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Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by epochwolf »

waterlion wrote: post #38
epochwolf wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you could tell me what you're looking for instead of what you're not looking for, I'd be happy to provide it.

I'm looking for interesting discussion with intelligent people on a range of subjects guided by user-submitted stories. I'm looking for explorations of ideas, learning new things, synthesis as well as derivative ideas. Open-mindedness and acceptance. Otherwise there's no point. I'm not looking for pedantry and closed-mindedness (I'm not accusing you of those things). I'm probably in the wrong place for that on HN, bu…

That's an odd thing to look for on my profile page.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by conesus »

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 use Jammit for static asset compression.

(from https://medium.com/cs-math/f29f6080c131) Jammit came out of DocumentCloud, and even though it was built for Ruby on Rails you can do something like this and use it for Django pretty easily. One of the things I like about it is you can setup different named configurations for javascript and css for different sections of your site (dashboard, non-authenticated, standard). It supports lots of other stuff too.

This is how I use Jammit on NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/utils/jam.... I then compress the assets, upload to S3, and then deploy to my servers. See https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/fabfile.p.... Each app server then downloads from S3. So I can package 2MB of static assets and deploy to to a hundred servers in 10 seconds.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by IgorPartola »

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…

Bah. Your comment is probably one of the less informative ones here, so I downvoted you. Look, there are turns of phrase that shouldn't be used by responsible members of certain communities in public. Saying something like "watch out, woman driver" is pretty offensive universally. We can all benefit from a more inclusive and positive language.

However, the original quote of "Django REST framework is an insane framework" sound innocuous enough to me. The problem I have with it is not that it's discriminatory towards the mentally ill. It's that it makes the author sound like a 13 year old kid. They could improve the sentence by using words like fantastic, great, indispensable, useful, etc. Saying that a "framework" is an "insane framework" is really kind of stupid IMHO. The author could have just excluded that meaningless sentence and the article would have been improved as a result.

Edit: also, searching through the comments on this page, you are the only one bringing up the "insane" word and making (bad) puns around it. Your original comment sounds like a reply to something someone did, except nobody here did anything like what you are accusing them of. Perhaps you might want to take to Twitter or Reddit for pointless venting at nobody in particular.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by eli »

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

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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.

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Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by waterlion »

epochwolf wrote: post #41
waterlion wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm looking for interesting discussion with intelligent people on a range of subjects guided by user-submitted stories. I'm looking for explorations of ideas, learning new things, synthesis as well as derivative ideas. Open-mindedness and acceptance. Otherwise there's no point. I'm not looking for pedantry and closed-mindedness (I'm not accusing you of those things). I'm probably in the wrong place for that on HN, bu…

That's an odd thing to look for on my profile page.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that I would want others to extend to me and not accuse you of pedantry. But I don't think there's much steam left in this conversation.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by sdfjkl »

Amusingly, my must-have Django packages are mostly things that replace large chunks of Django (Jinja2 for templates, a DB connector/ORM for whatever database the project needs, which even for PostgreSQL is often plain SQLAlchemy).

I guess I'll just use flask.py or something for my next project. This is not meant as criticism, just my personal experience.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by epochwolf »

waterlion wrote: post #40
epochwolf wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article has no relevance to gender-neutral language and no one other than yourself is discussing this. It would be better to address this issue in a relevant thread instead of hijacking a random one.

Specifically the casual use of the word 'insane'. I don't think it's unreasonable to discuss the contents of the page and make references to things not contained on the page.

I think you're thinking of the word "retarded". You might as well be arguing against using the word "crazy". Insane and crazy have identical meaning in most contexts.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by waterlion »

eli wrote: post #45
robertfw wrote: post #23

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should have used a bigger ...

I think

I was not trolling by the definition I know. I just thought that it might lead to an interesting conversation.

It's just too hard to communicate on the internet, especially with people who don't share your conversational goals. I think I just found a new year's resolution.

Re: Must-have Django packages

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Post by epochwolf »

waterlion wrote: post #49
eli wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think

I was not trolling by the definition I know. I just thought that it might lead to an interesting conversation. It's just too hard to communicate on the internet, especially with people who don't share your conversational goals. I think I just found a new year's resolution.

Judging by your history on this site, you've done nothing but trolling.
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