nikolaj

OLPC seems like such a great product, yet Negroponte's incessant high-horse complaints about incoming competition contribute to a lack of confidence in the product.. he should just embrace competitors and continue to promote the strength of his product.. and his product development process!

As a developer who works with designers alot (cukerdesign.com), the things I have found most often in contention are 1. white space, 2. when fonts Need to be a certain way, and 3. colors matching (often with photoshop, comps and such, colors get a bit altered due to colorspaces).

That being said, I think it is much easier for a coder to pick up on what is important for designers than vice versa.

i get along fine in xubuntu with 512.. ducks

I like the significant separation between monitor and keyboard and mouse.. it feels more comfortable and ergonomic to me. I do enjoy hacking on a laptop on a sofa.. but not for more than 2-3 hours.

i see your point. i would assume someone else has done this before in django, but regardless, i thought it was interesting as i haven't seen something like this as easily accessible for us django people.

blah blah, if he wants a hammer for a spice rack he can use php.

If he wants to build something a bit bigger, and actually maintain it and grow it over time (e.g. cabinets for his kitchen), he would be wiser to spend time standardizing the parts and dimensions so that he can buy in bulk and speed production time (roll your own framework), or buy a pre-built set of cabinets and customize them to his kitchen and desired layout (existing framework).

the difference here is that the html files are served by nginx, before django is event touched. Removing Django from the equation (and fastcgi or modpython or whatever nginx is proxying too) is where the speedup comes from. This isn't "caching" as much as it is fairly smoothly making certain areas of the site static html.

haha, democracy isn't always pretty. Meanwhile I accidentally hit the down arrow on your comment.. sorry

what is a deck?

this makes me want to figure out how to make a neural network.. of the 20% i understood, very interesting.

How about we institute a down vote to prevent digg honey..err vinegar like "porn for girls by girls"

yeah, funny that was my first thought too

Having built many different apps in Django in the last year, I strongly disagree with this. Django has a clever admin interface that gives you easy access to every data model you can dream up, but this is only a really neat hack.

Django provides a very clean layer on top of the database, and a great approach to structuring a system (apps, included urls.py, template dirs, templatetags, middleware). As with anything, though, the more complex the task, the more you need to be aware of what it is doing under the hood. Understanding when Django does lazy queries, where things are processed, etc. is very important.

Outsourcing actively growing and changing websites is such a bad idea. I know, because I build such sites for clients, and on all the dynamic, growing sites, it always ends with clients being frustrated with the slow responsiveness to updates, fixes, and changes.

It isn't intentional. When the billing has to cross between companies, and detailed requirements have to be agreed upon by multiple layers, the response time just can't be there.

Of course, hiring the right developers who can handle a large site efficiently is an equally frustrating challenge..

in all the drawing/art classes i have taken, one of the first things they usually cover is the impact of serious, academic study, on many famous artists. It is the process, focus, resources, and reflection/study provided in a university that transforms raw talent into significant capability.

i think a sign of a good programmer is the tendency to engage with the computer using a language, not just pointing clicking and dragging. Bash familiarity tends to coincide with shell-aptitude.

Awesome. Very impressive, great concept, and glad to see more people using django (i use it for almost every site).

I run a django shop, and my technique for hiring is finding people who preferably have had freelancer experience (know how to get something out the door), know a little (preferably a ton) of bash, actively learn new things, are up on the latest stuff (i should be able to have a conversation about js kits with them), and when i explain the advantages of django to them they show an understanding of Why it is so cool. Python or django is not 'required'.. i can ramp them up on that with lots of little tasks at first.

A big plus is being a unix nerd.

hah, reading #1 made me laugh out loud, as I spent last night hacking android, and then come to work to slog away in python! How did this happen!

this entire post was destined to be a flame war...

hmm i have a joyent accelerator. It is rock solid, except trying to get a recent version of python is a royal pain (python 2.3 comes installed, you have to wrangle a bit with pkgsrc to get python 2.4..).

If you use python, and don't mind burning hours trying to just get your environment up, but really want solaris and their nas storage (which is really nice), this is a good option. However, there are alot of really cheap ubuntu/xen based vps's out there that are Really affordable and ready to take on your application in its early days. From experience i would recommend that for python developers.

i get the feeling people are voting up by the title, not the actual article content.. seriously, this is entirely obvious and of digg caliber.. not what i expect from news.yc

time to bootstrap that startup that makes startups.. oh, wait...

i think this rose to the top because we all want validations of our dislike for google and its overwhelming self-righteousness

as an RIT CS grad ('03), I cackled when i saw your desktop.. very CSH :)

who says jokes can't be fully functional.. imo it makes them all that much better.. remember textquake? :)

during the San Diego wildfires, lots of people subscribed to KPBS's (local npr radio station) twitter stream as a way to get updates on evacuations. KPBS also had a really good google map up in the first few hours, and was way ahead of everyone else in keeping it up to date. (fwiw i live in SD, work in an area that was under threat of evac).

ah, a project for a client.. damn i tried to snuff out things like that. It's just yet another media sharing site, we (I) built it in django with ffmpeg.

yuck.

stuff like code folding and automagical code generation encourage all the wrong habits. Simple, readable, and reused code is "tight".

my work workspace (OSX) http://nikolajbaer.us/media/desktop.jpg

at home its similar, but xfce4 terminals and pidgin on xubuntu.