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The word "translated" isn't correct here, as the articles may not be translations of other articles.

It's not exactly tolerated by Wikipedia community, see this discusssion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...

Ironically, her husband's name is Robin.

Wikipedia itself is also working on a new UI: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improveme... The English Wikipedia isn't one of the "early adopter wikis" but if yo…

You should look into BDI agents and BDI programming languages.

Being good at hacking doesn't mean they can write clean maintainable code (in a team).

It may be because it's the vault codebase, a tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management. One would hope that such a codebase is well und…

For context, Alibaba uses their own fork of MySQL which is AliSQL: https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL

Do you specifically want it to be about Python scripts or also other languages?

The opening sentence of a linked article sums it up quite well: "If nobody understands a mathematical proof, does it count?" The abc conjecture may be solved today but only when a …

Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.

https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich

Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369

For those looking to validate dictionaries / JSON responses in Python, the voluptuous library works quite well: http://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous . It also works for lists an…

Coincidentally a book was written a few decades ago called "Ringmakers of Saturn" which discusses the presence of alien life around Saturn as well.

In Python you can do this: 1_000_000 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/

I guess the real question is: "Why have foosball (table football) become so popular among management of software development companies?"

"Divided by a common syntax" also describes the relationship between Python 2 and Python 3.

Not necessarily. There is even an argument that you want to be "the last" on the market. For example, Google is the last "search engine" - it wasn't the first search engine on the …

> In the long run, for readability and maintainability, ORMs win most of the time. It depends. Anyone working on that code now needs to learn the ORM, the SQL and how to let the OR…

This can detect when a CVE vulnerability is fixed but how would you know the version number at which it was introduced?

Would adding structure help in managing the work better? It can become difficult to convince management of hiring (paying) more people when there are improvements that should be ma…

- Determine who you need to convince on this matter - Find out what metrics they care about (time lost, money lost, potentially employees lost, clients lost). - Formulate your prop…