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by reuser 15y ago
Python already has tools for this. IF I were interested in my working environment becoming more like a Ruby working environment, why wouldn't I just use Ruby?
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by reuser 15y ago
Evolution is systematic change in allele frequencies. The combination of natural selection and sexual reproduction tends to produce organisms which "fit to" their environments (hence "fitness"). It does so reliably enough that it might as w
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by reuser 15y ago
If Pinterest's business model is based on copyright violation, I don't expect them to do anything except dry up and blow away. It's not like I am obligated to recognize Pinterest's right to exist. Some companies are based on questionable or
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by reuser 15y ago
I applaud your effort. Regex is a valuable skill (really, language) which you will use across languages and programs as it gives you access to an efficient and pretty general method for scanning and extracting things from text. And if you s
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by reuser 15y ago
vim or pydev
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by reuser 15y ago
The specific reason not to switch to Jinja2 was that Django's templating language was originally intended not to be that powerful, so that you could feel reasonably safe handing it to non-technical "designers" or "writers" rather than feari
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by reuser 15y ago
You are right. It isn't your job to learn on old versions of Python just so that Django does not have to release a port yet. Many projects have been waiting on other projects to port, thankfully the progress in library porting has picked up
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by reuser 15y ago
If you leapt directly from $50 to $900, how should I know that there aren't sweet spots between those two points? I have never had a $900 chair and I have managed to avoid injury, but perhaps I am just especially robust?
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by reuser 15y ago
My impression is that Wayland planned to support X as a compatibility option. The difference is that X isn't the low level mediator of all input/graphics by default. As I understand. http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
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by reuser 15y ago
Pleasantries aren't part of this kind of "good taste".
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by reuser 15y ago
Freedom from drudgery sounds great, but who will pay for those people to eat and do more fulfilling things?
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by reuser 15y ago
I've seen the promotional materials on PyPy's performance (I find them particularly persuasive on odd synthetic benchmarks) but thank you for the link. I think you are a nice guy doing very useful work. You deserve to be proud of your work.
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by reuser 15y ago
I'm heuristically pretty sure. From my personal experience talking to people, and from some surveys or other I have casually looked at over the years, what is mentioned most in job ads and mailing lists, heuristic stuff like that. The same
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by reuser 15y ago
OK, so I love Python. But you are going to find people in the Python world telling you to abide by PEP8. And saying that you should be using virtualenv. And saying that you should not use (module-level) globals. And saying that you should b
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by reuser 15y ago
People writing tools to learn, or because the existing ones didn't suit their needs or tastes, occurs in every language and is very different from Perl-style "more than one way to do it". It's ridiculous to act like the mere existence of mu
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by reuser 15y ago
Django has such numeric superiority that there is not a lot of point splitting hairs on whether it is "default." While it isn't in the stdlib and there are other good choices, Django might as well be the default, just as Rails might as well
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by reuser 15y ago
"Arguably" every API ever written is a domain-specific language.
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by reuser 15y ago
There is no Pope of Python to tell you "you can't write new code to do xyz, because someone else is already working on that." How would that be enforced? Would someone's Python privileges be taken away? What if the person working on xyz was
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by reuser 15y ago
What would be the point of filing bugs against PyPy stating that it is slower or more resource-hungry on programs XYZ, when this is ultimately due to PyPy's core design decisions which are a point of pride and never going to be abandoned? E
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by reuser 15y ago
Please share your data showing that Coffeescript is faster than CPython
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by reuser 15y ago
I'm very amused that someone else has observed this about PyPy, I began to think I was the only one. It does not seem to be the orthodox view. I like CPython's fast startups and low memory overhead, bad scores in Pfannkuch benchmarks notwit
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by reuser 15y ago
Creativity doesn't need to come in the form of doing some boring task in a contorted or intentionally complex or showy way, though. You can be creative in choosing tasks and in choosing good novel approaches to tasks. Often the conventional
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by reuser 15y ago
If you are just writing for yourself, and you don't need tests, etc. then who cares what you do. Follow your bliss and more power to you. But if there is some chance I will have to fix or figure out your code - please DO try to make it main
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by reuser 15y ago
Ease of learning is often decoupled from ease of efficient use, sometimes even inversely related. 'Usable' is not one thing for everybody. So: a skeuomorph is obviously not a problem if it does not cause gratuitous errors or slowdowns, and
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by reuser 15y ago
I like the part about ego because too much of the programming (sorry, "engineering," no wait I mean "architecting") world is focused on a kind of dick-size comparison which is somewhat poisonous and skews things toward self-promotion and aw
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by reuser 15y ago
This excellent solution does assume one is using an editor which supports it, which many people do not (causing endless frustration to them)
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by reuser 15y ago
If license costs are so big that they become this important a factor in deciding how you will scale, they have become an operational problem of some size. Probably not a size which is imminently threatening to Stack Exchange. But it is not
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by reuser 15y ago
I'm not angry that Canonical has not dedicated a staff member to Lubuntu or Xubuntu, why should I rage over Canonical not having a staff member dedicated to Kubuntu? The community is doing a fine job. I have no problem with Unity and if I d
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by reuser 15y ago
That was written by Jonathan Riddell, who worked on Kubuntu. I am fairly certain he is not trash-talking KDE and I am also fairly certain that Ubuntu is not using him as a mouthpiece to trash SUSE. So it isn't necessary to get very hot tow
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by reuser 15y ago
After all of their evangelism about Windows servers, it is rich to see this: "but it’s so cheap compared to say a single SQL Server license that it seems silly not to do it." Yes, that is the problem isn't it?

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