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South provides stable and mature migrations for schema changes [1]
Custom Auth models are now available in Django 1.5 [2]
The templating language definitely needs some work, but it's slowly getting better. I'd prefer them drop in Jinja2 but that's just me.
[1] http://south.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizin...
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,2,2,1,1,3,0,2,2...
I thought it was a bug at first, but it actually does it every time (speed up if you're impatient)
Sounds like they couldn't come to any agreement though. From the comments in the reddit post the VP (and probably most people at Swype) just want an Apple deal and it's Apple that won't go through with it.
Whose revenue? RIAA? What about the artists revenue? It'd be interesting to see that broken down.
Here's an interesting infographic showing how much artists make from various sources: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music... iTunes is actually less profitable than retail, but only if you're on a label that takes a lions share of what's left after Apple. It'd be interesting to see what independent artists' revenues on iTunes are like.
Regardless of whether these salespeople have the power to do so or not, it's not entirely ethical business practice. And this leads to business owners unaware of the review filtering algorithm who have encountered these shady salespeople to try to find correlation between the two and end up pointing fingers at Yelp.
So I wouldn't say Yelp is free of blame in these situations, they should be more readily firing these salespeople and shouldn't have a culture that encourages their salespeople to act this way.
Also in this case the reasons have nothing to do with her gender, but more that she failed at her job at being a developer evangelist.
I just want to preface this by saying I don’t have a fb account, or twitter, but I come here everyday and appreciate all the help and support over the years and wrote this for this with the hn community in mind, given its meant to be motivational and not techie.
It’s coming up on a decade from the night my dad died. I was 16 at the time. I came home from playing tennis and my dads car was replaced by my one of my moms friends. It wasn’t very long after it happened. Initially I figured my dad was running late, not an unusual thing and I didn’t think about my moms friend being there very much. When I walked in my house, I was a little shocked to see my moms friend there with her husband. I usually only saw the husband at the synagogue and such, but my mom and his wife were best friends. I walked by the husband, who was standing there with a look of shock on his face. My mom on the phone, “My son just walked in I have to go.” She sat me down and told me, “someone came by the business tonight and shot dad in the head twice.” My mom didn’t know what to do, she stayed very strong, credit to her, scrabbled for a hot towel to lay on my forehead. I remember thinking that I have to remember these last sequence of events vividly because the rest of my life will never be the same. At this point it was around 7 at night and my older brother wouldn’t be home from a concert until 11, at which point of course he would know what happened. He dropped to the floor when he walked in the house and that moment still hurts me. The eldest sibling, my sister, turned 21 2 days before and came home around 820 to a house packed with cars outside and people inside. I am 100% positive she was thinking it was a surprise birthday party for her. I couldn’t listen when my mom had to tell her. Shes not all there mentally, my sister, so she doesn’t function like the rest of us. For sure she wont ever recover from this. Never. It’s still a mystery if any of us will.
I wanted to share a motivational story about shit. Quite literally poo. I grew up in an old factory town and my family owned a auto salvage business which my dad proudly ran for about 20 years. My dad had a super power than enabled him to work 7 days a week without a break on top of being severely ill with chrons disease. The guy had a hernia removed once (a year or so) and when the doctor came back to check on him he realized he removed a different hernia, not the one the surgery was intended for. My dad endured a lot of pain. He had a cyst centimeters from his tumor removed in 1999. Longest time he ever took off work. Still went back early though. Damn I miss my dad.
Every night when my dad would come home from work he would be filthy from working at the junkyard all day. Immediately he would strip down to his underwear and throw a bathrobe on and sit for dinner. All of his underwear, 100% of the time had shit on them. The chrons was vicious, and he was working too hard to let that stop him. I mean come on, this guy went to work every day despite being sick as shit and would come home beat to hell every single day. I had more than one person tell me my dad was a hard worker and one of the sheriffs at the trial commented that he had called my dad the hardest worker in the county. But thats the point; he had what it takes.
None of this was necessary, but we lived in a beautiful custom built home in a nice neighborhood. We weren’t rich by rich people standards, but when you grow up around poorer areas a little bit of money seems like a lot. And that little bit and some more my dad lost in the stock market before his life was taken from him. As well the business started to collapse immediately and even with my brother stepping in and my mom taking out loans the place just wasn’t meant to run without my dad. Somehow my mom sold it and paid her bills. But I am left asking myself was it all worth it? From 16 until 26 I felt like my dad sorta wasted his life torturing himself by working all the time and not enjoying what life has to offer. It seemed to me like time is now even more limited and I gotta make the most of things by enjoying myself. But recently my perspective has changed. I recognized that my dad loved the grind. Everyday he went out there to stuff his socks with money to bring it home. It was his duty and he persevered through more shit than anyone can imagine. Literally.
Those of you with dreams of starting a business ask yourself this question: “Do I want it enough to shit myself everyday?” If you can grind like that, I think you are on the right track.
(FWIW I didn't get the email so I was simply locked out and used their "forget password" form instead of trying to log in, which may have a different reset process).
At that point, you're probably better of splitting into even smaller, more self-directed teams.
I don't see anything specifically wrong with the ironic humor of the comment, HN does need to lighten up sometimes, but if we let one of these get upvoted... it will only lead to many more by precedent. The line has to be drawn somewhere. I personally wouldn't want to see a HN where each topic has 10+ "witty/ironic/humorous" comments. I go to reddit for that.
I keep getting reminded of Zuckerberg's Startup School interview (http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/298808358) where he talks about moving equally too fast and too slow or as Jessica called it "a willingness to break things."
On one hand, I'm slightly frustrated at all these weird changes these established companies are making; but on the other hand I'm excited to see them messing with things that seem so core to their product, it shows that they're still willing to experiment and not getting too comfortable (which I think is more dangerous).
We're looking for more engineers and salespeople to help us revolutionize healthcare through mobile and web interfaces. Our stack includes Python/Django, iOS, and Android, but you don't need to be an expert, just ready and willing to learn fast!
Our product supports thousands of doctors who depend on our systems daily to provide quality care to their patients, iPad in hand.
The usual startup benefits included: competitive salary, healthcare, whatever hardware you need to be most productive.
email: jobs@[our-domain-name]
What are they doing "blindly"? Can you offer specfics?
> I want them to succeed - but it is plain foolish to say that getting a 1 - 10 physician private practice is the gateway to knocking on the door of a large hospital.
I don't think they ever wanted to knock on the door of a large hospital. Why do you insist that they must find a way to do this? More importantly, why so immediately? Of course they know they can't compete with Epic, Cerner, etc. So they're not even trying.
It's quite possible that enough small practices adopt a system for it to be hard for big hospitals NOT to notice. Then hospitals will be knocking on their door. Many many markets have been disrupted this way, where the big players don't take small ones seriously until it's too late.
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We're looking for more engineers and salespeople to help us revolutionize healthcare through mobile and web interfaces. Our stack includes Python/Django, iOS, and Android, but you don't need to be an expert, just ready and willing to learn fast!
Our product supports thousands of doctors who depend on our systems daily to provide quality care to their patients, iPad in hand.
The usual startup benefits included: competitive salary, healthcare, whatever hardware you need to be most productive.
email: jobs@[our-domain-name]