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"Maybe if the infrastructure people were involved in development discussion earlier, they'd be able to raise their hands and say: wait a minute, you're going to blow up our logs." …

"programmers on six-figure salaries" probably wrote the systems that coordinate and optimise the low-paid tasks you mention.

Maybe they're telling you to run.

"(...) but there are safeguards against that." Hah! Nice one :D

"It really vindicates everything Snowden has said on the topic." Did any of his statements really need vindication though? Have we not known about this forever? (e.g. https://en.wi…

"Gen Z and Millennials are two of the least religious generations ever in the US, with Gen Z being roughly 50% irreligious." Thank God!

"He probably has earned the right to be condescending as much as say Linus has." It's not about rights, it's about desires and personal insecurities. People who derive pleasure fro…

My point was that there is no list that anyone can make that lets you sidestep the unpleasant fact that you have to kill something to eat (each of your 5 points involve taking the …

The only morally sound answer to that question is "anything or nothing" because any other choice implies that you have to justify why one organism is more worthy of life than anoth…

Both sides of this "readability vs. performance" debate can be argued ad absurdum but that's not my intention. All I know is that I try to conserve resources no matter what level o…

Sure, it makes sense if you find something like `len_x` or `x_count` significantly less readable than `len(x)` and if you don't have to worry about resources. Can't say I've been t…

I think the difference is that redundant re-calculation is a code smell in any language, at all times, whereas the float/int division issue requires knowledge of Python 2/3 syntax …

> That’s actually roughly len(arr) times, not three, since two of the calls are inside the loop. You're right! I noticed it a few minutes ago and changed the wording accordingly. T…

> Isn't "Code you don't understand" the definition of AI/ML? We don't need to understand the process to evaluate the output in this case. Bad code is bad code no matter who/what wr…

> The author makes no comment on how hideously bad it is, which makes me suspect he didn’t notice, which… yeah, shows the problems of the whole thing. The author's comments on that…

Thanks for letting me know that I'm not alone! :D I handle QR codes by taking a picture and decoding on the command line using zbarimg. If the decoded output is a URL and looks saf…

# secret_key = random.randrange(1, bitcoin_gen.n) # this is how you _would_ do it I know the article is mainly for learning purposes but someone should point out that the `random` …