superxor

RedShift is pretty nice, easily configurable and you can just add it to your wm's startup. Pretty stable too, been using it for an year now.

God, I was so fed up with django.contrib.auth.models.User, not being able to ignore Username was probably the most insane part, I always felt email was a better choice than Username. I along with a bunch of people I know are looking forward to swappable User model, far saner than the round-about approaches I was using.

If Android team doesn't see this as a potential feature, they should at the least close the bug, just letting it rot does not align with the goal of having a bug tracker.

Though the article is new to me I don't understand the context of this submission.

(Never using web.py and not being fully aware of Django's status in 2005) I see that overall they seem to have faired well. All you need is a settings.py file to run a Django app. The templating is slow performance-wise but pretty expressive.

I love that the Django community as a whole is pretty responsive to criticism. The 'Why Django Sucks' talk at DjangoCon is an example. My biggest complaint was the horrible User model (you cannot not have 'username' for a Django app using the User model). But they've fixed it now. The major complaint against Django is that it is monolithic, but the devs have worked hard to keep the system decoupled allowing one to replace most modules. But if you want something small Django is not the one for you I guess, and there is nothing wrong in it. One size fits all is never possible to achieve and not a good solution too.

I think it's time to cut this 'version number' debate. Mozilla has been pretty clear about the plan to use such a system. The only problem was from enterprise users which Mozilla has addressed. The background auto-update is in the stable builds now, should be enough to keep FF updated. I am really tired of this versioning non-sense. Users complained, Mozilla addressed legitimate concerns. Now it's just a difference in perspective. Seems like the new system is actually helping Mozilla put out updates faster. Lets move on.

Fc*king paywalls. This is such an amazing article, if only they could not have paywalls for research articles. Its as if the licenses will make enough money to fund the research, stupidity I say.

The docudrama 'The pirates of Silicon Valley' has a small clip with some IBM employees singing some song. I thought it was a one off thing.

The FF dev tools offer a very different experience compared to Chrome. I am curious about the rationale between having different views for web inspector & debugger.

I am on Aurora/Ubuntu. The binding for the Debugger (Ctrl-Shft-S) doesn't seem to work for me and the Dev toolbar has no way to open the debugger view.

This post specifically is arguable. But Zed's an excellent programmer and teacher. I even heard a first person account that he is a very pleasant guy.

Many people claim Java gives better performance. I would like to know from some experienced programmers how it had been a few years ago. Was Java always this well performing?

Seems like Java community did quite a lot to get Java to perform better. How likely is it for a language like Python or Ruby to do something like that? I understand that these are vastly different technologies and we simply can't compare implementing a JVM feature in say a Python interpreter, but any commentary would be appreciated.

I've been a fairly recent Emacs user, a year and half I suppose. I've found Xah really helpful in some cases when I was starting with Emacs. He tries to start online discussions, writes some tutorials in his blog, even starts G+ hangouts where he helps random people, and all this voluntarily.

I have no idea what discussions he has trolled or what controversies he was involved in. But there is a humble volunteer part of him I appreciate (like this HN item), and I believe in this way he adds some real value to the community.

When you talk about self-defense, even here in India one is allowed to own a gun if he gets a license. It's not impossible to own a gun here, it is just more regulated. That way not every Tom, Dick and Harry can own a gun.

Criminals can get hands on weapons in one or the other way. But giving every one a gun because they have to defend themselves from some criminals is not a good solution. It's better to work towards a better Law and order system.

And, don't make statements like 'You are wrong'. These are issues our and your forefathers have been trying to solve, there is still no absolute right/wrong yet.

Living here in India it's surprising to see the mostly unregulated Gun sale in the US. I believe it's a right the constitution of US grants to its citizens. But I've read that this is a major cause for higher homicidal rate in the US. It seems like common sense to us here that allowing nearly everyone to purchase Guns is counter-productive and will only result in more violence.

Correct me If I am wrong, I understand this is a highly polarized issue in US and it's election time too.

OMFG, are they this desperate to fight off Gmail!

People call G+ a desperate attempt, but this is ground-bottom. There's only word to describe this, disaster.

I have a Notebook with Optimus, and watching this made me so happy. Nvidia is being an ass by not supporting Optimus.

> Microsoft has time to generate an "ecosystem", the clunky technology buzzword for what the rest of the world calls "markets".

That was arrogant! Ecosystems are more than just markets.

LastPass is an excellent service to manage your passwords. Their Firefox add-on is amazing. If you are not the paranoid-type (i.e. not scared to put your passwords in a 3rd party cloud) then I strongly recommend LastPass. Their browser add-ons are free and their mobile apps a mere 1$.

Obligatory:

Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/

Complete list of changes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/bugli...

This gotta get me some karma!

I once used Quickoffice on a Symbian S60 phone. I should say, it's capabilities were pretty impressive. Especially with the meager resources available on those old so-called smart phones.

I hope this helps Google build better native Office apps. Obviously, will also be a big addition to their Docs back-end. But it has always puzzled me, with the infinite resources Google has, it still has not been able to develop a seamless import of MS Office files. Is it really that hard?

Any word on which Yahoo! services use this key?

In these screenshots, the borders of inactive tabs disappear. This doesn't seem like a good idea. Wouldn't it be hard for users to identify them as tabs?

This is a horrible way of treating 3rd party developers. Apple should keep in mind that one of the major reasons any platform has ever been successful is because of a strong suite of 3rd party applications, be it Windows, iOS or Android.

Microsoft is paying its way to please developers and Apple is literally spitting on their face.

I've had very bad experience dealing with Apple for the past couple of months. I am maintaining an app developed using Sencha and PhoneGap. Apple suddenly rejects an update, reason cited was 'the app is not dynamic enough'. When I inquire further, they ask me to implement Push Notifications. Implementing Push Notifications is not a problem, its just that I or my client have no freaking idea what data we could Push to the app. There is just no need for such a feature.

It's obscenely preposterous for Apple to dictate what my App should be. I know I should be grateful that Apple has provided me a platform for writing apps (after all its their ecosystem), but I hope they keep in mind that 3rd party developers like me are an asset to them.

Obligatory release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/

Complete list of changes: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/12.0/releasenotes/bugli...

+1

great info, thanks

Thanks for the post, the road map should be a lot more clearer for users.

+1 I had started learning Python 3. But my job now is on Django, so I am forced to use Python 2. I know a good number of people who had the same problem.

> we hope to be targeting up to Python 3.3

All major projects seem to be adding support up to the latest Python 3 version, not the 4 year old 3.0 one.

The best thing to do is, download their demos and hack them.

But if you are looking for a clean solution, then go native, mobile web still sucks. (I so wish it dint)

I use PhoneGap/SenchaTouch to push apps to Appstore and Android market.

Major problem with sencha is it all seems merry initially, then one day you wake up and realize you are in deep shit. Bugs crop up out of nowhere, you WILL have to find work-around solutions.

I heard the official Sencha team is pretty much unresponsive, they mostly concentrate on serving paid clients.

Performance was very poor initially, but its ok now.

Sencha Touch team concentrates so much on iOS, that it is relatively very poor in Android. Just beats the reason to use a cross-platform platform.

> 'Sencha Touch 2 Allows Developers to Code iOS Apps With Windows PCs'

Stupid title. It's been a JS framework all along, it obviously can be coded on Windows/Linux.

I got the point though, Sencha Touch aims to look as native as possible. Well, that is really far fetched. I am working on a Sencha app, and Sencha Touch sucks. Especially the Sencha Touch docs are BS, single line descriptions, very pissing off.

But no other framework is as good as it, yet. Stuck with it for now.