glynjackson

Just to add my 2p. These are the packages I install every time I start a project in Django. I know some are not strictly Django but they make Django awesome!

Fabric: for deployment Sphinx: the only way to write documentation Sphinx RTD Theme: because the default them looks outdated. Django Nose: No need to explain this one! Pillow: because it's better! Django-class-based-auth-views: class based views to reset orgotten passwords by email confirmation. django-storages:

It all depends on the type of business you are in and at what stage your company is at. I'm a freelancer but I have staff. My office is based outside the city, but all my work comes from clients in Manchester and London, UK. The major cities are where the opportunities, networking and money comes from. My sacrifice for cheaper living means higher travel costs, longer work hours and in some cases less credibility. For myself, the offset of living in a low crime area with better schools works for me. But, I can understand why startups decide to work in expensive areas. Wealth breeds wealth.

It takes me around 30 to fall asleep. Tried it once, made me feel a lot worse. Is this something you do?

I may keep a diary and try to eat small and often. I don't really have breakfast at all. First meal is always after 11am.

Good point, no, I haven't considered that. I eat breakfast late due to my work routine. If I'm working from home I get up have coffee around 6.30am then work until around 11.30 before getting breakfast. If I'm at the office I up around 5.30, get coffee at the station around 6.30am. I then work on the train until I get in the office around 8.30am I don't eat in this time at all. Maybe I should just not eat, seems I work better without food.

I've been putting off testing the dev beta. Does anyone do Python development on their Mac? Did you have any issues with Python or PIP?

This may sound stupid, so I apologise in advance for my ignorance....

I watched the video and the focus of this service seems to be on storing user data in a way that can be accessed by any device. I'm an API developer, isn't this just what every mobile app that uses an API to store data does, right? I personally don't write a different backend datastore for every device type that could connect to it, nor do I 'permanently' store data on the device! user data is always synced 'for me' over an API. I don't get this, can someone explain why we need this service? Do people develop apps different from me? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm genuinely interested.

When I first started asking questions I learned a lot, the most articulated answers always came from the same users. It was also these same users that downvoted me, then upvoted when I corrected my mistakes. I've learned so much from my mistakes. I now welcome the downvotes just so I can prove myself!

After a year on Stack I started answering questions and still today don't hesitate to downvote users that don't understand what constitutes a valid question. I find people 'used' to react well commenting... "what did I do wrong?". Its the recent reaction to downvotes that changed.

HN content driven by users. It's always evolving. There is no 1-person pushing the content, it's there because people want to read it. In 6 months whats popular maybe different again. Silly post!

It depends on what your trying to achieve. The example given isn't a very useful one, more to highlight how it can be done. I use the Django framework a lot to serve API's for mobile apps. Curious, if you were to start from scratch, what would you use?

Nothing in their road map: http://amon.uservoice.com/forums/189097-general

They state its free in the BETA period so I'll give it a try. Pricing looks good too. Monitoring memory on an EC2 instance is tricky at times.

The only issue I see with Django is websockets. Apart from that I have been using Django to build 'real time' web apps for years (AJAX). Django does server side very well, AngularJS does client site well, mix in django-angular and I have most of what I need. websockets django-websocket-redis.

I've used both in projects I honestly don't like the auto documentation Django Rest Framework assumes you want. I enjoyed using both but I lead towards TastyPie, yum!

No, still use South everyday and will until it's rolled out in Django 1.7 - fingers crossed!

A few I work with on most projects are...

Backend: one of the most popular API Frameworks is Tastypie. Authentication and authorization: Django Userena. Debugging: Django Extensions. Django CMS Django Haystack

These are a must for your tool kit.

quote from python.org: "New to Python or choosing between Python 2 and Python 3? Read Python 2 or Python 3." "Which version you ought to use is mostly dependent on what you want to get done."

No other language I have ever worked with speaks like this. "New to Rudy? You could use version 2.1 or why not try version 1.0, it still works ok"

Python.org treats version 2 and 3 as completely different things, newbies to the language like myself don't see it as a update to Python 2.x because thats not how it's sold to us.

You are captured thousands of times a day on CCTV, even if you have done nothing wrong these images can be stored. Data protection means nothing if you never know about it!

This resistance comes 'mostly' from the older generation, look at generation X, your kids. They give information freely, its a natural part of life their life, daily!

When I can walk out of my door and thousands people are feeding information 2 miles away about traffic on route to my work, or predictions of flu outbreaks are spotted before then happen saving hundreds of lives. This is a world where closed minded people don't guard information like there are special. A would where people give information to help others! The world is currently like China, closed minded and guarded. Role on generation X!

Can I ask, Why? I don't understand why anyone would do this! The fact they have PDF's plans suggests to me that other muppets for some unknown reason want to pretend to work for Google. When did it become cool? Now a MI5 agents car with heat seeking missiles which blow up lane hogs.... that I would be interested in!