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by benesch 11y ago
It depends how you define bloat. If you define bloat strictly as number of dependencies, then sure, the Node ecosystem encourages more "bloat" than any other mainstream ecosystem. But if you define bloat as "inclusion of feat
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by benesch 11y ago
Shameless plug: I had the exact same question at my last gig, and wrote up a quick open-source tool to build wheels and dump them to an S3 bucket. [0] Usage is as simple as mkwheelhouse mybucket.mycorp.co scipy numpy which will aut
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A new syntax definition format for Sublime(sublimetext.com)
99 points by benesch 12y ago|25 comments
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by benesch 12y ago
I'm with you, but don't get your hopes up. Verizon never wired the city for FiOS because it was "too costly" [0]. Though something I always wanted to try when I lived downtown was netBlazr [1], which beams internet from
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by benesch 12y ago
Heh, I'm a computer science major to my core. Spoken like a CS major at a liberal arts school, I suppose. I suspect we agree. If you could universally define "better life," you could quantify it. But you can't. We'r
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by benesch 12y ago
Door-opening is the biggest network effect, no? You climb the corporate ladder or close the deal [largely] based on your merit, but it's the network that gets you the job interview or investor pitch. It's the friend who graduate
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by benesch 12y ago
That's why you have to evaluate the grade in the context of the course! GPA is meaningless; individual grades are much more informative. See Harry Lewis, recently appointed dean of Harvard's engineering school, on the subject. [0]
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by benesch 12y ago
Interesting. That's directly opposite what I've seen. My close high school friends nearly all went to Ivy League-quality schools: Yale, Penn, MIT, Caltech, etc. Some of us are happy. Most of us are succeeding. A few of us are exce
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by benesch 12y ago
Almost certainly the WOS is looking for PyPI's Python 3 trove classifier Programming Language :: Python :: 3 which was added [0] as part of the initial Py3k port discussed in #667. So what this means is as of July 2, imp
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by benesch 12y ago
It's easy to mistake Pro Git as some sort of official Git reference when Googling, since it's hosted at http://git-scm.com/book and looks an awful lot like the online man pages (git-scm.com/docs). And
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by benesch 12y ago
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by benesch 13y ago
From the Koa homepage: > Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation I think he meant successor in the spiritual sense, which is undeniably true.
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by benesch 13y ago
You can (ab)use iterable unpacking in Py3k, now that print's a real function: print(*[1,2,3], sep='\n')
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by benesch 13y ago
I agree with the premise but disagree with the argument. > Which brings me to the pattern of ever failing technologies. Remember Moo Tools? Prototype? ... Prototype and moo tools tried to be innovative, but they just made things harder.
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by benesch 13y ago
The project appears to be called gctools: https://github.com/tmm1/gctools And the known bug is probably "Allow dry-running the OOBGC": https://github.com/tmm1/gctools/pull/5 Wi
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by benesch 13y ago
The full list of transformations: 'colour' => 'color', 'grey' => 'gray', '!please' => '!important', 'transparency' => 'opaci
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by benesch 13y ago
He also (intentionally) misidentifies HN user "scottjad" as "scootjad," which keeps making me chuckle.
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by benesch 13y ago
Oh god. Even a bi-articulated bus with 240 people on it is emphatically not a bus I would want to be on.
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by benesch 13y ago
If you enforce a convention that private branches start with the developers initials (nb-restructre-everything), and that developers can force-push only their own branches, you can rely on each developer to keep their remote up-to-date. You
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by benesch 13y ago
One more argument for a heavyweight core: Vagrant is perfect for delivering a configured environment to designers and less-experienced developers. But once you start tacking on plugin installation to an already burdensome process (downloa
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by benesch 13y ago
See also the original iPhone game: http://threesgame.com (Support the developers! It's a great game.) Or a truer JS clone: http://threesjs.com
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by benesch 13y ago
As you pointed out, the previous discussion linked to a secondary source, not the original article. Also, one comment hardly constitutes a discussion.
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by benesch 13y ago
For more on why bluebird crushes Q, check out the original HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494622 In short, its API is nearly as extensive as Q's with essentially no overhead—bluebird is hardly more ex
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OCaml - Obj module documentation (Obj.magic)(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by benesch 13y ago|0 comments
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by benesch 13y ago
The idea is to keep them out of version control. At least ~/.bashrc won't end up in a repository under normal circumstances. You have no idea what pieces of your code base may eventually be open-sourced. For small teams, a good so
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by benesch 13y ago
Back of the napkin calculations put the cost of Prime Fresh at less than the cost of Zipcar grocery shopping. Realistically, you can't drive to the grocery store, do your shopping, drive home, unload the car, and drive the Zipcar back
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by benesch 13y ago
Readability link: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//joelburget.com/... It's almost impossible to see the text over the background.
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by benesch 13y ago
That's false. GitHub open sources almost all non-essential pieces of their codebase. [0] Notably, grit [1] (git bindings for ruby), gollum [2] (wiki on git), and hubot [3] (chat robot). To ask a company to open source their core, reven
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by benesch 13y ago
Good call—thanks!
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by benesch 13y ago
That's a silly argument. She's not looking to maliciously screw something up. She's looking to take a risk—to make a decision that, for once, doesn't lead her down the "safe" path to success of good grades, goo

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