sneakermoney

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   by sneakermoney 8y ago

   > Yes, but a committee (or a community if that term has too many bad connotations) can at least argue about the design principles and on occasion decide to change them using a well-defined process (e.g. rough consensus or voting). The un
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   by sneakermoney 8y ago

   Same here, I often find myself writing a loop-and-a-half and will on occasion repeat expressions to get around extra lines (if I cared about performance, I wouldn't be writing it in Python). I feel like a lot of the resistance is from
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   by sneakermoney 8y ago

   "The market" took over after a long period of "design by committee" that had "strong design principles"[1] resulting in something that was both inadequate for what people wanted to do and didn't evolve a