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by svisser 11y ago
Or: someone is trying to make money from bootcamps while claiming there are shortcuts to a high salary.
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by svisser 11y ago
Books tend to have blank pages at the beginning and/or end when the actual number of pages isn't a multiple of, say, 8, 16 or 32. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentionally_blank_page#Print...
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by svisser 11y ago
One of the real benefits of wheel files is that the file format is standardised: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0427/ . This means the Python community can work towards standard tools and interfaces for w
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by svisser 11y ago
The absence of an object is not a special case. To indicate that with a "nill" object is a special case?
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by svisser 11y ago
> I felt drastically out of place, but for years it was just too damn convenient to go with the flow. That sums it up.
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by svisser 11y ago
This is a legitimate question to ask before going ahead with matters like this. Reporting security vulnerabilities does come with risks and should be evaluated carefully.
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by svisser 11y ago
Time to throw away that bucket list. http://www.hitchbot.me/usa/bucket-list/
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by svisser 11y ago
What do you stand to gain by going ahead with this?
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by svisser 11y ago
The design of the version control system is not the problem here, is it?
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by svisser 11y ago
Are you happy with the salary offered and what you'll be working on? Given the company's valuation these two things will be more important than the stock options.
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by svisser 11y ago
"I can already tell you what's going to happen to all those extra cycles that faster hardware is going to give us in the next hundred years. They're nearly all going to be wasted." http://www.paulgraham.com&#x
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by svisser 11y ago
Removing features does not mean there is a lack of vision. The purpose of Python is not the same as, say, Haskell. Design decisions should therefore be viewed as such - it's not about a steady increase of functional features and a decr
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by svisser 11y ago
Does the contract say anything regarding how the money would have to be paid back?
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Not even a hackathon?
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by svisser 11y ago
How about .sql files?
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by svisser 11y ago
Artificial - as opposed to letting things take its natural course.
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by svisser 11y ago
By preventing the key sticking problem, it was more efficient than earlier designs - it wasn't designed to be inefficient.
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by svisser 11y ago
Build / release engineering.
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by svisser 11y ago
"I worked at Google so treat me differently" shows up several times in this article.
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by svisser 11y ago
You can't compare salaries, it's about many things, including cost of living.
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by svisser 11y ago
They failed to reach you and that's part of the reason why they shut down.
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by svisser 11y ago
> Notice data is defined inside the with block, but remains accessible once that block is exited (and the file object is auto-closed). This is the normal Python scoping rules at work. If you create (initially define) a variable in a bloc
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by svisser 11y ago
You can also use a generator expression so you don't have to create a list: s = sep.join(str(part) for part in parts)
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by svisser 11y ago
map() isn't all that useful in Python. If you want a list it's more straightforward to write: [f(x) for x in my_iterable] If you don't want a list it's more straightforward to write: for x in my_iterable:
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by svisser 11y ago
Interesting argument given that Microsoft is known for embrace, extend and extinguish.
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by svisser 11y ago
Not sure what the intent of this post is. Yes, Python indeed isn't Lisp.
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Not possible - you need to rely on the work of others to get things done.
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Dreamy non-analytical mind?
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by svisser 11y ago
Some traits are inherent to a person. You develop skills over the years but some people "just are" more organised and disciplined.
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by svisser 11y ago
Note that this tweet clarifies that P stands for PHP and not Python or Perl: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/499432194398756864

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