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by a_cool_username 6mo ago
I had planned to do cloth diapers if we had a diaper service available, for environmental reasons, but there's none where I live now and I definitely am not up for washing diapers by hand/pooping up my nice washing machine. Props
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by a_cool_username 11mo ago
I (and my team) work remote and don't quite agree with this. I work very hard to provide deep, thoughtful code review, especially to the more junior engineers. I try to cover style, the "why" of style choices, how to think ab
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by a_cool_username 11mo ago
Do you think that "Don't do this" as a reply comment is following the spirit of the guidelines? It doesn't seem very thoughtful or substantive to me.
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by a_cool_username 2y ago
Those are definitely reasonable reasons to lose confidence in elections and feel disillusioned, but voter ID laws won't help you there (which was GP's point).
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by a_cool_username 2y ago
The pypa team are just not capable stewards of core aspects of the python ecosystem. As a maintainer and developer of Python based tools and libraries it is very frustrating having these folks push some change that they want and simply oops
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by a_cool_username 3y ago
The article discusses that this is actually in the tens of thousands of dollars: >Twitter’s API service limits tweets for non-paying users to 1,500 a month — not enough for many emergency accounts. And while a small fee for the platform&
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
If you're an even remotely competent developer in a language used by more than one company, have a reasonably firm grasp of the English language, can work with others reasonably well, and can be bothered to apply for jobs, then there a
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
Maybe there's something I don't understand, but per this table it's slightly worse to be married filing separately than it is to be single at the top brackets: https://www.bankrate.com/taxes/tax-brackets&
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
Once you hit the sweet spot of developing for cross-platform (even just Linux, MacOS, and Windows) and supporting normal average-people users and have (even optional!) C dependencies, Python's packaging situation quickly deteriorates i
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
I don't think it's a "problem" with mypy, I just think it's likely the cause of a lot of the programs that the authors think don't type check. Though I will say, while most have been fixable in a few minutes, s
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
I can't give you any links because it's not open source code, but there was a bug fix in 0.790 named "Don't simplify away Any when joining union types" that caused me some problems with bad annotations in the existi
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by a_cool_username 5y ago
>A key question arises: why are so few repositories type-correct? The authors don't seem to ever discuss the fact that mypy version changes frequently make previously-passing code fail type checks. I don't think I have ever upg
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by a_cool_username 6y ago
Sometimes! A very simple example is code that uses "async" as a variable name. It became a keyword in 3.5, which was an enormous pain in the ass.
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by a_cool_username 6y ago
It depends! Sometimes I have to lock a dependency at minor releases because every.single.release from the author breaks something new, and I've already worked around the locked version's failings. Sometimes I have to lock a depend
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by a_cool_username 6y ago
It's gotten a lot better, but we still hit tons of issues with users who don't know what Python version they installed their application in. Oh and of course our "binaries" in Scripts/bin don't seem to show up
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by a_cool_username 6y ago
Let me start by saying: I love python, and I love developing in it. It's the "a pleasure to have in class" of languages: phenomenal library support, not too painful to develop in, nice and lightweight so it's easy to thr
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by a_cool_username 6y ago
I partially maintain a GitHub project with ~1500 stars, many of my users are not very technically skilled. I rarely encounter entitled/mean/crazy people - we probably average one obnoxious contributor a year, two or three if you c
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by a_cool_username 7y ago
Well, my point is that I think it's entirely possible that the only real use for MS Access is as a glorified Excel spreadsheet. That seems like a fine use case with a pretty significant market share! When you get right down to it, tha
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by a_cool_username 7y ago
An acquaintance of mine is an accountant. He uses it when his spreadsheets get too big/busy/complex. He's not "technical", but he is quite intelligent and is very familiar with Excel, has even written a few VB macro