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Cambridge, MA. HiveFire, Inc Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, UI/UX Frontend ( http://www.getcurata.com/careers ) Small Django/Python shop. We make a curation product and ha…

The roadmap doesn't need to be modified. The roadmap has always been "the transition will take five years."

Sadly no, but now I know for sure you aren't Jim Baker (the jython commiter). Most python users have never heard of anyone other than Guido. That's fine because people who contribu…

Jack Diederich (my nick is an old UNIX login, "jackdiederich"[:8]). I'm an invited speaker this year so I'll definitely be there. At least two automated trading firms sent continge…

emacs or vim? You aren't asking a technical question, you are asking a religious question.

"Ruby does it this way and people like it" isn't an argument that will work. You can accomplish the same things in Python with an extra line of overhead. If you want to get this pa…

HN carries "Come to Jesus" links all the time. Oh wait, it doesn't? In that case this link is off topic, and very creepy.

As a sometimes Python core developer allow me to say stuff. The main goal was to remove mistakes; an all-at-once deprecation. The release was actually much less ambitious than the …

Long story short: CPython uses a custom memory allocator on top of the OS malloc because some mallocs are really bad and python knows more about it's memory usage patterns than the…

so they spend who knows how much on a four-letter domain and then require a newer version of flash than every other video site on the internet? Brilliant.

You are too kind. Two of the names he listed, Freud and Marx, were wrong. His third "forgotten man" is Hegel and while you can't call a philosophy wrong he certainly is harder to r…

A dual-head linux box (two 20" LCDs) and a windows box with a matching 20" LCD. Running Synergy as a virtual KVM so I only need one keyboard/mouse.

If you are asking for introductory economics +1 for "Basic Economics" by Sowell and "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman (Sowell is one of Friedman's proteges). PBS made "Free to Ch…

I'd go with something that can generate javascript code and then port an existing player to that. I believe PyPy has a javascript backend or one in development.

And that reminds me of my CS professors who used file timestamps to determine if you submitted by midnight. The TAs were the ones who checked the assignments and they got around to…

Clever, but as others pointed out likely to anger anyone who has to read your code. NB: python bitwise operations are not super fast like in C. They don't get optimized down to sin…

1) Yes, this doesn't belong on YC 2) Superdelegates are supposed to make the kind of calculations you are suggesting. They have a big advantage in that they vote last so they know …

Fark isn't in the same ballpark as reddit and digg. The only users that get to vote on stories are the core users who have ponied up $50/year for a totalfark membership and I belie…

Daylight savings is a feel-good scam and always has been. Congress gets to look good by being "green" at the cost (to them) of zero dollars. Of course the rest of us have to pay fo…

The Python community has the advantage of being older. The fanboys (if there were any) have moved on or calmed down. The libraries and documentation have had more time to be beefed…

A little googling turns up ASPN cookbook recipe for a simple SSL server http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/4424... The MeTooCrypto package from the Chandler pr…

For the same reason that open source projects are started by one guy with running code and not by committees talking about what to do. Everyone with an opinion isn't necessarily yo…

Please see reddit for your anti-capitalist green ranting needs. "You can't run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely." I'm going to drop that one at a cocktail party and …