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Re: Why you should give PonyORM a chance

washort — Mon, 26 May 2014 14:25:57 -0000

"easy to write" syntax is a big negative in my experience.

Give me "easy to debug" syntax, please.

Re: Massachusetts: The Spirit of America

washort — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:49:15 -0000

Your friendly neighborhood archivist preserved the text of the Time article here: http://nickbsteves.wordpres...

Re: It Is Never Happening

washort — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:27:15 -0000

"Sometimes the altar must be built in one place so that the fire of God can descend in another."

Re: Methods of Asynchrony: Paradigms for Asynchronous Programming

washort — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:21:12 -0000

The drawback of coroutines is essentially the same as threads: they destroy the ability to reason about state and execution order. I wrote about this recently: http://washort.twistedmatri...

Re: Static module resolution

washort — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:12:28 -0000

Having spent a few months working in (and replacing/reimplementing :) the guts of Python's module system, I can say with confidence that this isn't like Python at all, and is in fact much better.

The main thing I wish I saw from ES6 discussions is some consideration of parameterized modules. But I suspect that's going to be a tough sell.

Re: Python FAQ: Webdev - fuzzy notepad

washort — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:14:34 -0000

Even if one believes that Python 3 is something worth investing time into, that's still no reason to inflict it on people fresh off the boat from PHP. Python 2 is way less frustrating to use today.

Re: Python FAQ: Equality - fuzzy notepad

washort — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:01:05 -0000

If this sort of question churns your butter, and especially if you are a language implementor, allow me to recommend Henry Baker's excellent paper, Equal Rights for Functional Objects, which shows that you can have the benefits of is and the benefits of == in a single operator.

Re: http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/17199295201

washort — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:21:56 -0000

Excellent, I support this idea. Now people who want demurrage can stop bothering Bitcoin users/developers with their stupid ideas and go play with instead.

Re: pythonpackages.com

washort — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:35:02 -0000

If you want to write networking programs in Python, Twisted is the best thing.

Re: Architectural Fallacies - fuzzy notepad

washort — Sun, 01 May 2011 04:51:02 -0000

Best answer I've found so far for people who won't be more specific than "it doesn't work":

"Try pushing the keys harder on your keyboard."

Re: Have you read your Python Docs Lately?

washort — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:29:32 -0000

Well, it just reminds me how valuable ignorance is. ;-)

Re: Have you read your Python Docs Lately?

washort — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:40:42 -0000

I liked namedtuple too, until I found out how it works.

Re: StackOverflow is SpiritUnderflow - A plea to not deprioritise content and spirit

washort — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:00:02 -0000

Stackoverflow isn't a discussion site, though: it's an answers site. The idea is to produce pages that address a particular problem so that future programmers can find them more easily. Discussion is important only to the extent that it produces better answers.