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chhantyal

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This guy https://twitter.com/chhantyal
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chhantyal··on M7.9 Earthquake in Nepal
I created list of reliable organizations which are working on it and accepting donations https://github.com/chhantyal/PreyForNepal
chhantyal··on Pilot of Django Fellowship Program: A Retrospective
That's lot of work done to maintain open source project.

There were recent threads why maintainers bundle crapware to support themselves.

Companies (and we individual users) should definitely support this kind of initiative to maintain healthy community https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/

chhantyal··on Show HN: Metamon – A Vagrant/Ansible toolkit for kickstarting Django apps
Thanks for releasing it.

Was thinking about using Ansible for some time, but haven't. Now this is easy to get started.

chhantyal··on Why Perl Didn't Win
Indeed, big libraries supporting Python 3 is rapidly growing http://py3readiness.org

Heck, apart from few - even those which are not supporting Py3k now have alternative package in PyPi. So it's positive sign.

chhantyal··on Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
I ordered a domain recently on Namecheap, with free privation registration addon.
chhantyal··on Going forward, Ind.ie has just one product
Depends on how you see it.

Looks like author is deeply affected by what happened there recently, which must have distracted a lot. That he links with focus.

So, in a way - I find it okey, very unusual though.

chhantyal··on Why we ditched Django for Microservices
This is exact my thought as well.

If OP is more worried about maintenance of project, Django gives foundation to build upon with sane conventions.

Anyone who reads few pages of Django Docs should be able to pick up quickly.

PS. I happen to currently maintain project written by other people with no docs.

chhantyal··on “My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week”
That can be quite an inspiration for people who spend most of free time on Facebook (Including me who didn't finish 10 books Goodreads challenge last year :D)
chhantyal··on Dark Mail Technical Alliance
I watched Citizenfour yesterday and one of the really disturbing parts of movie was Lavabit founder talking at European Parliament about why he had to shut it down. I am glad that something good is coming up.

But can we please change name from 'dark' to something like 'secure, encrypted etc'? Dark inherently sounds negative, at least in my part of the world.

chhantyal··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
FYI, if the ban on Github is hampering your collaboration during day to day development, you can also self host Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com which is working great for us.
chhantyal··on It's Almost 2015. Update Your Footer
For Django, just do {% now "Y" %} in your template to get dynamic year :D
chhantyal··on 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video
Yea, looks like they are using self-signed ssl certificate.
chhantyal··on 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video
There are concurrent talks going on (most in English and few in German). Right URL is this http://streaming.media.ccc.de/

Here is schedule https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/schedule.html

chhantyal··on Incremental Plans to Improve Python Packaging
Opps. Thanks corrected now.
chhantyal··on Incremental Plans to Improve Python Packaging
Looks like this is quite old post, head over to https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ for updated docs about Python packaging, especially 'Tools Recommendations' section.
chhantyal··on A redesign of the Django websites
If you miss old Docs UI, here it is on ReadTheDocs http://django.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ :)
chhantyal··on A redesign of the Django websites
It's on ReadTheDocs :D django.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
chhantyal··on A redesign of the Django websites
Looking great. Thanks for great Christmas gift :D

On the other hand, I feel like I am going to miss old design - is there archive somewhere?

chhantyal··on Python 2.x vs. 3.x use survey
Indeed, it is ported. You can see updated list here: Python 3 Readiness (http://py3readiness.org)
chhantyal··on Heathrow plane in near miss with drone
Haha. Thanks for the link, I didn't know they call it `near miss`.
chhantyal··on [dead]
This and many absurd comments by Uber executive led me to delete my Uber account. Also, deleting your account is really difficult with Uber.
chhantyal··on SwampDragon – Build real-time apps with Django
Looks very neat, but could you please change theme on Docs? I find it very difficult to read.

If you are using ReadTheDocs, one of many default themes would be just fine.

chhantyal··on Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture
I don't know about legal requirement, but in my case - there is option to receive e-statement in netbanking. I have activated it and I get e-statement every month which I can view after logging in. They don't charge anything for this service.
chhantyal··on Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture
This is true, I am foreigner and I still find it fairly straight forward to work with bureaucracy here.
chhantyal··on Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture
Oh, where do you live? You go to bank to print statement - seriously? I live in Berlin, and I never go to bank for anything banking - the popular Sparkasse netbanking works in all cases - online purchasing, rent payments, making transfers, printing statement(like you mentioned) etc.

And I do so many things on internet - getting internet connection, subscribing to electricity providers etc, and direct debit or online banking works here as well.

I have lived in Netherlands too, and I think NL is more efficient and has automated lot of things though.

chhantyal··on Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in Culture
The article just narrates this documentary by BBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTKSin4JN4

In article, it compares with US, documentary compares with UK.

chhantyal··on Django 1.7 Released
Time to start new project with it. I am thinking about Python 3 now :)
chhantyal··on The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany
Degree is required, but not for IT
chhantyal··on The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany
Yes, authorities will allow if your skill/experience is IT (which I assume it is) and have a job offer with salary more than 48600 euros per year because they have shortage of manpower in this industry.
chhantyal··on Write Clean, Professional, Maintainable, Quality Code in Python
I have been using PyCharm for few months after using Sublime Text 2 for years. It is very well engineered tool and has greatly improved my code quality.

Just came to know 'Python code compatibility checks' option. Will definitely be helpful as I am starting to write Python 2/3 compatible code.

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