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Re: Flynn offers to testify on Russia ties in exchange for immunity: report

David Stanek — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:25:34 -0000

Well...nothing made public yet. Flynn flipping means that he likely did something illegal. The only reason to give him immunity is that he has dirt on someone higher up. Not many people higher up than a national security advisor.

Re: Great People Are Overrated (Part II)

David Stanek — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:46:59 -0000

I don't understand why you think that being a superstar engineer means that you don't work well on a team. In my mind a superstar is technically proficient, communicates well and works on a team. I don't know what Mark and Marc meant by superstar engineer and I don't think you do either.

I think you should be a little more precise is your terminology and language. The comments on your previous post show that your definition of a superstar is different from that of many others.

Re: Mentor eyes school closing - news-herald.com

David Stanek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:38:05 -0000

Common Sense said: "How is it possible the Mentor schools superintendent could not know how much every school in her district costs to operate?"

Is that what the article said? Nope. Since they don't know what school they are going to close they don't know how much they will save.

I would also guess that they don't want to make it easy to find the operating costs because it would cause people to panic. Based on the numbers they may think there school is getting closed down.

Re: http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/04/17/news/doc4bc88f570f5ce007255028.txt

David Stanek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:38:05 -0000

Re: Mentor eyes school closing - news-herald.com

David Stanek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:29:16 -0000

Why is this triggering such an emotional response? The school system is adjusting to current realities. They are not the reason that the number of school aged children is shrinking.

The thread triggered a different emotional response in me. So many of the comments went way off topic trying to prove why this is a bad idea.

For instance, Gail mentioned the high school overcrowding (which I understand to be true). What does this have to do with closing an elementary school? Are they proposing moving the displaced elementary students to the high school?

Sorry, Brian, try again. You should look up the facts before you post them. It doesn't matter what you heard. The real data is just a Google search away. Mentor teacher average salary is around 62K and the Ohio average starting salary is about 28K.

I urge everyone to sit back and ponder the realities of like before posting.

Re: http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/04/17/news/doc4bc88f570f5ce007255028.txt

David Stanek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:29:16 -0000

Re: Getting Branch Coverage In Nose

David Stanek — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:42:50 -0000

@Ned

That's a great idea! Just sent emails to those lists.

Re: Getting Branch Coverage In Nose

David Stanek — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:02:52 -0000

These changes will not work with older versions of coverage. It would not be hard to fix if there is a need.

Thanks Bill, John and John for bringing that to my attention.

Re: Hacking On A super Alternative

David Stanek — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:58:22 -0000

@Joshua: No, it would not break anything.

@Hanno: Very cool. Maybe I should start looking and seeing what other goodness awaits me. So far I have considered 3.x to be in the land of fairies and unicorns.

Re: FCC+Takes+On+Apple+And+AT%26amp%3BT+Over+Google+Voice%26nbsp%3BRejection

David Stanek — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:03:22 -0000

So? It's my device. If I don't care about getting support I should be able to do anything I want with it.

Re: Need help with data files and setup.py

David Stanek — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:45:04 -0000

This is the way I have done it in the past: http://peak.telecommunity.c...

Re: Need help with data files and setup.py

David Stanek — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:16:01 -0000

Have you looked at this: http://peak.telecommunity.c...

Re: A figleaf Text Coverage Report

David Stanek — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:01:47 -0000

That's great news! I am looking forward to the next official release.

Re: I’m Planning a PyCon 2010 Talk

David Stanek — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:03:42 -0000

@Graham

Sounds like it yes. I am not familiar with that. This style of virtual hosting is very nice and allows our websites to easily scale.

Re: I’m Planning a PyCon 2010 Talk

David Stanek — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:14:21 -0000

@Graham

At AGI we have a single application server that is able to host all of our websites at the same time in the same process. Our new approach is to use a series of WSGI pipelines. I was thinking about talking about that setup.

Re: Article Help - Dependency Injection in Python

David Stanek — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:18:59 -0000

@Ryan

Yup. I just don't think they apply when done correctly.

Re: Article Help - Dependency Injection in Python

David Stanek — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:42:54 -0000

@Ryan

Thanks for the info. I agree with much of the article. In the end the author uses DI just not a framework.

Re: I'm Going to CodeMash 2009

David Stanek — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:20:13 -0000

I'll be there as well..really looking forward to it.

Re: The BlackBerry Curve As A Bluetooth Modem On Ubuntu

David Stanek — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:38:33 -0000

@Matt

That sounds really cool. I'll have to figure out how to do that. I was going to start playing with Barry soon, but who knows how much time I'll have to play around.

Re: ANN: snake-guice Preview - A Dependency Injection Framework

David Stanek — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:20:55 -0000

@Kevin

There are a few major wins IMHO:

Testability: Even though monkey patching works it isn't pretty. I have wasted quite a few hours trying to find out why my tests fail when run together, but succeed individually.

Good Application Design: The real reason that testability is better is that DI promotes a style of application design that is very loosely coupled. In general this is a good thing. Now using this project doesn't mean that your application is well designed, but it is another tool.

Polymorphic Goodness:
Imagine an application consisting of a few hundred thousand lines of code that is used across many different websites. What if you wanted to change a business rule on just one of those sites? You could solve this in many ways, but DI is just the one I like best so far. At application startup time I can configure the correct business rule implementation very easily.

Re: Micro Center isn’t enough any more

David Stanek — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:20:26 -0000

For a long time I too would go and browse the discount books. Usually I'd end up leaving with a half dozen or so books. The game center took up that extra book department space. Even the half price bookstore over there is dramatically low on quality stuff.

Re: I’m A CrackBerry Addict

David Stanek — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:38:24 -0000

I too have used MidpSSH. Mostly to prove that I could.

Re: Linux on a Dell XPS m140

David Stanek — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:57:56 -0000

@Brade

That is odd. I don't seem to have any issues with my fans. They come on periodically to cool the machine down as expected. Did you have the problem of them never coming on or the one where the fans are constantly on?

Re: xkcd Python Comics

David Stanek — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:35:54 -0000

@Duncan

Added to the post :-) Thanks!

Re: Measuring Cyclomatic Complexity Of Python Code

David Stanek — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:15:27 -0000

@Josh

I initially wrote the code a few weeks before PyCon. Since then I have been using it to keep my code simple. I feel that its worked, but thats really best left to poor programmer that has to deal with my code :-)