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This seems pretty cool. I just tried using jslint to lint a file, it works! https://gist.github.com/ianjosephwilson/7c6c0a2c833e92b3a82c...

Putting this in a more positive light. Why not take this new project as an opportunity to learn a new stack ?

Sorry, that was my point. Strengthening the types in python3 solves the problem without static typing being needed at all.

Well the lighter solution and more Pythonic solution is strong typing. If a Unicode string and a byte string could not be combined then the problem would not exist AFAIK. For example "a" + 1 is an error, why is u"a" + "s" not an error?

Did you try using the Basic plugin? Worked for me with little customization.

I almost didn't use the plugin until I found out I didn't need bootstrap and an entire user interface.

I have only used apache as an application server with mod wsgi behind nginx. I have not used gunicorn or uwsgi. Yhanks for the correction, I should have just stopped my explanation before that.

Why nginx AND varnish? I thought varnish could proxy as well? Or maybe could you explain your setup.

Well i think the gist is that serving files and running applications have different resource requirements. Therefore it is common to have a proxy serve statics and proxy in addition to an application server running python. The advantage with uwsgi as i understand it is that the proxy protocol is faster than http.

This is a good devil's advocate summary, except feasibility of remote development with a GUI. I don't agree with a few of these points though.

"Someone who has either invested or going to invested 100's of hours to properly learn the iOS/Mac frameworks"

I think a lot of people will just want to experiment with something, or see some app, in my case I need to fix a bug in a desktop app I use. The kind of bug that I think just requires running a build and then searching forums, etc. for the error. I think the 100s of hours would have been wasted setting up virtualization and the toolchain but I can pay 20-50 a month to have that done for me.

"someone who is either unable to afford an older mac mini ($200-300 as noted in other comments) OR someone who has no cheap way to deliver older mac hardware to his home country."

A lot of people will want to try things out. There is a huge convenience value to just paying a monthly fee and logging in to a virtual system that is already setup versus the hassle of buying a mac mini, connecting it all up, setting up a virtualization, installing all the junk you need for development, etc. Not to mention the upfront cost of buying a mac mini will most likely be more than experimenting for 2-3 months. I'll need to update the software on it regularly, etc. And lastly, it is just another thing to take up space on my desk that I don't use that often that: collecting dust, taking up plug space, needing to not spill coffee on, etc.

The real question I have is developing in a GUI over remote access even feasible? How good does your inet connection really have to be? How much can be done via non-GUI ?

Have other sites done this? I think its a solid idea, very based on the real world as well as supply and demand. I have a large supply of mediocre(or worse) things to say but in the real world if I walk around saying those to people that provide me an opportunity to talk they will eventually stop providing me those opportunities. Seems that the devil might be in the details on this one though.

Is karma the right thing for this? Maybe there should be a new thing called a "leave a comment" ticket. Every comment will consume a ticket. Every comment that gains strictly greater than 1 karma will gain you 2 "leave a comment" tickets but you can never pool more than 4 "leave a comment" tickets. I've left pure supply and demand here though and I've capped profit, maybe its more like supply and demand with government oversight. Every 3 days (tunable, like all prior #s) if you don't have any tickets you get a ticket(Socialism?). I think people will either quit being mediocre or will stop coming to the site, for better or worse. All this is under the assumption that other hackers don't like to read mediocre comments. I think all is lost if such an assumption is false anyways. BTW I have no idea how the HN comment system works now so someone correct me if this idea is perpendicular to the current system.