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by zedshaw 16y ago
Exactly. I taught programming, not dogma. Frankly, if I can teach two paradigms, and one is easy to explain while the other is hard, well I'm going to teach the easy one to explain. Functional programming is just hard to explain to people
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Read that out loud and tell me that doesn't grate on your ears? That's my basic test if code for the book would be understood by the reader. What you have here, this "symbol soup" is what makes programming hard for people in the beginning
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by zedshaw 16y ago
You are not mistaken, there is no chapter on functional programming. Why? Because "The Little Schemer" is a way better book for teaching better functional programming than I could possibly do in a Python book. Python's functional concept
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Don't copy, imitate. The book was very easy to write. Just lay out 52 exercises, 26 for super basic stuff, 26 for progressively more advanced stuff. Take about an hour or two every night and write a couple. Pretty simple really. You ma
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Fantastic. Keep on plugging through and if you hit any problems just ask me. I'm on twitter @zedshaw so just ask and I'll help.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I am, but to be honest, I got more done when I had a job. See all those sites? I did all of those, wrote for them, worked on LPTHW, wrote mulletdb.com, hacked on lamson, a few other projects, and still played guitar about 4 hours a day. No
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I keep meaning to write some kind of blog about this, but I call it "time opportunism" as opposed to "time management". That's the best name I could come up with for this thing I do that keeps me creative and flexible yet still getting thi
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by zedshaw 16y ago
You're welcome. Remember if you run into errors, just submit a ticket for it on the learnpythonthehardway.org web site and I'll fix them up.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Hey, can you tell me which ones you got stuck on? I can try give a bit of help either here or in the book. One thing about those though is that if you can't complete them, then just move on and maybe mark it for later. You should try to f
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I've also brought up a counter question that people seem to not be able to answer: How do you get a bad Debian Developer fired? It seems once they get in they're in for life. Yet, some of the worst DDs who crap on programmers seem to some
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Actually, I really agree with you here. In fact, it got me thinking about sort of a protection clause in licenses along these lines. Where you can say, "This software is BSD licensed, providing you follow the guidelines in the PACKAGING
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I researched it plenty, and since your comment can't point out factual errors in my post, I'll just assume you're a hypocrite. And yes, they embrace and extend. Embrace is taking the package in the first place. Extend is carving it up and
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by zedshaw 16y ago
An apology to who? I spoke my mind and made what I thought were valid points and I still stand by them. Debian is abusive to developers who create the software they need. It's only a matter of time before the programmers making their supp
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I didn't write it, Ersek, Laszlo did. That's how sheddingbikes works. Rather than comments, people can send responses as a post and if it's good I post it. Sadly, it's not frequently that people send in a good response.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I don't know what book you read but the title alone, "The Inmates Are Running The Asylum" is offensive since it implies I'm the inmate. But take this quote just from the product description at Amazon: "The Inmates are Running the Asylu
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I actually probably have nearly the same history as you. Graduated about the same time as you. Been fascinated with computing as long as you. And just about as fed up with the current state of things as you. I think the difference betwee
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Well, the entire course is technically already online: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ Basically, I'll be setting up the first 26 lessons for class A, then the remaining 26 for class B. The purpose of the course is that you get my time
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Well damn, maybe I'll do one. Hell I'd get together with people in SF or wherever for free and show them how to do stuff. It'd be an awesome bad ass way for me to get feedback on what needs to happen to make Mongrel2 awesome.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Same here, but then people like me and you are rare in the real world. Other folks, for lack of confidence or direction, need someone to point them in in the right way so they get started.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Hmmm, I should probably put up a pdf that says "there's a new version" at that URL.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
It's trouble enough to drive people away from Mongrel2. Also, I find it weird that you take me saying "we ditched python in mongrel2 because of Linux" to mean "Python SUCKS! Stop using it." Never said the latter, only the former.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
No, most of that is generated from the .rl files or just SQL that's common to everything. Also, you'll want to throw in all of Storm and PyREPL if you want a real comparison. Then again, 4600 lines of anything is tiny. You have a massiv
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Or, just rewrite in C and everyone except Python people will quit bitching. :-)
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Cool give it a shot. We've got a bunch of stuff we're working on for the 2.0 push but what you have in 1.1 should be stable and usable. If not, let me know by dropping a ticket.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Actually, it's not that Python doesn't work the way I expect, it's that distros have killed Python's portability promise and made C more attractive. Granted I'm able to code C well enough to pull this off, but having to do this is annoying
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by zedshaw 16y ago
generators
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by zedshaw 16y ago
virtualenv doesn't work for a tool like m2sh, and isn't usable for people using other languages.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Exactly. It was part technical and part social.
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by zedshaw 16y ago
I'd say a good start would be: 1. Less syntax, so that later language features don't cause upgrade problems and can more easily be worked around rather than causing syntax errors. 2. Awesome package management with everything not core in pa
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by zedshaw 16y ago
Oh yeah, that's no trouble at all. <shakes head>

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