paul-woolcock

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Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
I enjoy crossfit, but I try to remember what it actually is: a fad-y name for the concept of "functional fitness." I managed to find a crossfit gym that is _not_ ridiculously expensive, and a coach who was teaching functional fitness long before "crossfit" was trademarked.
Comment · 14 years ago
If by "bottom of the stack" you mean "the code that the top of the stack depends on in order to run at all," then I would say that he is correct in what "important" means.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is probably the second or third time I have come across this language in an HN comment. Every time I see it, I click the link, and try to click the links on bondi.it.uts.edu.au, only to get 403 FORBIDDEN responses from any link whose path starts with `~/cbj/`.
Comment · 14 years ago
You mean like this one?

> PHP is the core web language because PHP devs (for the most part) are cheap, replaceable parts.

Comment · 14 years ago
I don't have a source for this, but it is my understanding that, even though the python interpreter doesn't special-case the "_" variable name, it is a convention to use the underscore in the same situations in python as are described in ruby in the article.
Comment · 14 years ago
Oh, I agree, it was just surprising to me to see them there.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
This is what linting tools like pyflakes are for. Running it as a prerequisite to running the test suite means that I don't have to run all my tests just to find out that I misspelled a variable name.
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Comment · 14 years ago
Looks like the design is actually from 2008, so it's actually the past
Comment · 14 years ago
Pendantic and off-topic, but it irks me when ZMQ gets lumped in with i.e. RabbitMQ and AMQ. ZMQ is more like an improved socket library and tools for building distributed message queues (among many other things), while RMQ and AMQ are actually message queue applications.
Comment · 14 years ago
You should make ialmosthave50dollars.com

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