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New comment by stepmr in "Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes"

stepmr — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 05:46:21 +0000

This won't do anything. Dr Andy Yan (https://twitter.com/Ayan604) has a pretty interesting take on all of this: "It still leaks. It may make a bit of a difference, but at the same time it doesn’t deal with the issue at hand, which is foreign capital, not foreign people" https://archive.ph/OcSYX

For those interested in how crazy this is in Canada, journalist Sam Cooper (https://twitter.com/scoopercooper) has done some awesome reporting.

New comment by stepmr in "Show HN: Tribalpedia – Free Learning About Native American Indians"

stepmr — Sun, 03 Jan 2016 05:43:51 +0000

If anyone is interested in learning more about the contemporary Indigenous world, my wife runs an excellent weekly email digest that focuses on First Nations, Inuit and Métis (IE primarily Canadian) topics. See: https://makook.com

New comment by stepmr in "Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip"

stepmr — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:48:08 +0000

Any idea why this uses a forked version of Django? I read through docs and skimmed the repo but couldn't find anything that speaks to this...

New comment by stepmr in "YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders"

stepmr — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:17:28 +0000

Is this open to Indigenous (i.e. Native American, First Nations, Inuit, Métis, etc) founders?

New comment by stepmr in "Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Territory and Language Map"

stepmr — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:57:33 +0000

Also, shameless plug here, my wife and I are working on an Indigenous-centric social news project called Makook. We're about about a month from launching a beta, but we're sending out a weekly news digest that covers trending Indigenous stories and ideas in the meantime. If anyone is interested, you can signup at http://makook.com

New comment by stepmr in "Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Territory and Language Map"

stepmr — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 21:43:17 +0000

If anyone is interested in learning more about contemporary Indigenous issues in Canada (from a "Canadian" point of view) I can recommend a few good places to start:

I'd recommend reading both of John Ralston Saul's books on the subject: "A Fair Country"[1], and "The Comeback"[2].

A couple weeks ago I posted "Title Fight"[3] by Arno Kopecky, which is a fascinating read, and an excellent intro to "Aboriginal Title Land".

Maclean's Magazine also published a great article on Canada's deep/pervasive "Race Problem", I'd recommend reading this first.[4]

[1] http://www.amazon.ca/Fair-Country-Telling-Truths-Canada/dp/0... [2] http://www.amazon.ca/The-Comeback-Aboriginals-Reclaiming-Inf... [3] http://thewalrus.ca/title-fight/ [4] http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-...

Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Territory and Language Map

stepmr — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:28:39 +0000

Article URL: http://native-land.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903173

Points: 44

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New comment by stepmr in "How the Tsilhqot’in got their land back and why Canada will never be the same"

stepmr — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:17:37 +0000

If anyone is interested in Aboriginal Title the University of British Columbia runs a great primer site on general Indigenous issues in Canada. See: http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/land-rights/ab...

How the Tsilhqot’in got their land back and why Canada will never be the same

stepmr — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:22:18 +0000

Article URL: http://thewalrus.ca/title-fight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9765685

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by stepmr in "Why do we have allergies?"

stepmr — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 05:39:49 +0000

The standard tests didn't get it. I actually discovered it when I just totally gave up (at this point I'd been to doctor for numerous blood tests - especially for mono). I cook a lot, and have always eaten fairly well. I just got tired of it... so I ate a lot of terrible food for a month, mostly fried, and I felt awesome. Then i started to get fat. So, i started cooking again. The first meal was beef stew. I ate it, then felt terrible. So I eliminated everything in it, and reintroduced them one-by-one to my diet. The onions were obvious, garlic less so.

New comment by stepmr in "Why do we have allergies?"

stepmr — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 05:30:56 +0000

Allergies are awful. Throughout my twenties I "suffered" what I thought was chronic fatigue syndrome, only to discover later this year it was actually just an Allium allergy (Onions, Garlic etc). I'd estimate that this was at least a 50% drop in my overall productivity during what could have been some of my most productive years. If anyone is suffering from allergies I highly suggest experimenting with your diet.

New comment by stepmr in "Python Social Auth"

stepmr — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:15:46 +0000

For those using python-social-auth with Django, omab has also produced a number of examples that aren't contained in the main PSA repo or docs. These were a real time-saver the last time I worked on a project using it.

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psa-allauth https://github.com/omab/psa-allauth

An attempt to demonstrate feature-parity with django-allauth. Demonstrates: Signup of both local and social accounts; Connecting more than one social account to a local account; Disconnecting a social account (require setting a password if only the local account remains); Optional instant-signup for social accounts (no questions asked); E-mail address management (multiple e-mail addresses, setting a primary); Password forgotten flow; E-mail address verification flow.

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psa-passwordless https://github.com/omab/psa-passwordless

Passwordless Email Auth

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psa-recovery https://github.com/omab/psa-recovery

Email Auth + Simple password recovery mechanism

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psa-friendsinvite https://github.com/omab/psa-friendsinvite

Facebook Friends Invite with delayed permissions request.

New comment by stepmr in "Intercooler.js – A JavaScript-optional Ajax library"

stepmr — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:39:24 +0000

This is awesome. Have you checked out Eldarion's declarative ajax project (https://github.com/eldarion/eldarion-ajax)?

New comment by stepmr in "Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django."

stepmr — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:17:06 +0000

I guess I'm looking for concrete reasons as to why "Using Wordpress for anything but a blog is a disaster."

New comment by stepmr in "Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django."

stepmr — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:13:20 +0000

Right, but programming something in Django is much different then using some obscure php CMS. Django development is incredibly fast, and is more likely to attract good developers. We are also in a very large metropolitan area, with a substantial Python and Ruby communities. I was almost going to suggest the try Expression Engine or something. I just can't see relying on a variety of Wordpress plugins to make the site being a good idea. Especially if they're considering doing any custom work.

I mean Drupal and PressFlow would probably be an even better decision going the PHP route.

New comment by stepmr in "Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django."

stepmr — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:48:48 +0000

Also, from my understanding it's unlikely they'll bring development in-house, at least not in the next few years.

New comment by stepmr in "Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django."

stepmr — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:42:09 +0000

I totally agree. I guess "Because", should have been "But". That said, I don't think the staff position is for a web developer, but for someone who can handle microsites and frontend work.

Ask HN: Why not Wordpress? The case for Web frameworks like Django.

stepmr — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:41:19 +0000

A friend works for a large magazine with highly trafficked website. They're looking to re-develop their site and have someone on staff who handles their micro-sites, which are mostly very small static or Wordpress projects. I'm a Django developer, and mentioned I thought Django would be the most natural fit amongst web frameworks for their transition away from their aging perl-based publishing system.

However, he mentioned they are leaning towards Wordpress simply because of familiarity with the "brand". The site is fairly complex, but could probably be done with Wordpress. I won't be working on this project, but I think it would be a shame for this to happen. Because I'm totally biased and hate making things in WP.

So, to better prepare my case, I thought I'd ask HN to see if anyone had any opinions as to the advantages of using web-frameworks like Django over Wordpress for a web publishing project.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888848

Points: 1

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