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I didn't take a deep look, but it reminds me to Bret Victor's proposal on "Inventing on Principle" from 2012:

https://vimeo.com/36579366

etanol

9 lat temudiscuss

> this is an unfortunate blow to Python

Just as unfortunate as how Python turned its back to Mercurial

etanol

9 lat temudiscuss

In Spain, Amazon was the major retailer introducing the Black Friday to the local masses.

During the next few years, other sellers joined the trend pushing it even more.

This year, in order to stay competitive, Amazon Spain has been "forced" to follow the trend and have a Black Friday WEEK.

etanol

9 lat temudiscuss

> Copying files onto a USB stick requires physical proximity, and is uncomfortable for transferring long-term secrets because flash memory is hard to erase. Copying files with ssh/scp is fine, but requires previous arrangements and an account on the target machine, and how do you bootstrap the account? Copying files through email first requires transcribing an email address in the opposite direction

I had similar motivations in 2006 to write a tool to copy files "point to point". So here's my shameless plug:

https://bitbucket.org/etanol/canute

In my case, cryptography was not a requirement, though.

etanol

10 lat temudiscuss

Not to undermine its merit, but most of the dirty work and heavy lifting is done by its dependencies:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/maya/blob/d57a78c6bc6b5295f7...

And i18n support in humanize is a bit lacking, as it only translates to French, Korean and Russian. Given that most of the translations needed to render human dates can be found in the CLDR database, maintaining their own looks like a bit of a wasted effort.

Reference:

http://cldr.unicode.org/

etanol

10 lat temudiscuss

How about Tk? Is it or will it be implemented?

etanol

11 lat temudiscuss

Spoken language is backed by other optional channels of information:

* Audio: speaker controls tone, speed and emphasis

* Video: body language

* Feedback: listener can acknowledge reception or ask for repetition

Written language has more time to be composed and it usually has the possibility of being ammended before submission.

Therefore, I always considered natural the difference between spoken and written language styles.

On a less picky opinion: agreed, complex ideas should not be written in complex language.

etanol

11 lat temudiscuss

Related project:

https://github.com/replit/empythoned

It's a pity it didn't get more traction. The effort invested seems a bit more worthwhile.

etanol

12 lat temudiscuss

By the same principle, this girl will be also pulled of a CS degree becase the man will be frustrated again that she will be stuck wasting her time in college taking yet another set of computer architecture, operating systems, compiler design or data structures and algorithm classes; when she could be doing what she wanted to do with her life and spending all day learning the next web development framework.

etanol

12 lat temudiscuss

This is one example of what happens when the population gives absolute power to a single political party: lobbying paradise. We spaniards have the politicians we deserve.

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

Calling yourself a software engineer implies an software engineering degree. Otherwise you would be a liar.

I bet not many people have the guts to call themselves mechanical engineers just because they know how to fix the break pump of a car, for example.

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

I can't see any mention of the new asynchronous programming support presented by Guido in this year's PyCon. Has it been discarded from this release?

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

He took it to his local computer repair shop. The geeks there went to work. In the course of their work they found a number of images of naked children.

I want to believe that the blame is on the image thumbnails on the Desktop or some folder that is difficult to circumvent. But still, such privacy violation and lack of professionalism from the technicians is not ever mentioned again in the OP.

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

The size issues of the SQLAlchemy repository come from the way Mercurial handles copies and renames.

I prefer Mercurial because is much easier to use but this file rename issue always make me feel uncomfortable when reorganizing code.

These days I'm giving Fossil a try, which still is easier to use than Git and the repository size sits between Git and Mercurial.

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

Too bad there are no comments on the blog:

    SQLAlchemy's issue repository will remain hosted on Trac;
    while a Git repository can be mirrored in any number of
    places, an issue repository cannot (for now! Can someone
    please create a distributed issue tracker? Should be
    pretty doable, though getting Github/Bitbucket to use it,
    not so much...), so SQLAlchemy's long history of issue
    discussion remains maintained directly by the project.

http://fossil-scm.org !!!

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

It is interesting how SQLite is so well known but de SCM built on top of it, Fossil, and by the same author did not catch so much.

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

It is the kernel the one that interprets shebangs, not the shell:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

etanol

13 lat temudiscuss

I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing