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by svisser 1y ago
The word "translated" isn't correct here, as the articles may not be translations of other articles.
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by svisser 4y ago
It's not exactly tolerated by Wikipedia community, see this discusssion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...
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by svisser 4y ago
Ironically, her husband's name is Robin.
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by svisser 5y ago
Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme... The English Wikipedia isn't one of the "early adopter wikis" but if you visit, say,
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by svisser 8y ago
You should look into BDI agents and BDI programming languages.
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by svisser 8y ago
Being good at hacking doesn't mean they can write clean maintainable code (in a team).
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by svisser 9y ago
It may be because it's the vault codebase, a tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management. One would hope that such a codebase is well understood and implemented.
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by svisser 9y ago
For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL
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by svisser 9y ago
Do you specifically want it to be about Python scripts or also other languages?
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by svisser 9y ago
The opening sentence of a linked article sums it up quite well: "If nobody understands a mathematical proof, does it count?" The abc conjecture may be solved today but only when a sufficient number of people understand and accept
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by svisser 9y ago
Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
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by svisser 9y ago
https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich
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Video game trailer qualifies for an Oscar(gamasutra.com)
1 points by svisser 9y ago|0 comments
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by svisser 9y ago
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369
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by svisser 9y ago
For those looking to validate dictionaries / JSON responses in Python, the voluptuous library works quite well: http://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous . It also works for lists and other data types.
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by svisser 9y ago
Coincidentally a book was written a few decades ago called "Ringmakers of Saturn" which discusses the presence of alien life around Saturn as well.
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by svisser 10y ago
In Python you can do this: 1_000_000 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/
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by svisser 10y ago
I guess the real question is: "Why have foosball (table football) become so popular among management of software development companies?"
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by svisser 10y ago
"Divided by a common syntax" also describes the relationship between Python 2 and Python 3.
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by svisser 10y ago
Not necessarily. There is even an argument that you want to be "the last" on the market. For example, Google is the last "search engine" - it wasn't the first search engine on the market but it did grow to dominate
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by svisser 10y ago
> In the long run, for readability and maintainability, ORMs win most of the time. It depends. Anyone working on that code now needs to learn the ORM, the SQL and how to let the ORM generate that SQL for anything beyond the basics.
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by svisser 10y ago
This can detect when a CVE vulnerability is fixed but how would you know the version number at which it was introduced?
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by svisser 10y ago
Would adding structure help in managing the work better? It can become difficult to convince management of hiring (paying) more people when there are improvements that should be made first.
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by svisser 10y ago
- Determine who you need to convince on this matter - Find out what metrics they care about (time lost, money lost, potentially employees lost, clients lost). - Formulate your proposal in a way that emphasises how those metrics will improve
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by svisser 10y ago
Even if you get paid more, you still spend time learning knowledge and skills which aren't easily transferable to your next employer. You can't get that time back so long-term it's probably better to develop software in a mor
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by svisser 10y ago
You've already identified that it may not get much traffic and it isn't monetizable with two big ad networks. It's worth experimenting with a few things but you may just need to move on to another project that has better chan
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by svisser 10y ago
Dropbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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by svisser 10y ago
It is essential to balance work with play. So you should not feel bad to play video games from time to time. But if you're always doing things that involve a lot of thinking (work, study) it may be good to balance that with exercise or
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by svisser 10y ago
The changelog should be a document written by humans for humans. So you manually maintain the changelog while working on fixes / features and you add any remaining notes just prior to each release.
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by svisser 10y ago
You can automatically remove six from your codebase after you're Python 3.x only. So six can be a possible solution (provided you have automated tests).

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