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rambling

A response to Dropping Django

by shabda on August 20, 2009

Brandon Bloom yesterday wrote an interesting post titled dropping Django. Despite a lot of hand waving(We needed a pragmatic template language to replace Django’s idealistic one.), it raises some valid questions, so here is a solution to some of them. No support for hierarchical url creation. The simplest representation of nested urls I can think [...]

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Aren’t django signals a little like comefrom?

by rohit on July 18, 2009

In computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, primarily as a joke. I never liked using signals. Recently I was asked that, and has no answer, but a little thinking led me to this question. Aren’t signals a little like COMEFROM. If yes, aren’t they [...]

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Why people start startups.

by shabda on April 22, 2008

In the glorious tradition of the internet, where we generalize from way too little data, I am going to tell you exactly why people start startups. Of course, I have no experience, on why people make this trade of security for adventure, apart from my own, and a few other very early stage startups. So [...]

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