jerryji

Django is like your first date, attractive on first sight, but gives you more and more headaches till it outweighs the pleasure it brings you, so you break up with it and marry Pyramid, who after delivering three baby projects for you, is still in pretty good shape. And there's always the sexy side of her if you dig deep enough.

How about the others? web2py is too old, Werkzeug has a funny accent, and Flask is not 18 yet.

When you signup, were you informed of the following?

"You understand and consent that you will be bidding against our robots, whose sole job is to take your money and waste your time."

Good to see Pyramid (Python web framework) here, just wish it had been made more attractive either in content or in style.

Talking about historical database on prices, how about a real-time platform that records (and social broadcasts) all real things that have been bought and sold? -- http://bizspeaking.com

After skimming the doc (in Chinese), here're my two answers, Sir:

* It offers way fewer functionalities than does Solr

* There is nothing wrong with Solr, just that someone wants to try something new that fits his/her needs

Shopping needs to be more social -- deals info needs to be delivered in real-time; buyers need to connect with each other, and even with sellers; search needs to be structured and location based.

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Clickable links -- http://bizspeaking.com , http://angel.co/bizspeaking

Great job for highlighting "your assets" and "your constraints", which deserves much more attention than they are receiving.

Being a long time SliceHost user, when I finally decided to signup Linode two days ago despite its lacking of (official) backup capability, I wasn't expecting such a nice gift, which almost feels exclusive.

BTW, a quick hard disk benchmark test shows that my Linode is almost twice as fast as my SliceHost.

I voted you up, now don't be too depressed.

I welcome the idea and practice so wholeheartedly that I feel the use of word "make" in the title is inappropriate.

It implies that the developers at Kayak.com are forced to do something outside of their responsibility -- it certainly would sound stupid to say "XYZ.com Makes Developers Do Proper Coding", however, both practice lead to the same outcome -- better product.

Isn't it econ-101 demand and supply?

It simply shows that the demand overwhelms the supply of people who are both willing and capable of doing the job.

My collectd daemon on Ubuntu 8.04 dies almost once every two days -- anyone experiences the same (and happens to have a fix)?

Second the first comment.

Plus, why wasn't the original title "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" preserved over a much less representing while much more link-baiting one "China has a higher average IQ than the USA"?

Pace yourself (much) more on things under your control -- that I fully agree.

"""you should always raise more than you think you need to get to the next milestone""" -- that I fully agree too

The march _is_ neat, but not very creative, I wish my code were more creative than that ;)

Let me tell you how --

From the top: government blessing, (biased) censorship

From the bottom: much more native friendly domain name, thirst of pirated music, nationalism, ignorance

From the corporate itself: ferocious marketing and sales -- not everyone realizes that THE most effective way of doing business in China is to hire as many marketing and sales people as the number of the bullets Arnold Schwarzenegger shoots, and I can assure you that it'll be much more effective than his shooting/acting.

You didn't mention if A documents.

If A does excellent documentation, give him your toughest nut to crack as the whole team can learn and progress from his contribution even after he is gone.

Otherwise, go for B.

The worst can happen is to hire A, and when he leaves, B has to maintain A's code with no documentation.

I agree that RIM should try to hold on to their grip on the enterprise market rather than diversifying resource to start an unpromising war on the consumer turf.

Hence, I believe things like security, reliability, or even a better browser will be more welcome by the business users (and the procurement decision makers!) than will some consumer eye candy like a camera.

I particularly agree with getting into the emerging markets, such as that of China and India, even though the business there might not have a keen interest (let alone purchasing power) in RIM's products at the present. Quoting Charles Geschke (co-founder of Adobe) in Founders at Work -- "shoot where the duck is going to be, not where the duck is".

No -- http://mattgoodall.blogspot.com/2009/09/torndao-first-though...

And no -- http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2009/09/what-i-wish-tornado-w...

FYI, this topic has been extensively discussed a month ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789110

Every employee in a company should be evaluated more on how the organization as a whole benefits from his/her contribution, sales are no exception.

Why is it a strict 2D tree instead of a 3D mesh?

Answer 2: It's always easier to raise money while you still can.

The only thing that can make you think you'll be fine with Facebook and Twitter behind the GFW is tor.

Very cool, now where is the video on how a compiler is written?

"How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis ( http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Felix-Dennis/dp/009191265... ) THE best get rich how-to guides that I've read (not that I've read too many of them, though :)

I'm done with all the hatred, parochial, and ignorant comments out there.

Now I turn to HN readers for truth wisdom -- would the future of the US/global high tech industry really be so adversely affected as the original article tries to imply?

Also check out the author's "Binary marble adding machine" http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/index.html