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That's like saying "I don't use wheels, because I don't live in the prehistoric era when they were invented." Some tools are fundamental. A tool to solve the problem of executing d…

Since they are interoperable, you can write in pyopengl for Punic code, then convert your half dozen opengl calls in your innermost loops into pyglet for performance.

Lots of civilisations have collapsed throughout all of history. Millions of people have starved to death as a result. What makes you think we're somehow immune?

+1 for #3 It's not just in the diffs. Trailing commas make editing the list easier.

I think he invited pull requests containing implementations.

Using script files to store config is convenient, but is it true that in some circumstances it could give malicious parties a chance to inject arbitrary executed code into your env…

Hey. Out of interest, Jason, would you personally write a functional test that spun up a local SFTP server like I describe? As a developer who's better than average, it presumably …

Hey. It's a nice idea, but there are problems with this. The actual output varies depending on your hardware & driver combo, and is substantially affected by the state of the graph…

An interesting aspect of the "different dimension" is that functional tests actually demonstrate that your application works. If your website is down after deploying a well-functio…

I'm a big fan of unit & functional testing. One reason for not writing functional tests though is that they are way harder to write than unit tests (assuming that your unit tests a…

http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob...

Our intro page does need some love, good call. >> HTML5 charting or Google Visualisation This would be great. Maybe we could have a canvas element off on some discreet pane somewhe…

Hey. Thanks for the comment. Yep. Right now the beta only works on regular OS & browsers, and on the Nokia N900, but we still have some work to do on Android, and have yet to test …

We recently posted a 'Rate our Pivot', for Project Dirigible, our Python-based spreadsheet web-application. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2304691) We received some great res…

Hey. OP here. This comment is the closest to my actual motivation for producing the post, although me and my co-author that afternoon were not so much angry about it as just 'delir…

Yeah, most are, but the good ones are amazing . As a for instance, I spent years going to large corporate oriented industry conferences, and hating them. Last few years, I've disco…

Hey ivank. I work at Resolver, and just wanted to say, that's a fair comment. Getting the startup time of Resolver One down has been difficult for us. Our new web-app will fix that…

It sounds like use in moderation might make it easier to rapidly leap around the conceptual problem space, perhaps reaching apparently unrelated insights. This tallies with the ste…

I suspect that being a foreigner meant you didn't pick up on a lot of the class-based ambition in London. The city is moribund with it. Every social event reeks of it. I'm English,…