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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I really like your wording and simplicity of response; I might abstract and repurpose it for my own use.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
A college degree is a financial decision that has a benefit which should outweigh its cost. If it does not outweigh its cost (both in time and money spent), then you should be doing something else. All college degrees are not equal, whether
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I guess I don’t often touch metaclass either, although after reading this article it gave me some ideas on how I might better implement object validation patterns. That being said, I also have recently become acquainted with pydantic, which
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I’m surprised to hear your opinion on this. I have around 12 years of python experience and I find metaprogramming to be, by far, the most important part of Python. Without the extensive ability to rewrite underlying functionality in a way
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I agree on this front in regards to language being a poor interface for technical tasks. NLP has some extremely useful applications, but language is inherently lossy and abstract. We use the same words to describe different things in differ
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I’d argue this product has no target audience.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I look forward to seeing the progress made on this in the future, but at this time I don’t see any potential in this product.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
This is why I don’t like developing on Windows, everything has 10 layers of complexity. To write a script for something that should be a simple task, I need to either reengineer the exact environment settings used in the UI or write an addi
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
HN posters don’t unanimously agree on loving or hating anything. Stop trying to stir up drama.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
“Coping with google… students can just search for the answers by typing in ‘depth first search code python’. Buckle up and hunker down for one slippery slope of an article!”
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
I love piracy. Thankfully, it’s existence doesn’t depend on whether you like it or not.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
Bingo. This is also a fair comparison to how todays politics works in a nutshell. Overload a word with a vague context and people immediately attribute their own perspective to come to a conclusion that conflicts with an opposing argument.
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by i_am_toaster 4y ago
So let me make sure we are clear on your position on this — you think 150k per prisoner sounds like a reasonable number? To me that number seems to be about a magnitude of order wrong. I bet you could do some back of the napkin math, multip