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Log critical/connectivity errors to a local disk.

I smoke; most of my family smokes, around half of my acquaintances. As best as I can tell: External messages (warnings, PSAs) have a negligible effect on people who already smoke. …

The Python LDAP and psycopg2 libraries are my biggest culprits. My point is not that it's impossible to run 2.6; but setting it up requires a level of sophistication with Python/*n…

Too wordy. The second the words "that page doesn't exist" roll across the brain, most users are gone to the next thing. 404 requires three short sentences: Couldn't find that page.…

Sorry, no. I do most of my work in Python and would love to see quick Py3k adoption. But 2.3 was released 29-Jul-2003 and is still the baseline for portable code. Pythonistas are j…

Would have passed over it if not for your comment. Read, worthwhile, archived. Thanks.

My comment was aimed at HNers, who graciously post the link directly to the print version from time to time. Just wanted to encourage this :).

+1 for print version. Print version == less size per paragraph in bytes and visual overhead. This is especially good for mobile browsing, and I can't think of one instance where I …

One step at a time. In big companies "glacial" is the standard speed of evolution.

Think about how hard it is to port code you wrote to another platform. Now think about porting flimsy code that relies on a set of interactions in an opaque system not functioning …

I wasn't advocating actually behaving like that. My whole point was: it's a joke. As for the "posting in public": http://politedissent.com/archives/603 edit: Added the link.

It's frustrated comedy. I'm sure doctors have a "10 things we want our patients to know" inside joke about us, too.

Now why won't my boss let me put this on the support page? :)

Technical writing is boring. But having an artsy trendy programming guide as part of a set of introductory materials is a way to "take a break" mentally without having to go off-to…

I don't understand why MySQL has 9 different storage engines. Would someone mind quickly posting the benefits of that architecture as opposed to focusing on one 'storage engine' an…

It's not. I spent a week setting up and learning to checkout, update, add files, and commit. The only workflow change is an occasional trip to the shell to commit, but this is usua…

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