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by pekk 10y ago
Sphinx's own documentation makes it vastly easier than `sphinx autogen_html_docs --output /path/to/folder --input /path/to/mymodule_folder` which reads like a really complicated command line of uncertain m
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by pekk 10y ago
Who cannot use a Python interpreter to see how the API actually works?
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by pekk 10y ago
How often is it happening that the rich are being ambushed by groups of resentful homeless people? Is this a significant and recurring problem in your country that existing policing is failing to address?
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by pekk 10y ago
Isn't this the problem, that some forums get too big to moderate?
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by pekk 10y ago
Congratulations, you discovered that Ubuntu is a Linux distribution and not a wallpaper of a color you do not prefer. People can also use the normal Ubuntu install media to install something other than Unity, and they can change the wallpap
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by pekk 10y ago
Did you just imply that all vim or emacs users live in "rich daddys attic"? Do you have any idea how many things have been created by people in a flavor of vi or emacs? Who is missing the obvious here?
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by pekk 10y ago
I found Jolla comparatively very stable and the Android support was good enough for my purposes, given that it makes little sense to buy a Jolla phone for the sole purpose of running Android apps. People judge Jolla harshly for things they
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by pekk 10y ago
Were the literal 1930s Nazis comparable to ISIS propagandists? If not, then why not? What about modern Neo-Nazis, are they really better? Why?
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by pekk 10y ago
Is it the same thing to be permissive and to be neutral?
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by pekk 10y ago
There are already Breitbart, FOX News, etc. which work on this principle even without anyone being banned.
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by pekk 10y ago
IF they don't turn a profit, doesn't that suggest they're doing something wrong and should change, rather than that they should conservatively refuse to change anything and hope that they will suddenly start turning a profit
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by pekk 10y ago
"Against the status quo"? Do you know who Steve Bannon is and what post he is going to take in the white house? Come on. Nazis didn't start deciding to post on Twitter because liberals were reading an insufficient amount of N
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by pekk 10y ago
The legal and ethical basis of H1B visas is that they are NOT designed simply to depress wages. But that is exactly what they are used for.
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by pekk 10y ago
Is there any evidence that paying more for IT workers results in better quality of service? It probably won't succeed to complain about this on the basis that the result might be poor, if the real problem is that outsourcing firms are
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by pekk 10y ago
They have the right to set their level of involvement or investment, and it is only polite to peg that level of involvement to whether any significant number of people are using the thing. It doesn't mean they were obligated to try to
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by pekk 10y ago
Others may see see a vibe of aggression toward the whole OSS scene coming from people who hold that they have an interest in design. I'm not aware of any slurs against designers that are equivalent to the slur against OSS developers as
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by pekk 10y ago
Python had "a lot of features" in the 2.x series. This has nothing to do with Python 3.
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by pekk 10y ago
The name "asyncio" includes the substring "io" and is clearly about asynchronous I/O, so it's hard to see why anyone would think its purpose was "multiprocessing made easy."
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by pekk 10y ago
Whatever you prefer the syntax for join and split to be, I prefer the opposite, but even if you quote Matz that doesn't mean your way is the right one.
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by pekk 10y ago
What standard are you applying to distinguish "insecure" from "secure"?
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by pekk 10y ago
Why is the Bechdel test morally important? The Bechdel test can be failed by a movie which simply only had one woman in it, or was about a genderless robot, or was mostly about a heterosexual romance, or any number of other possibilities th
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by pekk 10y ago
It's not bullshit if it's a valid consideration when you are trying to build an app on say iOS and weighting it against say Swift. How many times does this need to be said? It depends on what you are trying to do and what you want
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by pekk 10y ago
> He also rants about using the best language that catches the most errors but then picks Swift as his solution. That is because he is weighing solutions for developing native apps on Apple devices, where Swift is one of the best options
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by pekk 10y ago
If you are considering how to build a native app, reasons why you don't like Javascript are relevant.
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by pekk 10y ago
Google's contribution to the success of Python was really minimal. Most of the top stuff was not from Google at all.
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by pekk 10y ago
If you don't have tests, why do you think your code works?
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by pekk 10y ago
Which company should we have listened to instead of the FDA? Or should we just give up and decide for ourselves, for example, that vaccines cause autism, or that the government shouldn't even try to prevent poisonous foods from being s
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by pekk 10y ago
"defund FDA" is not a particularly moderate position
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SPAs aren't helping with this.
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by pekk 10y ago
What do you mean "fait accompli"? Was the Dart team supposed to give the community a chance to abort the language from existing, and the community was upset that it was completed and published without the input of people who wante

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