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Doesn't require a whole lot of elaboration. ",".join(["a,b","c","d\ne","\"f\",g\""]) yields: a,b,c,d e,"f",g" Try opening that in any csv reader.

Yeah, this is pretty much it. The author complains about CSVs being "notoriously inconsistent" as though switching to some other format would magically change that. They're only in…

If it's so uninteresting to you, why participate in the discussion?

Great practical note by Josh Berkus on why Uber left Posgresql. Basically: runaway table bloat because Uber had a usecase that postgres doesn't address as well as InnoDB. https://w…

> I think just a mere existence of flu or cold was a mistake. We should have eradicated those years ago. It's not clear to me how eradicating these would have ever been possible in…

To be fair, python isn't the only language whose package management system is all but incoherent to folks who don't use python every day (and sometimes even to them!). npm is prett…

Hey HN! My name is Steve Fuhry, and I'm one of three Co-founders of https://tpastream.com. TPA Stream was founded in 2014 to make health benefits easier for employees and administr…

> What are the tradeoffs vs using docker? Just curious. Probably some combination of memory usage and complexity, depending on your application. If you're already familiar with usi…

Certainly not, but considering there should be 100M available by the end of the year, it seems like they are scaling up the production line considerably

Good article explaining how they use k-anonymity here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...

How much do you trust k-anonymity?

We have a site with sensitive data on it, and need to verify that when users create a new password that the password has not been previously exposed in a known breach. The way ever…

Honestly I bet it's a learning algorithm that they used to identify bots, rather than something a human decided. Spam detection algorithms usually have a training set. One of the f…

I find that it doesn't get too frustrating if you don't let it get out of hand. Routinely prioritize keeping dependencies up to date, clearly depreciate "old" / bad code, and focus…

Yes, my experience with SOAP is that even well written and maintained clients only work out-of-the-box with like half of the vendor-supplied services you come across. In many cases…

> If you screw up a rebase, the old commits are still there with the same hash they always had. Disclaimer, if you're compelled for none other than neurotic reasons to run `git gc`…

I'd say that's the appeal of Amazon prime - not Walmart. Amazon is much less affected by local market dynamics

I suspect that if they haven't already, they will now

> attributed to increased driving, encouraged by economic factors such as higher employment and lower gas prices Interesting - I always assumed that the increase in road deaths was…

Gene manipulation maybe? Won't work very well I suppose for existing humans, but i imagine we could eventually learn to modify genes in embryos to make them more adaptable to diffe…

I believe marshmallow v3, which is not yet released, claims to solve the error handling / swallowing exception issue. I use marshmallow all the time and love it - I agree that erro…

Price is not a competitive differentiator. Didn't have to go to business school to learn that one!

While I don't agree that eliminating JQuery is necessarily something to strive for, I do like to see these sorts of projects because they help me learn how to reduce my dependency …

Well JavaScript isn't really relevant here, but bootstrap v4 is using flexbox now

> I've always felt this way about dark matter, but as a lay person with no background in physics, it's an opinion I'm hesitant to express. I have always had the same inclination. I…