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Completely off topic: What are the chances that I would type "brave" to search on this page precicely at the moment the cartoon playing for my children on the TV will say "brave".

All this tech, and no pictures of them anywhere in the article.

I fat finger downvoted you. Here's my verbal upvote.

This was news to me, thanks.

>> Essential's engineers are developing a proprietary connector that serves double duty for charging the battery and expanding the phone's functionality over time, one person familiar with the planning said.

This is unfortunate. I wonder where usb-c falls short in their design?

Regaining control presumes you had control to begin with.

I'd wager having little control over attention has been the default mode for couple generations. The world is full of distractions that start from childhood. Gaining control over attention requires awareness and a more deliberate effort, through meditation or the like.

Presumably to create mood and context for his story. He's telling a story not publishing a research paper, a little creative license is appropriate.

> Space only runs in iOS Safari.

What is it about this web app that requires iOS Safari?

wow, this thread made my head spin.

I sometimes buy domain names on my phone, late at night, in my bed. Usually after hours of laying in bed building out a business in my mind and iterating over and over to see where it leads. Buying the domain name seems to be the last step in the processes, it helps me sleep.

I look at the list of my domains every once in a while and pick ideas to work on, but sometimes I have no idea what drove me to buy them, like parttimehuman.tips

Typo "subside" not "subsidize", confused me a bit.

If it ain't bad, it ain't Flappy.

Brett, thanks for your contributions to Python. This is coming from a person in the majority of silent users who simply enjoy the fruits of your and other contributor's labor, without complaining and admittedly without giving enough praise. Big props, and hang in there.

How practical is it to get into programming for VR for cost sensitive developers? I feel like this space will not blow up until the tools and resources become fairly accessible for the common developer.

This is a nice ShowHN with a cover story. I'm not questioning the validity, just finding this amusing.

It's probably because you have not heard it often enough to just not think about it. If I were to describe a sound as being rectangle, it just doesn't make sense and I have to think about it and try to interpret it. The extra effort in trying to decode the meaning is just annoying. In contrast, you've probably heard the phrase sharp sound. It's equally as technically meaningless as crisp sound, but you probably get it and aren't annoyed by it.

"So, sorry to tell you guys, but it's not innovative, it's lucky."

If only luck made slack, then doesn't that mean Microsoft will need to be equally lucky to succeed?

Well, now that slack has so "genuinely" welcomed microsoft as a competitor, I don't think they can turn around and argue the opposite for the same offering.

Perhaps the original iPhone falls in this category. It did less (games, apps) than the competition when it launched, but soon the same product overtook the competition when the app store and API was released.

A bit passive aggressive don't you think?

There are plenty of reputable email clients that add extra styling to make email look better that are not necessarily spam.

Ah techtv, you bring back lots of memories.

>> so advanced in its design and execution that it could probably have been developed only with the active support of a nation-state

Why is advanced technology automatically assumed to have the backing of nation-states? Cant several highly motivated and smart individuals create the technology without a nation-state behind them?

Some of the commenters here assumed that the message was automated, you're making it abundantly clear thats was not the case. In fact she defended her position. Did you try to escalate it? This is absurd.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Collecting data to improve the software is a great virtue, but not providing a reliably way to turn it off is definitely not cool.

Sure, I love Flask but Django has it's own ecosystem and that's what I'm talking about. I know anyone can use cookie-cutter, but I'm talking about trimming Django itself. Externalize Forms, Templates, etc. and build several core starter packages (including current Django). This gives a few base starting points.

It continues to surprise me how (why?) Netflix builds their infrastructure on their #1 competitors platform. They're basically funding Amazon Prime. They're undoubtedly smart, so they must have a lot of incentive in doing so.

"...we did not have much in house expertise using PostgreSQL"

This seems to be the underlying factor.

Sometimes maturity trumps fads, in other words boring > hot.

Why a shame? What would Channels buy you if it were included into the framework?

I would love to see Django split up into smaller official external packages and repackaged as two or three different official starter packs (Traditional, API, SPA, etc.) with each containing a different set of packages that make sense (DRF, Channels, Models, Views, Forms, etc.).

I know this goes against the current "Batteries are included" model, but why can't we treat Django as the standards body, and the various starter packs as the more targeted "batteries are included" frameworks.

I suppose if the framework, community and ecosystem are on par with each other, then the deciding factor would be the language.

The typical recommendation to getting started with Django, is to go through the tutorial included in the documentation [0]. This is the path I took several years ago, it'll get you up and running in no time.

I found Two Scoops of Django[0] to be a great resource if you want to follow the best practices for a Django app. The authors are also very active in the community.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/

[1] https://www.twoscoopspress.com/products/two-scoops-of-django...