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And I would have never understood that from a cursory look at the article. Learned it just now from you.
by pdimitar 3y ago
And I would have never understood that from a cursory look at the article. Learned it just now from you.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoIt's number 3 in "advantages of wheels", which is above the fold on my screen and exactly 50 words into the page, including titles.
- pdimitar 3y agoFair enough, my point was that the terminology was a put-off. Reads like kids bragging about stuff and not as a technical article.
- capableweb 3y agoSo without understanding the reasoning why they are not simply called "python packages" but "wheels", so they have distinct meaning, you chose to go on a tirade about why they are not simply called "packages" instead? The confidence of some HN commentators never ceases to surprise me
- pdimitar 3y ago(EDIT: made myself sound less conflicting.) It's not such a stretch to want to understand things quicker as an outsider and be annoyed by a seeming gatekeeping via quirky witty terminology. Not sure why you used such a conflicting tone as an opposition of that -- I think, fairly reasonable -- stance.