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You don't have to use VimScript, you can write your Vim plugins in Python if you wish.

I was also surprised the first time I heard you can safely burn explosives: I was reading some comments on the Vietnam war from veterans talking about how they used to heat their m…

> It is funny people can't envision things breaking... This is what enraged me about the Therac-25 design which ended up killing people. There's a whole report to read on the desig…

Incidentally most of them _are_ focusable by the keyboard but just aren't tabbable. I'm using a Chrome plugin Vimium - one of the shortcuts 'f' (documented as opening links) actual…

"Good practice" is also common in English. When folks use the term "Best Practice" I often ask them whether they in fact mean the former.

Couldn't be further from the truth, see my reply.

Typer looks neat. I don't think it was well-established when I started on this, there were quite a few offerings but the only one I managed to find was python-fire. It didn't quite…

I don't have a startup but I did make a useful little Python library while at my previous job to help ease the pain with using argparse to make CLIs. It's called bargeparse [1]. Th…

Mainstream news outlets have been caught doing this. Australian ABC News (government funded) deceptively edited a Navy ceremony that showed the Governor-General & Navy Chief ogling…

Nice! Slight nitpick: Django should automatically create the Hstore extension for you [1] during migrate whenever you use a HStoreField [1] https://github.com/django/django/blob/f5…

I'm quietly hoping they'll ask him to work on a typescript-style of project that adds static typing as a layer on top of Python :)

"Professional use" just means to use in your profession, not that they are claiming to be an IT expert.

I feel like we're just transferring the labour from ops to dev though. Where I work we still haven't got as good a development workflow with lambdas as we did with our monolith (Dj…

What about future Microsoft? :)

yeah nah…

I'm curious to know what it is about each of the strings that makes it naughty. A comment next to each one describing what it's supposed to be testing would be great.

Yes, that's correct. At 300km, Steve would be situated within the thermosphere [1] > The highly diluted gas in this layer can reach 2,500 °C (4,530 °F) during the day. Even though …

ORMs are good for 90% of your use cases, the rest I'm happy to use SQL for. I could attempt to deconstruct the ORM problem, but Martin Fowler had a nice article [1] on replying to …

She actually had another crack at it where it looked as though she studied the lyrics harder as she does quite a good job [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbV5M59Xc8

Nobody is downvoting to win a petty fight. It just looks like you haven't understood the thread of the conversation and are trying to argue about something when there is no argumen…

This is a bit easier to grok: http://www.timescale.com/how-it-works (if you're new to this like me)

According to Merriam-Webster [1] "rackless" is a variant of "reckless". [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rackless