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by eevee 13y ago
Unless it's the norm for people to cross-reference the races of all their potential neighbors before deciding on a house, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that the issue is a little more complicated than who sits with w
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by eevee 13y ago
You normally only hear jokes propagated if they're funny. You have a selection bias.
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by eevee 13y ago
Isn't it a little self-defeating to make indentation visible? The whole idea is that it's easy to pick out blocks by the shape of the left margin, i.e., where the first visible character is. If your indentation scheme only works
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by eevee 13y ago
Rebind dedent to a little-used key, perhaps? I don't dedent so often that hammering a key twice is a big deal, though. Editors aren't the only place code appears. I see it in my terminal, in git, in various web-based tools, in e
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by eevee 13y ago
Curious, why's that bother you? Different things should look different, and all. :) The alternative for class names is Camel_Snake, which will get you smacked in virtually any language. Python code does tend to use UPPERCASE_SNAKE f
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by eevee 13y ago
Do any variable-width fonts actually do that? Looking at your comment, for example, the spaces after periods look the same width as those between words to my eye.
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by eevee 13y ago
I prefer not to have to juggle invisible characters when editing plain text.
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by eevee 13y ago
If I see `from subprocess ...`, I know immediately that this module does something with subprocesses, and I don't much care about the rest of the line. If I see `import os, sys, foo, bar...` then I don't get that information witho
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by eevee 13y ago
No, thanks. Reasonably short lines means I can get a good idea of what's going on by skimming in one direction: downwards. If there are lines that run off towards the eastern horizon, even if they fit on my screen, I still have to fo
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by eevee 13y ago
Surely Google could just preinstall something. The Python templating docs say GAE includes both Jinja2 and the Django template engine.
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by eevee 13y ago
I wonder whether the target audience here is developers who want to build a new PHP application from scratch for GAE, or just people who want to install Wordpress? Using GAE adds a development/deployment step, but the lack of deployment
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by eevee 13y ago
I seriously only added this metaphor as an afterthought, after pulling it out of my ass to explain all the furious typing to my partner. It's pretty funny that it's become the most famous part of the article.
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by eevee 13y ago
So you're saying that, as a programmer, it's in my best interests to learn something other than PHP so I'll be less affordable...?
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by eevee 13y ago
Weird things you've never seen anyone actually do? Test for equality, build data structures, handle error conditions? There's lots of example code, inline, but much of the article is about missing/broken features and artifacts of the desig
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by eevee 13y ago
I've never generated an API key, and Linode showed it as blank. I generated a new one anyway, but I can't imagine how they'd have a default key and somehow not show it in the UI.
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by eevee 14y ago
You say that like I'm the one missing out when I don't use your new social cat 2.0 viewer. Do you not want me as a user? How many of me are there?
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by eevee 14y ago
It's not just people like myself; it's people writing one-off scrapers, people writing new search engines or browsers (Google is not the entire universe), everyone when you forget a brace and break all of your JS, etc. The Web is not and
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by eevee 14y ago
I run noscript. If I encounter a site that's broken or useless for seemingly no reason (e.g. not an interactive thing like Google Maps), I often don't even whitelist; I just leave. Relatedly, I've stopped clicking on Photobucket or Blogsp
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by eevee 14y ago
Some of this is inherent to the nature of plugins that alter the guts of a large program—look at the issues Firefox has had. At best Wordpress could rewrite itself to be insanely parallel _just in case_ a plugin in any particular area is s
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by eevee 14y ago
Why downvote? It's true, and we need to be stealing that somehow.
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by eevee 14y ago
Perhaps you meant `transform`, which will actually work in WebKit browsers (you forgot the leading `-`) and also be translated by jQuery to other browsers' prefixed property names.
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by eevee 14y ago
Oh, sure. I don't mean "controller" necessarily in the sense of MVC; just the idea of using a class as a bag of unrelated functions. Web frameworks trying to be MVC happen to be the most egregious offenders.[1] I'd actually forgotten tha
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by eevee 14y ago
Can you enlighten me?
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by eevee 14y ago
> But then I have to hit the Back button. Who hits the back button on the Internet anymore, especially techies like myself who live off of keyboard shortcuts? Why make me go from using my keyboard to using my mouse or trackpad just to g
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by eevee 14y ago
Yes, I can see how giving an employee time off to perpetuate the species might be inconvenient. How dare she! I need her to work on my social networking website, not make more people . People quit their jobs, frequently, for a wide var
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by eevee 14y ago
Wait, wait. > Safety - Standardized smart pointers, nullptr, better type-safety > Of course, those who use the language just avoid them and those who don't use the language keep bitching about them. Strange. Dumb pointers are built
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by eevee 14y ago
This is a hard problem, because it involves mindshare and resources; even a perfect language would take years to gain a serious foothold. But it'll never be solved if nobody tries. I'm glad someone's trying.
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by eevee 14y ago
From the outside, C++ appears to be such a mess that I actually cannot tell whether C++11 made it better or worse. I don't think systems programming is going anywhere—I mainly stick to Python, but would like something lower-level available
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by eevee 14y ago
That's fair. I'm conjecturing somewhere into the future: D never really took off, but I'm hoping Rust will.
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by eevee 14y ago
Rust statically prevents leaks and double-frees, warns about implicit copies of large structures, and has GC built in if I want to use it. It's certainly more familiar to a Python dev than C++. The whole trait system is even like a built-

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