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by rcoder 16y ago
There are several options here. First, you could use the Django "sites" framework, which has the advantage of being idiomatic and familiar to other Django developers: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/sites/ Second, you cou
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by rcoder 16y ago
This is actually a great tip -- cast iron is not only great to cook in, it helps provide dietary iron, which is especially important if you're eating a diet light in red meat (which naturally contains iron) and prepared cereals (which tend
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by rcoder 16y ago
Does anyone else find it interesting that the actual underlying bug causing this data loss is related to what seems to amount to a stateful variable? I.e., the "reference to [a] timer is kept in the updater state", and the actual bug being
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by rcoder 16y ago
The main advantage of having an official "developer" model like the N1 is immediate access to the latest OS. Google pushes updates to the developer models much faster than carriers do, which means you get all the updated features on actual
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You can already do this using Rhino, but it isn't a huge win without idiomatic library wrappers that make the Android Java APIs a little less Java-ish.
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This is exactly why a candidate with an active GitHub account will always get fast-tracked through the screening process any time I'm involved in the hiring process. It doesn't matter if the projects there are 40-line utility scripts or h
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Actually, you can round-trip users through Mobile Safari and process payments however you like. (For example, Amazon does exactly this for the Kindle app.) Users simply can't click a "buy" button in your app and have it pass through a proce
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by rcoder 16y ago
I've observed this on my laptop and iPad. Subscription content is only available on the Kindle hardware. Sadly, this means I'll probably be canceling my NY Times subscription next month, as the free iPad app offers enough content to make th
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I don't really think that it's fair to blame Amazon for problems you have running their app on older hardware with a gray market ROM image. It's hard enough to run tests on the legitimate Android configurations active on the market. Trying
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My perspective on Seaside may be a little different, because I still remember Avi trying out many of the same ideas in Ruby, and moving to Smalltalk (at least initially) because its continuations didn't leak memory like MRI's did. I also kn
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I don't know that I would call this a success for Smalltalk or Seaside as much as it is a win for a very smart startup who simply happened to use Smalltalk for some of their products. Furthermore, I doubt they'll be doing much Squeak hackin
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This is why Net::SSH and Paramiko are so wonderful. Using the OpenSSH binaries through a pair of pipes is certainly a pain, but if you grok the protocol, either of those libraries can make it really easy to wire up secure pipes between mach
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by rcoder 16y ago
I wonder if some sort of hybrid of the current push notifications and GCD might prove a workable stopgap? I.e., apps can register asynchronous event listeners while running, and push notifications can trigger those to give the appearance of
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Given that iPad app pricing has been substantially higher than it is for the iPhone, I can't imagine too many iPad buyers balking at a reasonable OS upgrade fee. Here I define "reasonable" loosely as "cheaper than a desktop OS upgrade", whi
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by rcoder 16y ago
This isn't a "virtualization possibility" for the iPad; it's a remote desktop client. The iPad has a fast but simple single-core ARM CPU, without the ISA extensions that make virtualization reasonably fast on modern Intel and AMD desktop +
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by rcoder 16y ago
Dark Horse Comics is hiring UI and Python/Django backend web developers: http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/eng/1651760592.html http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/eng/1651753399.html We're launching 2-3 new substantial web projects this
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by rcoder 17y ago
Google has studiously avoided ranking search results according to sites' ad spending. Placement in an AdWords block outside of the normal search results is an obvious compromise that allowed them to "sell" placement without destroying the
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by rcoder 17y ago
I mostly agree with you, but, just to play devil's advocate... How exactly would you propose cramming a usable Python runtime into a download that was substantially less than 1.5 MB in size? On the OS X 10.5 box I'm sitting at right now, th
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I think you could get well into the "people are paying money for this service" stage of a hosted Django hosting platform without ever having to touch C. Python is fast enough to do most of the systems-level programming you'd need for such a
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You know what's even better? When someone who writes that style of code (in C++, no less!) knows that one of the intermediate values could be null, so they use a set of macros involving setjmp and longjmp, and trap SIGFPE, all to implemen
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Farmers are the original pioneers of "renewable energy." Their main energy source is sunshine, converted directly to foodstuffs by some amazing works of generic engineering (a.k.a. "plants). Biofuels? Yeah, they've been burning corn and veg
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I for one took "working at Starbucks" to mean "sitting at Starbucks, working on my laptop."
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Weight matters more if you tend to walk or bike around a lot. Carrying a 6+ lb. mobile workstation from your desk to your car and visa versa isn't much of a burden, but schlepping it around on your back for an hour or more on a regular basi
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This concept really resonates with me -- my girlfriend and I bought a house recently, motivated by a combination of the tax credit, ever-increasing rent, and a desire to be able to plant, build, and remodel to our hearts' content. Having a
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I'm currently working on a team that switched from PHP to Python+Django for web application development a little over a year ago. Since I've been writing Python code longer than PHP (8 years vs. 6 or so), I can't really speak personally abo
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No offense, but putting critical financial data like invoices into a schema-less datastore strikes me as short-sighted and risky in the extreme. Best case, you're making a bunch of extra work for your accountant; worst case, you could compl
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I love the "notepad" joke implicit in that name.
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Have you tried out the multivariate experiment type in Optimizer? Unlike the "classic" A/B test, there's effectively no risk of exposing the fact that someone is part of an experimental group to normal users. (Of course, HN types could stil
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I think the more reasonable standard might be this: if you wouldn't use a phrase or word in communication with your own colleagues, don't use it when talking to customers. If I got an email from a coworker talking about "synergies" and "vis

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