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by briancurtin 14y ago
> And don't even get me started on the lack of documentation for many parts of the standard library; the source code is the only real documentation. I've rarely heard anyone say this. Do you have an example of an area that is severely l
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by briancurtin 14y ago
> We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues. Consider it done. As an organizer of PyCon, this Van Horn person and any others who lack basic judgement and decency skills as well as having gained a reputa
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by briancurtin 14y ago
According to this guy you should just plow through and and just start recruiting females. It's that easy!
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by briancurtin 14y ago
This has happened several times in the Chicago area, most recently in October http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-05/news/ct-met-da...
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by briancurtin 15y ago
No, it was more likely in relation to 5:01. See the various articles this past week about the "501 manifesto".
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by briancurtin 15y ago
Especially on the sustenance and prizes sections: if you're putting together a Python-related Hack Day, the Python Software Foundation will throw some dough your way to make those happen. http://pythonsprints.com/
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by briancurtin 15y ago
You think she needs to lighten up because you haven't had the same experiences and you have different ideas of comfortable clothing?
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> go back to the kitchen is on the same level as telling a guy he should stick to computers because he sure as hell sucks at talking to girls Why is "go back to the kitchen" on the same level? My girlfriend can't cook and wants nothing
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by briancurtin 15y ago
They did take the time to respond, and up until that response I think most people were just looking for an explanation to know what the real deal was. The response surely gave you that. They spammed hundreds of people who mentioned them on
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> Their apology is even worse than the original flyer text. Agreed. To me, the apology boils down to "We thought this was funny and harmless, but not everyone agreed. In order to keep people interested in our event, we changed the text.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> Given the free and easy style of the startup eco-verse, it's pretty hard to say exactly what this does or doesn't say about whoever / whatever was behind the event. So startup culture is an excuse for hosting an offensive event? Think
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by briancurtin 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but "they got rid of the parentheses" sounds like either Go used to require parentheses for this or he thought Python did. If it was the former, then I misread (I don't know very much about Go).
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> The first thing I immediately noticed is that they got rid of the parentheses in "if" and "for" statements. Coming from Python, I really like this. Python doesn't enforce any parenthesis in those statements, so how were you using them
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by briancurtin 15y ago
That is certainly a situation that happens, but I don't think the number of people who actually went on to install and use the interpreter for something is any significant amount lower.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> (j/k nobody uses python 3) Only about 450K downloads per month of Python 3 throughout 2011...on Windows, that platform no one uses. [source: the first several slides of my PyCon talk - http://briancurtin.com/PyCon2012Presentation.pdf
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> A bit surprised the tutorials are all up and available for free... That was on a presenter-by-presenter basis. Some of the tutorial presenters were just sharing the info and don't mind it going out. We usually get several presenters w
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by briancurtin 15y ago
Having interacted with that tutorial's presenter a bunch during preparations for this conference (i.e., I know him but I don't know him), I don't see him opting out of the recording. I'm guessing it's just that it takes time to get these
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> I'm pretty sure they'd have announced it if Python 3 ever got faster than Python 2. But this is not mentioned in the 3.1, 3.2, or 3.3 notes on performance: Do these documents really need to come out and spell it out for you? If you we
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#perfo... The thread is about 3.3, so you link to a 3.0.1 release note? That is three years old. > literally billions of dollars will be wasted changing every single print ke
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by briancurtin 15y ago
You see no problem with it because you're a guy in your 20s. Shit like this makes it painfully obvious why people, especially women, are not entering software-related fields. Fuck everything about this.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
It's a press release, not "blog spam". I'm not yahoo...
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PyCon Announces Schedule, 95 Talks Selected(news.yahoo.com)
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> It's great that it's improving, but many other languages have a much better library/API situation than Python has had for years already. As someone who has spent the last 5.5 years at a job where I didn't need anything but the standar
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Financial Aid Grants for Women at PyCon 2012 via PyLadies(sfgate.com)
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by briancurtin 15y ago
> The problem is, people have been told for so long not to care about Python 3 Who has been saying this "for so long"? I seem to remember Guido saying something along those lines at PyCon 2008 or 2009, but I guarantee that is not his cu
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by briancurtin 15y ago
Of course I'd prefer they work in a way which meshes with existing process, but I'm not going to act dismissive and sigh if someone goes another way. If someone removed the GIL from CPython and gave me a context diff, for one I would barely
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by briancurtin 15y ago
It's really no wonder why people don't contribute to open source when this is the first response.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
They didn't cut a release with it, yet. The work has been done and it is or will be in a branch, but it still needs to be reviewed and "accepted" in order to move on.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
I'm also not sure your battery analogy works. The batteries that came with Python 2 (the standard library) are still charged up in Python 3. Third-party projects not porting certainly does affect you and others, but it's not the same thing.
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by briancurtin 15y ago
If it was dead on arrival, it has risen from the grave quite nicely. I previously linked to two sources showing it has pretty good signs of life: PyPI packages and download numbers (posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3323908

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