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stepmr | 4 years ago | on: Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

This won't do anything. Dr Andy Yan (https://twitter.com/Ayan604) has a pretty interesting take on all of this: "It still leaks. It may make a bit of a difference, but at the same time it doesn’t deal with the issue at hand, which is foreign capital, not foreign people" https://archive.ph/OcSYX

For those interested in how crazy this is in Canada, journalist Sam Cooper (https://twitter.com/scoopercooper) has done some awesome reporting.

stepmr | 10 years ago | on: Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip

Any idea why this uses a forked version of Django? I read through docs and skimmed the repo but couldn't find anything that speaks to this...

stepmr | 10 years ago | on: Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Territory and Language Map

Also, shameless plug here, my wife and I are working on an Indigenous-centric social news project called Makook. We're about about a month from launching a beta, but we're sending out a weekly news digest that covers trending Indigenous stories and ideas in the meantime. If anyone is interested, you can signup at http://makook.com

stepmr | 10 years ago | on: Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Territory and Language Map

If anyone is interested in learning more about contemporary Indigenous issues in Canada (from a "Canadian" point of view) I can recommend a few good places to start:

I'd recommend reading both of John Ralston Saul's books on the subject: "A Fair Country"[1], and "The Comeback"[2].

A couple weeks ago I posted "Title Fight"[3] by Arno Kopecky, which is a fascinating read, and an excellent intro to "Aboriginal Title Land".

Maclean's Magazine also published a great article on Canada's deep/pervasive "Race Problem", I'd recommend reading this first.[4]

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/Fair-Country-Telling-Truths-Canada/dp/0... [2] http://www.amazon.ca/The-Comeback-Aboriginals-Reclaiming-Inf... [3] http://thewalrus.ca/title-fight/ [4] http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-...

stepmr | 11 years ago | on: Why do we have allergies?

The standard tests didn't get it. I actually discovered it when I just totally gave up (at this point I'd been to doctor for numerous blood tests - especially for mono). I cook a lot, and have always eaten fairly well. I just got tired of it... so I ate a lot of terrible food for a month, mostly fried, and I felt awesome. Then i started to get fat. So, i started cooking again. The first meal was beef stew. I ate it, then felt terrible. So I eliminated everything in it, and reintroduced them one-by-one to my diet. The onions were obvious, garlic less so.

stepmr | 11 years ago | on: Why do we have allergies?

Allergies are awful. Throughout my twenties I "suffered" what I thought was chronic fatigue syndrome, only to discover later this year it was actually just an Allium allergy (Onions, Garlic etc). I'd estimate that this was at least a 50% drop in my overall productivity during what could have been some of my most productive years. If anyone is suffering from allergies I highly suggest experimenting with your diet.

stepmr | 11 years ago | on: Python Social Auth

For those using python-social-auth with Django, omab has also produced a number of examples that aren't contained in the main PSA repo or docs. These were a real time-saver the last time I worked on a project using it.

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psa-allauth https://github.com/omab/psa-allauth

An attempt to demonstrate feature-parity with django-allauth. Demonstrates: Signup of both local and social accounts; Connecting more than one social account to a local account; Disconnecting a social account (require setting a password if only the local account remains); Optional instant-signup for social accounts (no questions asked); E-mail address management (multiple e-mail addresses, setting a primary); Password forgotten flow; E-mail address verification flow.

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psa-passwordless https://github.com/omab/psa-passwordless

Passwordless Email Auth

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psa-recovery https://github.com/omab/psa-recovery

Email Auth + Simple password recovery mechanism

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psa-friendsinvite https://github.com/omab/psa-friendsinvite

Facebook Friends Invite with delayed permissions request.

stepmr | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django.

Right, but programming something in Django is much different then using some obscure php CMS. Django development is incredibly fast, and is more likely to attract good developers. We are also in a very large metropolitan area, with a substantial Python and Ruby communities. I was almost going to suggest the try Expression Engine or something. I just can't see relying on a variety of Wordpress plugins to make the site being a good idea. Especially if they're considering doing any custom work.

I mean Drupal and PressFlow would probably be an even better decision going the PHP route.

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