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Same here (34/36)... I was kinda surprised because I felt some of them were really wild guesses and it usually turned out I guessed correctly...

> I've looked into frameworks like Django. It's not good because it abstracts away the functionality of the database. It's nice that everything is an object, but if you want to do something more complex and go around the framework, things get messy and start to feel hackish.

I was thinking the same when I first worked with frameworks (Rails at first, Django now...). First there was the honeymoon phase, where it seems like the framework does everything you need... then you start to encounter the first problems (i.e. try to do something thats a bit more complex...), and you start thinking; Well, the framework does everything for you 90% of the time, but the 10% when it doesn't makes up for the time you saved...

But I found that after working with a framework for a while (almost 2 years with Django in my case) you get to know its strength and its weakness, and you get to do more complex stuff a lot more easily (for example, I often resort to raw SQL with Django, it's just a matter of doing Model.objects.raw() ). In the end, I think it's worth working with a framework because well, obviously it prevents you from having to re-write boring boilerplate/glue code, but it also (usually, or perhaps I should say, hopefully) means you are working with a well-tested codebase on which to build up on. In my case, I would say the time it took me to really learn how to work with Django was worth it today, if only for the time it makes me save now!...

Yeah, same here (also in Canada). Been trying to get an iPhone 4 at Rogers since they came out and still didn't manage to get one!

To be fair though, couple of my friends got one by either waiting in line at the Apple store or calling Rogers retention etc... but I really don't care enough to jump through hoops to get one so I'm still waiting!

Thanks for clarifying...I wasn't sure if it was 2 attacks, which makes more sense, or just a random downtime and THEN a real attack...

So it was not an attack, but now it is one? ( see: http://twitter.com/notch/status/27984231275 That was posted 30 minutes ago)

I love the concept! I decided to try it and got the following "shoutkey": http://drp.ly/WfCx

Would be funny to shout to my friend across the room "HEY, GO TO SHOUT KEY DOT COM SLASH HOMOSEXUAL"! (not that it would bother me in any way haha)

Definitely an interesting idea!

Well, it's impressively fast, however, I'm not sure I will ever get to use it considering I do most of my search from the Google Chrome Omnibox and very rarely visit the actual google homepage...

Probably unrelated, but on Tuesday: Two CF-18s shadowed a pair of Russian military aircraft Tuesday as they flew within 56 kilometres of Canadian soil

From: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/25/cf-18s-russians-...

Well, I guess that's one way to earn a living!

I was convinced it would be about this guy however: http://oddstuffmagazine.com/extraordinary-art-on-pencil-tips...

I don't think it is specific to Rails! I find myself thinking the same with Django and lately, with Node.js... I'm talking mostly about the abundance of 3rd party librairies, and not really knowing which one to pick, which ones are still maintained etc...

I like it (although I must admit I love indie rock to begin with), but isn't it quite similar to http://www.thesixtyone.com/ ?

Yup, I'm a French Canadian and I've heard it before from French people (from France)... Some also say it sounds more like the French that is spoken in the more remote or rural parts of the country...

Couldn't you just do the following?

  from random import choice
  choice(list(myset))

(I'm guessing you'd want to do it without having to convert it to a list first?)

Very nicely done indeed! Does it play nice with IE? (Can't test it because I don't have a Windows machine at home). CSS would be much more pleasant to work with if it was consistent across different browsers...

I'm not sure I really get what the author's point is...?

Her website didn't seem any clearer: http://www.tedtoons.com/hive5project/about.php

Basically I'm just not sure what she is complaining about with the "current internet" nor what she wants to do with that hive project...

Interesting idea! I'm curious to see what exactly this service provides (considering PHP deployment isn't exactly hard, as others mentioned). I would certainly love to see such a setup for Python frameworks...

Well, it is now a trending topic on Twitter, that didn't take long!

I smoke pot because it helps me sleep. In any other cases I find pot to be counter-productive... Sure it might've help me come up with some interesting essay in my Philosophy class back in college but besides that I find it really hurts my productivity. I can code when I'm high but everything takes at least 2-3x longer than it would've taken me if I were sober.

Then again, I guess it affects everyone differently. Some of my friends (usually the more "artsy" type of people) find that it helps boost their productivity. As for me, well, I have trouble sleeping and I'm not interested in sleeping pills so, as long as pot will help me with that, I will keep on smoking it. In any other situation (especially any "social" situation) I avoid it as it makes me more awkward, paranoid and anxious.