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It's easy to make Django react to "Accept-Language" headers, I love how the LocaleMiddleware supports it out of the box [1]. I implemented automatic language detection to show eith…

I agree 100%. Even if you don't need it, these lines don't hurt you, but most of the time, the additional model is put to good use. I usually add metadata, such as additional times…

I'd love to hear your criticism of django, issues you encountered and problems you have solved :) > My real criticism of Django is that, at long last, I think it's starting to look…

Your're right, I felt the same way in that the article is clickbaity. I found that django's naming scheme for migrations is good enough; here are some real ones that I pulled out o…

The author names three 'harmful' defaults: 1. Relying on implicit SQL queries 2. Using the default User model 3. Using automatic migration names 4. Relying on automatic database ta…

Does your employer pay for your technical skillset and your labor, or do they pay you for sacrificing your mental health? I don't think self-care is unprofessional, and deciding to…

This is judging a fish on it's ability to fly. In other words, it is judging an object oriented program on its ability to resemble top-to-bottom sequential execution style programm…

Yes, 40sec on firefox for "essential cookies only"; accept all is instantaneous.

I don't use a debugger. When I have a problem that I need to narrow down I state my hypotyhesis of what is going on in some kind of unit test and narrow it down that way. I am curr…

I value hacker news for the diverse range of articles that are posted every day. However, recently it feels like a lot of submissions go to the websites of major news outlets. Is t…

you mean... like irc?

When using it like this, the interpreter opens a new namespace where the variables are bound. The x is declared in the outer scope, so it can't find it. However, you can ask python…

I feel the same way.

True. But given that the difference in implementation appears to be arbitrary, the real differene between oop and fp must be evaluated in the domain of empirical research regarding…

How do you model changes in state over time? (i.e. effects and processes?)

How much great learning the student could have done if he had not been insulted and physically abused by an impatient "educator".

True. Python taught me that.

> Checking the validity of the data is only necessary once. Exactly, which is why a class is the perfect singular location to place it. The object itself is just a pointer, the met…

I will admit that I don't know what "linear types" or "affine types" are. Your answer makes me feel like I am trying to convey an idea for which you have the perfect formalism / me…

> What happens to your OpenConnection object then? It raises an exception. This interrupts the normal flow of things and asks you to deal with the problem asap. If necessary, the h…

Members in Python are never private. Variables that are supposed to be used internally only are marked with and underscore, but that just conveys intent and isn't enforced by the i…

The term information hiding used in this thread is very confusing (to me, at least). I believe David Parnas introduced it in 1971 to mean that a program's design was sliced along s…

This circles back to my original argument. Here: def adder(x): def add(y): return x + y return add add_five = adder(5) add_five(10) How is that different from: class adder: def __i…

It's not so much about "I need that later", but to start thinking about a program differently to begin with. If you think about the things that "are" rather than what should happen…

If you limit the scope of usage, the old wallet should be garbage collected as soon as you have the new one. If you don't want to rely on that, or the point in time when gc happens…