February 2010
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Ocean bacteria act as 'superorganism' - New... →
Guess it didn’t take long for the movie parallels to start up. Pretty cool if it turns out to be true, then it’d just be a matter of figuring out how to communicate with it.
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The Big Picture » Deficit Hawks Want New (or... →
Why now is not the time to all of a sudden try and eliminate the deficit.
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Tempting Fate at the Winter Games - NY Times →
Seems we’re on track to have the most dangerous Winter Olympics yet. Especially as news of an Olympic luger dying from injuries sustained in a luge crash just came out.
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The Case Against Layoffs: They Often Backfire -... →
I’ve seen some things in the past indicating layoff’s don’t actually help, interesting that other countries are starting to pickup the layoff practice despite any evidence indicating it helps company performance. Something seems broken with capitalism such that most companies now seem obsessed with short-term profit instead of long-term shareholder value. Maybe its linked to the...
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Food Stamps – The Great Recession’s Soup Lines →
For those thinking this isn’t as bad as the Great Depression since we don’t have soup lines… we just have different ways to keep the lines off the streets, and unemployment insurance keeps people at home watching TV rather than rioting on the streets.
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Deploying a Pylons App to Production, Step-by-Step →
One of the many ways to deploy a Pylons application. Hopefully with tools like toppcloud, the Python web world as a whole can start to come to a ‘best practices’ type methodology to ease deployment pains. So far, whether you’re deploying a Pylons, Django, repoze.bfg, Zope, or TurboGears app, many of the same deployment pains will crop up. Since all of them can be deployed as WSGI...
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Pylons 0.10 and 1.0 Beta 1 Released
Without further ado,
I’m pleased to announced that Pylons 0.10b1 and 1.0b1 are now out. I have not put them on Cheeseshop to ensure they’re not downloaded accidentally.
Upgrading / Installing
I have updated upgrading instructions here:
http://pylonshq.com/docs/en/1.0/upgrading/
The instructions to install from scratch on Pylons...
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“The big banks, the lobbyists say, have become increasingly alarmed that the...”
– Obama Added a New Twist to Financial Reform Talk - NYTimes.com
Why are you so terribly disappointing? →