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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 ove…

"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Donald Knuth Getting the code written and the app out the …

Can you point to any good tutorials for Backbone? I've found the documentation very sparse for newcomers.

It's an incredible sales tool for the framework, I'll say that. I'm in the process of selecting a Javascript framework for a new project, and this makes selecting Knockout very com…

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 othe…

One thing to keep in mind is that restaurants typically has pretty high fixed costs (rent, power, lights, a minimum number of staff), but moderate-to-low variable costs (food, extr…

While it often seems to surprise Americans, there's nothing about a universal postal service - or even universal postal service - that requires granting anyone a monopoly. Many cou…

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..…

It's actually hard - and perhaps impossible - to bias a coin by weighting one face. It's not a very well studied area, but according to what info I can find[1], as general rule, yo…

...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 …

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 jus…

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…

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 …

Pretty much every single element of the iPhone 4s is a copy. Admittedly, it's mostly a copy of other Apple products (most significantly, the iPhone 4), but that doesn't change the …

I've been using Django BruteBuster[0], but this project looks interesting. Is it worth switching? [0]: http://code.google.com/p/django-brutebuster/

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 confer…

Shorter article: European governments claim that the US government is selling European consumers cheap fuel. European governments vow to stop this terrible nightmare.

There is no connection.

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…

Uh huh. Interesting argument, but I'm afraid that the Linux kernel is fundamentally not like an encyclopaedia.

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 …

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 les…

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 anyon…

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.…