michaelmcmillan

git add --interactive?

I don't like "magic". I don't need anything to hijack PS1 and muck around with my shell.

Thanks for the tip, but honestly, I don't need another tool.

Never had a problem with dependencies in Python. Just keep it simple.

When starting a new project:

  virtualenv venv -p *path-to-python-version-you-want*
  ./venv/bin/pip install *name-of-package*

When running that project:

  ./venv/bin/python *name-of-python-file*

Many people don't realize that the venv/bin/ contains all the relevant binaries with the right library path's out of the box.

I don't know where over-modeling fits in the argument. Business logic in an isolated part of an application is likely to age better than something that is intertwined with a database or other external dependencies.

I agree – but that doesn't actually challenge my argument. I would be reluctant to use this due to the very tight coupling to GraphQL and Postgres.

Unless – of course – you simply want something working quickly that does not need to be maintained or kept alive for a long time.

Your reply suggests you either couple everything or nothing. It’s more nuanced than that. Everything is a trade off. With that said, it looks like this library will position itself in the center of your architecture — and I would be very hesitant to do that.

I am very hesitant to couple the business logic of any application to the transport layer (GraphQL) or the persistence layer (Postgres) for that matter.

Spotlight is absolutely horrendous?

Oh it works alright: http://megaface.cs.washington.edu/results/facescrub.html

Love data classes! Would've been even cooler if they could've been made immutable.

Oops, never mind: "It is not possible to create truly immutable Python objects. However, by passing frozen=True to the dataclass() decorator you can emulate immutability. In that case, dataclasses will add __setattr__() and __delattr__() methods to the class. These methods will raise a FrozenInstanceError when invoked."

Simple != easy. It is easy to add another dependency, but you've just added another piece to the puzzle that needs to be maintained.

Built multiple complex systems using TDD and the unittest package in Python. No monolithic frameworks, almost zero test infrastructure and ~ 1000 unit tests/sec. Do not share your perspective.

Appreciate the book, don't get me wrong – but I've never understood how anyone can call something a "unit test" when it takes more 2-3 milliseconds to run.

What a fantastic article – technical, interesting and well written. Kudos!

I'd say that's implicit. A computer consists of hundreds of abstractions constructed by apes like ourselves.

> Best Score for your Gender -2147483648

> Worst Score for your Gender 2147483647

Sigh, computers.

binfmt_misc is rad!

Looks like an organism!

Not intended as criticism, but isn't it easier to just express your query in Python using filter?

Just throwing out some armchair criticism: I would think that a robotic chef would look a little less intuitive. I mean, is two monkey arms really the optimal strategy for revolutionizing this field? Happy to be proven wrong!

"It took a few days to build the first version. It was butt-ugly and looked like it was designed according to whatever the opposite to Feng Shui is, but it worked nicely."

Made me laugh.

This tirade against Facebook is starting to slip into hysteria.

Waking Up with Sam Harris. Fascinating conversations for anyone who likes to have their mind changed.

Time to fire up hashcat on aws.

IQ tests seem to suggest otherwise.

Reminds me of the "can't send mail more than 500 miles" bug. Fantastic read: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

We need AI to keep the planet.

I run a complex CRM that handles 1.2 million USD in transactions every year. It is running sqlite with a simple in-memory cache (just a dict) that gets purged when a mutating query (INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE) is executed. It is simple and fast enough.

Seems like the site is down. Here is a cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ght2vB...