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The PSF withdrew their application for the grant from the US government after being presented with terms that included "do not, and will not during the term of this financial assis…

> Can someone explain why anyone would want non-squashed PRs? > > For the 5% of engineers that diligently split each PR into nice semantic changes, I suppose that's nice. But the v…

It doesn't mean anything useful in this context. It's a leftover from when PyPI was called "the cheeseshop", which in turn was a reference to a Monty Python sketch.

Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken in languages with bounded integers .

I've been looking for something exactly like this for a while — a small Python library for generating HTML that isn't prescriptive about framework and doesn't introduce any particu…

I'd suggest there's a correlation between the size of those package repositories and how much they get talked about. npm has several times the package count of PyPI and RubyGems to…

> This is not doing science. It is “publishing articles written by scientists that you happen to find emotionally appealing”. Have scientific journals ever _not_ worked this way? T…

The first example (i.e. `yaml.load()` in Python) doesn't work with the current version of PyYAML. Function application was disabled some time ago, and `yaml.load()` logs a noisy de…

Because package managers are used for more than just source code - many packages want or need to distribute intermediate or compiled artifacts.

"Just block ads" isn't a useful answer here - this is about being able to see who is advertising to the people who aren't using ad-blockers (which is most users on the internet), a…

Bitcoin is currently estimated to be responsible for ~0.21%, more than either Hong Kong or Iraq use [1]. Criticisms of Bitcoin have been around as long as the hype - cryptocurrenci…

Definitely impressive. The short description seems a little vague or misleading to me though. "Internal tools" can mean a lot of different things - deployment tools, testing tools,…

The second function only accepts strings defined at compile time, meaning it can't be called with strings created at runtime (i.e. any string containing user input).

I'm sure I've something similar come up a few times recently, but never with any source discussing the health insurance plans that supposedly collect this data. Has anyone come acr…

There are millions of working, reusable electric cars; and tens of working, reusable rockets (maybe even less than that). Tesla is having problems building factories, but that cert…

Slack's inclusion feels a little odd, since the customer in their case is the business paying for the service, not the individual. They do claim deleting a workspace cannot be undo…

This means almost nothing without a baseline to compare it to. I'd suggest it's very likely that you'd get similar results if you surveyed any other age group - that individuals gi…

> If everything is a house of cards, then why don't i hear the same stories about PyPI or gems or crates? npm is roughly twice as big as PyPI, RubyGems and crates.io together.

The npm repository is the largest package repository in the world. A lot of the major incidents they've could have happened to other ecosystems (e.g. PyPi allows a user to delete p…

The purpose is tracking who is interrupting and why, not stopping interruptions, with the aim of finding patterns. In previous places I worked, it might have been quite useful if I…

"Don't ask, don't tell" meant something very different in the US military - barring openly LGBT people from service, but allowing "closeted" LGBT people to serve.

Anything I have to do more than once. If I have to do it a second time, I'll probably have to do it a third..

I did much the same thing in Python a while ago: https://github.com/borntyping/python-infix

Looks very similar to https://slack.com/

Seems to be broken, the list of reasons for a bad package name are blank: http://i.imgur.com/0U06IGS.png