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91.
Systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports(people.debian.org)
117 points by tshepang 13y ago|102 comments
92.
Git annex and my mom(joeyh.name)
1 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
93.
A use-case for SPARQL and Nepomuk(pvanhoof.be)
2 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
94.
Russ Allbery's "Charity review"(eyrie.org)
1 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
95.
by tshepang 13y ago
Thanks for the correction. Must be more careful next time.
96.
by tshepang 13y ago
Yes, GCC is most likely the single largest of all GNU tools (~6 million SLOC).
97.
An update about the Software Transactional Memory subproject of PyPy(morepypy.blogspot.com)
79 points by tshepang 13y ago|6 comments
98.
by tshepang 13y ago
What does "social aspects" mean? Number of users and/or something else?
99.
by tshepang 13y ago
By the time Linux was born, the GNU project had produced a large collection of tools, enough to have its founder claim that the last major missing piece for it to be a complete OS was a kernel.
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Consensus decision-making in large groups destroys communities and hurts people(eyrie.org)
3 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
101.
by tshepang 13y ago
I think those systemd stats are skewed by having udev history imported... earliest commit is 10 years ago, which is far older than systemd.
102.
by tshepang 13y ago
That's the wrong link.
103.
Python 3.2.5 and Python 3.3.2 released(mail.python.org)
2 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
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Python 2.7.5 released(mail.python.org)
2 points by tshepang 13y ago|1 comments
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Shortcomings of GitHub Pull Requests workflow(julien.danjou.info)
4 points by tshepang 13y ago|0 comments
106.
by tshepang 13y ago
Thanks for the mention. It looks elegant. It also 'forced' me to use Heroku for the first time too, which helped take the mystery away.
107.
by tshepang 13y ago
You sure it's not better spending the energy elsewhere? Python 3 needs more exclusive features to encourage people to migrate from Python 2.
108.
by tshepang 13y ago
Before March next year: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429/ .
109.
by tshepang 13y ago
You have a better chance of success if you try. Even respected core developers, including Guido himself, fail to get stuff they want in. So, no, it's no guarantee.
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GNOME co-founder deemed not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by tshepang 13y ago|2 comments
111.
by tshepang 13y ago
The mystery goes away once you start reading python-dev and watching bugs.python.org... people find it hard to agree on the right way to do things. It takes a lot of energy for the bigger changes to go in, and many of those with the energy
112.
by tshepang 13y ago
It's also ugly when copy-pasted, which does not stop people exposing such ugliness on sites like Stack Overflow.
113.
by tshepang 13y ago
People are working (or planning to work) on some of those: * pip (sort of): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/ * virtualenv: already in Python 3.3 * requests: http://kushaldas.in/posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pyco... As for
114.
by tshepang 13y ago
Interesting scenario. I never heard it voiced before, and must be so rare it can safely be ignored as a non-issue.
115.
by tshepang 13y ago
Now I know what I missed.
116.
by tshepang 13y ago
You make it sound permanent.
117.
by tshepang 13y ago
Not exactly. 2.7 still gets bugfixes.
118.
by tshepang 13y ago
None of the releases deemed final accept any new features. It's general release policy for any FLOSS project, and only neglected on rare occasions.
119.
by tshepang 13y ago
You can always install it directly, and not in a virtualenv. Am I missing something?
120.
by tshepang 13y ago
3.4, early next year http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0429

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