dominicrodger
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Pretty sure it's a typo (speaking as a Brit).
In the mother of all pedantic pull requests, I've created https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/77
Comment · 12 years ago
It's now documented and everything: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/migrations/#upg...
Comment · 13 years ago
Doesn't this mean people can track whether you've read an email by including some kind of unique identifier in the image path? If not, how could this possibly work?
Comment · 13 years ago
Likewise - I did this as part of a hackathon earlier this year - thoroughly enjoyed seeing how all the pieces fitted together.
Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm pretty sure they're just markers telling you what the code is an example of, so they get out of your way when you hover over the code.
Comment · 14 years ago
We use it to mean practising how we handle bad things, such as unexpected server failures, which seems to me a reasonable appropriation of the term.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for the write-up - interesting read.
Out of interest, how do you catch and block all POST requests when the site's in read-only mode without duplicating code? Not sure if you use CBVs at Lanyrd - if so, do you use a common mixin? If not, how?
Comment · 14 years ago
See also "Entmoot" from Lord of the Rings.
He's not arguing against GitHub pages - he's arguing against just linking to a file/folder in your GitHub repository and thinking you're done (e.g. https://github.com/<org>/<project>/docs).