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I second that, Django is the first word that popped into my mind when I read the question. I think Django exemplifies what a great Open-Source software community is.

The "connect" feature is eerily reminiscent of Ping if you remember that. It was part of iTunes and was a failure from the start and subsequently killed at some point. I'm really wondering if they will succeed this time.

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

Honest question: could someone summarize why would one use mercurial vs git? Both seems really close in features. What would be a use case where one would outshine the other?

This seems like a complete counterpoint to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9486391

Being self-taught, different experiences bring different problem-solving approaches and not _everyone_ has the need to know Haskell or Racket to self-identify as a programmer.

This is exactly the kind of article that prevent people to consider a software engineering career.

I'm genuinely curious, have you tried one of the asset-pipeline apps for django? I found django-pipeline actually not that bad, even though I have been recently leaning towards using front-end tools (gulp/browserify) anyway.

I agree with you on many points and it seems obvious that apple is spread too thin these days and tries to do too much.

I dont think this statement is true however:

> The core market for Apple until quite recently was not the everyday user but developers, designers and the more tech savvy.

Historically the core market of Apple Computer has been graphic-designers, journalists and the education market. Developers have only been on the platform post OS X because of unix.

Seems like a solution in search of a problem. At least it's not very expensive.

I would really like to know how cutting-edge this was at the time. It seems incredible to me how little has changed in how we make dynamic web applications.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the addition of an option to download the docs in .epub, which is great and previously was a pain point (at least for me).

Absolutely, the previous design tenure of 10 years is quite a feat. There are very few websites that can last this long without feeling old-fashioned.

I was in the middle of checking the docs, so that was a little odd, but I like it so far. It is different without being TOO different in terms of layout so the familiarity sticks.

It looks slightly blurry on Chrome for me, seems to have been tested primarily on Safari? Also, the redesign may be a bit bland, but overall it's a pretty good job. Now if someone could apply those design cues to Django-Admin that would be awesome!

This article, incidentally by one of the creators of the Django Framework, still seems relevant, even 8 years later:

http://www.holovaty.com/writing/fundamental-change/

I have been meaning to learn Vim for a while but everytime I was trying I ended up being overwhelmed by the number of command (and also frankly, the weird syntax of .vimrc).

I finally took a step by step approach and started with a very minimal .vimrc and worked my way up from there, solving real problems I ran into. I think the key is to choose your battle.

Also this helped me understand the core concepts of how Vim operates: https://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim

Hi Dave, great work on Skeleton. Was the original project a side-project or was it in use for projects at Twitter and / or Medium? Wondering about how it seems to be a sort of antithesis to Bootstrap (as in no preprocessor / small footprint / sane defaults).

I agree that taxation is definitely an issue, but I also feel that the field of computer engineering is under-valued in France as a general rule.

This makes me cringe a bit. What this document says seems to be that France is a great country to start a company in mostly because you can get cheap labor. It is stated that a mid-level dev is $50-80K in France, however the cost of living in Paris is comparable to living in New York, so it means that you ultimately should come to Paris because you can cut your payroll by 20%.

I agree that the term mean is a very strange and relative term. 'Mean' is ultimately dependent on personal views, in my opinion.

This seems apropos from what I remember of it:

- http://www.amazon.com/The-Psychopath-Test-Journey-Industry/d...

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYemnKEKx0c