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It's a shame that comments like this one repudiating several of the details in the original article can't be viewed at the location of the originating post. Instead, everyone who r…

> What is a distributed commenting system? An HTML script tag to load a static file that will ping an api that will serve you comments. This is how Disqus works. Something still ha…

> There's no way that we can entrust the business to something that can just catastrophically fail at any moment. Anything, including service providers, can catastrophically fail a…

It's worth noting that if you're planning on instantiating multiple instances of the same "class" (to use the term generically/loosely) instead of immediately invoking the function…

> "git reset" has quite simple syntax, but it confuses the hell out of even experienced git users because it's very clever and potentially very dangerous. For anyone who gets a pan…

I've found this view_class_decorator and MultipleFormView particularly helpful with class-based views: https://gist.github.com/1953579

Seeking Work - Remote preferred, or SF-ish (North Bay) Available for short- or long-term engagements. Experience with building large Django applications and working all over the st…

> Running a whole VM just to run an app is immensely irritating. Although starting a VM to run an app is irritating, spending time hunting down why your build is breaking (or worse…

The redirection has to be done on the client-side, because the server never receives the fragment identifier as part of the URL.

Steve actually drove a Mercedes SL55 AMG: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2011/10/steve-jobs-...

The Dijkstra transcript referred to a bit deeper in the thread about why sequence numbering starts at zero is a tangentially interesting read: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/tr…

If you think that's exorbitant, you should check out the $29.99 iPhone app.

Also worth noting is Steve Souders' control.js ( http://stevesouders.com/controljs/ ) which adds some tools for delayed script execution and solves a few document.write use cases t…

It's easier to ensure that you live on a "quiet street" when the street doesn't go anywhere.

That's easy — just delete `decimal.py` from your standard library.

Homebrew is another popular alternative to MacPorts that you may be interested in looking at: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

"I agree with you and generally this is a great way for a startup to save money as well because new grads are cheap." I'd argue the opposite case — if it's true that a good program…

I updated the original comment w/ the original and updated text. Sorry if you saw this as inappropriate — I had updated it before it was upvoted and thought it only clarified the p…

They (nginx, lighttpd) are more difficult to exploit, especially when used to buffer requests to a heavier upstream server like Apache. EDIT (Clarification): They (nginx, lighttpd)…

I'd hardly consider the V8 JavaScript engine a second-class citizen in Chrome at this point.

If you're going to call Deschutes a Portland beer at 160+ miles away (and at the same time, leave out Rogue? That one confused me.), I think it's fair to call Russian River, North …