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morphyn | 11 years ago | on: Django Rest Framework general model serializer

Their API/role is very similar to the `forms` in standard Django. I agree with you that they handle too much stuff and that saving to the database has nothing to do in a serializer, just like it has nothing to do in a form. But I also think it's a very good choice to follow common Django practices, so that codebases stay somewhat consistent, and new users are able to understand the concepts very quickly.

morphyn | 12 years ago | on: You are not a software engineer (2011)

Migrations are about data, not schema. You don't need migrations with a "schemaless" database at the beginning, but as soon as you have data you care about, you're gonna need to ensure some sort of consistency.

morphyn | 12 years ago | on: The problem with vim

For info, you can map jj to <ESC> in .vrapperrc (or _vrapperrc). Maybe they added that after you tried it.

morphyn | 12 years ago | on: Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich Are Removing Their Music from Spotify

Did you take a look at the way gittip does this ? You basically donate to a twitter handle and its owner can 'claim' the account whenever they want. No money is actually transferred until the account is claimed. I don't know if it can be applied to artists/bands though.

I was also wondering: is there no transfer fees with paypal ? Don't they make small amounts transfer useless ?

And one last thing: is it not weird for bands/artists to suddenly receive money from people without being informed about the site and all that ?

morphyn | 13 years ago | on: Upgrading to Sublime Text 3

It would probably be possible to make the extension use the system's installation of python if available instead of the one embedded with Sublime, but that would require some coding.

morphyn | 13 years ago | on: An iPhone lover’s confession: I switched to the Nexus 4

I've been using my Nexus 4 for one week now and I obviously love it. I think the feature that impressed me the most is the 'gesture typing', which compensates for my apparent inability to type correctly on a virtual keyboard. And it works surprisingly well in French too.

morphyn | 13 years ago | on: Why I’m not leaving Python for Go

The Either type described in the first comment is also a Monad. They are more important in Haskell than just "when you need to write to a file..." and I don't think you can totally grasp the error handling method without understanding them.
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