Have you looked into evil-mode for vim keybindings inside Emacs?

For what it’s worth I’ve been using a combination of vimwiki and taskwiki (taskwarrior binding for vimiwiki) to achieve something roughly the same as Org Mode. Something I have been looking to set up but haven’t yet is hosting a taskwarrior server somewhere and syncing one of the android apps to it.

That being said, whether its vim, emacs or anything else I like the underlying message of keep things in plain text to keep the cost of switching or augmenting a setup low.

It’s considered heavyweight; it has a unique design pattern paradigm. It’s sort of a Major Thing that your entire stack is built around. Flask is thinner and is preferable for smaller projects.

I’d rather use Rails, myself; Python feels like its getting pushed into only the scientific computing community over time.

I primarily use django for backend development when it is a work related project. I transitioned away from django rendering templates to it serving a REST api using django rest framework. I find it pleasant to work with, test and debug but that might come from familiarity. I personally like the ORM and try to avoid writing any SQL in django projects by hand. For some smaller things I have used flask which is a more ‘lightweight’ framework. I think django is in somewhat of a transition period away from trying to do everything in the MVC model to allowing you to make more decisions, looking at the roadmap and announcements the addition of things like channels and more REST features seems to show that it is moving to what I would loosely call a ‘modern web’ approach.

I used django in the past (admittedly a long time ago), and I recall it working well. I remember the documentation being very good. I have also heard good things about the django rest framework from a couple of past colleagues.

That said, I personally tend to prefer more minimalistic options like falcon, flask, or bottle. I am also not a big fan of ORMs in general, but I have heard of people using django and writing sql by hand too – ymmv I assume.

I’ve used Django professionally and inherited code from a Django creator. It’s pretty similar to Rails, but built on the deep assumption that your app has a lot of public read-only users (who are probably not logged in) with a small, completely-trusted set of read/write admins. This is really obvious in the built-in admin panel, but it echoes through the form builder, views, routing, templating, caching, apps, etc. I didn’t recognize it while working on a CRUD app with lots of read/write users, but as soon as I touched a publishing site it was like the whole thing sung in sympathetic resonance with a background noise I only just realized I’d been hearing the whole time.

“Apps” are what they sound like. Django reifies the concept because of the hassle that went into standing up a webserver to serve python apps in the early 2000s and because it was built for the case where your same trusted admins publish multiple sites.

Django’s paradigm is “model-template-view”: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names

Agree, this or a fractal flame (http://flam3.com/) generator are projects I goto when looking for a medium sized project for a new language.

I recommend trying to write a triangle rasterizer and see if you can match or outperform Quake’s renderer. And add some features Quake doesn’t have.

Of course, directly rasterizing other (convex) polygons, quads in particular, might be a worthwhile addition considering how common rectangular surfaces are.

Are there any good resources for people who want to get started with graphics/3D-related programming but have no prior experience?

With respect to the OpenBSD topic. Is there a similar page of say ‘low having fruit’ that someone with some OS dev experience could look at? I worked with dlg teaching an OS dev course at the University of Queensland last year and it would be nice to be able to point people and somewhere they could look if they wanted to keep at it. (Also keen myself but my capacity probably doesn’t have enough room for another project right now)

…a box with text saying “Straightforward, low-cost pricing.” which then leads to a contact the sales team for pricing page is a bit of an antipattern in my books.

Looks like they designed their App Store page for users and their website for clients.

…it feels more like a one time password solution that two factor.

It’s just OTP, but “2FA++” is a better pitch for clients considering other 2FA solutions.

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I don’t think that’s what you meant. “qualm”, perhaps? I only mention this because I remember making the same mistake and feeling very embarrassed.

Does the PIN on the phone app qualify as a factor in itself? If so, it could be called 2FA.

Another great thing is the source is available: https://github.com/termux which may lessen concerns around ssh access into certain servers.

I recently discovered this too when a user of my Python package asked if it works in Termux. I was really surprised that installing Python packages worked most of the time (some C-based packages didn’t work).

I really agree. It works really great, and is the only one that works reliably for me. The bulit-in terminal is great, and the software repo has a great selection.

One thing I regret, is that a shell script that has the shebang #!/bin/sh does not work, but this is due to Android not following the standards, not to termux.

It was really a good surprise :)

Definitely agree, i found it a couple of moths ago by total accident and was amazed to see that i could not only install ssh but the latest version of GCC, go, node.js, python, ruby, emacs, vim, etc.

Typing on an phone is not the most convenient but plenty useful when you need it.

And even if it doesnt use your sd card as home. You can still access your termux files from the file discovery dialog. I’ve been using it to manage my ssh key on my phone.

In conversational UI, isn’t that not really an option? You’re likely using it from skype or your phone or hangouts?

Yep, typically run on a server with 128gb or so. That being said it is usually a case of iterating the sims with a simpler mesh (say 10k*10k) and running the full simulation only when we are fairly confident in the results already. There is some work being done to use hierarchal matrices to save on memory but there is a trade off there with speed.

I fell your pain. Apparently the issue is that e14 supplies almost all the stores in Australia who would stock them (like Little Bird) so they effectively control the price here and are looking to make a profit on the first keen few.

I imagine once the newness wears off and supplies stabilize, it won’t be an issue.

From what I can tell from this announcement, kdbus support in systemd is:

• compiled into systemd
• disabled if your kernel does not have the kdbus module loaded
• can be disabled using a command line option
• the command line option can be defaulted to off at systemd compile time.

So, if I understand correctly: if your kernel does not have kdbus support then the only impact this will have on you is that your systemd binaries might be a few Kb larger.

I don’t see this as systemd throwing it’s weight around - more like they want to conservatively introduce a feature to a wider audience whilst, quite rightly, limiting it’s impact by placing it behind a feature flag.

I’m having difficulty seeing this as systemd throwing it’s weight around, what did you mean by that?

We don’t need these bulky and slow frameworks

This actually depends on your use case. I certainly believe that you don’t need this sort of framework. But I do need something like Angular or Ember for much of my work.

The main area in which Angular is slow is the initial render. Once you’ve gotten past that cost, things can be very snappy indeed. It doesn’t make sense for most public-facing websites. But if you’ve got a highly interactive web app behind a login, you can actually preload the application logic and templates while the user types in their credentials, eliminating most of that cost.

that mess up basic things like separation of concerns.

There are different ways of separating concerns that make sense under different circumstances. Angular rejects the “traditional” web model because it isn’t a great fit for client-side applications. There may be better ways to do it, but the Angular way isn’t unreasonable.

It really wasn’t. Nor will it. Processing, ram, storage, these things tend to increase at an exponential rate along t. Actually available mobile bandwidth does not. And there’s nothing you can do about C, so there’s always going to be lag waiting for server responses.

I loved, and still love, writing websites with Wicket, doing all the rendering on the server side. You can dynamically update part of the page when the user clicks a button - but that happens via an ajax roundtrip. It’s the nicest framework I’ve ever worked with.

But it’s not at all mobile-suitable, because it relies on being able to roundtrip to the server more-or-less at will. If the user goes into a tunnel, their page breaks. In the olden days, making a user reload and start again when they lost their connection might have been acceptable; nowadays, not so much.

Which means either doing it on the client, or hybrid. Hybrid is inherently more complex - it means doing everything twice, with the potential for them to get out of sync. If you want to just have one set of rendering logic in one place, the only place for it is on the client.

I disagree on client-side rendering. I think one of its big strengths is that it cleanly separates the data layer from the end representation and forces you to address that from the design inception.

Ooh, what kind of medical device?

Thanks for the taskwarrior link, looks like it may be what I’ve been looking for to manage project based todo lists.