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I must be a workoholic: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/rVJcTSk8x1mNm6ewL4lImQ?...

ML was the first language I ever learned. I didn't appreciate how cool it was back then though. The pattern matching concept makes for some really elegant code. It replaces a lot of control structure code.

I use Yakuake, the KDE equivalent. I'm addicted too.

I'd say they deserved to go out of business.

I have decided to focus on personal growth. I made this list some days ago.

Personal qualities

Goals:

- Non needy

- Non pleasing

- Give value

- Accept other peoples value

Method:

- Be faithful to own values

- Base in own self recognition, not others opinion.

- Accept the importance of signal values

- Don't do or say things that undermines my own status.

Excercise:

Goals

- running, cycling, swimming, workout.

Method

- Sign up for several amateur races (running, cycling, triathlon)

Professional:

Goals

- improve self promotion

Method

- Blog, Network

Startup:

Goal

- Launch my project

Method:

- Keep on working? (I've rewritten it two and a half time)

- Freelancing pays the bills

Friends:

Goal

- Keep old friends, but focus on making new friends.

Method

- Actively engage in other people lives, don't need "invitation".

Dating:

Goal

- Date more girls, or meet potential long term girlfriend

Method

- Dating sites, Social activities, Bars

Sailing:

Goal

- Participate in as many regattas as possible (I bought a sailing boat last year)

Method ?

Happy new year!

Why should django deal with subdomains. Just use mod_rewrite or whatever your server offers to map your internal urls. myname.mydomain.com -> mydomain.com/myname/

I find it interesting that he is interested in enterprise ROI types of technologies. Something I think is undervalued here at Hacker News.

Freelancer, python web stuff, with my own project on the side.

Well, Google CodeJam is about to start. That's a lot of duplication of effort, that should be worth it.

The payment gateways I've used have explicitly stated in their documentation, that there must be no validation of credit card numbers. I guess it's to avoid programmers messing up the card numbers or something.

"Bonus question: How can you generate a form with same form elements multiple (and variable number) times, ala what happens with edit_inline?"

That is very easy, just create multiple instances of the same form object, and give a unique prefix argument to each instance. See this blog post for more info: http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/01/06/django-tip-compl...

Personally I enjoy not having a co founder. It makes everything a lot easier. I just get done with things. No dicussions or waiting for other people. I Work when I want and have 100% ownership. I quit my job four months ago, and live off some freelance work and subletting some rooms in my apartment. I have a shared office with cool startup people, so I don't get too lonely, but often work from home. The biggest problem I've encountered so far, is that freelancing can take to much time away from your startup project.

Even if they did copy Campfire, I don't really see the problem. It just goes to show, that if your software is really easy to make, you will probably see some competition. In my own startup, the business idea is to make localized clones of cool web apps.

I did that a couple of months ago, and before you know it freelancing takes all of your time. Luckily I'm close to launch.

Hack before you die... maybe?

+1 for webfaction here.

Gmail. There are many great features that combined with ease of use, makes this a killer app for me.

You probably need more experience. Nobody writes bug free code. Furthermore it's often not a good idea to write "perfect" code the first time around. When your code base grows, you might need to change things around and refactor some stuff.

I second that! CSS Mastery by Andy Budd is great. After reading that book you will really understand the box model and positioning, as well as a bunch of other stuff. Of course learning CSS goes together with learning to write well structured mark up also.

I live in Copenhagen, and often have Canadian and US exchange students subletting rooms at my apartment. They all complain about the living costs here. The web / startup scene is not impressive. The VC's are really conservative, and don't seem to get the early funding scheme. They'd much rather give millions at a later stage. But hey, the women are beautiful :-)

This comment system is inspired by a post on Jack Slocum's blog, entitled "WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI" http://www.jackslocum.com/blog/2006/10/09/my-wordpress-comme...

33, Comp. Sci. Masters

I've recently begun using automated tests of basically all my code. Both frontend and backend, when I'm doing web stuff. I usually write the code to a minimum first, and then implement tests. It's a huge relief to use these tests when I refactor and refine code. I definitely think automated testing is the way to go in most cases.

No doubt: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide.

Yes, the so on means go to 0.5 for the next 2 hours. Of course you have to tweak the parameters to get the desired results for your site. It how all depends on how much you value recent posts and votes, versus overall votes. I also subtract a value depending on how old the post is. The site I use this for doesn't have any users, but it seems to work well in my limited testing.

I use an algorithm where recent votes and posts has more weight:

(votes from the last two hours times 1) + (votes from the next two hours times 0.75)... and so on. Do the same for posts. Because it's expensive to calulate these values, I have a cron job that updates the scores every fifteen minutes.

I just redid my site using blueprint, and it's great. The layout is more robust (I'm not a css wizard), and overall browser consistency has improved. It was also very easy to use.

I really like webpy and its open ended approach, but Django is just a more complete framework, and thats what I need for rapid development. django.contrib contains user/auth and other things I'd need to roll my own in webpy. And the middleware, like session stuff - beeing written for django - ties nicely in with all the helpers (generic views, etc..), while still being loosely coupled. Initially I thought that Django was mainly for news driven sites, but I find it to be just as flexible as Rails and more explicit and intuitive. So basically I'm looking for the solution that allows me to write the minimum amount of code, while still providing the flexibility I need. And of course it has to be Python (because that's what I prefer).

I used webpy for my last site, but recently changed development to django. Django is really easy to learn, and provides a full stack of components that integrates really well together. I used AJS javascript library, but has changed to JQuery this time. Mostly because of JQuery's numerous plugins.

I agree on his point that web 2.0 names will look dated pretty soon.