed past people...
You've played Crysis then ;-)
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Take a look at Crunch Base, should give you most of what you're looking for. http://www.crunchbase.com
I don't think it is. There are only a few categories for PCs (server, desktop, notebook, netbook), stuff like that. I think if you say Apple most people have an idea in which categories to compare. It's not like comparing a Hummer to a Porsche. More like comparing a VW to a Toyota or something.

You make it sound as if Apple PCs are beyond comparison, a class of their own. Which they aren't. I am not saying they are not good (another discussion), but I don't see the supposed revolutionary part.
NeXTSTEP wasn't based off the Linux kernel, and I think even if it had been GPL'd, it probably wouldn't have ended up that the Linux port was the preferred way to run it. Consider that OPENSTEP/Mach was contemporaneous with Red Hat Linux 4 and kernel 2.0. Everybody in the market for a desktop Linux distribution at the time would have jumped ship. If anything, the Mach 2.5 microkernel would have been stripped out in favor of a pure FreeBSD system, which would probably have resulted in Linux having the same also-ran status that the BSDs have now.
For me the hardest thing about Django was comprehending that the 'View' is doing most of the work.

* urls point to views

* views do stuff. Perhaps hard, manly stuff. Perhaps involving models. Django views have hard, beefy beceps. They're awfully controlling.

* the view passes a dict of results to the template, which is sent as a response to the browser.

Once you get that, it's not so hard.
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Actually, if you apply the MVC paradigm, the Django View is a mix of View and Controller. Admittedly a little confusing
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A perfect tl;dr.
Hi Mz,

I had in mind what I wanted to create as the first application, but I wasn't sure how to.

Day 1,2,3. I went to w3schools and read basic PHP lessons. For each lesson I would read and do a quick search for a similar lesson somewhere else. This allowed me to have at least 2 different explanations. The next step would be to try the examples myself.

Day 4 (I believe), I learned how uploading works, not just the code, but the process allowed me to upload the document (post, get, document types, filesize, temp name etc...). I created a simple a few forms etc. I knew to stay clear from DBs in the beginning because I did not want to have too much too soon.

The following day I spent the entire time learning about upload security. There just is not enough documentation online about uploads and folder security, so a sys admin friend of mine gave me a few good tips and I combined those with what I found online to add some security to the app.

From then on until Day 11, I learned how to create a new file, and append/change its content, and also delete files. This allowed me to create the view/manage/delete.

I spent a few days trying to improve the code. Every time I learn something new, I change part of the code and this allows me to see how things really work.

To be quite frank the application is quite easy for any new programmer. All it does is to host a file and use the Google doc viewer embed code to display the file again.

I plan to add more functionality and also document the whole process.
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Gnip is pretty interesting...
You mean kind of like YQL? http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console
What about Robonica?
That's why person A should actually flip the coin. People are really bad at choosing "randomly."
Dude. You submitted the wrong link off your own site???

http://andrewgarrison.com/games/ultimategoat/
He's not saying Ivy League professors are extremely stupid and bad at their jobs. He's saying they're really, really bad at teaching, because there's no incentive for them to be good at teaching. Outside of community colleges and are there any US third level institutions that value teaching over research?

I'm sure compared to him most Ivy League students are extremely stupid. Maybe he's had more contact withthe general population and he now realises what the average really looks like.
This brings to mind the story that begins with William Shockley's famous management and interpersonal skills. From Wikipedia:

Shockley attempted to lure some of his former colleagues from Bell Labs to his new lab, but none of them would join him. Instead, Shockley started scouring universities for the brightest graduates to build a company from scratch, one that would be run "his way".

"His way" could generally be summed up as "domineering and increasingly paranoid". In one famous incident, he claimed that a secretary's cut thumb was the result of a malicious act and he demanded lie detector tests to find the culprit. (...)

(...) In late 1957, eight of Shockley's researchers, who called themselves "the Traitorous Eight," resigned after Shockley decided not to continue research into silicon-based semiconductors. Several of the eight met with Sherman Fairchild and described the situation, and the eight started Fairchild Semiconductor (...)

Over the following decade, problems at Fairchild resulted in people leaving to create new opportunities, resulting in the founding of (among other companies) Intel, AMD, and Kleiner Perkins--and I think everyone knows how the story goes from there.

So, I suppose we owe a debt of gratitude to Shockley, not only for his excellence in engineering, but also for his abysmal incompetence in management.
I use this everyday. http://beta.gotapi.com/ is the slightly nicer, newer version.
Hence, it is defined as MTV.
No connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Clark_%28economist%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun
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Perfectly stated. I still have the piece of paper from a couple of years ago where I drew this out (I'm both analytical and spatial/visual), and my holistic diagram looks just like what you wrote.

At the risk of being negative, I think the real issue is that the extensive documentation is geared more towards designers than hackers.
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There's libffi for the latter problem, though. It's still work, obviously, but probably less.
Nothing Google does is for "users". Advertisers are Google's customers. Users are Google's product.

That's mostly true, but a little too glib in some ways. Their raw material is prospective users, their salable product is actual users, and attracting and retaining those users is their manufacturing process. They absolutely do things "for users" in the same sense that an iron refinery does things "for iron ore".
I actually thought Microsoft would be interested in Milo for Bing. They are a decision engine after all. Milo would be a good feature for either Bing or Google
I guess I could hack something up with rxvt-js , I don't really think it would be that useful. Would you use it?
Just a heads up, the injected links are not always in the footer. I just noticed on one of my sites that the injection was somewhere in the middle.
Oh man. I'm just looking forward to the food. Best meal of the year!
Ah, point taken. I guess I was too interested in the editor itself to bother reading the whole page first.
The "Setting up more compose sequences" of http://canonical.org/~kragen/setting-up-keyboard.html is also helpful. (I don't use those exact sequences, some of them make little sense to me... but it's nice to see a bunch of examples on how to create your own.) The compose key is one of my favorite underutilized features in Linux.
I bailed out of this article after about the fourth "fuck"
'grunting "socialism bad, capitalism good" simian dichotomy.'

Perhaps I am biased, but everyone likes to think they're smart and sophisticated when they said they view the world in shade of greyness.

I keep learning that the world isn't as grey as I used to think. Intellectual property is very bad. Antitrust laws are stupid. Minimum wage doesn't help the poor. Farmer subsidy in America is hurting comparative advantage and thus prosperity in other countries.

Even wars are bad.

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman

Perhaps, socialism versus capitalism isn't so complicated people like to believe. Maybe it is a matter of "socialism, bad and capitalism, good!".

In capitalism, communes are allowed. Charity is allowed. There's no pretension that people can be transformed from greedy people to saint or that one government official can fix everything. Capitalism acknowledges failure when bubbles are busted, when the free market doesn't give anyone a job of some type, and when firms doesn't do their job efficiently.

However, socialism thinks everything could be fixed with a redistribution scheme of some sort. They think if they can elect the "right" official, everything will be alright. They think they know how to distribute resource correctly, and efficiently. They can be "just".

So, I go for capitalism every time. I am biased, alright, but I think the truth is that socialism versus capitalism are not as complicated as people like to think.
Was really hoping this would be about getting a domain from one of those offshore squatters - been trying to scoop up one that related to my business for years. Worse, on the company's obscure and hard to find website, they say they won't even consider selling domains. Even though it's essentially not being used.
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http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/calendars/ has a lot of calendars, including

Armenian Official Holidays Calendar 1.0, Romanian Orthodox Saint’s Days Calendar 1.0, Finnish holidays iCalendar (in Finnish) 1.0, Maldives Holidays Calendar 1.0...
I can definitely say I'm thankful for HN. Thanks, guys!
Nope! I know Andrew though. Overall, I hardly got any public credit from Ted for my work, but never mind, that's not why I did it, and he has to prioritize who to credit when everyone chips in a little.
Seems like the same political problems that are in place with Ticketmaster. Perhaps if someone figure out how to beat through this bureaucracy they can figure that one out, too.

And make lots of money.
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I guess he's never heard of monster.com or 37 Signals.
As searching for the string "fuck" only yields 3 results, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you banked out of this article for other reasons.
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"Why serving static files in development has to be a additional setup, as no developer wants to setup a server for serving static files, I am aware of ‘django.static.serve’ but still that is an additional setup, why not create a sample media directory and a url for the same in urls.py" - Because typical deployments don't use django for serving static files?
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What confuses me the most about your post is the implied exclusivity. You say "Capitalism, good. Socialism, bad." Isn't this a false dichotomy?

Couldn't both be good?

What's to say that there is only one strictly good or even strictly best form of economic policy? Why can't both solutions produce good results if applied properly? And why can't a mix of the two be even better? Why is any dilution of pure capitalism viewed as bad, even though there are clearly situations where pure capitalism produces sub-optimal results (e.g., in the sale of medications. The Modern Consumer has shown a frightful inability to understand medical issues... look at the pervasiveness of the myth that vitamin C keeps you from getting a cold).

It's sort of like religion, in that it's clear that there isn't an obviously superior social structure that falls out of one specific religion. It's not like Christians are inherently the most noble with their own or others as opposed to, say, the Jewish.
Hey, I didn't get the joke :(
You could always just create a very simple fake site. Set up a site at pandaplus.com/pandabooks or pandabooks.pandaplus.com and make a fake site for a used bookstore. Banner, navigation (that doesn't work), and your review plugin.
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In which projects may be more easily compiled and distributed
Most countries have some socialist and some capitalist aspects. I don't know of a single country that is purely one or the other. Nothing works perfectly so we mix and match a little of everything. There are countries where either word is bad but they still have aspects of that system.

ie. the US (from experience with people online) seems to be fairly "capitalism will save us all, teh socialism is evil" yet you're also one of the most protectionist countries in the world and have lots of social programs.
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however typical developments do, and this question is about typical development setup
You actually searched the text?

Ok, ok. I read the whole thing. Geesh! I miscounted the fucks by 1! So sue me.

Look -- I could care less about the Pilgrims or about some idiotic criticism of religious folks in general. I know socialism doesn't work without either one of these articles.

I clicked on the rebuttal piece first because, quite frankly, I thought it would be more interesting that the original piece which had a title that prevented me from even starting it. After reading the rebuttal, not only was I disappointed with the author's lack of writing ability, but gave up on anything in either piece or the accompanying discussion having any value at all.

But you got me -- I missed the count. Good thing we have people willing to fact-check! Now that I've been shown to be a liar, we're free to make aspersions about my ulterior motives...
This is a bit extreme. You're going to have to tell them your cap table and how much money you have before you close a deal. So it can't be correct advice never to tell VCs that. The question is when.
Or any of the numerous sites that email you your password when you sign up or do a password "reset".

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Happy Thanksgiving to all here at HN.
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"We have been informed by Sun Microsystems that their subsidiary, which competes in this specific market [the database market], generates only €17 million in revenue and that the same market has competitors with capitalizations of tens of billions of Euros."
The real scandal is more subtle, and much more serious.

There is evidence from some of the leaked e-mails and source code that the main climate model is, in the words of an unnamed developer called Ian, useless:

I am seriously worried that our flagship gridded data product is produced by Delaunay triangulation - apparently linear as well. As far as I can see, this renders the station counts totally meaningless. It also means that we cannot say exactly how the gridded data is arrived at from a statistical perspective - since we're using an off-the-shelf product that isn't documented sufficiently to say that. Why this wasn't coded up in Fortran I don't know - time pressures perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there wasn't enough time to write a gridding procedure? Of course, it's too late for me to fix it too. Meh.[1]

This is the climate model that is relied upon for public policy decisions in governments across the world. This is the model that will be used as the main arguing point for global warming in next months meeting of world leaders in Copenhagen to address the issue. This is basically the model that is responsible for political decisions that will relocate billions of dollars across the world.

And at least one of the programmers thinks it's rubbish and doesn't work.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/24/taking_liberties/ent...
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It would nice to have the ability to add custom api documentations - it would make interfacing with internal api's much easier
In ubuntu I tried to add my own bindings to some unicode symbols with the help of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey.

But compositions I add doesn't seem to work for me.

Tried adding

<Multi_key> <less> <B> : "♥" love # LOVE

Any help please?
I'm sorry, but your definition of socialism is entirely false. If anything that is the view of the liberal capitalist. That is, that some "official" can solve the problems and redistribution by this leader and his government will solve the problems of the world. They are wrong in this thinking.

Socialism means a change in the organization of production NOT the circulation of value. Its not the liberal idea of, well if we just had the right people deciding who to take from and who to give to it would be fine. It's the working class actually running society, which, like the ruling class does now, they would do for the benefit of the their class. And this is why it would ultimately feed everyone and house everyone and destroy racism, homophobia, sexism, etc. Those are products of the organization of production.

Marxism is about democracy. Democracy in the workplace. Votes no longer being about how much money you have. And I don't mean that just in the sense of political influence but voting in the capitalist "supply and demand" sense. It is hard to have a 'demand' vote if you have no money.

I'd lastly like to say that unlike a commune, in the sense of the Pilgrim commune, socialism does not mean if you are able to work and choose not to that you are fed.

I'm a member of the revolutionary Marxist organization the International Socialist Organization. For more info on us check out our paper http://socialistworker.org/ and our site http://www.internationalsocialist.org/what_we_stand_for.html
Gee, what a great interpreter to embed in a program... that's GPLed. Nice option for that niche, I suppose.
Agreed. The system I worked on had scheduled releases every two weeks, with a smattering of emergency releases in between. In some cases, simply being able to reliably price a given trade put you ahead of the competition, particularly in the exotics space, and could make or break a deal.

The big problem with a system like this is that, when faced with the do-it-right/do-it-fast dilemma, do-it-fast is what wins. Too much of this can yield a brittle system as hacks pile on top of each other, so it helps to be able to slide 'proper' fixes into the trailing dev/test cycles. A flexible platform/language helps, too.
I once worked for a bank will now tell this story from the IT department's point of view.

A manager did not want to give the IT department the resources they needed to develop this new app, so he got a coder to hack together a solution which is probably unmaintainable and which they will eventually inherit anyway. The fact that you mentioned VB makes the story even funnier to me, because my department was frequently the victim of a code-and-run accountant who wrote awful Access apps (it's the worst code and data modeling I ever saw). Inevitably, the day comes when these apps have to be integrated with the rest of the infrastructure or the original coder doesn't want to deal with his mess.
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To me this brought to mind pg's essay "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss."

http://paulgraham.com/boss.html

It's easier to recognize the downside of having a boss when the boss is on the Dilbert model rather than on the Inc. magazine cover story model.

After edit: Adams also refers quite directly to the Peter Principle

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

that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence," but calls it his Dilbert Principle, that "in the modern economy, the least capable people are promoted to management because companies need their smartest people to do the useful work."
It's more like comparing a Porsche to a Lada.

The amount of time people have to waste on PCs waiting for the OS, doing anti virus stuff, staring at blue screens of death, rebooting because it's got confused, etc etc

But this isn't an OS war thread :) Suffice to say, "It's still just a PC" is completely missing the point. A top class restaurant still 'just' serves food, but you can't really compare it to Macdonalds.

And to many people, Apple are in a class of their own. If I didn't currently use a macbook, I'm not really sure what else I would use. Some of the Asus laptops look ok enough (At least like cheap copies of Apple design), and maybe Ubuntu is getting mature enough on the desktop to be useful, but there's not an obvious alternative.

Regarding "I don't see the revolutionary part", you don't have to be revolutionary to be better than everything else. People use Apple stuff because it works and is well thought out. It stays out of their way and lets them achieve what they want to. It's designed to make everything as seamless and useful for the user as is possible.

Some people just want a car to get them from A to B. So they buy a standard boring crappy Ford or something that looks like a dog. As long as it gets them from A to B, they're ok. Others actually love the 'driving' bit, and enjoy it, as well as having a thing of beauty. So they buy a better car. Same is true with computers (And most other things).