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Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by papercruncher »

TheMakeA wrote: post #17

What are people using these days for compiling their static assets (js minification + concatenation, etc)? We have been using django-pipeline but it has been a nightmare.

We switched to the google pagespeed module for nginx and stop worrying about it. It doesn't do minification very well but it does concatenation and takes care of a bunch of other stuff as well, like image resizing, CSS concatenation etc.

We used to use the HTML5 Boilerplate script but it was horrendously slow on EC2

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by epochwolf »

waterlion wrote: post #15

"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like this that leads to the imbalance and under-representation in the industry. Let's boycott this author. (I would love not to have to write " " but having seen some of the comments here, I think I need to. I wonder how many white-knights-for-w…

How is this heteronormative? I didn't see any reference to gender in the entire article.

Also, you're really stretching the "discrimination to the mentally ill" thing to the point of silliness.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by robertfw »

epochwolf wrote: post #22
waterlion wrote: post #15

"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like this that leads to the imbalance and under-representation in the industry. Let's boycott this author. (I would love not to have to write " " but having seen some of the comments here, I think I need to. I wonder how many white-knights-for-w…

How is this heteronormative? I didn't see any reference to gender in the entire article. Also, you're really stretching the "discrimination to the mentally ill" thing to the point of silliness.

should have used a bigger ...

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by epochwolf »

robertfw wrote: post #23
epochwolf wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this heteronormative? I didn't see any reference to gender in the entire article. Also, you're really stretching the "discrimination to the mentally ill" thing to the point of silliness.

should have used a bigger ...

Or perhaps waterlion should have just not made the joke. It does not relate to the article in any fashion I can find relevant nor does it add anything to the existing discussion.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by tdj »

TheMakeA wrote: post #17

What are people using these days for compiling their static assets (js minification + concatenation, etc)? We have been using django-pipeline but it has been a nightmare.

I'm pretty happy with django-compressor.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by justinsteele »

waterlion wrote: post #15

"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like this that leads to the imbalance and under-representation in the industry. Let's boycott this author. (I would love not to have to write " " but having seen some of the comments here, I think I need to. I wonder how many white-knights-for-w…

Terrible joke/10

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by waterlion »

epochwolf wrote: post #22
waterlion wrote: post #15

"Django REST framework is an insane framework" I'm fed up with this kind of oppressive language. This is heteronormative and is discriminatory to the mentally ill. It's stuff like this that leads to the imbalance and under-representation in the industry. Let's boycott this author. (I would love not to have to write " " but having seen some of the comments here, I think I need to. I wonder how many white-knights-for-w…

How is this heteronormative? I didn't see any reference to gender in the entire article. Also, you're really stretching the "discrimination to the mentally ill" thing to the point of silliness.

I was going to say "the equivalent of heteronormative but for mental illness" but I thought that anyone that understood what I was saying might have just let me have that one slip and interpreted the meaning rather than focus on its strict representation.

It wasn't a joke as such, at least its intention wasn't primarily humour. Just highlighting the fact that nearly everything everyone says is offensive or exclusionary to someone and that if we adopt the universal application of the principles of extreme gender-neutral language that we've seen advocated on HN and elsewhere, equally for every issue, we end up with lobotomised language†.

I think the use of 'insane' is fine. And I think the use of gendered pronouns is fine. But I am neither insane nor of a gender that is under-represented in the pronoun

† oh never mind

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by waterlion »

dkoch wrote: post #18
waterlion wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you square that with the article? It specifically says that that Django REST is "insane".

Don't be a pedant. The author uses the word in the sense of the slang expression "insanely great."

Don't be a joke pedant? The author (me) uses the quotation in an ironic manner.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by waterlion »

epochwolf wrote: post #24
robertfw wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

should have used a bigger ...

Or perhaps waterlion should have just not made the joke. It does not relate to the article in any fashion I can find relevant nor does it add anything to the existing discussion.

I think it adds to the broader discussion that goes on on HN, specifically over the last month or so.

Could you remove that joke about the dog from your profile page please? I went there looking for serious information.

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