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by fjp 7y ago
VSCode isn't there yet for Python refactoring - I still find myself needing to find and replace to get everything when I rename a symbol or move a package (breaking imports). I should never have to do that. Pycharm refactors Python fl
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by fjp 7y ago
I mean the incentives are the cause. If you could rewarded with an incredible salary for sticking at the same company for 10 years and making a great, reliable platform using "boring technologies" then more people would probably d
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by fjp 7y ago
Which book? I'm just starting the O'Reilly book, coming from Python
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by fjp 7y ago
it is slowly losing purchasing power. That's called inflation and nobody denies it or is surprised by it. In fact what people are generally surprised about is how little inflation is has occurred in the USA compared to how much money
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by fjp 7y ago
Real-time communications. There's a hell of a lot more to building and scaling voice and video than you think, and tons more parts of the world are going to "come more online" with higher-bandwidth telecommunications access i
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by fjp 7y ago
How the hell do people get to a skill level where they can do this stuff.
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by fjp 7y ago
It won't be quite as fast to get off the ground as Django since it's not batteries included, but as an async Python fan I like to spin things up with aiohttp + Postgres like here: https://github.com/francojposa&#x2
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by fjp 7y ago
Every time I thought I have needed float, I have always later found a cleaner way to do it without float.
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by fjp 7y ago
The justice system is really in all ways more biased towards dealing out punishment than making aggrieved parties whole.
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by fjp 7y ago
I think a bigger outrage is the obscene parking ticket and towing methods used in and around Chicago. For every single street, there can be rules like: * April - November no parking 3rd Monday of month for street cleaning * November - April
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by fjp 7y ago
re's API sucks but I'm looking forward to safe dictionary access with assignment as well. No more if my_map.get(key) is not None: // do something with my_map[key]
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by fjp 7y ago
In related news, PyPy now appears to consider their Python 3.6 interpreter released, if I'm understanding this correctly: https://morepypy.blogspot.com/ While I'm happy this work is being done, waiting over a year
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by fjp 7y ago
Maybe in NYC and somewhat in SF, but Chicago is too cold and snowy for at least half the year for bikes to be a big factor, and LA is way too big
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by fjp 7y ago
Even when I interned it proto-dinosaur Allstate they called themselves "a tech company that happens to sell insurance". It does sound absurd and annoying, but for businesses like that it's good reminder that they'll prob
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by fjp 7y ago
And then borrowed $300-some million secured against his WeWork shares
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by fjp 7y ago
I love working in Python and I've seen this argument over and over. In real life if you find your performance bottleneck is some part of a Python library, chances are you're going to look around your company and not find someone
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by fjp 7y ago
George Bush killed a million Iraqis in a war based on fabricated evidence of an Iraqi WMD program
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by fjp 7y ago
> Remember when everybody wanted to write Ruby? There is an absolutely mind-boggling amount of Ruby jobs in the US.
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by fjp 7y ago
> For some reason, a lot of people consider it a problem only when the consequence is brought on you by the government. Well this is because it's all the the US constitution legally protects us from. I agree with your general point
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by fjp 7y ago
I always list it under my resume skills for this exact reason
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by fjp 7y ago
Curious how you identify side projects with earning potential?
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by fjp 7y ago
I need to check this out, I've had such trouble making the jump from the official tutorial.
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by fjp 7y ago
My issue has been going from the tiny little examples in the official tutorial to a medium-size app, I always get hung up on how to structure my files and code what belongs where yadda yadda.
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by fjp 7y ago
I know what you mean! In my approach, the ORM would be in the infrastructure layer - I'm assuming I will have to switch it out, if I'm using one at all. It's the times where I have to migrate from one implementation of an int
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by fjp 7y ago
I've been doing ETL-heavy work as (async) Python microservices. The most important thing is to separate your infrastructure layer from your business logic, and have the infrastructure layer satisfy interfaces that are defines in busine
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by fjp 7y ago
Twitter's moderation is all over the place, and it really seems like half a step from pure anarchy. I can see people equating that with it being a relatively free platform. From an American Twitter user's perspective, it seems lik
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by fjp 7y ago
> Your career and job is on shakier ground as responsibility grows, with less direct control over what actually happens Contrarily, it seems that many execs "fail upwards" or at least fail into the exact same level, bouncing ar
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by fjp 7y ago
Complex and systematic price discrimination is probably most easily seen in the models used to price airline tickets, which involves interesting decisions like how many seats to initially reserve for business class, then how long you wait t
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by fjp 7y ago
I'm at a company with a self-serve B2B API platform. Our customers mostly build their own PaaS offerings on top of our API, which has some really positive effects I have observed. 1. Stickiness & seriousness of customer. When we la
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by fjp 7y ago
Yeah, if there's a solved problem, it's CRUD microservices. As long as we've thought enough about the design (db schema, service responsibility boundaries, etc etc) we can get a working microservice up in hours to a few days

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