I saw an ad for this on Daring Fireball.

Whoever’s creating this is super hip. This is what bosses want when they say they want to leverage Facebook, Twitter and the Web. What I don’t think they get is how hard it is to actually be effective with it.

Hiring for Django or hiring for Python? For a Python coder, a Django job sounds a bit drab. And a Django developer sounds like someone way less technical than someone who has a lot of experience writing Python code.

What’s the real difference between Django developer and Python developer?

I'm a generalist that found work as a 'Django developer', and I actually ended up enjoying it, despite Django's flaws (minimal compared to what other frameworks are out there).

I do in fact spend most of my programming time on Python, and I enjoy using my faculties to write better/faster/smaller code.

What is that idea? I read it again and I’m still missing the moral of the story.

The moral of the story is the "no true scotsman" fallacy.

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

You act like your the "first" to do something (or at least since the jetsons), then when someone calls you on it you fall back to a subtly different claim to be the "first to do it right" where right is a subjective opinion that can be argued with, but not an objective fact that can be disproved like your first claim.

It helps if you and your audience are both american and have little idea of what has been done and/or done right in telecommunications for years overseas. Then you can focus on the Android phone that introduced front facing cameras to the world last month as your benchmark for better.

Personally, I think video calling will be niche, but having a front facing camera will open the door to all kinds of cool 3rd party software like photo manipulation software similar to Photobooth on Mac OS X or the software built into the Nintendo DSi, or eye-tracking etc. This is where the policy that Apple only ships hardware that it finds a slick 1st party use for falls down. I have a video camera on my Macbook, only ever used for Photobooth and Skype, never video iChat.

You don't even need to read the whole story to get the gist of it, title does the justice.

I really wonder what “high-quality Web pages” are. `What is Hacker News?` doesn’t give any results either.

In the context I believe they mean pages with a large number of grammatically well-formed sentences.

Realize we are all big time nerds with smartphones. Everyone else doesn't have one (yet?).

And when Twitter started out, even fewer of us had them.

Doesn’t this seem too basic to have been voted up so much? That is, compared to the rest of the technical posts that are voted up.

And perhaps MemcacheDB (http://memcachedb.org/) is a better bet if you don’t need Redis’s list and set operations. But I don’t understand why the cache needs to be persistent.

In the beginning, you mention that you use bash as your terminal. You might want to correct that.

Now that was idiotic.

Why? I've only used an iPad a couple of times and I didn't find it very easy to type on, especially if you need numbers, brackets, a dash etc. Maybe it's something you have to get used to. Or maybe you have to get one of the keyboard docks (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/A), but that's not very portable.

I doubt the meeting would have gone any better were they using a Windows tablet (coming from someone who has used one).

Note taking in meetings is clearly not the USP of the iPad though, so Ballmer's comments are just a cheap shot... no substance.

Don't get me wrong though, I totally agree that it was a cheap shot at the iPad. Although I can't imagine using the iPad to get things done, it seems pretty good for consuming content though.

The page also has a color scheme changer on the right.

I think the parent poster is complaining about the defaults not being particularly sensible, which seems reasonable.

I ordered one because I can’t wait to find it lying around a couple of years from now. Seems like this could be awesome bookshelf material.