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It's different. Viscayne is located downtown Miami which lacks the restaurants / culture/ yuppy-ness of places like Brickell and Midtown. There is a small outlet mall type thing at Bayfront park -- but the shops and restaurants there overwhelming cater to the bus loads of cruise-ship tourists there for a day. Downtown is a ghost-town during the weekend, as most places are closed. Bayfront park itself is a nice walk, and has pretty views. It's pretty safe there too.

West you will find the courthouse and the feared overtown -- which as I mentioned elsewhere -- isn't the safest of areas.

Brickell is a short (15minutes or less) walk. There you will find better restaurants and droves of young urban business professionals who probably work in some form of consumer banking.

Wynwood is close, but you can't walk there because you'd have to go through Overtown which is, again, a really scary place to be even during daylight hours. It's full of artists , trustafarians, and some tech people. But mostly hipsters.

To get to any beach you will need a car.

And quality, I'm sad to say. I wish those places were as good.

I moved from San Diego to Miami two years ago. For anyone seriously thinking of coming to Miami from California, I'd like to reiterate a few points.

* Miami is a great place to live if you prioritize partying. If you don't -- or are past that stage in your life -- you are going to find fewer people with things in common than in any other city I've lived.

* If we are generalizing...people are ruder and quicker to screw you over if the opportunity presents itself. And before you say it, no, it's not just because it's a big city. It's different here. It's worse here.

* South Florida drivers are statistically the worst in the country. Luckily I don't have to commute.

* Food is a push, I agree. I really miss the Asian-fare back home. Thankfully, I've found one really awesome Thai place to keep me sane.

* I don't participate in the tech market, as I work remotely for a CA based company.

* The neighborhoods downtown are not awesome. I live across the street [0] from OP and would not feel comfortable walking even a block east with my wife at night. Miami has

* The weather is really subjective. At first, I struggled with the humidity and heat. But now I love it. That and the water are probably the things I love most about Miami.

[0] : http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdesimone/8761046729/

If you have any questions... ask away.

Congrats on the funding. However, I'm not sure what Apiary does, or why I'd use it. Could someone help me? Is it an API mocking tool? A documentation tool? Both? Can I use it next to my existing source tree?

FWIW, I emailed Bruce who said: >> It's longer, and as long as I was already creating a new keypair there was no downside.

I'm not sure this is so much an "or", but maybe, at best, an "and" given the circumstances of source material he is currently working with. I'm not as ready to assume the timing is only routine maintenance.

No, certainly not. The context of who Speer was -- despite escaping the hangman at Nuremberg -- should absolutely be kept in mind. I felt his memoirs were written, at least in part, to improve his own legacy, at one point remarking: “one seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.” I'm not sure I buy that but his unique view of the moving parts and gears of the economy were probably mostly accurate.

Yes, I recommend Keegan's book as my favorite "big picture" book regarding the second world war. For an inside look at the third reich in general, I enjoyed Richard J Evan's trilogy.

I have not read The Wages of Destruction, thank you for the recommendation.

Probably the best primary account of the inefficiencies of the National Socialists was by Albert Speer, Hitler's foremost technocrat. In "Inside the Third Reich" Speer gives an account of just how much the Germans struggled to mobilize during the war. Though Speer was able to introduce streamlined methods of mass production and remove some excessive bureaucracy, what strikes me most was the admission that Germany never hit production levels seen during WWI.

The Second World War, by John Keegan

Inside the Third Reich, by Albert Speer

I'd like to thank you for the effort, and genuine openness of this project. I hope you'll continue to expand these tests.

Thank you for the response, and for the project in general.

Something seems off about "Results from dedicated hardware." Play and Go went from 1000s to <10 respectively. Care to give any insight there?

Wow, what a tragic shock. Does anyone know the details?

Short of asking for a refund, and not buying the game in the first place, who at Maxis and EA can customers write/call/etc to let them know what I feel about the business decision to force online only DRM?

Thank you for actually answering the question I asked!

Indeed, I agree but that wasn't my question. I was specifically wondering what developing on windows, in VS felt like for developers who are accustomed to using *nix based environments and tools like Pycharm/Eclipse/ST2 etc.

I think Visual Studio is the best IDE there, but I'm not sure I'd be more productive switching from a nix based environment just for the IDE. Would anyone whose gone from nix to windows for python web development be able to comment on the experience and tradeoffs?

It's not a panacea. It's a part of the very complicated system that is providing and paying for healthcare. How important are insurance premiums relative to other factors? It depends. But there are costs to having uncapped settlements, and lack of tort reform.

Also, insurance premiums effect practices of different sizes differently. I personally think you can attribute the shift away from smaller private practice groups towards larger groups and hospitals are for other reasons. Insurance premiums are somewhat to blame, but I think the bigger driver is that many of the government mandates are too expensive (n.b. this doesn't mean it shouldn't be done) to take on for most smaller private practice groups.

I'm not sure how to respond to your comment about tort form if it get's us to an NHS like system, because I disagree that's the best way forward. But that's a topic for another day.

Not at my fingertips, because I dealt almost exclusively with physicians in California. I'm basing this on almost every out of state physician remarking on how much lower premiums are when the move to California. NY and FL seem to be some of the worst states to work in for doctors paying their own premiums.

Malpractice rates are a factor, not the only factor in physicians deciding where and if to practice. Just like reimbursement rates.

I haven't read the whole site yet but I jumped to the topic I know fairly well, medical malpractice. Just some additional notes to consider:

* 9 out of 10 physicians would discourage their children from becoming doctors.[3] There are many reasons for this. Malpractice insurance premiums are a factor. Not the only factor.

* California physicians have the lowest insurance premiums in the country. This is directly the result of tort reform, and caps on pain and suffering payouts. His survey of physicians he knows in the area is subject to this sampling bias. Malpractice is a big issue in other states.[0] California is the model for tort reform for this reason, by not acknowledging this fact, he's missing a big aspect of the national (not just Californian) issues regarding healthcare.

* California physicians also have some of the lowest reimbursement rates in the country.

* As he indicated, internal medicine docs pay far less in premiums (as he noted) than other specialties. Surgeons pay much higher premiums. [1]

* The California Department of Insurance does a good job of keeping most premium information public. It's not a secret what your average doctor pays in insurance.[2]

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Injury_Compensation_Re...

[1] : http://cl.ly/image/0m390m1F2D2D

[2] : http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0250-insurers/0800-rate-filings/

[3] : http://www.thedoctors.com/ecm/groups/public/@tdc/@web/docume...

I develop Django professionally, bought the book, and just finished a quick read through. I am very impressed. Some may rightly say you can get all the information in the book elsewhere and for free, I wouldn't want to. This book would have saved me many hours over the last few years. $12 is a bargain. I think the depth and breadth is just right and would highly suggest it for (nearly) every level of Django developer.

My one complaint, to not just this book, but pretty much the community at large is there exists scant documentation dealing with 'enterprise grade'database migration (..both data and schema, for some reason data is always left out) with Django and South.

Nice work.

P.S. - I've made a small pull request to your django template as it doesn't work in it's current form.

By what authority do you judge a VPN fine for torrenting (I assume you mean warez) or posting a forum anonymously (I assume you mean posting content that won't get you in trouble with your government)?

It entirely depends on your threat model, and who you are trying to be anonymous from. You could argue that using a VPN gives you relative anonymity for certain things, but that's a moving target. For warez, you might be safe, but using a VPN for something that gets more heat... well that gets you in hot water, even with a provider you suggest. [0]

Also, hosting your own VPN doesn't make you any more anonymous. Nor does putting that vpn inside a virtual machine. And I would specifically advise against it. Getting a warrant on your VPS provider account is as difficult as your ISP.

[0]: http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/

Actually don't use a VPN. A VPN does not protect your anonymity, even if they pinky pinky promise not to log, you still have to trust that node.

Just use Tor + HTTPS everywhere properly.

Linkbait article aside, in the actual paper[0] Lauren does not name the firms, and draws these conclusions based on 120 verbal interviews. Not exactly scientific, even for sociology. To be fair, her abstract isn't as hyperbolic as the above article (albeit obvious).

>> Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves in terms of leisure pursuits, experiences, and self-presentation styles. Concerns about shared culture were highly salient to employers and often outweighed concerns about absolute productivity.

No way! An interviewee from MIT (...heavily math/science/engineering bias) has a harder time getting an elite professional services gig? Next I'll find out NASA prefers MIT grads to Harvard. People hire/like people like themselves.

Deciding on Harvard over MIT (or vice versa) is both an education and cultural choice. That cultural matters is no surprise. And neither is that people hire with similar backgrounds to themselves.

And, not for nothing, guess where Lauren went? [1]

[0] : http://www.asanet.org/journals/ASR/Dec12ASRFeature.pdf

[1] : http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/rivera...

I'll be very interested to find out what role Guido will take up at dropbox. When someone like Matz/ Guido/ etc gets hired, what do their job responsibilities, for the community include exactly? Are language writer hires such as this purely symbolic?

It's sorely needed. Unit testing for django is not very well documented. The best guide I've found out there is probably by Daniel Lindsley @ toastdriven.[0] However, even that guide suggests using fixture data which break badly as a project grows (I've experienced this first hand), so I'd much prefer a factories based testing chapter.[1]

[0]: http://toastdriven.com/blog/2011/apr/10/guide-to-testing-in-... [1]: https://pycon-2012-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/testing_a..., http://pyvideo.org/video/699/testing-and-django

Lack of tort reform, "defensive medicine" and the inevitability of being forced to work for a medium+ sized group or hospital have made the career increasingly unattractive. Something is amiss when 9 out of 10 physicians would discourage children from going into the field.[0]

[0] : http://www.thedoctors.com/ecm/groups/public/@tdc/@web/docume...

I just similarly booked a round the world honeymoon ticket. I'd consider myself pretty good at scheduling domestic and international travel, and I'm an American-Airlines life-time platinum member. That said, the experts really impressed me and were able to find me business class flights for the entire trip for 7k a head. Not bad.

Could you please expand on why you felt v2 was a departure from Play v1 in terms of simplicity and elegance? Why do you think that is -- and why was that trade off not the right design decision (or was it?) in your point of view. And finally, why does this effort "help that."

I am genuinely curious about your conclusions, but I'm frustrated by not being able to guess how you got there as I'm not a java web developer.

I'm happy for you. Could you be more specific about how ruby (as a language) and rails (as a framework) are more fun to you coming from python and then django/flask respectively? Is it the language you like more? Or the rails community?

There's a facebook in my github.