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Start Writing More Classes: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/2/13/moar-classes/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204967

The biggest objection to switching to 3 has been that library support hasn't been there. It's pretty clear that despite reservations about 3, the support is there now. Getting majo…

For more information, the current discussion about a new release is at https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/issues/1575#issuecomment-...

Even sub-communites don't solve the problem. There are certain subreddits notorious for dogpiling on posts in other subreddits. The article mentions this indirectly by observing th…

There's a mismatch in scale: the number and diversity of members on platforms like Twitter is huge, but the ability to moderate is tiny. It would be interesting to see if a system …

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. There is one obvious way: strings are encoded to bytes, bytes are decoded to strings.

It's not replaced, both are perfectly valid. And this addition also exists in Python 2.

Getting rid of timezones is not as good an idea as you might first imagine. http://qntm.org/abolish

HgFlow already exists and is actively developed: https://bitbucket.org/yujiewu/hgflow/wiki/Home . It even goes above and beyond GitFlow and adds generalized streams and sub-streams…

> People walk away from a game of Cards Against Humanity thinking that they’re hilarious. Which people? My friends and I walk away from a game of Cards Against Humanity thinking we…

This is being talked about now with [PEP 411 - Provisional packages in the Python standard library][1]. [1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0411/

Yes, if reusable/sharable queries are something you want, then you don't really have a choice but to expose an API for creating and retrieving them. Not sure if you're trying to ma…

A fair point. I was referring to the api being separate from the frontend, not what the api is returning. But I could see someone designing their application the way you describe.

> A GET query is always a URI. Anyone can link to it. Except this isn't really useful outside of bookmarks in a browser. Who would bookmark an API endpoint returning JSON? In code,…

We recognize that it's gotten a bit out of control lately, hence the topic during the meeting. I think we ended up with some good guidelines for managing it.

Then edit your question to acknowledge the "duplicate" and clearly explain why your question is different. It will automatically go into a Reopen Queue where users will evaluate it…

Most comments should end up as an edit to the question or answer, clarifying some point, at which point they can be removed. The Question and Answer are the important things on Sta…

The answer was not closed, the question was. This is not a bad thing, as it funnels everything towards one canonical location.