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Capitalism

A Summary of Free To Choose – Milton Friedman

Introduction Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations: An inidividual who intends only his own gain is led by an invisible hand…by pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade […]

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django

Wrangling with Django’s DecimalField and representations

I’ve been building an application that needs precicion as it is dealing with money, finance and trading. For these tasks there is a special datatype called decimal.Decimal that python has built in. It has many advantages but has a few disadvantages when displaying the decimal to the user. The trailing zeroes are shown (which is […]

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django

Running multiple django sites on a single server with gunicorn and nginx

When days are dark, friends are few, cash is low and we need to take our django sites and put them on a single server. I am assuming you have site up and running that is using django with nginx and gunicorn. Now we need to do a few modifications to get the new site […]