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by pekk 11y ago
I really hate this property magic, it was bad in the Django ORM and it'll be bad in Marshmallow too. It looks nice in the examples, but then when you have to use it in anger and a certain problem requires metaclasses to fix...
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by pekk 11y ago
Almost everybody blacklists mailinator addresses these days...
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by pekk 11y ago
Unfortunately, nobody will use that compiler. They will continue to use the high-performance compilers, because this is what happened decades ago.
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by pekk 11y ago
You're designing a standard for people to implement in their specific compilers, and you want to let them generate fast code... I hardly think the mere existence of "undefined behavior" indicates incompetence.
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by pekk 11y ago
The dangers that befell things like the Gosling Emacs code, which informed GPL and FSF, haven't gone away. Companies like Apple are actively working to erode any progress that has been made on this front because of their intense levels
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by pekk 11y ago
If Apple takes a stance against GPL because they don't perceive it as in their commercial best interest, that doesn't mean Stallman was wrong even in a 'tactical' sense. You can't do anything about haters.
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by pekk 11y ago
On what planet does it make sense to release a programming font which explicitly refuses to support both vim and emacs?
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by pekk 11y ago
You can't consistently maintain that real or alleged spying by NSA is a big bad deal, but the same thing happening to the US isn't a big bad deal, unless you just make a special exception for the sake of anti-Americanism.
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by pekk 11y ago
MVC frameworks took off because of cargo culting. Almost nobody who says "MVC" actually knows where MVC came from or why it was conceived. There are many reasonable ways to split up responsibilities. I know this because many diffe
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by pekk 11y ago
Where "sin" means essentially not being Christian enough, I am skeptical that the correct diagnosis for violence is "sin" when people who identify as Christian do not seem especially less likely to commit violence than p
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by pekk 11y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Some people weren't happy about the PEP. Few people are using it in any case, so most are either still unaware of it or haven't used it yet themselves.
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by pekk 11y ago
This is par for the course on the TechEmpower benchmarks. Certain technologies' benchmarks have always been relentlessly optimized while others are left to "the community" which means you can submit PRs, but they'll like
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by pekk 11y ago
What qualifies as "irrationally" pro-nuclear seems to depend on what time horizon you are using, the same as whether or not it seems rational to dump money into NASA.
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by pekk 11y ago
Would there be any point of re-implementing all those APIs rather than using systemd?
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by pekk 11y ago
Web pages are already a far cry from human-readable semantic markup. That's not a hill worth dying on.
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by pekk 11y ago
Neither is it true that "any claim, however small, about the Holocaust" is "a research no-go-zone where only the officially sanctioned results are allowed to be published and people can go to prison in many European countries
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by pekk 11y ago
Holocaust denialism does not constitute "research."
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by pekk 11y ago
This bag of tricks seems to focus more on doing things as other companies do than on what data there is to tell you it is the right thing for you. No guarantees those companies made the right inferences from the right data, and even if they
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by pekk 11y ago
What is it telling? It might just be telling that everyone is doing what you're doing here, and looking at each other to see what they should do. Another name for this is "fashion."
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by pekk 11y ago
This is by OSM policy, which wants an individual (in this case, you) inspecting everything. It isn't fair to blame public data sources for this. OSM policy makes it incredibly difficult to import data from public sources like this. OSM
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by pekk 11y ago
Well, Python-related threads have been cluttered with comments about Go for a few years now...
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by pekk 11y ago
This seems like a good way to teach about a product or tool (as you promote its use, or in other words, sell it). I can see such advice being useful on today's HN, which is full of people who need to sell tech. But really, teaching is
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by pekk 11y ago
In what way? Either there is a need for variants, or there is no need for variants but it is perfectly okay to make them, or there is no need and it's not okay to make them.
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by pekk 11y ago
It's not a binary, either/or choice between "Lisp is perfect" and "we need a new variant of Lisp". Here's a map of possible attitudes toward Lisp. Take your pick. On the Lisp-affinity axis, 1. Lisp is almo
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by pekk 11y ago
Everyone likes functionality. But functionality comes at the price of complexity.
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When you say "enough already," which solution do you propose to end the war?
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by pekk 11y ago
You missed the point of the paper, which isn't about climate change.
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by pekk 11y ago
Rather than being examples of solution aversion, these are examples of trade-offs. Garbage collection solves some problems, but causes others, which is why not all software uses it. Static typing might help with some things, but causes othe
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by pekk 11y ago
What did Udacity say that is comparable to "sure fire way to make you a rockstar"?
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by pekk 11y ago
I wonder if we can make that distinction either. It would be solution aversion if you denied that the rate of suicides has been growing because you perceive that the main use of citing an increasing suicide rate is to push homeopathic educa

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