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by atdt 15y ago
This might be more inspiring if you had quotes from programmers who changed the world for the better through their programming rather than people who make boatloads of money off programmers.
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by atdt 15y ago
I find generators powerful and I use them all the time, but I haven't found a use for coroutines in my code yet. Maybe I don't grok them fully.
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by atdt 15y ago
The goal is a laudable one, but, frankly, it’s playing out at best as quixotic and at worst as a Nader-like vanity project. Either way, it appears unlikely to accomplish much of anything. This isn't an argument -- it's a putdown, and one
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by atdt 15y ago
TechCrunch has always had that soulless, canned "edginess" and casual gloss characteristic of in-flight magazines and checkout-aisle gossip rags. If they've had anything insightful or interesting to say ever, they've done a remarkable job b
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by atdt 15y ago
Taking credit for other people's creative work is a shit thing to do. Whatever benefits Ive may have drawn from the relationship aren't relevant. Daddy doesn't get to beat the kids just because daddy puts food on the table.
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by atdt 15y ago
There's a difference between being an effective drill sergeant and being a jerk. Parking in handicapped spots has nothing to do with driving your employees to excellence.
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by atdt 15y ago
Oh, I should've been clearer: I meant that things got a lot better than before. I don't know Ruby all that well so I have no basis for making comparisons.
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by atdt 15y ago
The web stack in Python got dramatically better in the past two years: just take a look at Flask, Werkzeug, requests, class-based views in Django, etc. There were major improvements in deployment, too: Fabric and supervisord are maturing ve
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by atdt 15y ago
For Python, both the #pypy and #pocoo channels on freenode have good discussions.
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by atdt 15y ago
Which criteria?
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by atdt 15y ago
Why on earth not? What's so bad about starting at a high level of abstraction and then progressively peeling the abstraction away to get to the core concepts?
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by atdt 15y ago
There is a rather breathless presumption that underlies many of the comments to this article, and it is this: that the only way to learn anything thoroughly is to learn it from the inside out: to start from first principles and gradually pi
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by atdt 15y ago
Someone smarter than me put it thus: [Advertising] cannot be reconciled with the notion of independently determined desires, for [its] central function is to create desires – to bring into being wants that previously did not exist.
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by atdt 15y ago
I basically agree: the article loses a lot of credibility making Heroic Age / Iron Age comparisons, and I think you & others are right to call them out. But I do think there are things that are uniquely worrying about the present moment
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by atdt 15y ago
I think it's very important that readers and contributors of this site scrutinize their emotional response to this article. Moral criticism is very hard to swallow. When it is leveled against a community, it is natural for the community to
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by atdt 15y ago
I you're gnawed by curiosity or dissatisfaction, you should definitely try this. The alternative is dismal -- perhaps it's prudence, but to you it'd always be cowardice.
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Forget Anonymous: Evidence Suggests GOP Hacked, Stole 2004 Election(benzinga.com)
23 points by atdt 15y ago|9 comments