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Hearsay: During WWII the code breakers of Bletchley Park were provided with benzedrine tablets.


I would miss HTML formatted emails after a while.

A promising alternative is Muttator (http://www.vimperator.org/muttator).

Muttator is from the same team that made Vimperator, a Firefox add-on that changed the way I browse the web.


Muttils[1] makes it easier to deal with html email in mutt, and has a bunch of other goodies as well. I hit one keystroke and I'm looking at the html message in my web browser.

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/muttheaven/


Brafton's editorial reads like a press release from Mircosoft Bing. The premise is that Bing is growing in the month of August and that Google is losing market share. The analysis of Bing being a contender seems very premature considering many technical people reviewing their analytics will see a minute portion of their traffic comes from Bing vs. Google.

This kind of promotion is unlikely to make developers make the switch, but I am interested -- maybe the short-term lose of Google could be explained by the gain of Duckduckgo. That's the bias I would editorialize.



I think that's still under 1%, which is awesome it's getting that big, but wouldn't be enough here. The other complicating factor is that yahoo is either down a little (compete) or down a lot (comscore).


High-rewatchability is a poor metric for a good film.

Examples of movies I would highly rate but would not want to rewatch: Schindler's List (1993), Hotel Rwanda (2004), Blindness (2008), Amistad (1997), etc...


I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s


Unfortunately DDG's results suck. Nobody really cares about Google's 'tracking', people use them because they work.


We've made a lot of relevancy and speed improvements lately. If you have any specifics, we'd love to hear them. A good way is to try it for a week, collect all the ones that suck and send them to https://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html -- we're listening!


Interesting, what makes you say that DDG's results suck? I've been using it as my primary search engine for a few weeks now and aside from it not including a map in results unless you give it a very explicit address, I've found it no worse than Google's results.


A online buddy of mine submitted http://enjoys.it/duckduckgo/ a while ago but he was "dead"/ghosted on HN right away.


ghostfish's message is now gray, so I guess he has been downvoted. Can anyone explain why?

My experience with DDG has been very similar to the one cited by aw3c2: I used it as my primary search engine for a couple of months, and eventually found myself always using !g, so I switched back to google.


Maybe not for US queries, but they are kinda lacking for the rest of the world.


What address? That's a bug :)


No way, DDG results are great. Only about 1 in 10 times do I end up searching again on other engines.


For me it depends.

On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.

For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.


It's not a "search engine". It's a frontend to Bing.


And, presumably Bing tracks users and uses that data to improve its results. When you use DDG, you're just being tracked as "a DDG user" instead of "a Bing user with cookie=0x23987438743". (I don't know if that's true or not, but it's my current understanding of the situation.)

I think the problem with tracking is not the intrinsic action, but rather the fact we call it "tracking". Tracking is the technique you use to hunt and kill animals. Showing Java results to Java programmers and C# results to C# programmers is a little different from that...


No it is not.


I really want to switch to DDG since I prefer it's results to Google but I always miss the time range filter. I know I'm not alone on this and the answer from DDG is that we can sort by date which is far from an alternative...


I trust Google. I have been moving all my data to Google.


Mirrored a copy here, http://jsbin.com/apawin/3

If you have an aversion to using Google cache and would like to see a clean version.


If you have to be a pedant and tell people to use a multiplication symbol, then use a multiplication symbol. The symbol is × (×), not the letter X.


If you want to be a better pedant, you better start paying attention, like for example to the fact that I alluded to x not being the multiplication symbol by a) putting it in quotes and b) writing ~ "x", where ~ is the well known "approximately equal to" math symbol.


That looks ugly to me.

I much prefer CoffeeScript, because plain JS makes me mad, and CoffeeKup (http://coffeekup.org/) for generating DOM content.


Excellent points. According to the project site, "Lua" is correct.

> "Lua" (pronounced LOO-ah) means "Moon" in Portuguese. As such, it is neither an acronym nor an abbreviation, but a noun. More specifically, "Lua" is a name, the name of the Earth's moon and the name of the language. Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an initial capital, that is, "Lua". Please do not write it as "LUA", which is both ugly and confusing, because then it becomes an acronym with different meanings for different people. So, please, write "Lua" right!

("What's in a name?" from http://www.lua.org/about.html)


I've done some testing with the previous version of Mezzanine (0.12?) and preferred it to Django-CMS. I preferred mezzanine to django-cms but with this latest version does not contain the css files in the static directory, which leave the populated demo version broken.

I was also unsure how to get (South?) to update to my Postgre db instead of the dev.db.


I'd suggest going over the Django docs a bit more.

Mezzanine 1.0 makes full use of Django's staticfiles app. With DEBUG enabled, all your static content will be served dynamically from within each app's static directory. Once DEBUG is off, as you'd do for production, you need to run the collectstatic command to move all those files into a single static directory, which you then alias to in your web server's config, be it Apache, NGINX or something else.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

As for your database settings, simply define those in your project's settings module. Mezzanine will create a local_settings module for you with the SQLite settings defined for development. This shouldn't be checked into version control, as it will be different per environment.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#database...

If you hit any other things like these, please feel free to post to the mailing list where I and others will be only too happy to guide you.

http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users


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