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I think the reasons are more practical. It's rare that it rains very hard in Portland. Carrying an umbrella throughout six to eight months of the year just in case is inconvenient,…

This PSU site may be of interest to anyone who's made it this far into the thread: http://neighborhoodpulsepdx.org/ . It has some charts and maps that explore some of the data rela…

I don't think anyone does `git bisect` all that often, but... when you need to do it, you hope the history is clean. Otherwise, figuring out what went wrong and where can be a nigh…

I just went to one of my repos on Bitbucket, and it only took me one click to get to the source for master and then another click to get to the source for another branch. You can a…

The main reason I prefer a lighter bike is for when I need to carry it up some stairs or something like that. For most everyday riding I don't think weight matters much.

I would think that when someone writes a document like this that the context is really important for the record and that they're not so concerned with making an "impact". Edit: Gra…

I initially only glanced at the about page without reading it, but after I saw your comment, I went back and read the whole thing. Most of it is just (interesting IMO) info about t…

Or, at a higher level, maybe their approach to soliciting candidates is wrong. A lot of the job descriptions I see are sloppy. Or they're so vague that you can't figure out what yo…

I use DRF with Angular at work, so I'm interested in seeing where this series goes. Tangentially, I can't imagine using Django without DRF. It makes setting up RESTful(ish) APIs so…

Good point. I'm not sure off the top of my head if Shapely has a specific function for what you're trying to do. It does have highly-optimized distance functions though. Might be i…

What's really bizarre is that they actually deliver the article content in the initial HTML response. It's just hidden using CSS. You can read it by turning off CSS for the page.

I guess it's kind of beside the point of the article, but I wonder if the author considered using a library like Shapely[1]. [1] http://toblerity.org/shapely/manual.html

I personally think it's best practice, although returning a generic 400 isn't _that_ bad. Libraries like Django REST Framework handle this automatically.

I have family in the southeastern US who use "anymore" like the person you're responding to did (and they have for decades). I don't think it simply means "now". There's a slightly…

> This is reassuring for those optimists out there, as it suggests that people are often honest even when they don’t have to be. Or it could be that people don't realize there's no…

It sounds like you and the person you responded to are saying that there were self-driving cars in the year 2000? There really aren't even self-driving cars now, in 2015. Sure, the…

I don't see anything wrong with cynicism _per se_. In fact, I have a hard time seeing how it's possible to avoid becoming at least somewhat cynical. Apathy and complacency on the o…

Your example isn't very compelling, but for longer strings with more complex formatting, I'd say .format() is pretty compelling. I find that in general '{x} blah blah blah {y}'.for…

Cat Purr is one of my favorites. I blend it with one of the water sounds, which effectively blocks out most office noise and creates a calm, soothing space. Also, my cat freaked ou…

Agreed. I can't pay proper attention when I type notes on a laptop during meetings. And it would seem that other people can't either. I scribble notes on a notepad and then transcr…

> Free markets when supported by strong property rights can have strong protections to prevent harm or pollution. This seems to imply that such markets aren't actually "free" since…

I mostly use GitHub these days (at work), but I think Bitbucket is pretty similar in terms of features and may even be better in some ways (e.g., I like Bitbucket's design better, …

I'd guess the scenario is more like a social setting where you know some of the people and don't know others. And you're having a "what do you do?" kind of conversation where you r…

I agree with you, but only for local commits that haven't been pushed to a shared repo. Rewriting local history seems no different than rewriting code in your editor. Rewriting sha…