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There's a small note on https://status.rackspace.com/ right now: > Open SSL Security Advisory > Rackspace is aware and tracking the security advisory released by the Open SSL Commu…

I umpire college baseball and have looked into mounting a GoPro on my mask for a game, and may do it, but won't be able to do it during the regular season. Could still be fun to sh…

I don't know where you got this, but it was never planned to have been dead two years ago. 2.7.0 happened in July 2010, and regular bug and security fixing would still have been ha…

Python itself. Check out the developer guide at https://docs.python.org/devguide/ and the mentorship list at https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-mentorship/ to get starte…

Conversations at the language summit, mostly. A lot more of us use git more often than we do hg these days as well.

While the process was competitive, it wasn't a "competition." There was a bidding process that several firms took part in.

> If Python 3 is so wonderful, why are the Python 3 developers still using Python 2 in their toolchain? It's because it would reportedly take 1 man year to port Mercurial to Python…

That's not what that site is saying. For my PyCon Russia talk, I pulled down the data for all 44,402 packages (as of May 31). 13.5% of all packages on PyPI support some version of …

> In the past, RubyGems was hosted on dedicated hardware within Rackspace. While this was certainly cheaper, it created administrative issues. Granted those can be solved without u…

Yep, I wasn't able to get to everything. I had to update a ton of the content via the Django admin without a source checkout (which is now available), so I couldn't grep for placeh…

That wasn't supposed to be there. It is now removed.

Someone working on or using Azure would be more than welcomed to implement support for Azure drivers. Contributions typically come from the providers themselves, or the users of th…

> If you standardize on the lowest common denominator, you lose many of the key features of AWS such as VPC and autoscaling. That's not the level where libcloud is aiming for LCD -…

We just released 0.14, and the next will move to 1.0. The general feeling is that it is stable, and people really like seeing "1.0".

They seem to be generally popular in the midwest. I've attended or worked my company's booth at conferences in other areas and almost never hear .NET stuff. Then I went to CodeMash…

They do. http://www.irs.gov/uac/Free-File:-Do-Your-Federal-Taxes-for-...

> Rackspace also makes their list available, albeit incomplete ( http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/cloud-site... ). FWIW, this is specific to Cloud Sites, which is …

> and yet no one seems to know about it or care very much. I'm not sure how you've come to this conclusion. Two of my last three jobs used Twisted, one of them very heavily. Pretty…

Bug fixes already get backported. Features will not be added in the 2.7 line.

The reason for the "getit" page was, at least at one point, because the "download" page was blocked throughout China.

> Emphasis is now on touring and t-shirts as CD sales dwindle. This has been probably every band's emphasis for years, and for non-mainstream acts, it's not really an emphasis beca…

It will. If you just tweak some things in the examples like urllib2 imports and print-as-a-statement usage, the threading API is the same so it's still generally relevant.

Vim.

> Sorry to harass the hn community over this one more time, but does anyone knows if optional static typing is even being discussed as a future evolution for python ? No, it is not…

I was aware of their efforts to implement a Code of Conduct as early as November 2012, around the same time I began work on the Python CoC.