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Maybe it's because Joe Hewitt 'quit' developing for iPhone because he was pissed at Apple. http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-fac... They released 3.1 almost …

Get a ticket how ? Because you let your dog crap openly on the street while a cop was watching? What kind of disincentive is that? I live in the police state of New York City, and …

I had a hard time understanding this article, but it was really due to translation issues, and my own lack of understanding about grammar. I had to read up on the English concept o…

I'm particularly irritated with the distasteful attitude the author took when he was mad a couple of hacker news readers didn't think it was fair to charge $0.99 for this.

"If there weren't real fundamental problems with the security, stability and performance of Flash I don't think we'd be having this conversation at all." But that always seems to b…

Could you (or anyone else) elaborate on the issues with super() as described in this article? I'm having a hard time understanding what's going on between the complex details of th…

Great, another glorified RSS reader for $2

I'll admit that I didn't read this article particularly thoroughly, but how did he get through an entire overview of 'Table Oriented Programming' without mentioning Lua?

I think you should reconsider those statements. Just because you wrote it doesn't mean it's doing what you think it is. And users really can not be counted on to report errors. Eve…

This is interesting, I had an idea to do the same thing years ago. I ended up just taking a few of the really nice things from Drupal, and making a new framework around those. I lo…

If there is honestly nothing that does what you need, fine. I'm just saying the NIH-syndrome is a big problem for the FOSS community, and leads to the fracturing of attention. Far …

NO! Don't write your own!! That's what got us into this mess in the first place! Find one you like, and do what you can to support it in some way.

Writing unit tests should be your highest priority. I am far from a TDD advocate, and compared to many I am terrible at maintaining my own tests, but I could never justify using an…

I'm sorry, but this post is just packed full of FUD. I hear this all the time, "argh, Deferreds are so hard to understand," as if there's some kind of magic going on in a Deferred.…

I go back and forth between writing electronic music and performing intensely improvisational rock music. I've got a lot of my personal music on my main site at http://www.philchri…

I question the relevance of these tests. With all the attention being given to performance, everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that Tornado provides zero support for truly a…

okay, i give up. explain to me how it's possible to run any significant WSGI app inside this container. wouldn't any long-running request monopolize the whole server? i don't have …

that's just not true. i use web1 extensively, and it works very well, and although it's performance is not as good as apache or lighttpd when serving raw files, it's more than adeq…

what 'web mess in twisted' are you referring to?

Unless of course, you had said LSD on some kind of substrate, such as blotter paper, or god help you, a sugar cube. Then the 'fair government' would weigh the entire product, and c…

Sweet merciful lord. Is this guy channelling Zed Shaw or what? Apart from all the hand-waving and generalizations, this guy doesn't sound like he's ever really a webapp under serio…

He's right about there being two kinds of programmers, and we might as well use 'engineer' vs. 'artist' even though it's not entirely accurate. However, all programmers need to be …