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Why is this a 'preferred convention' for Python3? Doing this causes a lot of confusion for Python beginners that write code in Python2 (i.e. it causes them to accidentally use old-…

The SF payroll tax limit is $250,000 now. It changed recently.

Paying teachers more does not necessarily get higher quality teachers. If teachers were judged on merit and poor teachers were fired, then paying teachers more might be reasonable.…

IPv4 addresses are not "out". There are a finite number of IPv4 addresses just as there is a finite amount of land on earth. We are not "out" of land are we? The regional registrie…

Enough with the fear mongering headlines already. Yes, IANA allocated the last 5 /8's to the regional registries. IPv4 is not going anywhere anytime soon.

So the application is broke with IPv4 and NAT, it is broke with IPv6 as it currently is, and somehow in the future it will be able to be re-written in IPv6 and made to work? Most o…

If your application doesn't work behind an IPv4 NAT box, then your application is broke already. It will likely be broke in IPv6 as well since firewalls are not going away (and man…

It is not so easy--large networks will have a lot of redundancy built-in. Consequently, even shutting down a single large BGP autonomous system is not a simple problem and would ha…

If you have any more Djangy invites, I am interested in using it ktbyers2 at hotmail. Thanks.

As opposed to "reclaiming" addresses i.e. returning addresses to the registries, we should come up with a scheme were institutions can sell their addresses (i.e. IPv4 addresses sho…

Yes, they definitely should have used 64-bits instead of 128-bits for the IPv6 address. At 64-bits, you have over 2 billion addresses per person on earth. At 128-bits, the number o…