davidwtbuxton

Infamous Authors' Outlines for Great Works of Bad Literature

* Martin Amis' UML diagram for London Fields

* EL James' Balsamiq mockups for Fifty Shades Of Grey

* Dan Brown's PowerPoint decks for The Da Vinci Code

Couldn't resist ;)

Though clearly Balsamiq mockups are the odd one out since they are useful.

The order of items in the dictionary isn't stable, but the order of .keys() is guaranteed to be the same as the order of .values() (as long as you don't modify the dict in between calling one then the other).

http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#dict.items

Related: django-mini, a command-line tool for running Django management commands without a full settings.py.

https://github.com/davidwtbuxton/django-mini

I wrote it to make it easier to run tests for plug-able Django apps.

I think Adobe will make a killing on the new subscription pricing. I think the customers with volume licenses will most likely still buy them because a) it will still be cheaper to buy outright when you know you will need a license for hundreds of seats and also b) because IT departments will continue to hate dealing with Adobe's activation process, which a volume license makes much simpler.

Meanwhile all the small shops who could not afford to buy licenses just to equip the 3 freelancers for a month will suddenly be able to justify the small cost of a month's subscription. I almost expect them to roll it into each job's billings, whereas previously they would either use a hooky copy or suffer the pain of juggling licenses and old software.

There are a lot of small shops using hooky Adobe software.

Also helped that InDesign was less than half the price of Quark and that Quark had been gouging customers for years. Most design departments would remember the premium charged just for the PowerPC version of XPress over the 68k version.

The one thing that really held back InDesign at first was the hideous amounts of RAM it required just to say hello.

I think I am more in favour of the un-elected House of Lords than you are, but I rather liked the proposal in the recent draft that elected Peers serve for 15 years. Having long terms would make them less influenced by the political wind (I would hope).

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt201012/jtselect/j...

I didn't see the link to the documents quoted in the article, so here is the request and the documents provided in response.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/open_standards_when_sp...

Perfect Dark benefited greatly from the N64 expansion pack, and was a lot less fun without it. I'm not certain it was better than Golden Eye (mostly because I found the second level very frustrating) but it had better graphics and a much more ambitious style of play.

Interesting, it could be my 10.6 system was an upgrade from 10.5. Might have to boot my PowerPC MacMini and see what it says...

As great as Adam and Joe are, the term pre-dates their podcasts. I always thought it was coined on the language log, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.h...

You are most likely running 10.7 and it was installed clean. Previous versions of Mac OS X made that directory group-writeable by default (and 10.7 upgraded from a previous system will keep the old permissions).

Here's the line for 10.6:

    drwxrwxr-t+ 61 root  admin      2074  3 Nov 18:12 /Library