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I think you just discovered software engineering, which at its best makes intelligent tradeoffs to optimise use of resources to meet needs.

i don't see a numpy equivalent in Javascript, and that's just the first module that came to mind that I know PyScript can run in the browser.

Monopolists never like it when their monopoly is threatened ... ;-)

As well they should be.

Oh, my God, I actually wrote some code in Fortran 2 back in 1969! It's certainly a much better language now!

I wouldn't say Python is good _at_ vectorization so much as good _with_ it. It's also good with AI, web systems, etc, as a result of its "play well with others" philosophy, which p…

Does it understand pytest, do you happen to know by any chance?

Given the many ways of creating virtual environments it's becoming more usual for a program's installation to create a specialist virtual environment just to support that applicati…

They'll all co-exist. Add them all to your PATH, make one the default python3, and request specific versions when they are required.

Well, this has all the signs of well-meaning but inexperienced developers seeing a market opportunity without appreciating the many difficult problems that will have to be solved t…

None of which removes the fact that Martijn is incredibly helpful to Python questioners.

You misunderstand the concept of barter. It was actually an informal, unrecorded socially-based debt system. Read "Debt, the first 5,000 Years" for a good explanation.

In point of fact two companies were the primary contractors for the redesign of python.org, but since I am no longer in the loop I will commend you to wait for an upcoming PSF blog…

Fine, so you have found a language you prefer to Python. Go use it. Never mind about PyPy, which gives you compiled execution speeds, never mind about the fact that Python 3 fully …

"I've learned that luck and timing are definitely part of the equation." A lesson for us all there, if we choose to listen to it.

Can't think of a better guy than you to implement Rackspace's strategy - good luck!

If we want to be understood we had better start communicating more effectively. The onus isn't on others to understand us, it's on us to make ourselves understood.

Well, whoop-de-fucking doo. Do you feel better now? That's not sexism, it's GENDER DISCRIMINATION. And it's intended to counterbalance the years of bullshit that women have gone th…

I should apologize for the ad hominem use of "like you" and "idiot" in the original of the above description. I have apparently successfully edited the post, but intend to leave th…

Thank you. There's a difference between being psychic and being sensitive to the needs of others. We all make mistakes, but if we apologize if it's required and most of all if we d…

You appear to misunderstand the principle. Behavior is acceptable or not in the context in which it occurs. Trying to make hard rules that specific actions are harassing is a no-ho…

File under shit happens and move on. Nothing to see here, people.

That is about how it was when they persisted in using 1.5.2 for Anaconda long after 2.0. And yet we survived!

I can't think of a single reason why you should have turned that filter back on.