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Python 2 will store Unicode as either UCS-16 or UCS-32, depending on how it was compiled. The horrible monstrosity that is the default "string" (those are scare quotes; I know how …

TL;DR Write it in Rust, export via FFI, bind from Python via cffi. The long version is: go watch this video from PyCon that will answer this question and probably others https://ww…

Somebody has to build the containers and/or images, and it's on them to make that an automated, repeatable process.

Please tell me those discussions are on the mailing list.

If you honestly believe that all you have to do is stand up a bunch of instances of Mongo/Cassandra/whatever and you instantly get acceptable HA, then you need to read the [Jepsen …

Having used them both a fair bit (though not to write novels, like some of the people on here): Markdown source is prettier to look at. This might seem minor, but it's the primary …

I use Eclipse (now that I no longer have an IntelliJ license) for doing heavy-duty Java, but if I can get away with it, I prefer to do things in MacVim. Eclipse is just too clunky …

It's PHP. They obviously wanted a broken language. Now the devs are taking that away from them.

I'm pretty sure it hoses Norton's "security" software, too. Of course, if you can't handle documented file system options, I don't trust you to detect exploits….

Jenkins.

For a lot of dynamic languages, at least, the templating engine is a surprisingly large portion of your page load times. I wish I could bring up the breakdown I saw a while back, b…

Less than a year? That's really short. Have you tried busting out a multimeter on your wiring (since you sound like the DIY type) or calling an electrician?

The post clearly says they have to add the source or delete them.

You won't see me saying that I think Groupon is a great value or anything, but I think that you have to acknowledge the difference between the people Groupon is reaching and the pe…

These articles are cropping up because Google (quite cleverly) utilized the "We're Open" mantra to gain a lot of momentum very quickly. Since the evolution of Android shows more an…

A lot of Spring code predates the rising popularity of "convention over configuration" (thank you, Rails, for getting this so widely accepted), so if you're in one of those code ba…

Go read the relevant Quora thread http://www.quora.com/What-will-happen-to-http-bit-ly-links-i...

Because it means you're (probably) going to be running Windows on your servers, which isn't cheap.