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by pekk 11y ago
I assume you're being sarcastic, since "it kinda works" is not a ringing endorsement (and the entire piece has the same sulky tone).
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by pekk 11y ago
You're a serious Python user that has no experience with any of the last decade's tools for packaging, and you find things hard without using any of those tools, and THAT'S why you can see where he's coming from?
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by pekk 11y ago
To balance this, you might also solicit feedback about the problems that are caused by Node's use of multiple versions of the same package in a project.
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by pekk 11y ago
RPython isn't really much like C, so that would be misleading.
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by pekk 11y ago
Are there any available writeups or talks which discuss these challenges for HHVM? This sounds like it would be very interesting.
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by pekk 11y ago
I have never been to any kind of conference or workshop that assumed I was into Star Wars or Star Trek and obligated me to participate in activities themed on those lines. The real argument is because they like doing that, not because &quot
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by pekk 11y ago
Do you want to go to those workshops? Why?
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by pekk 11y ago
It really isn't that complicated. Nobody is claiming that there is a paint-by-numbers approach to writing the Novel of the Century. Even if you had such a technique, people would still screw it up. Nothing, not even "emotions,&quo
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by pekk 11y ago
Why did you edit in the implication that Python 3 is not applicable for people who have jobs and real life commitments to do things like running a company that pays people? That is your opinion, not Guido's. Python 3 is already being u
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by pekk 11y ago
The implication that you cannot use Python 3 "if you are creating a project that you want to share with others" is false. Python 3 code is routinely shared and used. There are a lot of enterprise systems that are still on COBOL, b
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by pekk 11y ago
Familiarity is a good clue, but the difference is really just informality, which you can also have with strangers especially if there is any sense of solidarity. If you meet someone who is very low-key and egalitarian like an old hippie or
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by pekk 11y ago
That's often repeated but not universally true. When the cashier at the grocery store asks me how I'm doing I might say "been better" or something, as you describe for wie geht's, and similarly when I ask them how i
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by pekk 11y ago
Speaking normally and not legally, treason is against e.g. your country, treachery is more personal. But treachery is more or less just any underhandedness, it isn't necessarily a betrayal of a normative trust like family or friendship
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by pekk 11y ago
Everyone who reads the news has an opinion. Germany is not lacking its own voice and reach into the affairs of other countries. In particular, this kind of discourse about evil Yankees is certainly a characteristic of German politics at lea
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by pekk 11y ago
That sounds good, but I am concerned Bitbucket will go in the same direction soon because they are always playing catch-up to compete with Github.
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by pekk 11y ago
That is fine as long as it is just you by yourself finding a place to stuff code nobody looks at. But if you have a long-term open source project homed at Github, your job uses Github, etc. and all your workflow and historical data is alrea
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by pekk 11y ago
I think Github is itself mostly white guys. Also, most of the people being labeled SJWs on the relevant Github issue are white guys. So this isn't about whether you are a white guy or being defensive about being a white guy.
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by pekk 11y ago
This isn't the real problem. Github's earlier obsession with the word "meritocracy" isn't even relevant. Horvath isn't relevant here either. Feminism isn't relevant here. Paul Graham isn't relevant he
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by pekk 11y ago
Do you think that it makes sense for a new ephemeral files hosting site to signal that it accepts child porn on its servers, in a jurisdiction where child porn is completely illegal and can potentially get the creators of the site onto a se
530.
by pekk 11y ago
If you want to put files on a server and start a process, you are probably looking for something like Apache, not a "PaaS" necessarily.
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by pekk 11y ago
That demonstrates some design flaws of Java, yeah, because your "private" variables are effectively just globals anyway. The guy who is not using encapsulation at all this year will be making similar mistakes (massively long bodie
532.
by pekk 11y ago
That isn't true. I don't understand why you can't use a language that offers encapsulation.
533.
by pekk 11y ago
An IDE is not a fundamentally different thing from an editor, and certainly not a superior one.
534.
by pekk 11y ago
People get lost not for "no apparent reason" but because the maze of JS tooling is incredibly confusing, full of people telling you "do this, use that!" (without accounting for the other 40 things you want to use togethe
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by pekk 11y ago
Are you sure you aren't just discarding everything he says because he has different politics?
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by pekk 11y ago
Mathematical descriptions of large-scale static properties like equilibria are patently not the same as, say, dynamic discrete-time simulations with evolving state. I don't think we have anything satisfyingly like the latter for econom
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by pekk 11y ago
Are you somehow not in control of how x is being changed? You seem to have said that literally any statefulness is "exhausting".
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by pekk 11y ago
Since they don't currently respect the law, it doesn't make any difference how you decide to change the law because they're still not going to respect it.
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by pekk 11y ago
That may all be true, but it's a reason to reform the law, not for some people to get away with breaking the law while others cannot.
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by pekk 11y ago
You almost say it yourself: do something else instead of programming. Maybe you'll want to come back later, maybe not, either way you come out ahead of where you are today.

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