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by leed25d 6y ago
You should try Pyramid. It can scale from a single file app to enormous size. It has a very active user community, excellent documentation and a vast ecosystem of extensions and add-ons. I believe that Docker uses Pyramid, for instance.
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by leed25d 6y ago
Go
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by leed25d 6y ago
I like that it is a block structured language without a goto. It has pass-by-value and pass-by-reference semantics. It has a macro front-end that I wish was in use in more modern environments.
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by leed25d 6y ago
I was employed by a defense contractor working on submarine detection systems.
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by leed25d 6y ago
I was a Bliss programmer for several years in the mid-1970s. It remains one of my favorite programming languages.
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by leed25d 6y ago
I have always thought that (primary, secondary) was much better and more extensible terminology.
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by leed25d 6y ago
I would say, yes. The book put us all on a common footing; it seems to me that we were all on the same wavelength if you like. Before the start of the project, none of us were acquainted with any of the others.
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by leed25d 6y ago
In the early, to mid-1980s I was on a team of four people writing an order entry system. It was a project that ran for about 2 years to successful completion and it was in maintenance mode for another 10 years after that. In my view, one o
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by leed25d 6y ago
Here's a quote from Thich Nhat Hanh. I wrote it out and I keep a copy near my desk. Whatever the tasks, do them slowly with ease, in mindfulness. Don't do any tasks in order to get them over with. Resolve to do each job in a rela
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by leed25d 6y ago
The Hydra will just grow more heads. Hasn't the MPA figured this out yet?
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by leed25d 6y ago
When you send these letters, I hope that you are doing the responsible thing. Are you including your return address?
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by leed25d 6y ago
Yes I do. The reason I own those stocks can be traced back t the Milton Friedman's dictum that "The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits." So it is amoral. Big deal. I am saving for
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by leed25d 6y ago
I am waiting to see what kinds of pernicious little nasties have been hibernating beneath the Arctic ice cap since the middle Holocene.
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by leed25d 7y ago
That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?
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by leed25d 7y ago
Of the google bangs, I find myself using !gm (google maps) the most.
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by leed25d 7y ago
What I use as a basis for leadership skills is my Army training. I am not joking.
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by leed25d 7y ago
I do not understand why this is on HN
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by leed25d 7y ago
laundry
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by leed25d 7y ago
> Aren't we supposed to need congressional approval to start a war? Not for the last few decades, no.
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by leed25d 7y ago
I can confirm the quote. Source? I am part Irish.
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by leed25d 7y ago
Why not consult a domain expert? https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/couple-few-sev...
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by leed25d 7y ago
So did William Burroughs, from a slightly different aspect.
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by leed25d 7y ago
I have wondered for a while now if an AI could write something like a Barbara Cartland novel.
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by leed25d 7y ago
talk.bizarre?
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by leed25d 7y ago
If you seek a career in the software arts, you will have to run to keep up no matter what specialization you choose. At least so it seems to me. (I have been a professional programmer continuously since 1974, but I actually wrote my first
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by leed25d 7y ago
You missed a few: * Poster candidate for Dunning-Kruger * Cheap and fast but low quality * Single pointed focus. More likely to be a one-language savant * Degrees are for chumps: this is a delusion.
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by leed25d 7y ago
I am reminded of the Peter Principle: "Cream rises to the top and then it sours"
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by leed25d 7y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by leed25d 7y ago
I cannot answer for everyone, but for me there is a spellbinding fascination with a beautiful con job. Theranos is similar in it's awesome, gritty, balls-to-the-wall swindle.
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by leed25d 7y ago
Maybe they should buy PG&E instead?

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