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by zedshaw 16y ago
That was a joke. You know, those things that make people laugh? In seriousness, it sort of doesn't matter if you're a programmer. Either way works so long as the first thing you get is code. If you're a sysadmin or packager though, that
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by zedshaw 16y ago
See? That's the same as me telling you that to find the code on Launchpad you just... A packager doesn't want to navigate the bizarre tree of forks and junk, they just want official releases. A programmer could care less though. Then, bec
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Well, I feel for you. Being unemployed sucks ass, especially when you have skills but can't seem to get a job. At the risk that this some very bizarre sort of dumb troll, I'll propose this: If you ever want to meet up for lunch at Union S
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by zedshaw 16y ago
That's probably the best description about why I left NYC.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I like what he said in the video, and he's right. Asking for this kind of information is just like asking a woman, "Are you pregnant?" Or, asking people to take "IQ tests" that favor whites. In fact you could write a law that simply said
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I use Python at work, and since I do I tend to not use it at home on my personal projects. That makes sure there's no conflict of interest with my employer. It also keeps me sane so that I don't get into a rut with my ideas. These days I'
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Sure, the more the merrier, and I figure if you can bring a victim or two that'd be good as well.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
No idea what WCF is, but all I do is put send JSON as the message and call it done. I've found that to be fast enough for most of my work, and it's a combination that's understood by everything.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
ZeroMQ is easier than HTTP. Much, much easier. Take it from a guy who has actually written a web server that also uses 0MQ.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
At the moment I've got 13 students signed up for my class and the "newbie tour of PyCon" I want to do. There's also about 6 Python experts (many much more expert than myself) who are going to help with the class and the guiding during the
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by zedshaw 16y ago
> No, no; no need to argue here. You already had me sold. Down with nuanced understanding, I say. A "nuanced understanding" of rules just lets people enforce them arbitrarily. Either make them concrete and fair, or find a way to not ne
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Oh, an name of idonthack with no comments and no karma really. Well, since you don't meet the requirements of notability in my world I'm just going to down vote you. Thanks for playing anonymous troll.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Any time I find two groups of people arguing and waring over a boolean definition of themselves I can usually find a third option. I also know that they'll never adopt the third option because fighting and winning stupid wars like this mak
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Well so far you've just thrown out proclamations without any references backing what you say. I mean, you're some random dude on a forum who's basically repeated what I've said and went "WRONG!". How insightful.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I've started to notice that a lot of "nerdy" topics get deleted lately. I can't prove it, but I suspect there's some attempt to cleanse the "white male nerd" out of Wikipedia in order to attract normal people. Again, I can't prove it . I
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I never said I could do it better. I don't have Jimmy's pretty face to put on a web site and attract 10 MILLION dollars. I barely make enough to pay rent and work on the few projects I do work on for free. One thing I can do though is cri
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I don't care what the bureaucratic process is, all I know is one guy went on a rampage electing pages for deletion and they're gone. This "plausible deniability" of page deletion so nobody is to blame really is odd.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
It's hard for Wikipedia to say that other publishers are not legitimate because they're online, when Wikipedia itself had to fight for legitimacy because of it's online nature. Doing that means they're just tools of the giant corporate pub
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by zedshaw 16y ago
No, after this and many other things I'm not interested in working for them, at all. Especially if I find out the rumors of a "nerd purge" agenda are true. If there is a call to delete "nerdy" content I'm gonna really turn up the destruct
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Plan A is a DOS attack. It's not about getting the information there, it's about putting so much there repeatedly that they have to admit that those topics need their own page. Plan B wouldn't be "self-published". It would be published by
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by zedshaw 16y ago
What?! To keep the amount of articles low ? Ok wait, why were they begging for 10 million dollars then? So they can have no content? You understand that you just said the organization that's devoted to becoming the largest record of huma
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Thanks Neil, a completely inaccurate reading of what I wrote. For the record, deletionists have been a problem for many people who are members of sub-cultures and Wikipedia has ignored the problem. Writing more arbitrary rules is not the
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Well, then if there is no technical reason, then it's a usability flaw or just stupidity. If it is possible to create meta-pages that could house sub-cultures and esoteric information, then they aren't doing it and using these rules for no
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Uh, that makes no sense.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
No, I live on the planet where some random dude can "elect" to have a page deleted and poof page gone. I don't care about the bizarre bureaucratic process involved, all I care about is that there's no review process or delay to it. Also,
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by zedshaw 16y ago
My problem with you is you're going to be a professor, a profession devoted to the advancement of human knowledge and educating laymen in this knowledge, and you just erased one of the main mechanisms for disseminating computer science to
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by zedshaw 16y ago
This is only a problem if you believe that you only have a boolean answer. Western philosophy loves setting up these weird one-or-the-other answers to questions and then spending decades dancing around the real answer which is: both or nei
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Yes! This. A thousand times this. You wouldn't believe how being able to type your code and watch it while you type improves what you write.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Yes, I have. We used to call it "debugging", but I guess everything has to have a name before the cool kids will use it. However, this wasn't about find a bug but preventing defects by using evidence to retrain my behavior. The approach is
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Not that I know of. I imagine emacs or vim has good error-line parsing which you could steal/copy and get really good results. You could then extend it to work on any language you wanted. Biggest thing I couldn't get right was automatical

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