chamilto

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by chamilto 7y ago
> When you're designing a function, you may be tempted to add a flag. Don't do this. Here, let me show you an example: Suppose you have a messaging system and you have a function that returns all the messages to an user, called
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by chamilto 8y ago
> You’d be surprised by the number of candidates who say they are “senior software engineer” or “10 years experience as a lead developer” who still can’t do FizzBuzz. Or the ones who can do it but takes them 100 lines of code. I see comm
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by chamilto 8y ago
I love my leopold fc660c
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by chamilto 8y ago
First of all, zzzeek, thanks for your great software. While working on SQLAlchemy, have you ever run into situations where you really missed static typing? Do you ever see yourself wanting to introduce Python's static typing behavior i
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by chamilto 8y ago
The most common issue I run into is with datetime objects, but there are well documented workarounds. For more complex objects such as ORM objects, I think a lot of people use Marshmallow. That being said, I don't have a lot of experie
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by chamilto 8y ago
> If web developers don't already all know this then what knowledge do they have nowadays? Read the article's title. This article is clearly aimed at people who are starting to learn web development. It is not aimed at experien
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by chamilto 9y ago
You casually read literature written in Latin?
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by chamilto 9y ago
That is exactly what it is. I'm really surprised other folks aren't able to sense this.
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by chamilto 9y ago
I absolutely relate to this. But hey, knowing that there are other engineers out there feeling the same thing when they read HN makes me feel better. So, thanks.
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by chamilto 9y ago
I love you.