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by pekk 11y ago
Don't ask HN, look up the actual difference between an employee and a contractor if you are not sure and are employing contractors.
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by pekk 11y ago
I'm curious. What is notably missing?
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by pekk 11y ago
You're right about asyncio, but the new async PEP undeniably adds a lot of complication to a story which was already working.
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by pekk 11y ago
What is the point of the community taking this anywhere when it is likely to be superseded by something else soon? It wasn't really that long ago that we got the original coroutines PEP and "yield from," now they are being ob
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by pekk 11y ago
I don't see why this should be a tipping point; this introduces no new capabilities, and a lot of hairy new syntax and magic methods.
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by pekk 11y ago
There is something wrong with reporting that is misleading, especially if that is intentional. If you report that a specific thing is being done, that isn't the same as reporting that it "could be" done. If you don't kno
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by pekk 11y ago
In a system of laws, it is bad (unjust and in other ways problematic) to give particular people special exceptions. Does that tell you which "good" is being talked about? The "all of us" is all the people covered by a pa
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by pekk 11y ago
More than population, it is a matter of whether they have learned not to say anything about it because of heavy moderation and flaming.
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by pekk 11y ago
It isn't relevant which is older, or who was aware of what. There isn't some kind of rule which says that people can't start projects which are similar to other projects.
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by pekk 11y ago
It's not political correctness. It's observing that often people who are smart and do smart things also do very stupid things. There is not one personality trait which means to do more smart things and fewer stupid things at the s
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by pekk 11y ago
Is that one better? Why?
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by pekk 11y ago
It was Google, not the users, which set the old pricing model which people optimized for when they wrote their apps. Many apps which had to be shut down were already doing "right" things like caching, using task queues, and econom
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by pekk 11y ago
You're right, though I wouldn't compare App Engine to things like Google Reader. When Google EOLs a highly-visible free service like Reader, it generates a lot of outrage, but consumers can find a replacement like Feedly at reason
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by pekk 11y ago
American history (and the history of many other countries) has lots of open racism. But it doesn't follow that the building of the interstate system was essentially racist.
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This kind of equivocation is really harmful. Nobody today says "progressive" meaning "Eisenhower," but by splitting hairs we can convey something dishonest to almost anybody who reads us.
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Many different people of varying motivations were involved in making the interstate system. It isn't obvious that any significant part of the motivations for that system were racist, let alone the primary ones. Moses' involvement
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by pekk 11y ago
The Interstate system is typically attributed to Eisenhower, a Republican. The attitude that infrastructure is worth having isn't really a "progressive" attitude.
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by pekk 11y ago
Incidentally, what package manager are you using on Windows/OS X?
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The lottery is a form of gambling, but is also pretty different from casinos.
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As a cautionary note, this article isn't really about anything people are using today. "Unix" doesn't today mean anything very similar to what it meant in 1981. The Commodore PET, Apple II and MS-DOS 1.10 of that time di
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by pekk 11y ago
You can't kill it. It's not even specific to software. As long as humans form hierarchies in which real productivity is dissociated from apparent productivity and "shit rolls downhill," there will be managers who believe
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by pekk 11y ago
Though Rust is very popular around here, and is an exciting project, this is a very low-effort comment which doesn't cast any light on the subject.
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by pekk 11y ago
Multiple processes does not necessarily mean increased memory usage. I'm a little surprised at how many misinformed comments there are like this.
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by pekk 11y ago
You have the correct interpretation of the English word "accent." An accent pertains to spoken language (e.g., pronunciation and prosody). It is only in a loose or figurative manner of speaking that you could talk about the accent
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by pekk 11y ago
I haven't noticed that Mac apps tend to be faster than apps on other platforms. Can you provide a citation for this?
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It's a wealth thing. Substitute different things for football.
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Post on Hacker News, 2016: "Pragmatic REST is not REST at all"
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by pekk 11y ago
"Buy this" might create multiple records in different tables, but there is no requirement that one URL in a REST API corresponds directly to one record or one table. The REST API does not have to expose the entire sequence of unde
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by pekk 11y ago
Just because you don't think anything is wrong in terms of external acceptance criteria, does not mean that there is not something wrong with the code that is of real consequence. Contrarian anecdotes aside, the reason everyone knows t
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by pekk 11y ago
Yes. Why do you ask?

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