chucksmash

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by chucksmash 12y ago
Here's an article from The Economist (Feb 7, 2015) that usefully counterbalances the "everything is awesome!" outlook in the submitted link. http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21642216-rebuilding-nor
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by chucksmash 12y ago
Indeed. I suppose it depends on the circles in which one runs but there are still companies actively writing COBOL (or were as of 2011 as far as I can personally verify). And they were making millions of dollars from that one small segment
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by chucksmash 12y ago
Even if on the surface the in-universe beings are from another species, that isn't necessarily a get out of jail free card. People can and will read between the lines. This happened in the context of sci-fi when The Phantom Menace came
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by chucksmash 12y ago
I'm personally working with a lot of hand-rolled SQL/stored procedures but I know there are people within the organization using SQLAlchemy's schema reflection to work with the legacy tables. Being able to use something like
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by chucksmash 12y ago
We're not building from scratch. The constraints imposed by the pre-existing stuff mean we can't really take full advantage of the upsides of Django.
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by chucksmash 12y ago
We use both. I came in with a preference for Django but the applications we build are generally talking to legacy data stores so we more or less lose the Django ORM right off the bat. That cancels out a lot of the advantages Django has, unf
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by chucksmash 12y ago
Super useful tool, thanks to Tom and everybody who contributes. When we began moving some of our APIs from Django to Flask at my company, djangorestframework was the single tool/package that I missed most. It's lovely. What are th
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by chucksmash 12y ago
With money comes options. I think by default, the option most 30 years choose is to continue living paycheck to paycheck, but to do so in a more extravagant manner. If you aren't already, consider downsizing, paying off your debts and
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by chucksmash 12y ago
The ratio of negative comments vs positive ones is indeed odd.
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by chucksmash 12y ago
If the statement was only given as a reason why cheating is prevalent nowadays it would be an explanation. To take the next step and use that explanation to rationalize one's own cheating makes it is a justification (or rationalization
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by chucksmash 12y ago
Why do you think you are automatically entitled to a good job straight out of college? Your reply vis-a-vis a Mercedes vs lifetime earnings seems to imply that you are willing to sell your integrity for some value x: $(Benz - Toyota) < x
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by chucksmash 12y ago
"a natural consequence of society......" You could use this justification to rationalize any sort of unethical behavior you like. Embezzlement is a natural consequence of society putting a huge value on owning a Benz and other dul
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by chucksmash 12y ago
I can't source the comment with a quick googling so take the recollection at face value, but I recall one of either the Pyston team members or Guido himself in an interview saying that he hadn't been involved so far. As of release
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by chucksmash 12y ago
Atlanta is only 50 road miles closer to Raleigh than New York City.
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by chucksmash 12y ago
I typically refrain from commenting on how heavy a page is because we're here for the content, not web design critiques. That said, page load for the "As a single page" version of the article generates 349 requests (prior to
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by chucksmash 12y ago
I believe parent was balking at the appropriation of "tour of duty" to describe taking a government job for a couple of years. The phrase carries strong connotations for a certain subset of people and it would be pretty tone deaf
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by chucksmash 12y ago
I've been happily plugging away with Ubuntu on a Thinkpad T530 for a while now and an old Dell w/ an Intel Core 2 Duo for years before that. Both installs went smoothly. The hassle involved in getting Ubuntu working on a MacBook i
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by chucksmash 12y ago
A fitting reply in the localization discussion!
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by chucksmash 12y ago
"in north-central Georgia" While this sentence is technically a correct description, it conveys the impression that Doraville is a rural town which it certainly isn't (Doraville is "ITP" - inside I-285).