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This is so important. I've been using Django for around 20 years and my current code base is 10 years old. Not having to do major rewrites or stick on outdated versions really matt…

It's probably worth being up front about what your do syntax actually does. A generator is not as general as "do", Python doesn't have call/cc or anything like that. I checked and …

Father of the web sure. But HTTP is not the Internet!

Also what I got. Then I tried changing "wash" to "repair" and "car wash" to "garage" and it's back to walking.

For me Northflank have filled this spot. Though by the time I switched I was already using Docker so can't speak directly to their Heroku Buildpack support.

I've been incredibly happy with Northflank since moving over a few years ago after Heroku got unreliable. Felt like an upgrade from Heroku and the support and reliability have been…

The reason you heard that was probably because they were talking about a more specific circumstance. For example SQLite is often used as a database during development in Django pro…

From my experience though I often do make logical errors in my code but not in my tests and I do frequently catch errors because of this. I think thats a fairly normal experience w…

This sounds very "the perfect is the enemy of good". Tests don't need to be perfect, they don't need to be written by different people (!!!), they don't need to cover 100% of the c…

When it's a library it's fairly important what it's written (or at least written for)

For something this simple that doesn't need to grow or interact with the rest of the system why would you need Backbone or React? And why would you expect any version to be shorter…

While trying to get in touch with Stripe today for a standard support enquiry (turning on a feature on my account) I found that the support button leads only to an AI Assistant. It…

Wasting time is absolutely glorious. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't or shouldn't. Or as Kurt Vonnegut put it "I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't l…

Nostalgic! Who needs a colar display or even a monochrome display when you've got a high res (for the time) black and white screen :)

360 degrees in a circle predates Plato by quite a lot (2000 years I think!). It comes from the Summarians more than 4000 years ago. They used a method of counting on fingers that g…

So it monkey-patches a set of common http libraries and then detects calls to AI APIs? Not obvious which APIs it would detect or in what situations it would miss them. Seems kind o…

I haven't, but it sounds honestly really bad. Sounds like it sucks for everyone right now. I just think your product will make it worse, probably only very slightly worse but still…

Surely this now means now hiring managers (and people your code incorrectly identifies as hiring managers) now get spammed with loads of bullshit generated messages. Which obviousl…

Yes, but how likely were you to spend tens of thousands of dollars or more on software?

This sort of article seems perfectly poised to be useless to beginners (no context, doesn't tell you how to use the things) and experts (no nuance, just listing basic features) ali…

There are a finite number of names, and an even smaller number of good names. But apparently an infinite number of hacker news posters who comment on every new project to complain …

Weird that a gambling app would take thename of a popular character from legend! Or maybe not, try actually naming something sometime and you'll see. It's not easy to come up with …

Coins used to be largely worth what they were worth because of what they were made of. So cutting them in half would lead to two seperate halves of the value. I'm sure there's more…

Not your comment specifically, you're one of many saying FUD. Honestly if you accept that the comment was talking about real tradeoffs then I'm a bit baffled that you though it was…