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by gtaylor 10y ago
Luckily, I think this is one of those cases where investing in this particular field will be good for humanity _and_ profitable. Hopefully not $900 Epi Pen profitable, though...
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Even if this is but one small step towards wider treatment, this is worth taking a moment to be happy and thankful for. You know that this patient is!
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Not to say that this research isn't ethical or moral. More that we'll eventually benefit from this.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
This may be a bleak way to look at things, but the money the rest of the world will start making with this in the future will ensure that we eventually come around. Money wins over morals and ethics much of the time.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
I like Ask HN, but I am selective about which other threads I get too deep into the comments on. Many of the discussions on here break down into quibbles over wording or minor points. Or pointless, showboating pedantry. When I do go comment
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by gtaylor 10y ago
The reasons to upgrade are often dependent upon your usage case. To me, the Unicode improvements are reason enough on their own before you even get into the other great stuff (async work, type hinting, stdlib cleanup, pyc rework, etc). asyn
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by gtaylor 10y ago
With numerous libraries phasing out support for 2.x in current or upcoming versions, I think we actually do have significant uptake. As pointed out by others, those PyPi stats are super off. Better to look at what's going on out in the
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Python 3 is not a fork. It is a major release. A continuation of the same language, by the same people, with very little change in the core concepts. A major release with some backward incompatibilities doesn't constitute a fork. The p
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by gtaylor 10y ago
It's a major release.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
We'll just have to see. That's the beauty of this. Don't want to upgrade? Stick with Django 1.11, since you don't want or need new things. It's LTS, so you won't miss out on critical fixes.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
> core base of users and please could they focus on them instead of the web people who are much more fickle and moving already. Ahhh, I see what's going on now. You may be vastly underestimating the size of variety of the Python use
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by gtaylor 10y ago
It's going to be more and more of a burden for the developers to maintain compatibility with a 7-year old version of Python. I think this is smart and will help them focus on the road forward. Django 1.11 is an LTS release, so legacy s
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Things were a little bit hairy back in the 1.3 days, but they've done a ton of cleanup in modern times. I find the source much easier to follow these days. Many of the systems have been more clearly isolated to allow for replacement.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
> I am also almost 100% certain that if scientific programmers leave Python, the language will stall, and the current 3.x pushers are dangerously looking a gift horse in the mouth. This sounds like such similar sour grapes to the systemd
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by gtaylor 10y ago
I'm not seeing signs of these kinds of widespread issues out in the wild. The popularity of the language has continued to increase, and numerous warts and flaws were wiped out in Python 3. That Unicode "cruft" is especially a
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by gtaylor 10y ago
This sounds like a fork. Nothing need stop someone from forking and maintaining CPython 2.x. Open source is a do-ocracy. But I doubt it'd be worth it. Python 3 is getting great traction and is a fundamentally better language.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
It's an open source project with a million things to work on whenever the contributors can spare a few moments. Adobe has a full time paid staff to make progress on numerous fronts at any time.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
I like and use Play Music, but find their recommendation engine to be less great. The channels work a bit differently, too.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Anecdotally, I find the Linux wifi stack to be less of a hassle than Mac's for decently supported hardware. I had all kinds of random wifi issues on my MBP. Had to disable and reenable the interface or reboot.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
> I can't recall a time in the last 1-2 years when someone complained about it. I don't like open office plans, but they're so common in the Bay Area that there's not much avoiding them. I don't want to work remo
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by gtaylor 10y ago
These supposedly run Linux very well, as another option.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Not ever saying a word in the office is just not realistic. You don't leave people out intentionally, but conversations happen organically sometimes. Maybe you're in the kitchen grabbing a poptart and start talking shop with someo
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by gtaylor 10y ago
It's very new and still maturing. Pull requests and improvements welcome!
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by gtaylor 10y ago
There is indeed a helm package, gitlab-ce.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Some of these Python libs call out to C for heavy lifting, which can be very performant.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
FWIW, I really liked Angel List for finding smaller companies. I found their listings to be of high quality. Ended up taking a job across the country from Angel List. On the hiring side, we seem to get inundated by recent grads regardless o
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by gtaylor 10y ago
> Do none of those companies utilize chat? Sure they do. But you're going to miss adhoc conversations that people in the same physical location have. Remote people aren't left out on purpose, but many times this chatter doesn&#
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Same for us at Reddit. Howdy, neighbor!
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by gtaylor 10y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but I just don't feel like using it. I can't notice a difference. Not worth it.
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by gtaylor 10y ago
Eh, as a PyCharm user I never see much of anything suggesting Java. JetBrains does a great job with these editors.

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