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I had planned to do cloth diapers if we had a diaper service available, for environmental reasons, but there's none where I live now and I definitely am not up for washing diapers …

I (and my team) work remote and don't quite agree with this. I work very hard to provide deep, thoughtful code review, especially to the more junior engineers. I try to cover style…

Do you think that "Don't do this" as a reply comment is following the spirit of the guidelines? It doesn't seem very thoughtful or substantive to me.

Those are definitely reasonable reasons to lose confidence in elections and feel disillusioned, but voter ID laws won't help you there (which was GP's point).

The pypa team are just not capable stewards of core aspects of the python ecosystem. As a maintainer and developer of Python based tools and libraries it is very frustrating having…

The article discusses that this is actually in the tens of thousands of dollars: >Twitter’s API service limits tweets for non-paying users to 1,500 a month — not enough for many em…

If you're an even remotely competent developer in a language used by more than one company, have a reasonably firm grasp of the English language, can work with others reasonably we…

Maybe there's something I don't understand, but per this table it's slightly worse to be married filing separately than it is to be single at the top brackets: https://www.bankrate…

Once you hit the sweet spot of developing for cross-platform (even just Linux, MacOS, and Windows) and supporting normal average-people users and have (even optional!) C dependenci…

I don't think it's a "problem" with mypy, I just think it's likely the cause of a lot of the programs that the authors think don't type check. Though I will say, while most have be…

I can't give you any links because it's not open source code, but there was a bug fix in 0.790 named "Don't simplify away Any when joining union types" that caused me some problems…

>A key question arises: why are so few repositories type-correct? The authors don't seem to ever discuss the fact that mypy version changes frequently make previously-passing code …

Sometimes! A very simple example is code that uses "async" as a variable name. It became a keyword in 3.5, which was an enormous pain in the ass.

It depends! Sometimes I have to lock a dependency at minor releases because every.single.release from the author breaks something new, and I've already worked around the locked ver…

It's gotten a lot better, but we still hit tons of issues with users who don't know what Python version they installed their application in. Oh and of course our "binaries" in Scri…

Let me start by saying: I love python, and I love developing in it. It's the "a pleasure to have in class" of languages: phenomenal library support, not too painful to develop in, …

I partially maintain a GitHub project with ~1500 stars, many of my users are not very technically skilled. I rarely encounter entitled/mean/crazy people - we probably average one o…

Well, my point is that I think it's entirely possible that the only real use for MS Access is as a glorified Excel spreadsheet. That seems like a fine use case with a pretty signif…

An acquaintance of mine is an accountant. He uses it when his spreadsheets get too big/busy/complex. He's not "technical", but he is quite intelligent and is very familiar with Exc…