But we expect this don't we from YouTube? Just as an example of how broken it is I have been live streaming at our local church, our parish priest decided to sing "Tantum ergo" which was written and set to music at best guess 1264. YouTube flagged it.

I mentioned the admin interface as well. I wish it was easier to customise when you need something more user friendly, and not something that is just a GUI for accessing the database. But it is hard to get away from, since everything else by default plugs into it.

After customizing the admin interface so that it could be used by the staff of a couple of organizations I wrote web sites for, I realized that it's much easier to write normal views for this. It's simple to use decorators to enforce staff logins on views. Really customizing the admin becomes pretty tortuous pretty fast. However, it's great to have available as an interface to the DB for the developer; not so much for the users.

Don't mind my personal plug, but you might be interested in taking a look at Smartmin: https://smartmin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

(don't mind the stale release, just use master)

It is a much, much better admin-like tool to use for building CRUD views, with strong conventions on permissions, URL structures and template names. It really simplifies things and we've been using it internally for four years on a dozen different projects.

Can't imagine using Django without it.

Sounds neat but I'm having trouble figuring out what it does. Maybe you could include screenshots, and simple sample code showing how it's used?

I will also have to write normal views for it. I just would like some easy system for pluging those views all together nicely for, without having to do it myself. Also some extra stuff to take care of permissions when doing that. I eventually I think I will have to write my own such system to get what I want.

I would like more accountability from professors somehow. Maybe not from student reviews, but at least someone unknown to the professor randomly attend a few classes to check the quality of them. Right now I have a professor that says things during class that are obviously incorrect, and can be verified as incorrect. Her attitude towards students is also disrespectful. But there is nothing we can do about it, no way to communicate to the university that they should be embarrassed and ashamed to have such a professor.

Have you tried to do so? I've seen coherent, well-written letters from a large number of students influence the direction a course took (it was redesigned from the ground up for the next year), and both student and peer evaluations of teaching are definitely a factor in tenure decisions - and depending on the position, may be a major factor.

But I'd start with laying out concrete things, rather than "embarrassed and ashamed".

Cameras in every classroom. You can then annonymosly report problems with time and date for review.

I had a Calculus prof who was worthless. She would literally read from the book and copy it verbatim on the blackboard. No questions. If you had a question you had to write it down on a piece of paper and leave it on her desk. If she could get around to it the question might be answered in a day or two. Students had no way to fire this prof or get her reviewed and replaced. We had to endure the torture and learn on our on.

This was what we taught to say when I was a tutor for a university. The point was the student could not come and just point out that something was wrong with the marking and they deserve more points. If they thought the grade was not fair it could be remarked, but the whole thing would be remarked and a totally new grade assigned. You might come out better or worse for it.

This looks like it could help make it much easier to profile my django web apps during development.

The equivalent code with out the context manager is actually this:

  f = open('foo.txt')
  try:
     contents = f.read()
  finally:
     f.close()

So yes, extra reason to prefer the context manager.

I am in Europe (Italy) right now and before it was taken down thepiratebay.se was blocked. But now I can access it directly. Interesting.

Same here in the UK. Looks like before my ISP had blocked the specific IPs AND the domain at the DNS level. Obviously now TPB is using a different IP, so if you use Google's DNS servers instead of your ISP's then you should be able to access the site just fine.

Same here! It was banned in Argentina and now I can access to it without problem. My guess is that they are using a new IP (pinging thepiratebay.se gives me the IP 104.28.5.42, which seems to be part of CloudFare network). I'm reading the legal order (http://www.scribd.com/doc/232031432/cnc-tpb-argentina-pdf) and they not only ask to ban IPs from 194.71.107.0 to 194.1.107.255, they also ask ISP DNS resolvers to ban thepiratebay.se (an related domains). Good thing I'm not using my ISP DNS :)

Maybe they had blocked the IP instead of the domain name? They surely have a different IP address now.

I wonder, in Italy blocked just the PB blocked or other torrent websites as well?

This happens all the time, http://torrentfreak.com/tag/italy/

Still blocked in Finland. Tested using two major ISPs.

Users should be able to access all your content without JavaScript. I think the old rule of progressive enhancement still applies, JavaScirpt can add extra things, but everything should remain functional without it. If it does not work without it, your doing yourself harm I think, remember one very important user is search engines, and they don't (as far as we know) use JavaScript.

I saw most of this coming. I have studied a little Ancient Greek which has the same problem of the Arabic, and Polish which is similar to the Russian, and now I am living in Italy. I guess it is one of those things though as programmers that we just forget about too much, and just expect translation to a mechanical process in the last stage of the development cycle.

Besides all the jokes - which are funny - this is something I posted a bug about before, when working on slow unreliable networks this can happen. You end up reading half the page, and then it tells you it can be displayed.