Couldn't agree more. Once, in an interview, I was asked for a link to my "Github resume". I replied, "I don't have one. I get paid to write code." I got the job.
Well, for the majority of us that is not the case. If you work for Mozilla (or something like that) then great, but to expect the same from everyone is just ridiculous.
I think the idea is that because a actual computer is too expensive to give, they are buying referbs for sharing such as in a school, and giving people their own personal OS on a usb stick.
Then these people can go to school, plug it into the shared computer, and get their own experience, then take it away with them. Giving them the sense of ownership that it's their own personal computer.
Uber drivers aren't employees. Nor are they independent contractors. Uber is crystal clear that they only operate as an intermediary for hiring a private driver. Sure, there's some value-add, like keeping track of the money, but if it got to that, a good lawyer would be able to get them off the hook.
They issued a statement "expressing our condolences," which is really all that should be expected here.
Should be reasonably painless. You'll want to read the release notes for 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5, because there are a couple of things that have been deprecated and/or removed. And even a few things that have moved but are otherwise the same. I would think that a day would be sufficient for most peoples' uses of Django. I upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5 a few months ago, and it only took an hour (and this was 10 sites worth of code).
How does this impact the release of 1.6, considering that 1.6RC1 was released yesterday? Does 1.6RC1 contain these fixes, or does this mean that 1.6RC2 is coming out soon?
1.6 will inevitably get the fixes, but as it's not a security release and 1.6 is not officially out yet, they'll probably just bundle them with the actual release.
