sametmax

20 ms·

181.
by sametmax 7y ago
20 years after. It took 2 decades. My impression from the debate, and taking in consideration the political context, is that he saw that as the tipping point of the BDFL transition and a good test run as much as a language feature.
182.
by sametmax 7y ago
You can code your own wrapper for this. Like https://github.com/Tygs/ayo It's not as good as having it in the stdlib, because people can still call ensure_future and not await it, but it's a huge improvement
183.
by sametmax 7y ago
Guido disagrees and rejected the idea multiple time in the last 2 decades. I think he worked on Python for a long time too :) This feature is kind of a symbol, the first real decision of the transition between the bdfl and the next era. I&#
184.
by sametmax 7y ago
For something as finely tuned as pylint, my sensible default and your would never be the same. I don't want it to scream on a missing docstring for every single thing. I do want to be able to use a, b and x as variables. No, this root
185.
by sametmax 7y ago
I mean 10% of new code for which type hints are a proper use case, so mostly libs, and targeting Python 3.5+. Of course, in a world of Python 2.7 still being a large code base and Python being used a lot for scripting, this will far from th
186.
by sametmax 7y ago
My metric for this is to put some of my freshest student in front of a code and see how they deal with it. How easily can they understand it ? How easily can they write it ? Debug it ? They are most of the time a fantastic indicator of the
187.
by sametmax 7y ago
Disable it in pylintrc. Pylint is unusable without a good config file anyway.
188.
by sametmax 7y ago
It's the most controversial feature ever introduced because it goes against a lot of python culture and philosophy. All in all the debate has been heated and long, but it has been decided that the python community will use it intellige
189.
by sametmax 7y ago
F-strings have appeared 2 versions ago. All in all, the feedback we have has been overwhelmingly positive, including on maintenance and readability.
190.
by sametmax 7y ago
Most code still look like traditional Python. Just like meta programming or monkey patching, the new features are used sparingly by the community. Even the less controversial type hints are here on maybe 10 percent of the code out there. It
191.
by sametmax 7y ago
Same for a washing machine 100 years ago. But once it got popular, it allowed for an entire different hoursehold to form.
192.
by sametmax 7y ago
Sure, but no matter how much you do this additional focus, there will be always be a few terrible persons going through the net. The only way to avoid it would be to cut down on freedom to an extreme. It's also very expensive. The lega
193.
by sametmax 7y ago
I tend to see bad apples just like tornadoes or forest fires. They are natural catastrophes, and they will always be there, not matter the society we build. The important part is how we react to those people. In that sense, I feel we are m
194.
by sametmax 7y ago
Immoral yes. Ridiculous no. People have a short memory and a strong affect toward symbolism. Marketing just pulls the desired psychological tricks to reach their objective. It works. Just like lying in politics works. Just like making corpo
195.
by sametmax 7y ago
Like you said, the value of Google is the algo. The index is worth little. The limits of Bing, Qwant, DDG, etc. are not the number of the indexed pages. It's that, give them the same pages, and the same search terms, and they don'
196.
by sametmax 7y ago
Same for dictionaries ain't it ?
197.
by sametmax 7y ago
I don't need to disseminate any information, microsoft lying, insulting, cheating and corrupting for 20 years has been largely documented by the medias in the nineties. If you were capable of reading at all at that time, it was one sca
198.
by sametmax 7y ago
Harari keeps repeating "this is just an hypothesis" or "we can't be sure of what happened at that time" during the whole book. He highlights multiple hypothesis as well in all chapters, to compare them. Actually the
199.
by sametmax 7y ago
They will probably lower the price of the 3DS after at the same time. They also don't target the same population. 3DS targets small kids, it's surdy, and have low graphic capabilities. You put it in their bag back, for a long car
200.
by sametmax 7y ago
Yes, times change. Now MS is not the top dog anymore, Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are all eating his lunch. There is competition. So they can't get away with acting like the old MS. The marketing people figured that out, and are
201.
Microsoft Attempting to Destroy the Careers of Its Critics(techrights.org)
47 points by sametmax 7y ago|19 comments
202.
by sametmax 7y ago
Yes but it can be a useful business approximation depending of your target.
203.
by sametmax 7y ago
Just make it localized in the region language only for that price. Ok, doesn't work with Nigeria, since they speak english. But it would work in Asia, and in a lot of other African and south American countries.
204.
by sametmax 7y ago
Confirmed, Ubuntu 16.04 on dell xps works fine, and the added boost in perf is noticeable (or the placebo effect is not).
205.
by sametmax 7y ago
> Not just privacy. Democracy in general. So yeah, China...
206.
by sametmax 7y ago
Not just privacy. Democracy in general. No cash mean you can't do anything that has not been validated by the state first. It means kids will have less options to foul around without the parents checking it. It means you won't be
207.
by sametmax 7y ago
You mean exchanges. Exchanges != crypto. Individuals can use btc anonymously. It's public, but only the person you deal with know who owns your wallet.
208.
by sametmax 7y ago
MS seems to push Python these days, but I doubt it will happen for Excel: they rewrote a lot of it in JS, so it makes more sense for them to provide a JS binding. Besides, making Python decently works on the Web version of Office would be a
209.
by sametmax 7y ago
That's also how people defended slavery.
210.
by sametmax 7y ago
The crust of the article is: > The reason Lisp failed was that it was too successful at what it was designed for. Lisp, alone amongst the early languages was flexible enough that the language itself could be remade into whatever the user

More ›