notdonspaulding

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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   I'm confused. Is the author trying to convince me to give up the expressivity, portability, and readability of my Python app-layer codebase for the performance gains to be had by writing my logic in stored procedures? Having moved one code
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   What's the guess as to how much revenue Amazon loses for every second of downtime?
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   "VCs from whom you should avoid taking money"
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   "Still, I was not taught to shoot on the idea that I might need to kill a rapist. I find that a somewhat horrifying message to give a young woman." And neither was that the message I intended to give them. It's an educational issue. I liv
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   Technically don't you have a little over half of the human species, due to the extra chromosome? Seriously though, where is the discussion happening about the link between porn and the degradation of women? Is there just no argument agains
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   Thank you for sharing that. Your blog post definitely shed much more light onto the context of your comments, so I also appreciate your giving me the chance to keep my foot out of my mouth. ;-) First, your perspective raises the question
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   I'm curious. Why? I have at least 2 daughters (with another child on the way, not sure of the sex) and I want them to be as capable as my son at hacking, changing the oil in their cars, and protecting themselves. This article is timely be
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   What I offered as claims of the moral/religious position were separate from what I explained my own anecdotal experiences to be. I'm sorry I didn't draw a more clear distinction there. My "empirical" remark was simply to explain that I hav
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   by notdonspaulding 14y ago

   While I don't see how you've refuted any of my claims specifically, I will address your assertion that I should try porn with my wife. Having used porn myself for the majority of my life, and for almost the entirety of my marriage, I have q
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    by notdonspaulding 14y ago

    I can definitely relate to the author. I first found porn at the age of 14. I'm 29 now, and until recently, porn has always been something I've "struggled with". I've seen several comments that have opposed what I would call the Church &#
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    by notdonspaulding 14y ago

    I know I'm late to the party, but... Life: Believing Jesus actually said "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." http://esv.to/john+14 Programming: Leaving a Megacorp to work for a small
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    by notdonspaulding 14y ago

    I'll repeat my advice to take this to the python-ideas mailing list. You'll get real reasons why this shouldn't (or should) be included in __builtins__. As far as two libraries agreeing on using the same instance, one can define it the way
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    by notdonspaulding 14y ago

    The sentinel value you've used here is the right solution. It keeps the keyword arguments explicit and gives None its value back. However, it doesn't deserve a module global-to-python to live in. The cases where you use this pattern are
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    by notdonspaulding 14y ago

    PEPs often begin life as simple emails (in the general form of the original post) to the python-ideas mailing list. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas It's a list that's generally friendly to new ideas and you'll get som