mcu's comments

A fantastic "1960: The Making of the President" video review http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/v/review-1960-the-mak...

We covered "A Distant Plain" on Shut Up & Sit Down last month: http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-distant-pla...

Twilight Imperium, Lords of Water Deep, The Settlers of Catan. Games that you would find at http://boardgamegeek.com/

Board gaming is a hobby that is innately social, we're building a mobile app and platform for board gamers.

You mean my 24 chickens? Yes, you may have them.

Maybe you could post your video and a link to your site? You Getting it out into the aether can help.

Also, I can't imagine that your wife is laughing at you.

It really isn't worth worrying about it or counting your chickens before they hatch. The YC app asks you to lay yourself bare when writing it, so applying to YC can be a bit more emotionally involved than other types of fundraising.

Thanks for the response. That's nice to hear.

Yeah, "activity" being any indication that someone is reading the app. (e.g. Clicking on links, downloading attached files, watching the video, etc.)

While we were gathering supplies I joked: "I'm glad that I got the YC app in, I want to enjoy my hurricane."

Supplies: https://twitter.com/mikeurbanski/status/263028329483997185

Best. Hurricane. Ever. https://twitter.com/mikeurbanski/status/263117753995644928

MonkeySpace was great! Especially that thing that was demoed that we can't talk about. You know... wink wink, secret hand shake...

Awesome things are coming!

I've been working with Mono for going on 8 years, I'm so glad to see that they were able to pull away from Novell.

This is very beautiful.

I truly do not understand the value of "Corporate Core Value" statements. (OK, #5, "No Shenanigans", those are words to live by.)

Personal, Human core values. The things that keep us in line, help us to foster healthy relationships, and build civilizations are important.

But what are corporate "core values"?

I'm always a little unnerved when a company (spontaneously, or even worse, with the guidance of a "guru") feels the need to embrace this particular brand of corporate banality.

It's advertisement wrapped in altruism, and that's in vogue right now. While I'm sure it's well-intentioned, and I don't mean this as an indictment, it feels cynical.

Whatever happened to Mission Statements?

http://i.imgur.com/pvEkp.jpg

He wrote some fun fantasy stories.

For me, the lack of documentation was a blessing!

When I first started investigating Piston I read almost every line of code that I was going to be using.

I'm glad I did!

Understanding Piston at the source level allowed me to create wrappers, mixins, and extensions that turned Piston into something that I was more comfortable with. I moved away from Piston (Piston lacks a few features that come baked-in by default w\ TP) to Tastypie, but, the experience was almost exactly the same.

I spent most of last week reading the Tastypie code and creating a tastypie_ext library that helps me do things my way and patch up a few of what I see as major issues (did you know that Tastypie will 500 by default if you pass it malformed json/yaml/xml? That is, client input can raise an unhandled exception on demand.)

As far as documentation goes, Tastypie isn't much better than Piston, and Django itself still has a few gaping holes in its documentation (I'm still waiting for better class-based view documentation before I adopt them completely.)

I tend to view frameworks and libraries as loaded guns... At the end of the day every person using a framework should understand how it works from top to bottom at the source level.

P.S. Thanks for django-uni-form (now django-crispy-forms)! I learned to use it by reading the source :D.

mcu is a Python developer too...

This is what deal forums have done since time immemorial (1996-ish).

One "also-ran" does not a "serious contender" make. Or break.

I loved living in the North Loop/51st St. area!

About $600 for a nice one bedroom. Right by Epoch, Dragon's Lair, Great Hall Games, Austin Books and Comics, etc...

Family.

They moved down after I went away for school. After being away from them for about 6 years during/after school, I went down the summer before my brother got married and ended up staying for a bit after meeting a girl.

This was well before I considered Austin or the others. I didn't intend to settle in Texas when I first got here.

It's kinda dreary and worn looking. :)

The Hill Country is nice tho.