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Note that the installation instructions on that site are completely out of date. You don't need a C compiler anymore, just clone the repo and enable the extension, as described in …

I disagree with labeling work on less-imporant tasks as procrastination. I think it's often (but not always) more effective to breeze through less important tasks that you're itchi…

For another clever take on mocking in Python, check out Ian Bicking's minimock: http://blog.ianbicking.org/minimock.html

Martin Fowler has spoken against feature branching as well: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/FeatureBranch.html

> I do a lot of research and learn about programming in my spare time, but have hardly any personal programming projects to show. I think this point is not stressed enough whenever…

I think generally object validation should remain separate from construction. The documentation for Python's FormEncode library explain this well: > Validation is contextual; what …

From On Lisp by Paul Graham (pages 59-60): If your code uses a lot of new utilities, some readers may complain that it is hard to understand. People who are not yet very fluent in …

Nailgun might help you with the startup time: http://martiansoftware.com/nailgun/

Thanks for the links! It's nice to see shyness and intro/extroversion addressed as separate things. I've always had a really hard time identifying with descriptions of both introve…

Here's a blog post about this issue that you should find interesting. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/tinted-lenses/200912/scr... My personal point of view is that I do not wan…

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Don't worry, I'm clearly out of my depth here, so I'm not going to debate you on this particular point any further -- you win. :-) (I still stand b…

Thanks. This is an answer that I find logical and understandable, even though I personally and intuitively disagree with it.

Thanks, I didn't think about the viewpoint of "the sheep are going to be herded anyway , it might as well be my dog that has a bit of fun doing it". I don't think the problem is im…

Here's an upvote for taking the time to answer instead of just clicking on an arrow. Re: Somewhat sympathetic answer: I thought the reason sheep can be herded by a dog at all is th…

To the downvoters: Do the sheep find being herded by dogs a pleasant experience as well? If not (as I assume), how can you morally justify increasing their suffering in order to re…

How about sharing a bit of the empathy reserved for the bored dog with the sheep, which are essentially reduced from living, thinking, feeling beings to just toys for the dog? This…