I do feel like the recent releases have almost been done with no regard for the current ecosystem. How have none of the management commands in django-extensions been brought into even contrib, let alone core, yet? I haven't built a project in years that didn't include extensions. Even just the shell_plus command.
But otherwise, yes, this did smell a bit of link bait. Django is the wrong tool for projects where NoSQL, as a primary data store, is the right tool. Rails? Well, I could be flamebaity about the direction they've gone, but I think I'd rather use my time and karma looking into Derby, thank you very much.
Err, the vast majority of vaccines have a colossal amount of government/corporate push even when a cursory look at the history books shows that the vast majority of catastrophic communicable diseases were in decline before mass vaccination programs. The solution? Proper hygiene, clean water and modern sewage treatment. Seriously. Most of these virulent diseases were at their deadliest before Pasteur convinced everyone that "germs" actually do exist. They peaked in fatal potency with mass-migration to cities during the late 18th and early 19th century.
So I can understand the evolution of the thought process that companies like Glaxo-Smith-Kline and Novartis, to say nothing of the well-document link between the WHO and Tamiflu manufacturer during the H1N1 pandemic, have undue influence on whether you take a shot of a polio vaccine for a disease that is literally only spread through contact with infected feces. When's the last time you bathed in shit-filled water?
While I'd understand this if the complaint was that gitorious is too complicated to setup and host, CodePlane doesn't seem to offer the rich web interface github and gitorious do. In the absence of that, how difficult is it to setup gitolite on a cheap VPS account? I mean, if you primarily use CLI interfaces anyway.
Need redundancy because those fly-by-night VPS providers disappear? Fine, pick up another VPS from lowendbox.com and rsync your git home directory. Done and done.
On a side note, you could consider all your repos on your primary machine your "backup," as with a relatively static IP from a cable or DSL account you can push and pull to your hearts delight from your home box. Not great for collab, but sometimes I feel like the D in DVCS gets forgotten about.
What a recursive failure to read the story. You accuse others of down-voting for not reading the story, and yet you seem also to have not read the story.
The author admits to having not read the ToS completely. His issue (and the title of his post) is that Wolfram actively enforcing a ToS limiting use except by a human+web browser just doesn't get the internet. And that, my friend, is true no matter how you slice it.
Prohibiting links with search queries embedded in them is anti- the philosophy of the internet. It may work for a top-heavy, externally funded project like Wolfram (who's bread and butter is a desktop app), but would cause a massive failure for a web app trying to turn a profit.
It's like quantum mechanics for information. You can know about something, but then you've likely gotten personally connected too. Keep your distance while trying to be informative and you just look like Terry Gross on Fresh Air: a pseudo-specialist who gets charmed by the likes of Brian Greene and the "multi-verse."
God help us all if the multiverse wikipedia entry quotes Gross' interview with Greene and counts towards "notability."
Read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Cliched as it might seem now, it address the abstract and almost mind-destroying properties of quality as well as anything can.
Short answer: The feeling of high quality occurs when perception exceeds expectation; the feeling of low quality occurs when perception does not meet expectation (wikipedia).
The article repeatedly points out that it "feels like" a cosmic conspiracy, while never actually claiming that's the case. In fact the article makes a fine point that there is no conspiracy. My take away was that in the pursuit of the truth of a surprising hypothesis a surprisingly high percentage of scientists and their peer-reviewed journals gloss over some of the major underpinnings of the scientific method, like data that directly refutes a finding and a reluctance to reconsider a new world-view in light of evidence that suggest said new world-view is likely false.
Of course, we could all just go back and read Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions again and realize that science, as a human endeavor, is still usually susceptible to human weaknesses. It's the radical idea that gets glossed over, until it doesn't. Then everything changes. But do you have the balls to go back if it turns out that that which changed everything was more than likely false?
Also, let's not go claiming things that can't be proved. Like that the universe doesn't care what we believe. How can you know a thing like that?
How about farming? Plenty of really smart, literate people are turning to small farms. Not everything we think needs to be turned into beautiful profit. Sometimes the work we do with our hands is okay for making a living too.
While I too, am not sure that I agree with the position Anonymous is taking, I do feel like the fact that even you qualify the word "illegal" with "technically." And the first reply makes a fine case for why MC's positions and reasons not to do business stink of the heavy hand of a certain first-world nation.
Excepting that, I would also argue that what has happened to WikiLeaks in the wake of the documents being release by the bureaucratic nations of the world is setting a far more dangerous precedent online.
I, for one, hope ICANN is working on solutions to DNS being effectively held hostage by a few sovereign nations.
Subsistance farming is not obsolete, indeed it can't be. Not to shift topics dramatically, but industrial farming is not a perfect substitute for diversified subsistance farms and we will reap what we sow, if not now then 10, 25 or 50 years from now.
Back to the subject at hand, the industrial revolution led to a dearth of skilled positions and the growth of unskilled positions. What happens when China's middle class starts needing inexpensive labor to feed it's needs? India? Eastern Europe? Africa? Labor markets, like our global ecology, are not infinite resources and if we do not engender a sense of self-sufficiency and resourcefulness all we become are slaves of our slaves.
At the heart of all of this is the fact that schools have adopted a factory model of production. Inputs go in, outputs come out. And much like our industrial factory model, school factory models are fundamentally flawed as you begin to assume you can reduce all inputs to simple boolean logic. Teacher certified? Yes. Lunch served? Yes. Pre-K program offered? Yes. Children motivated to become productive members of society with a sense of ownership of their community and environment. Consistently and unequivocally, maybe, it depends on their parents and the few members of the school and town community who actually take an active interest in developing their character.
But none of that math works at bureaucratic level. If results can't be measured and studied in groups of fewer than 1,000 students it wont gain traction except amongst local administrators. But local administrators almost always come up through the system themselves. It's a feedback loop.
Yeah, because there all those potential terrorists are wringing their hands wondering what to do next..."Ah! The newest edition of Atlantic Monthly. This shall give me some inspiration!"
Given the state of international relations, this scenario is really a question of 'when' and not 'if.'
I like a man who spouts off about how great it is to use software builds that are (gasp!) an hour old! That's so 1337 dude! Welcome to the world of open source, douche bag.
I appreciate that I probably shouldn't be nagging on the guy who built Mathematica. But seriously? webMathematica? yawn.
Pigs are also nature's rototillers. Instead of a cover crop, my wife and I put the pigs on the garden and let them go to town. They turn over EVERY corner, pooping as they go. By next May, we're all good to plant again!
We've also got meat birds, which I can say I've never had better meat that what we've raised the past few years. Also can't beat that we slaughter them ourselves. From chick to oven without ever leaving the farm, perfect!
Hmmm. Unless you are just ripping the lard off the animals back, last time I checked trichinosis was the result of undercooking meat.
Also, I should hope that the farmer is using some form of dewormer. There are plenty of proven organic herbal supplements you can give livestock that drastically reduce the parasite load of your average farm animal. I'm using a two-step wormwood-based dewormer and also supplement my animals' diets with garlic powder.
I do feel like the recent releases have almost been done with no regard for the current ecosystem. How have none of the management commands in django-extensions been brought into even contrib, let alone core, yet? I haven't built a project in years that didn't include extensions. Even just the shell_plus command.
But otherwise, yes, this did smell a bit of link bait. Django is the wrong tool for projects where NoSQL, as a primary data store, is the right tool. Rails? Well, I could be flamebaity about the direction they've gone, but I think I'd rather use my time and karma looking into Derby, thank you very much.