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Hey Simon, thanks for creating Django with Adrian. I was deeply interested in programming from a young age but learning Django in my teens sparked a passion for web development tha…

Please tell me you're legally allowed to talk more about Megaupload and the work you did - sounds like an absolutely amazing blog post, would love to hear as much as you're able to…

It's kind of amazing anyone chooses to go into healthcare having to work like this. It's the absolute last field I would ever want to go into, even as an engineer who wouldn't need…

Interesting idea leveraging a cheap Android. I wonder how difficult it would be to modify an instance of a regular headless browser in order to convince a website you're using an A…

Yeah, Chrome is the worst choice for this use-case - see my last comment on this thread for more on that. Can you speak a bit more on what you'd like to use a headless anti-detect …

> I think using anti-fingerprinting is itself a fingerprint. I imagine it would be easier to hide in the noise of regular browsers. That's what I thought originally too. The proble…

How would you actually use an anti-detect browser programmatically? Would you need to write a custom Selenium driver for it or equivalent for Playwright? Even if the browser is bui…

Don't remember where I saw this but: "The act of purchasing physical books and the act of reading them are two entirely different hobbies and practices". Additionally, if someone d…

I've built all my web backends in either Flask or Django - what are the selling points/advantages of using Rust vs. Python in this context? Certainly not arguing against it but am …

Trash language is a bit harsh. I'm not sure I would try to put an R project into production or build a huge project with it but, at the very least, R/R Studio was the best scientif…

I just want to be able to choose which I want on a day-by-day basis. Some days I am much more productive in the office because I need to, say, communicate with a bunch of people or…

I can see why you're saying that, but the use of commutative diagrams communicate the structure between the functions and objects of interest - it is this perspective which is core…

I see people do that all the time - inadvertently click an ad because it's one of the first few results that pop up. Not only that, the number of ads shown before the real result h…

In the exact same boat. Strongly prefer writing notes for many reasons but no easy search really sucks. I currently use Notion mainly as a personal wiki and to-do tracker. Each day…

I feel very similar but have struggled to set aside enough time to find a better replacement. For work I often build one-off scripts, web scrapers/automaters, data tools, and backe…

Every time I look at an update to this library my jaw drops to the floor. Once I find some spare time, I've been meaning to dive into the source code to get a feel for how you're p…

Lifelong US citizen here - I've barely heard anyone mention it in person my whole life. If it wasn't for reading about it in discussions like this, I would probably never even thin…

I would have never recognized this syntax as modern day C++ without being told. The language has evolved so much in the last 30+ years that I don't know how anyone is able to keep …

PHP 7 & 8 introduce lots of improvements. I used PHP 5 when I got into web dev and remember moving to Python as soon as I could. At work I've had to use PHP 7 and have been very pl…

I've never heard it used like that but actually makes a lot of sense if thinking of an asterisk as the glob wildcard. Plus it sounds much better when spoken aloud in the context co…

I don't disagree but I wish Python had builtin support for runtime type checking. I've thought about switching to Go or Rust for certain projects but Python's rich ecosystem makes …

Agreed. I'm past the "it's like writing pseudo-code - so cool!" honeymoon phase and onto the "some sort of static typing is actually pretty useful" as a developer.

If he reports all relevant transactions involving this Ether to OFAC, will he avoid legal repercussions? I noticed a commenter on Twitter brought up the Tornado Cash issue so I won…

He resides in Colorado according to his Linkedin. I don't know a whole lot about crypto - is there anyway he can meaningfully use the donation given the Tornado Cash sanctions? Cou…

You can do the same thing with csvsql from csvkit: https://towardsdatascience.com/analyze-csvs-with-sql-in-comm... Since csvkit comes with so many other tools, I'm not sure I see a…