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alixmartineau

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alixmartineau··on I Miss Rails
I can't speak for the others but Django doesn't do any code generation. Are you talking about the templating system?
alixmartineau··on Ask HN: self-hosted hacker news clone?
Have a look at https://github.com/antirez/lamernews.

Live site: http://lamernews.com/

alixmartineau··on Ask HN: How to become an expert of Python asap.
To learn any programming language, I would advise, in this particular order:

- Have a project idea or a goal

- Get basic python knowledge (any renown book or tutorial will do[1]) and get an overall feeling of the language, philosophy, main frameworks

- Make sure that Python is the right tool for what you want to make or at least one of the possible tools

- Start your project and learn along the way by researching how to solve problems the right way

- Make your project work

- Make it work better

- Make it work faster

Bonus: Insert somewhere:

- Other programmers' opinions on your code

[1] Resources: http://www.diveintopython.net/, http://learnpythonthehardway.org/

Also, see this thread on StackOverflow for other popular resources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70577/best-online-resourc...

alixmartineau··on Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
> I can't believe this option is enabled by default

Because it's the platform default. That's how it should be.

> It provides zero functionality over "non-native" (??) fullscreen

Wrong. It puts you in another "Space".

You can argue that you like OS X's fullscreen feature, but VLC implements it just how it sould be.