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Python already has tools for this. IF I were interested in my working environment becoming more like a Ruby working environment, why wouldn't I just use Ruby?

Evolution is systematic change in allele frequencies. The combination of natural selection and sexual reproduction tends to produce organisms which "fit to" their environments (hen…

If Pinterest's business model is based on copyright violation, I don't expect them to do anything except dry up and blow away. It's not like I am obligated to recognize Pinterest's…

I applaud your effort. Regex is a valuable skill (really, language) which you will use across languages and programs as it gives you access to an efficient and pretty general metho…

vim or pydev

The specific reason not to switch to Jinja2 was that Django's templating language was originally intended not to be that powerful, so that you could feel reasonably safe handing it…

You are right. It isn't your job to learn on old versions of Python just so that Django does not have to release a port yet. Many projects have been waiting on other projects to po…

If you leapt directly from $50 to $900, how should I know that there aren't sweet spots between those two points? I have never had a $900 chair and I have managed to avoid injury, …

My impression is that Wayland planned to support X as a compatibility option. The difference is that X isn't the low level mediator of all input/graphics by default. As I understan…

Pleasantries aren't part of this kind of "good taste".

Freedom from drudgery sounds great, but who will pay for those people to eat and do more fulfilling things?

I've seen the promotional materials on PyPy's performance (I find them particularly persuasive on odd synthetic benchmarks) but thank you for the link. I think you are a nice guy d…

I'm heuristically pretty sure. From my personal experience talking to people, and from some surveys or other I have casually looked at over the years, what is mentioned most in job…

People writing tools to learn, or because the existing ones didn't suit their needs or tastes, occurs in every language and is very different from Perl-style "more than one way to …

Django has such numeric superiority that there is not a lot of point splitting hairs on whether it is "default." While it isn't in the stdlib and there are other good choices, Djan…

"Arguably" every API ever written is a domain-specific language.

There is no Pope of Python to tell you "you can't write new code to do xyz, because someone else is already working on that." How would that be enforced? Would someone's Python pri…

What would be the point of filing bugs against PyPy stating that it is slower or more resource-hungry on programs XYZ, when this is ultimately due to PyPy's core design decisions w…

Please share your data showing that Coffeescript is faster than CPython

I'm very amused that someone else has observed this about PyPy, I began to think I was the only one. It does not seem to be the orthodox view. I like CPython's fast startups and lo…

Creativity doesn't need to come in the form of doing some boring task in a contorted or intentionally complex or showy way, though. You can be creative in choosing tasks and in cho…

If you are just writing for yourself, and you don't need tests, etc. then who cares what you do. Follow your bliss and more power to you. But if there is some chance I will have to…

Ease of learning is often decoupled from ease of efficient use, sometimes even inversely related. 'Usable' is not one thing for everybody. So: a skeuomorph is obviously not a probl…

I like the part about ego because too much of the programming (sorry, "engineering," no wait I mean "architecting") world is focused on a kind of dick-size comparison which is some…

This excellent solution does assume one is using an editor which supports it, which many people do not (causing endless frustration to them)