tchon

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   by tchon 15y ago

   I think PG's background as an actual programmer and having a computational paradigm versus Arrington's sophistry is an underlying factor here too.
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   by tchon 15y ago

   Yes, 5 basis points is complete and utter crap. If you're going to work crazy hours, you might as well benefit from it proportionally. Gone are the days in tech when early employees would be rewarded for taking pay cuts in exchange for a hi
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   by tchon 15y ago

   NOTE: there's brokenness lurking in urllib and email modules. The python library modules are more often than not modeled on perfect reality rather than a pragmatic one (e.g., complete violations of RFCs). BTW, if one reads re.py in the dist