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Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by timtadh »

mikeryan wrote: post #5

So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote. What did you do this year?

Wrote my own web server. Which runs my own web framework. Which runs my new webapp a friend and I wrote yesterday. Writing a simple web stack isn't hard. Writing a full featured, secure, and reliable stack is more difficult.

I mean we are mostly all people who make stuff here. I am slightly offended by your attitude that ZS is some how showing us up and we need to prove what we did this year.

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by wahnfrieden »

steveklabnik wrote: post #40
zedshaw wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Over a 4.0 GPA? Man, are grades that badly inflated now that they have to add extra points to the GPA to make people seem better? No knock on you at all, but just curious what the scale is.

I graduated my high school with a 4.7. They add in the 'bonus points' for taking AP and honors classes after the division, not before. Oh, and everyone over a 4.0 was reported as valedictorian.

The problem is, without knowing the cap on "bonus points," I can't know how far under 4.0 your GPA might have been without the bonus. Maybe your GPA was "only" a 3.7 before adding 1 bonus point? It's ambiguous at best, deceptive at worst.

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by mikeryan »

endtime wrote: post #27
mikeryan wrote: post #5

So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote. What did you do this year?

Since we're all bragging, I finished my MSCS at Stanford with over a 4.0 GPA, wrote a game that was a finalist in the CS248 competition, had my first paper published, TAed CS210, launched my startup, learned Django and CoffeeScript and JavaScript, wrote a charting library in CS/Raphael, started learning how to be someone's boss, and moved across the country and forced myself to make friends. All in all I feel good ab…

We weren't all bragging

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by didip »

mikeryan wrote: post #5

So in 2010 Zed has written his own web server which runs his new framework he wrote for the new webapp he wrote. What did you do this year?

Let's see,

* I quit my full time job, start doing contracting again.

* I co-founded http://cooln.es to test our theory about points relationships between social sites.

* I founded http://mybucket.co because all other bookmarking apps are too much work.

* manual classification of news is too much work, so I created Bayesian filter on top of Redis. It's open source: https://github.com/didip/bayes_on_redis

* I'm still helping out Python newcomers on Pylons, Tornado, and recently Flask mailing list.

* I fix bugs on a couple of gems.

* I start blogging again.

* I start learning http://keplerproject.github.com/orbit not too long ago after answering my own question "I wish there's a hybrid between ruby+python and faster than both."

I'd say it hasn't been a bad year.

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by grandalf »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #42
steveklabnik wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I graduated my high school with a 4.7. They add in the 'bonus points' for taking AP and honors classes after the division, not before. Oh, and everyone over a 4.0 was reported as valedictorian.

The problem is, without knowing the cap on "bonus points," I can't know how far under 4.0 your GPA might have been without the bonus. Maybe your GPA was "only" a 3.7 before adding 1 bonus point? It's ambiguous at best, deceptive at worst.

On the other hand, if a school doesn't give extra points for more advanced classes, someone who took the hardest curriculum possible and did pretty well might have a lower GPA than someone who took the easiest curriculum possible.

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by grandalf »

meric wrote: post #39
zedshaw wrote: post #35

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Interesting, I'll take a look at this some more. My only question is, isn't plain old Lua already like django's templates. What specifically are you adding that embedded lua doesn't just give you?

Template inheritance. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#id1 `Template inheritance¶ The most powerful -- and thus the most complex -- part of Django's template engine is template inheritance. Template inheritance allows you to build a base "skeleton" template that contains all the common elements of your site and defines blocks that child templates can override.` Having made it in lua myself,…

this is awesome, feel like writing it for ruby too?

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by meric »

grandalf wrote: post #46
meric wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Template inheritance. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#id1 `Template inheritance¶ The most powerful -- and thus the most complex -- part of Django's template engine is template inheritance. Template inheritance allows you to build a base "skeleton" template that contains all the common elements of your site and defines blocks that child templates can override.` Having made it in lua myself,…

this is awesome, feel like writing it for ruby too?

I don't know ruby... but RoR is an established platform, I would think it would have something similar?

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by angelbob »

citricsquid wrote: post #19
angelbob wrote: post #9

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In 2010? I reworked my Comet-based realtime game-in-a-web-server library, RailsGame. I fully rewrote, updated and released a webapp called WantMyJob.com. I wrote a circuit simulator game called Shanna's Pizza to start teaching my two-year-old the basics of programming. I also started doing Snap Circuits with her so she'd have a physical basis to understand the circuit simulator game. Also, had a second kid. I wrote a…

Did you know you get more done if you write it down somewhere (like a blog and portfolio) and tell people about it? True story. Do you find that? I'm the opposite, once I "announce" something all desire and motivation for completion goes out of the window. For me I think it's about the appreciation, so when I explain the idea and love it, why complete it.

I build first, then announce :-)

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by steveklabnik »

grandalf wrote: post #45
wahnfrieden wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is, without knowing the cap on "bonus points," I can't know how far under 4.0 your GPA might have been without the bonus. Maybe your GPA was "only" a 3.7 before adding 1 bonus point? It's ambiguous at best, deceptive at worst.

On the other hand, if a school doesn't give extra points for more advanced classes, someone who took the hardest curriculum possible and did pretty well might have a lower GPA than someone who took the easiest curriculum possible.

This happened to one of my friends.

Re: Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up

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Post by steveklabnik »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #42
steveklabnik wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I graduated my high school with a 4.7. They add in the 'bonus points' for taking AP and honors classes after the division, not before. Oh, and everyone over a 4.0 was reported as valedictorian.

The problem is, without knowing the cap on "bonus points," I can't know how far under 4.0 your GPA might have been without the bonus. Maybe your GPA was "only" a 3.7 before adding 1 bonus point? It's ambiguous at best, deceptive at worst.

It was possible to get a 4.9. I don't remember exactly what I got, but it was mostly As, a few Bs.

They've since decreased the 'bonus' quite a lot.

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