The headline is completely wrong and misleading. There are two major mistakes: First, the linked article actually claims that the US will end up spending a total of $4 trillion over the next 50 years, with the costs…
Can you point to any good tutorials for Backbone? I've found the documentation very sparse for newcomers.
Old chart - and it's been debunked too many times to count.
Yes... But don't disregard the nasty collective action problem they have. Let's say one of the big labels suddenly gets religion, and rewrites their contracts with Spotify and others to be fair and generous. Great! What…
1) It looks very interesting, but I've looked at more todo list, GTD, project management, kanban, and issue tracker apps than I can list. I wouldn't mind giving this a whirl, but... I have to give my credit card info?…
...but actually, it does. http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/04/iq-income-and-weal... Zagorsky is being sited in other comments here, but the problem with Zagorsky is that his results control for education and…
Git is very, VERY commonly used in a "centralised" manner, so don't worry about that. Once you're used to git, the overhead of having to commit and push whenever you would have just commited in svn is minimal. Still, it…
You're half right. If you think about it a bit, you'll work out that taxing "bad things" is a great idea, and that the proper tax rate is the net externality of the activity. We're not trying to stop the activity…
Everything in the article is based on a single data source: Page hits at DistroWatch. And that's a completely useless data source. We don't have the slightest idea how many people are using Ubuntu, or how many people…
My experience is that Python is everywhere, but Ruby is a tiny niche. I know lots of Python developers, but I don't know a SINGLE Ruby developer. There was recently a Python conference in my (fairly small) city, but I…
Shorter article: European governments claim that the US government is selling European consumers cheap fuel. European governments vow to stop this terrible nightmare.
I am aware of multiple cases where subject matter experts have tried to fix errors relating to their area of expertise, had the changes reverted, and given up. The phenomenon is by no means limited to "SEO experts", but…
Let me rephrase - Django is typically run as a WSGI app. uWSGI is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP or its own uwsgi protocol (currently supported by nginx and cherokee). Gunicorn is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP.…
Most of the numbers are going to depend on your job, your location, your lifestyle, your preferences, etc. Live in the suburbs and you'll probably spend a lot on transport, but less on housing. Live in the city and…
Point 7 - Port Binding: I'm interested in hearing anyone else's views on this. How would you even do this for a Django app? And is this really better than just using WSGI? Is anyone using Tornado with Django in…
Point 3 - Config: The claim is that you shouldn't have a config file that you don't check into source control like Rails' config/database.yaml, or the common Django settings_local.py. Instead you should use environment…
Objectively, her work is not that great. She wrote simple stories with repetitive plots and cardboard characters. And yet... It's tempting to try and compare one of her books to, say, one of Louis McMaster Bujold's…
They're superb, but Das Keyboard makes a keyboard which is every bit as good, I think. I'm using one right now, in fact.
These rankings assume that signing a law that creates a new entitlement that will entail large payoffs in future decades is "free". Being in office when those promises come due is profligate. In reality, we should be…
According to the article, this is a proposed amendment to ban corporations from making political donations or expenditures. It's not clear from context if that means companies donating to a political campaign, or if it…
This is pretty interesting looking. I'm tempted to try using it on my next project...anyone else used it yet? Seem stable/bug free?
This is a little bit like, oh... Opera writing a blog post about how you shouldn't use Firefox because it won't display any Google page. ...ie, it would be very important and interesting if true, but it's 1) not true,…
That's a bit too charitable to Apple, I think. Yes, the decision is covered by the terms of the agreement - they can do what they did. But since the result of their decision is 1) bad press and 2) increased risk of…
The lack of contrast between read and unread items ridiculous. The following custom CSS makes it bearable: #entries .entry .card-common { background: #eee} #entries .entry .card-actions { background: #eee } #entries…
Okay. So who is offering a service that can match Google's offering? In particular, they need to offer a good (ie, at least as good as Google's) webmail client and spam filtering.
The headline is completely wrong and misleading. There are two major mistakes: First, the linked article actually claims that the US will end up spending a total of $4 trillion over the next 50 years, with the costs…
Can you point to any good tutorials for Backbone? I've found the documentation very sparse for newcomers.
Old chart - and it's been debunked too many times to count.
Yes... But don't disregard the nasty collective action problem they have. Let's say one of the big labels suddenly gets religion, and rewrites their contracts with Spotify and others to be fair and generous. Great! What…
1) It looks very interesting, but I've looked at more todo list, GTD, project management, kanban, and issue tracker apps than I can list. I wouldn't mind giving this a whirl, but... I have to give my credit card info?…
...but actually, it does. http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/04/iq-income-and-weal... Zagorsky is being sited in other comments here, but the problem with Zagorsky is that his results control for education and…
Git is very, VERY commonly used in a "centralised" manner, so don't worry about that. Once you're used to git, the overhead of having to commit and push whenever you would have just commited in svn is minimal. Still, it…
You're half right. If you think about it a bit, you'll work out that taxing "bad things" is a great idea, and that the proper tax rate is the net externality of the activity. We're not trying to stop the activity…
Everything in the article is based on a single data source: Page hits at DistroWatch. And that's a completely useless data source. We don't have the slightest idea how many people are using Ubuntu, or how many people…
My experience is that Python is everywhere, but Ruby is a tiny niche. I know lots of Python developers, but I don't know a SINGLE Ruby developer. There was recently a Python conference in my (fairly small) city, but I…
Shorter article: European governments claim that the US government is selling European consumers cheap fuel. European governments vow to stop this terrible nightmare.
I am aware of multiple cases where subject matter experts have tried to fix errors relating to their area of expertise, had the changes reverted, and given up. The phenomenon is by no means limited to "SEO experts", but…
Let me rephrase - Django is typically run as a WSGI app. uWSGI is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP or its own uwsgi protocol (currently supported by nginx and cherokee). Gunicorn is a WSGI server that can speak HTTP.…
Most of the numbers are going to depend on your job, your location, your lifestyle, your preferences, etc. Live in the suburbs and you'll probably spend a lot on transport, but less on housing. Live in the city and…
Point 7 - Port Binding: I'm interested in hearing anyone else's views on this. How would you even do this for a Django app? And is this really better than just using WSGI? Is anyone using Tornado with Django in…
Point 3 - Config: The claim is that you shouldn't have a config file that you don't check into source control like Rails' config/database.yaml, or the common Django settings_local.py. Instead you should use environment…
Objectively, her work is not that great. She wrote simple stories with repetitive plots and cardboard characters. And yet... It's tempting to try and compare one of her books to, say, one of Louis McMaster Bujold's…
They're superb, but Das Keyboard makes a keyboard which is every bit as good, I think. I'm using one right now, in fact.
These rankings assume that signing a law that creates a new entitlement that will entail large payoffs in future decades is "free". Being in office when those promises come due is profligate. In reality, we should be…
According to the article, this is a proposed amendment to ban corporations from making political donations or expenditures. It's not clear from context if that means companies donating to a political campaign, or if it…
This is pretty interesting looking. I'm tempted to try using it on my next project...anyone else used it yet? Seem stable/bug free?
This is a little bit like, oh... Opera writing a blog post about how you shouldn't use Firefox because it won't display any Google page. ...ie, it would be very important and interesting if true, but it's 1) not true,…
That's a bit too charitable to Apple, I think. Yes, the decision is covered by the terms of the agreement - they can do what they did. But since the result of their decision is 1) bad press and 2) increased risk of…
The lack of contrast between read and unread items ridiculous. The following custom CSS makes it bearable: #entries .entry .card-common { background: #eee} #entries .entry .card-actions { background: #eee } #entries…
Okay. So who is offering a service that can match Google's offering? In particular, they need to offer a good (ie, at least as good as Google's) webmail client and spam filtering.