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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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What set of fatal flaws are you talking about?
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"It seems to me he's justified in not wanting to waste his time writing patches that wouldn't be accepted anyways." He is free to provide packages that replace core python libraries. The fact he doesn…
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Let me bet. He will not do it. He doesn't like to play with others or have his brilliant ideas scrutinized by who he considers lesser people. So, the way he has to prove me, and others who agree with …
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Zed? Is that you modding me down?
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It also seems he has a couple logins here.
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"Zed's the enemy of crap. Whether it's inconsistency in languages, poorly created enterprise software development practices (The ACL is dead), or egotism <b>coming from others (Zed's so fuckin…
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Can a one-liner be considered a flame? You know the drill: "show me the code or STFU".
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Zed's is also classic: "I will provide my fucking awesome fix on the condition you include and recognize my fucking awesomeness. If you don't promise that, I will submit nothing" Thus avoiding a clear…
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Is it worth breaking backwards compatibility to have fancy libraries distributed in the Python core? Zed is employing a false contradiction: he can make his patches available and people can use them r…
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I really can't see why he can't publish his "fixes" for everyone to use. There really is no need to bundle them in the Python distribution. So, Zed, again, where are your patches?
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"slowly"?!
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I think the del statement as in "get rid of this" is perfectly fine. There is no need to pollute the namespace of lists (or anything, BTW) with a method to duplicate an already existing, and very fund…
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It looked like a nice idea, back in 92 or so.
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And why exactly would keeping the settings human readable prevent someone from developing a nice API for managing them? Oh... It wouldn't
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Wouldn't it be nice if OSX kept its settings in text files under /etc like any civilized OS should?
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If I had a hand that steady I would be a brain surgeon... Better: If I had a hand that steady I would still be a brain surgeon...
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I think we are reading too much from cryptic political messages. Unless HTML5 and canvas gain a lot of momentum, and Google is doing a lot in this direction, Microsoft will come up with a broken half-…
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The author also forgets Palm stuck with good old familiar-to-developers PalmOS for more than a decade. Most apps I had on my Pilot 1000 ran flawlessly in my Palm Centro. The rest of their stuff uses W…
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I agree with your points and, having done a lot of Zope/Plone programming in the past, your #1 is by far my #1 too. More than once I have sworn if I knew enough of the inner workings of CPython, I wou…
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I think this whole "things I hate in $language" misses a very important point. There is an immensely rich universe of languages you can chose from today. If you want Lisp-ish lambdas and macros, you s…
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-415786940752241012&...
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IMHO, Bill seems to be a borderline psycho that could do anything as a businessman. His DoJ deposition tapes are amazing to watch.
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"that any platform which isn't under 100% open source control is a risky investment" No. Not at all. I have invested a lot in AIX, DB2, Oracle and Solaris over the years. It's just that handing the re…
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That's exactly where I stopped reading. Someone who _wants_ to use Flash for programming has to have something very wrong in his or her head.
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You also seem to imply the #develop user base can be compared to the Visual Studio user base. I would like to check your numbers as I suspect the active user #develop-to-Visual Studio ratio is very cl…
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"if anyone is doing FUD, it would be you" It's FUD only if you deny the risk of Microsoft behaving badly. It's entirely possible Microsoft's legal staff is larger than the whole Mono developer base. W…
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"I'm pretty sure Microsoft themselves having contributed to mono projects would invalidate any such lawsuit" No. It wouldn't. And, most of all, it has no effect on where they take .NET in the future. …
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no.
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I wonder how much of it can still be called science when all it does is with incomplete unreliable and unpredictable stuff. We can rename it "Computer Magic" or "Paracomputology"