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Beautiful, thank you for this!

Would be nice if there it was bundled with sample patched fonts, so those wanting to try it could see if it's worth the trouble to patch a font.

I commend Waldemar and Thomas for announcing their decision so that someone else can take the reigns, rather that letting things die slowly and quietly.

On the other hand, I can't help but think that "development halted" and "no longer maintained"[1] headlines do the Django community a disservice, as evidenced by comments here[2] asking if Django is dead.

Django is alive, active, and serving many of us very well, thank you. IMHO the reason you don't hear much about it compared to the latest hot shit framework is because it usually "just works", leaving us more time to deal with more important things, like actual business problems.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274697 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3275484

Thank you for posting that; the headline of this story implies that the new version is less free than 1.3.0, which does not seem to be the case.

As horrible as PHP is, it is really easy to sit down with PHP and a tutorial or a book and start banging out code that gives you instant results...

You could say the same thing about ASP, or even ColdFusion.

I'd argue that those instant results had more to do with the higher availability of PHP on cheap web hosts, than the accessibility of the language itself.

When will people realize that the main reason PHP was/is so successful has nothing to do with the language? PHP got huge because it's free and super easy to deploy on commodity-level hosting. Ubiquity breeds popularity.

Basing a reboot on the JVM makes little sense in this context.

That said, you lost me at "less ';' like in javascript".

Very cool, but at only 31" tall it's unlikely to function well as a standing desk unless you are very, very short.

Nothing revolutionary or EC2-specific here. The article could well be titled "Mounting an SSH host on OS X using OSXFuse".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2923885 :)

I second this. Also consider Python-related meetups and user groups, like Django.

Funny article, but it misses the fact that GitHub's pricing is less about code separation, and more about access management.

There's nothing stopping a customer from cramming several projects into a single Git repository. You could theoretically take advantage of GitHub's "unlimited" storage for cheap this way. The problem is, you need separate repositories if you want to manage access for different collaborators.

Folders aren't expensive, but access management can be. Github understands this, which is why their Business plans, which are differentiated by having finer-grained access control features, are more expensive.

EC2 is not always a good substitute for dedicated servers for numerous reasons, I/O performance chief among them.

I switched to yafc from lftp years ago and never looked back, so I can't really compare it to newer versions of lftp. IIRC the biggest wins at the time were context-sensitive tab completion, including support for remote paths, and automatic bookmarking with saved passwords (optional, of course). FTP sucks, yafc makes it tolerable.

clex's approach to file management is by complementing the command line; you can generally use it as a pure CLI and it stays out of your way unless until you need to find or select a path. Every action you perform remains on the command line, clex merely makes it easier to quickly build commands. Compared to clex, Midnight Commander (like Norton Commander before it) feels like an attempt at a graphical file manager for the terminal, where the command line is almost an afterthought.

My obscure favorites:

yafc: The best command-line FTP client that nobody's ever heard of. Local caching, tab completion, bookmarking, SFTP, and other generally awesome stuff.

clex: Full-screen file manager for command-line junkies. Configurable directory display, smart name completion, enhances the command line without seeking to replace it.

Kudos on providing a price comparison page, but it's somewhat misleading that you're including Authorize.Net set up fees in the "Per Month Costs". Isn't that more reflective of first month costs?

Also, why wasn't Spreedly included?

Thanks. How long until release? :)

NFSN is attractive in principle, but their management UI is awful. I had a few low-traffic domains registered and hosted there and ended up transferring them elsewhere out of sheer frustration.

TL;DR: DHH is annoyed that there are people in the tech industry who have never heard of him.

If someone were to implement this with vi keybindings, and/or Zen Coding macros, then it'd be truly noteworthy.

Good work, but doesn't "Pure CSS" usually mean "CSS without JavaScript"?

I've been a SizeUp user for about 8 months, and use it every day. The Cinch/SizeUp developer has been responsive and open to user feedback and suggestions. Highly recommended.

Takes me back to 1992. Damn I feel old.

I bought my 2408WFP specifically because it can be rotated, but I never actually ended up using it in portrait mode. I figured a portrait display would be better for viewing code, but in practice I couldn't get used to such a tall display; it was too much strain on my neck.

+1 for the 2408WFP. Excellent S-PVA display, except that it's a bitch to calibrate accurately, so beware if you need calibrated color.

The Dell U2410, which replaced the 2408WFP, has an IPS panel and can be found on sale from time to time for $400-500.