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superjaredon A history of American economic growth

"The shift in consumption and savings patterns around 1980 really is remarkably stark."

No kidding.

superjaredon Why Jinja is not Django and why Django should have a look at it

This post is a bit old but still 100% valid. Jinja is a bit smarter than Django templates in some areas, includes Django support, and is wicked fast with the C speedups.

superjaredon When Debtors Decide to Default

Usury laws have been around for hundreds of years. Why the hell don't we (the USA) have them anymore?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury

superjaredon Libcloud: a unified (python) interface into the cloud

Hey man, I could probably spend some time "owning" Slicehost. After all, I know what the API is like ;)

superjaredon How To Explain Your Web 2.0 Job At The Pub

"I'm a programmer"

Then I answer questions if they have them. Which they usually don't.

superjaredon Doing the opposite of everyone is valuable

I do like "finding opportunities to be unique", though I'd prefer something along the lines of "don't be just a follower".

superjaredon Panasonic Now Forces You To Use Their Batteries

"This isn't unlike Apple's insistence on Apple-branded RAM being used in their machines; if you're having Mac problems, and you have third-party RAM installed, AppleCare will tell you to take a hike."

Not true. Twice I've had Macs have issues and both had Crucial RAM. Each time I was asked to remove the RAM and re-verify the problem. Each time the problem persisted and was fixed by Apple.

superjaredon Ask HN: How should I deal with constant anxiety problems?

It would be good to read into Anxiety disorders[1] to get a feel of what sorts of coping mechanisms exist so you could benefit from the good ones, and avoid the bad. It's also helpful to monitor exactly what happens when you get spikes of anxiety; note the situation, your previous state, and any other details you can, even if you don't think they're pertinent. The more data you can obtain, the easier it will be to identify your ailment, chronic or not.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_disorder

superjaredon Ruby daemons using RobustThread

Flaky in what way? In my usage of them I haven't had problems. Then again I use them with a lot of blocking io operations so they seem to be pretty fairly scheduled.

superjaredon Poll: Preferred medium for reading?

I tend to prefer dead trees for anything non-tech related. Though I do have several tech books, I rarely pick them up anymore.

superjaredon Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming?

Try DragonForce.

superjaredon Ask YC: What music do you listen to when programming?

Cliqhop at somafm.com

superjaredon Corruption allegedly caused by ZFS affects Joyent's StrongSpace and BingoDisk

If I recall correctly, yes, they've only been using OpenSolaris over Solaris.

superjaredon Corruption allegedly caused by ZFS affects Joyent's StrongSpace and BingoDisk

That's right, and this sucks since I have data in my lifetime StrongSpace account.

superjaredon How Can America's Rich Teach Their Children the Value of a Dollar?

By comparing it to the Euro?

superjaredon Generate Static html cache files automatically in django

Hopefully what I created is elegant enough for people to want to use.

superjaredon Generate Static html cache files automatically in django

woot, i got news'd

superjaredon Ask YC: What podcasts do you subscribe to?

If you're a nerd/geek/dork (like me) you'll love Radiolab. Simply the best radio show ever.

superjaredon Has web development become any easier? How, or why not?

The reason I say "no" is because the designer I worked for had ridiculously high expectations. And with Django we were able to deliver to many of those expectations, but the ones we were slow with we heard about for a while.

superjaredon Ask News.YC: What are your top news sources?

bbc news, the guardian

superjaredon Here's the basic problem: you're writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It's 2007.

I dislike this post. Reading between the lines he's negating much of open source software, e.g. "You shouldn't develop B because A exists"

superjaredon Programmer/partner wanted

Yargh, but are you out of Davy Jones' Locker yet?

superjaredon How to become a programmer

When I started coding I found a book that spoke to me -- This is very important because if you get a book you don't like or understand you will not want to learn from it.

And I tend to agree you should probably not start with PHP as your first language. I did, and now all I do is Python and Ruby which are significantly better, imho.

superjaredon Ask YC: What revision control system are you using?

bazaar is great. so is git. i like them both.