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Don't forget Cython [1]! My understanding is that it's quite useable (though it unfortunately uses a different static type system/syntax than mypy). [1] http://cython.org/

This is exactly what mypy allows, actually! (Except for speedups -- types currently have no effect on runtime behavior, and it turns out they wouldn't make a big difference anyway.…

Good question! There are separate capitalized types for List, Dict, etc provided as part of the `typing` module in order to let you specify element types. Types are all normal Pyth…

It should work with the Python 3 syntax if you quote your type annotation. I.e. def f() -> "Bar": ... instead of def f() -> Bar: ... (This is normally used for forward references.)…

Yeah, you need to write `from typing import List` to get the generic List class that you can parameterize with an item type. As you pointed out, you can use the builtin lowercase-l…

This is intended behavior, actually! By default, mypy doesn't type check the interior of functions that don't have any type annotations. This lets you slowly introduce types to a l…

Leeching shouldn't be too much of a problem: the user will upload while they remain on the page (which should be much longer than it took them to download the assets).

Re-reading, I can see that now. Oops! (I think the paragraph break confused me.)

While I agree that being skeptical about self-help books is a good thing, I think you made a big mistake in your specific example. I have not looked at "The Feeling Good Handbook" …

I think "the root of all evil" is, in general, not a good choice of phrase. I understand the vehemence with with you speak, but I think it's a bit overly hyperbolic and creates qui…

> Anyone who can complete Tour de France at all or moderately but steadily grow an investment portfolio over the years should be extremely satisfied with just that already. (I'm no…

Terrible. RIP. :( What can we do to stop things like this from happening again? There's clearly no quick-fix overnight solution, but there should be some set of actions we can take…

Do it! What's stopping you?

I believe this is the shadow of the rover.

As another person who's spent some time thinking about this: I disagree. Why couldn't a machine simulate the noise as well?

I recommend Escape, actually - it skips the whole conversation. :)

I recently started using Phabricator ( http://phabricator.org/ ), which is open-source, and find that it's quite easy to use/set up. It's also used and well regarded by a number of…

Because Haskell is evaluated lazily, two maps doesn't imply two iterations over the data. In this case, I would expect only one pass through the data for both of the maps. Out of c…

As someone considering paleo, I'd be interested to hear what studies you thought well supported the claim that saturated fats aren't the problem and why you thought those studies w…

Activate visual mode first. In visual mode, the argument is used for the number of indents (because the lines to indent are selected visually). So to indent the current line 4 time…

While I too find it odd that your original comment was downmodded (has it been edited?), I don't think that a personal attack is an appropriate response. It doesn't seem like youna…

Perhaps I had the wrong impression, but I thought the correct response to a factually incorrect post was to point out the correct information in a reply, not to downmod the post. T…

"the general progress of AI" Out of curiosity, what are you referring to here?