tsurantino's comments

Can this imply that there should be some reasonable threshold for the kind of documents you give to someone in a certain context?

Personally, I wouldn't give up my passport unless it was for the government or a government-certified service.

They're not. I think it's more difficult to make the argument that an XBOX is used for general computing purposes (and would therefore warrant a great level of activity, activity which overlaps significantly with what you would do on a laptop/desktop) than you would for an iDevice.

Though even amongst iDevices you can make distinctions. It's pretty blurry which is why I think the OP seems to be right (though not at that extreme), but I don't think including the XBOX would be a good enough offset.

One thing really stood out to me about this protest, and that is how isolated and targeted it is against government. The writer mentioned how no shopkeepers are affected, and that protesting is specifically barricaded around the government district.

Irrespective of the violence and damage taking place, that there is no collateral means that we can't detract from the focus of the issue.

This is likely to be contentious, but doesn't this effectively say that these phones are basically substitutable products?

Are there not dimensions beyond price and volume still left to tap into the smartphone market?

I don't understand how it could be any more brutal than how Apple took over House of Cards. From devices to even the sounds...

The author alluded to some non-currency related applications of Bitcoin, i.e., a decentralized eBay.

Given the way Bitcoin and variants have been used so far, it's always been so exchange of some monetary value (i.e., shares, assets, funds, currencies, etc.). I'm having a really hard time picturing how Bitcoin can be applied in a non-monetary context.

Could someone explain?

"Google has gotten so rich, entrenched and popular that IMHO no competitor can dislodge it."

Isn't this the definition of a monopoly? And if so, isn't that reason enough to consider search as a public good or a publicly regulated means of accessing information?

They also hacked their Facebook page.

Is it though? Though I may be making an assumption that a substantial amount of traffic is retention, if people aren't coming back does that mean that RapGenius really didn't offer that much over other lyrics sites?

Can't you just use Heroku to host your app for free? I'd imagine you're not getting a lot for 1 euro per month in terms of performance.

Is it the "norm" that, when accepted into the standard library, packages "die" - or is it because this has happened to some packages, the popular perception is that the standard library is where packages go to die.

I'm just not understanding how it's OK that a standard acceptance of a Python package really means that it should go to the graveyard.

But the article does talk about cities. In fact, one part specifically targets cities 'as a vacuum' that sucks the life and quality of life from rural regions.

If I can hazard to interpret what you mean - I think you are saying for NYT to compare the net benefit (how people in cities are better off).

However, I'd call in to question whether we should focus on the net benefit vs. the very fact that Russia has fundamentally discarded its rural regions and the like.

I completely disagree with pundits that argue CBVs are way more complicated than function-based views.

Three key differentiators for me are the reduction in redundancy with CBVs, consist organization of code and better code reuse through inheritance. This comes out best with generic model views (as one poster has said).

The real problem with CBV generic view usage is that it's not very well-documented, specifically the order of method calls. I often have to refer to the source to understand the flow (which is fine, but a pain, and I imagine extremely intimidating for new users).

Were this well documented, I think it'd actually be easier for people to get into Django - because CBVs outline a lot of the key features that people would use in Django anyways, except now in a much more formal, easy-to-use way (i.e., get_context_data, Form submission and so forth).

In contrast, function views seem to be more for experts who need to do some kind of complicated view processing that goes beyond the bounds of a typical CRUD app.

I think it's an interesting choice to go dark. Regardless of what prior debates were had on this thread with respect to the "flat design" choice / minimalism there are two things that stand out.

1) It's original. At least, it seems original relative to its competitors. They are borrowing the well-accepted design language of their Weather app (which was critically acclaimed in relevant circles, I believe - like won some kind of award), and assimilated it across their web properties.

Contrary to what other's have said, I don't find the text hard to read. Instead, due to the novelty and aesthetic of the design, I am drawn to stay. It's a nice refresh.

2) It's cohesive. This design language has been consistently ported across its properties without making it constricting. Yahoo Sports is functionally distinct from Yahoo Movies, but blended together by the same aesthetic.

This began with Yahoo silently porting its top bar across its properties (with the search feature ubiquitous across all constituent sites). This final piece was missing and is just another step closer to bringing Yahoo together.

So no, I don't think the designs are cluttered, or that they hide/confuse information, or that Yahoo is copying the fad. I think they are paving their path, boldly, and it should yield some interesting results.

And for people who are still concerned (and even though this is mentioned directly in the post - some people won't necessarily read it). There is a theme provided, which I personally think improves on Bootstrap 2's version.

http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/

On the homepage, that there is a featured article as well as additional information to the right side a.k.a. more stuff to read reminds me a lot of the Mashable craziness.

It's very hard to focus on content, reading left to right, when there is unimportant information that I have to constantly filter out as I go line by line.

And as someone else had said, the individual blog posts pretty much follow the same layout style as medium. I actually think that this, even more minimalistic design, takes away from the aesthetic that, in my opinion, made Svbtle stand out - namely, the colours and the logos.

I'm confused, as I thought that part of the reason why app.net pursued it's monthly payment ad-free business model was to ensure that it was sustainable while providing a non-intrusive service to users.

The way that app.net did this originally was by charging it's monthly fee.

It was actually very difficult for me to find a pricing scheme for the site this time around. So what's the plan to normalize the business? What else besides not adding advertising or something of that nature? Tax developers? Tax users?

I'm not sure if this is script in jest or not - but on a serious note, is there anyone else that gets frustrated when these icons don't actually link to the featured pieces? I'm always curious as to how start-ups are actually featured in these publications but most landing pages don't provide a link.

My favourite part about this resource is that it ties in a lot of the disparate resources that AngularJS newbies are first introduced to - but it puts them in perspective, provides context, and introduces parts of each where they are most relevant and useful.

Thanks for building it.

You can just as easily program something like this with Django. One criticism that you may encounter with Django is that it's not as extensible or have as robust of a community. In terms of plugins, you'll need distinguish between django specific plugins and just general python plugins.

For example, for Twitter - you'll encounter that there isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all Twitter plugin that's specific to Django. Instead, you might need an authentication plugin which will store relevant Twitter information (id, token) and then use a Python Twitter plugin to do the kind of neat stuff the author has accomplished.

I prefer Django because it's more explicit and there is less magic. This is also good for beginners because it's easier for you to track down where things might be going wrong for you. Django might not have the best community-support (no railscast equivalent).