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Also, anyone can choose to be a hub, not just Google Reader. There's your simple and well tested solution wrapped in a standard for anyone to implement.
I submitted it again in the hopes that it will help others (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2086498).
It's trivial to use and much faster than IE7.js since it relies on the browser engine to do most of the work parsing selectors etc. The author Jason Johnston is very responsive in the forums as well. Even better, the upcoming version 0.11 of Compass (http://beta.compass-style.org) includes a mixin for PIE which makes adding cross-browser rounded corners a matter of two lines.
Didn't think I'd see this happen in my lifetime...
Just wrap your stylesheet definitions in {% compress css %}{% endcompress %} (same for JS) and they get merged, minified, and updated automatically. No need to go into the settings.py to add a stylesheet.
SIDS is 6x higher in families where one or both parents smoke. The lower incidence in the last years might just be because of less people smoking.
Anecdote: our midwife told us that we should put our son to sleep on his back. She also told us that in her working life, she'd first had to tell parents to put their kids to sleep on their belly, years later they were supposed to be safest on their side - there were even little foam triangles sold so the babies would stay put. Now it's on their back.
I'd still say go with what feels right and worry about things that are more important.
You can get by fine with English but to really feel at home - you should know the language. This is assuming you want to make the place you live in feel like home.
If I spend time filling out a form, why would I want to clear it? If I make an error, I'll correct it - not start anew. When I see a "clear form" button nowadays it's a big red flag that the owner of the site is still stuck in the 90s usabilitywise.
He basically says that it's old media (Sorkin and Hollywood) casting new media (Zuckerberg) in a bad light, compared to the good guys - the honorable and respectable lawyers (of all people).
The real point of Facebook's success according to Lessig: "Instead, what’s important here is that Zuckerberg’s genius could be embraced by half-a-billion people within six years of its first being launched, without (and here is the critical bit) asking permission of anyone. The real story is not the invention. It is the platform that makes the invention sing."
No author can give all the facts and "just the facts". They can't help but shape and spin a story by selecting what they deem important, leaving out the rest. Their choice of words determines how the reader views the subject.
I'd rather know what the person that wrote an article thought and felt - it's another important fact.
Anyway, I concur. HN seems very pro-RoR to my eyes.
It reduces children (who are sensitive to messages like that) from a full person with a unique character to their performance as tested. If you haven't yet developed the necessary cynicism to deal with this onedimensional assessment of personhood, you will quickly. If that is actually desirable is another matter.
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Rather than setting up ffmpeg and dealing with the errors it can throw up, we just set up the upload form and Zencoder takes care of all the format conversions for us. If Zencoder can't decode it, it's safe to tell the client that the file is broken.
Nice to see them moving onwards and upwards.
I'm happy with my lightweight model for now but I'll definitely look into celery again, when the need arises.
I wrote a small library for Django that makes writing jobs for beanstalkd easier (http://github.com/jonasvp/django-beanstalkd). There's also a management command for starting (threaded) workers. Makes writing and calling jobs from Django very simple.
When my son was born this made it easy for me to decide to buy an Xtracycle (http://www.xtracycle.com) for my bike instead of a car. The Xtracycle covers 95% of my transportation needs and 300 € buys a lot of trips by taxi whenever that's necessary.
Still, the point of the article as I see it is that most people underestimate the cost of their car. That's a small problem. The big problem is that our societies underestimate the external cost of private car ownership. When you figure in loss of life and health through accidents, noise, and pollution, loss of usable space in inner cities through car-only streets and on-street parking, and general loss of quality of life - the private car becomes the most expensive mode of transportation ever invented.