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by davidfstr 6y ago
Seems reasonable to me that if a prospective dependency has a license that isn’t automatically tagged as a common license type that you be expected to actually read the license. This seems like basic standard of practice.
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> The problem is that Google is removing services > The solution is to use an Open Source browser Seems to me the solution is to use 3rd party services that are not tied to the browser at all. For example I manage passwords with 1Pas
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Things I Wish I Knew Before Working in Industry(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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Things I Wish I Knew Before Working in Industry (2021)(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 6y ago
Over time I played with a lot of languages & environments to find which ones I liked. I started with Java: stable, mature, and well-documented but verbose. Later I noticed that Python (along with Java and C++) was part of the trinity
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Building Web Apps with Vue and Django – The Ultimate Guide(dafoster.net)
2 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 6y ago
Banning the building of ISPs by local governments - who probably care about their people - and relegating ISPs to private companies only, in the name of “promoting competition” is ludicrous. One does not increase competition by limiting s
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by davidfstr 6y ago
The author argues that dynamic languages like (JavaScript, Python) have Poor IDE and Tooling Support and are Unmanageable in large programs. I'll counter that if you add a type checker to one of these languages, such as TypeScript (for
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> I like your post. It does conflate Privacy Sandbox with one of the specific proposals, however: [...] https://github.com/WICG/floc Thanks for the clarification Jeff. > Another component of Privacy Sandbox is Tu
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by davidfstr 6y ago
I actually like the idea of Privacy Sandbox. It appears to enable sites which depend on ad revenue to continue to exist while seeking to eliminate the usual problem with current adtech: third party tracking. I wrote up a more nuanced versio
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Privacy Sandbox: Google's answer to privacy-conscious advertising(dafoster.net)
2 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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Tests as Policy Automation(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 6y ago|0 comments
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> 1. You can define a function type somewhat clumsily (`Callable[[Arg1T, Arg2T], ReturnT]`), but if your callback uses keyword arguments (pervasive among Python programs), you're out of luck. I've personally never missed the ab
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> Library support for static types is not very good. Granted. I do think it's improving over time. For example the django-stubs project is a really nice addition to the regular Django distribution: https://pypi.org&#x2F
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by davidfstr 6y ago
blink A plot to do what exactly? Python is amazing, both in its traditional typeless form and in its typed forms. :D Type checking mainly starts pulling its weight in large codebases, or otherwise in long-lived and large programs mainta
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> was there any attempt to add typing in older versions of python that were dropped ? Not that I know of. I used "renaissance" to connote an increased positive focus, invigoration, and activity.
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Python's Type Checking Renaissance(dafoster.net)
150 points by davidfstr 6y ago|180 comments
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by davidfstr 6y ago
<nope>The owner in the extension metadata on The Great Suspender hasn't been updated (to my understanding) so the Chrome Web Store doesn't even know that the owner has been changed.</nope> Actually it does appear
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by davidfstr 6y ago
> It is really a shame that basic functionality like this isn't built into more browsers and we have to rely on extensions to fill the gaps just to keep memory usage under control for tab-a-holics like myself. :( The way I see it, e
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I no longer trust The Great Suspender(dafoster.net)
889 points by davidfstr 6y ago|371 comments
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by davidfstr 7y ago
Yes, responding to the title. In particular in my rich web application if I am in the process of merging & deploying the branch to the production environment, sometimes the automated tests fail and I use a bisect to narrow down the offe
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by davidfstr 7y ago
At my company we decided to go with Vue and not React about a year ago, mainly to avoid the complex tooling that React absolutely demands that you add to your JS build process. And we still like Vue a year later. It integrates well with the
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by davidfstr 8y ago
TechSmart | Software Engineer - Platform | Full-Stack | Seattle | FULL-TIME | ONSITE Does making a difference in K-12 education and teaching the next generation how to code sound exciting? My company TechSmart is now hiring full-stack engin
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by davidfstr 8y ago
TechSmart | Software Engineer - Platform | Full-Stack | Seattle | FULL-TIME | ONSITE Does making a difference in K-12 education and teaching the next generation how to code sound exciting? My company TechSmart is now hiring full-stack engin
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by davidfstr 8y ago
TechSmart | (Sr.) Platform Software Engineer | Full-Stack | Seattle | FULL-TIME | ONSITE Does making a difference in K-12 education and teaching the next generation how to code sound exciting? My company TechSmart is now hiring full-stack e
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by davidfstr 8y ago
Love the idea of eliminating formatting debates when writing Python. At the risk of being redundant, I also raise an eyebrow at the choice to prefer double quotes for strings. My company standardized on single quotes, mainly to be consisten
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by davidfstr 8y ago
I love this comic. I was just going through an old server of mine. Python 2 and Python 3 dependencies, installed over years, in a bit of a mess. We may have virtualenv and the like today, but a lot of old stuff was never setup to use it. :p
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How to Make Streaming Royalties Fair(er)(medium.com)
3 points by davidfstr 12y ago|0 comments
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Copyrights and Licenses for Software(dafoster.net)
1 points by davidfstr 13y ago|0 comments
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Killer apps for software platforms(dafoster.net)
3 points by davidfstr 14y ago|0 comments

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