anthonyb

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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yes, at the time that I started writing, Python 3 was just a dot on the horizon. Even now, there are a lot of libraries that haven't been ported across, and the book has a strong practical bent (It's as much a learning to program book as a
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by anthonyb 15y ago
That one got blacklisted for some reason - It was on the front page, then disappeared, and when it came back a couple of hours later it was 5-6 pages deep. Not sure what happened (some sort of glitch, maybe?), so I resubmitted. Hope it does
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Show HN: Hello Python, my book about learning python, has just been released(manning.com)
46 points by anthonyb 15y ago|17 comments
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Show HN: Hello Python, my book about learning python, has just been released(manning.com)
12 points by anthonyb 15y ago|4 comments
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by anthonyb 15y ago
How many one man dev shops (which is what we're talking about here) test well, or even in in multiple browsers? So yes, if you get a web site from a one man web design shop, then you should make sure it validates. If it doesn't, it's probab
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by anthonyb 15y ago
No, it's not. You might as well say that it doesn't matter if your programmer doesn't use version control, or your surgeon doesn't clean under his nails. Major e-commerce sites will have tested under every major browser anyway, so invalid H
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, but typically any sign that they're weird and irrational (trail of angry developers/no business model), or that they'll try and screw you out of a fair payment (won't do commencement payments) are a red flag. Even if you
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yes, I've seen this happen at a couple of small businesses that I've been involved with. The trick is to have regular milestone payments, and if they miss them, work stops. (It'll annoy idiots like this to the point where they won't hire yo
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by anthonyb 15y ago
If a site doesn't validate, it might not appear properly in some browsers, reducing your customers' experience of your site. In extreme cases, it might also mean that they can't (eg.) see your buy button, killing your sales.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Google's mission is to "organise the world's information". If that's the case, isn't allowing special interest groups the power to alter what information is presented a violation of that mission? "Organise the world's information, except wh
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I refer to this as a "cash leash", and it's a very good idea, particularly in the early days before you can hire lawyers to create contracts and write letters to non-payers.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
But I bet they keep driving their car. How many Iraqi and Afghani civilians have been killed so far by the US? That's a far more direct contribution to human suffering.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I just read through that India Together article. Very interesting, but it doesn't support your position at all: "The Rangarajan case simply ignores statutory provisions in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and the Trade Unions Act, 1926, an
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I think you just proved my point. If I had to pick problem domains for which Django's ORM is poorly suited, "complex temporally-oriented schema ... in the financial analysis sector", or something like it, would be pretty high up on the list
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Well? He is. A blockade is apparently "criminal behaviour", but police beating the blockaders with clubs until at least twenty of them are hospitalised and one of them dies gets a "How do you know the union leader was killed unnecessarily?"
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Illegal != Immoral. Using phrases like "Criminal behaviour" implies both.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Next up, emacs vs. vi, Linux vs. Mac. Having just read through that thread, and zzzeek's earlier post ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/olech/is_django_cons... ) I still don't see that any of this has changed from the last time I re
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by anthonyb 15y ago
You are a right wing libertarian loon.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Please don't use phrases like "criminal behaviour". If you read the article, he was killed by riot police while blockading the factory. Pretty standard peaceful protest, standard procedure when the law doesn't do the right thing, and should
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I'm from Australia. Melbourne to be specific - home of the hook turn, due to all the trams :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
> The risks you describe are all true, but mostly apply at traffic lights as well: a cyclist still has to navigate into the right-hand lane at a junction if turning right from a two-lane (or more) entry road. No, they don't - as a cycli
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by anthonyb 15y ago
So if you work on a civilian aircraft, which is later repurposed for a military use, why would you be "devastated"? That part makes no sense to me - since it's nothing to do with the engineer in question, and they had no part in the decisio
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by anthonyb 15y ago
It doesn't help when making right hand turns* or going straight. In that case, a cyclist has to cut in front of two lanes of traffic (left and straight/right), which isn't very good for either them or the cars. You also have to consider tha
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Sure, but we're talking in the context of engineers and defence technology. Boeing is a large military contractor, so there's not much question that the work that you do for Boeing as an engineer working on planes is going to be used by the
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Really? If you help design a military plane, it's going to be used to kill people at some point, surely? Seems a bit odd that you wouldn't be prepared for that.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Seems like a bit of a beat-up to me. The page that they link to hardly seems aimed at kids, and the only bit there about the MENTOR program (that acronym helpfully left out of the article) says this: The Manufacturing Experimentation and Ou
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Only if you're in a car. For cyclists they're far more dangerous than traffic lights (where you can do a hook turn), and also pedestrians (you can install pedestrian lights, and the cars will be going slower anyway).
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Most of the issues with public transport can be solved with some careful planning. If you haven't seen it already, http://carfree.com/ covers a lot of the practical ones (including how you migrate existing cities over to being car free).
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Unless you have heavy congestion. In that case they become much less attractive.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Cars ruin the amenity of your city. Space taken up with roads and parking can't be used for anything else, and cars are dangerous to be in or around. If you know that, and still choose to drive, then you are, to some extent, selfish.

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