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by geekraver 3y ago
All coups are undemocratic by definition. Anti-democratic might be a better description for 1953.
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by geekraver 3y ago
Delete the app; use the web interface?
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by geekraver 3y ago
A free-threaded Python will be harder to make faster for single-threaded cases. So this could be a win for those who want to write multi-threaded code at the expense of everyone else.
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by geekraver 3y ago
They were put in an untenable situation, IMO. If they said no, there would be howls of protest, and a possible schism in the community, and the next SC elections could be an ugly competition between pro- and anti-GIL advocates. A "yes,
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by geekraver 3y ago
This is my experience too. If you plan your trip, it’s really good about predicting the % battery remaining. I never put it on miles display anymore; that’s evidently going to be inaccurate because it doesn’t take into account many other fa
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by geekraver 3y ago
An argument somewhat undermined by the example “in an age of synthesizers, the acoustic guitar…” which sounds pretty tool-focused to me, lol. This seems to be an insinuation that guitar playing is a skill while electronic music is some form
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by geekraver 3y ago
A decade ago I worked on building AI systems that made (legitimate, paid) use of the Twitter “firehose”. At that time more than 99% of the data was garbage. It’s worse now. The value then was largely in two areas: historical trends (somethi
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by geekraver 3y ago
It’s overstating the case to call this a “struggle” between factions; it’s an important discussion with a lot of ramifications (and while it is unresolved a lot of work is stalled). https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-f
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by geekraver 4y ago
No Acorn Atom. ZX80 or ZX81, or Sinclair QL. All that I owned before a PC. :-( But these are awesome.
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by geekraver 4y ago
Walled gardens suck. Once we had “the blogosphere” and it was great, and then Medium came along and did their best to ruin it. I tend to avoid any post on Medium and will never give them a dime. And as the OP points out, there’s tons of med
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by geekraver 4y ago
The precedence should be: "typing" folder in workspace root -> project "extra paths" -> python search paths -> pylance bundled. If that's not working for you you should open an issue at https://g
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by geekraver 4y ago
Pylance is used in a number of Microsoft products, quite a few of which are not open source, whereas the previous language server was only used in the VS Code and VS Python extensions, which are open source. There's your license differ
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by geekraver 4y ago
Dual-pane file managers like Midnight Commander. Been using these since the days of Norton Commander on DOS; I even wrote my own for Unix/DOS in those days before Midnight Commander came out and I got lazy ( https://github.co
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by geekraver 4y ago
Quite. Code is a liability. LOC is an utterly idiotic metric of programmer contribution, as it incentivizes increasing liability, over all sorts of other better contributions like good design, more automation, mentoring, customer obsession,
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by geekraver 4y ago
Phantom braking coming to Twitter?
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by geekraver 4y ago
This guy is full of terrible takes. Like his claim that typing catches "one bug a year".
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by geekraver 4y ago
If I have a function that returns something in a list, why not declare it as such? The pain in Python typing comes more from bolting a largely (but not entirely) nominal type system on a structurally typed language. That can be addressed by
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by geekraver 4y ago
Encapsulation is a concept that is orthogonal to whether or not you use typing annotations in a language. You're conflating two completely different things and wrongly assuming that typed code is ipso facto poorly encapsulated. As most
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by geekraver 4y ago
Type classes in Python are meant as annotations; they are not for run-time. They essentially get erased (not exactly, as they are available for introspection, but they aren't your typical code).
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by geekraver 4y ago
58, started when I was 12. I never really felt ageism until the last few years but now it’s very evident (and dumb; I still help and mentor much younger people a lot and am regularly reminded by this that I still am highly competent). No in
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by geekraver 4y ago
The only song you need: https://m.soundcloud.com/smixx/smixx-developers-feat-steve
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by geekraver 4y ago
If you’ve never read it, a fun article on Bob from some years back. https://www.wired.com/2013/01/comedy-in-the-hacker-world/amp I was lucky enough to be working on the Dart team in Seattle at the time with B
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by geekraver 4y ago
When this article was first published I contacted the author and told him it was misleading; Scrum (or large portions of it, like time boxed iterations, daily stand ups, and sprint boards) is popular in a number of big tech firms (I’ve work
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by geekraver 4y ago
Most of the extensions are open source and you can see the telemetry being collected, which is used to understand feature usage and diagnose bugs. The suggestion (with no evidence) that the telemetry is somehow insidious is FUD.
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by geekraver 4y ago
Nothing about this surprises me. Google is an engineering driven organization that has no idea how to utilize PMs properly and where being the “smartest person in the room” is incentivized so there’s little to no humility and curiosity and
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by geekraver 4y ago
Couldn’t agree more. I took a level cut when I went to Google from Microsoft after being assured by the recruiter that, as a tech lead, getting promoted would be easy. Unfortunately due to two teams using the same code names I was put in Ad
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by geekraver 5y ago
I've worked at startups, Microsoft (Ballmer days), Google, eBay, and back at Microsoft (Satya days). eBay was nice but not great infrastructure. Google had great infrastructure but was like a headless chicken, and after a while having
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by geekraver 5y ago
So, he’s stirred the pot over and over, including bringing in people who’s main claim to fame is grievance, but he still had a job at the university, and he quit, for amongst other things, too much grievance. I’m not sure that this proves
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by geekraver 5y ago
At age 57, it's easier for me to point to books, and I think there's three main inflection points for me. When I was about 15 I read Philip K. Dick's "Confessions of a Crap Artist", which really opened my eyes to ho
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by geekraver 5y ago
It would be great if Tesla could actually get speed limit detection right for starters, and then slow down the car in time for a new reduced speed limit. Had my MY for just a few days and found that inability pretty annoying. It detected a

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