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If you run a company, then you might make better choices (or at least allow for proper discovery of what approach to take to building a large system). But there seems to be an accepted rule that "if you're doing data science, you
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I guess that's the problem. Python is just fine for many narrow tasks. But the people who use it, or the people who manage teams who use it, don't know how important it is to consider proper tooling when it comes time to turn th
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If I hand you a dull butter knife and some loose, rusty pliers and ask you to fix a car engine, you should be angry. Of course, if all you've ever known is sub-par tools, then you won't see a problem. This is a pointless conversa
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The speed or lack thereof of Python is not the problem. The problem is language (mis)features. But interestingly, Go is a very simple, straightforward language. It's got many of the same goals that Python had, and it meets those goal
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My third language was C, after Pascal and Modula 2. And I've built a good bit of production C long ago. (And beside the point, it was not difficult...? Memory management and pointer math is not rocket science. But I digress.) It se
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> Knowledge of a language or code quality is rarely the hard or important part. That is true. The problem is, that code in Python of questionable quality (but real utility) is now turned into production code; and it is done so by buildin
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> Python's community is one of the greatest and worst parts of the language. If you come from a Ruby background, and you are now doing Python, you may find yourself on Stackoverflow looking up how to do X idomatically in Python (som
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Use any language you like to build a proof of concept. But one you need to take that POC and build a real product which needs to be supported, extended, and maintained, then you must choose tools which fit that long term need. Many of use f
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I use Python all day every day. It's horrible compared to many other languages I have used. There are many versions of hype promoted for Python. Coal powered steam locomotives were great in their day, before there were better alterna
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My contrarian view is that instead of tools to help us churn out mundane crap, maybe we should work to eliminate the need to do mundate, repetative stuff. Choosing words to write an email is not difficult, most of the time. It's a bit
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I'm guessing the parent poster really meant something like "hyped snake oil". There is absolutely nothing about Python which makes it especially suited to scientific programming or any other kind of programming. In fact, it
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His MLM analogy does not fit, but I think the point is that Python got where it is because of luck. If the scientific computing and research community (and plenty of physicists) had known a better language, they would not be using Python n
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by z9znz 4y ago
Numpy is a great thing, and also a terrible thing (because it is built on Python). Python is a terrible language compared to many others, not the least of which is Ruby (and I would include Java, Clojure, Elixir, and even C++ and probably C
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Thank you. This seems quite reasonable.
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Who funds them, and why? What's the profit plan?
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> the world sucks in general It does! But like the other HN post about software complexity, it has a lot to do with our ever-increasing expectations and demands. When email was just plain text, it was way easier to deal with. Now it&#x
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> One thing working in complexity’s favor, though, is that engineers like complexity. No, absolutely not for me. I want simplicity. The problem is that our expectations for software systems is so vastly more complex than it ever was in t
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For the person who has owned neither marque, it's only a question of feeling. Ferrari has always been beautiful and performance driven. Lamborghini has been design driven. Performance is there, but with more conditions. If you want ic
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> Python feels rooted in procedural programming Yes it does, and its OOP features feel sloppily bolted and taped on. It seems everyone really wants to use Python in a very OOPy way, so that means using all the awkward features and decor
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Tell HN: Lack of job salary information wastes everyone's time
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This was around 2010, although some of the motivations began in the several years leading up to then. After eating chicken or ground beef, even if supposedly high quality more expensive offerings from grocery stores, my stomach would be ups
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I chat with the cafe owner on my street fairly often. My grocery store, however, is 20 minutes away in a neighboring town. They have a large staff which is in frequent rotation. The staff also is mostly early 20s or younger age. Add all
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And I just added to the carbon footprint burning electricity waiting for this. It did indeed take about two minutes to "process". [Edit - continuing after it finished resulted in a blank page. Refreshing the page resulted in &qu
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You can walk up to the info counter at the entrance on each visit and pickup a new loyalty card. There's no registration required. It would be a bit wasteful of plastic, but there are no privacy issues at all there. Of course, when y
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The human operated lanes still exist in my store. Many people use them, and they do have chats at the checkout line. And no offense :), but I don't go to the grocery store to make friends. I have much better or more interesting thing
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> In Texas at HEB, items can be scanned with the gun ... I was expecting a joke to follow, because naturally I thought you meant a firearm.
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What a dismal existence. In the land I live, I just do this: 1. Enter the store and immediately present my loyalty barcode from my phone app to the scanner 2. Pickup a hand scanner which is now associated with me for this visit (I could eve
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One of the benefits of being a home and car audio salesperson during college was access to some cool gear plus incredible employee discounts (typically 50% off retail price). A unit missing from this article is the DAT player. I had the So
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Having used Rails mostly, Phoenix for a couple of projects, and Django now at my current startup. I would absolutely not choose Django. I would recommend Rails, but I would choose Phoenix. People choose Django because they only know Python
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I just learned of the job title "staff engineer". If you look that name up, you may find it matches your personal work experiences. It involves seeing problems from varying levels of detail, understanding business needs, talking

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