siproprio

No slurs. No offenses. No bad words, no cursing, etc.

I’m not going to paraphrase because the threads were erased. I don’t have most of the comments actually.

Mail me at my username at duck.com and I’ll send you the handles of the account, you can search GitHub yourself.

About the ‘nature’ of the comments, see here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33577471

They were not offensive, they were not disrespectful, they were actually valid complaints, and I also used to participate a lot, and since people echoed the comments, they were considered ‘disruptive’.

I don't wish to link my identity to this hn account. This is what I got from gh support:

```

Your accounts were disabled following reports that its content or activity may have been in violation of the following prohibition found in our Acceptable Use Policies:

"We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that:

is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users"

Specifically, the activity that was reported included posting repetitive and disruptive comments in Visual Studio repositories, which we found to be in violation of our Acceptable Use Policies.

```

I said in another comment, most of the comments were on the Python extension repo for vscode, about the quality of the extension and feature choices, many people were criticizing as well, and the trend of moving towards closed source.

I said in another comment, most of the comments were on the Python extension repo for Vscode, about the quality of the extension and feature choices, many people were criticizing as well, and the trend of moving towards closed source.

Most of the comments were on the Python extension on the Vscode repo about the quality of the extension, and the trend of moving towards closed source extensions.

Some messages could be viewed as flame/kind of abusive in the sense of criticizing a msft open source project, and they were absolutely not made in the company’s name. Obviously I deeply regret any trouble they could have caused.

Msft said it was a GitHub decision, they can’t interfere.

Yep. Private.

No. And also they banned me before I started working for the hedge fund. Previously I worked at Siemens, we did not use GitHub, we had a self hosted Gitlab instance.

The username is a reference to Jim Incandenza, a character from Infinite Jest.

Well, in US law they might not be.

But in other countries, is more complicated than that.

In Brazil, those kinds of bans behaviors are not ok under consumer protection laws, and also their TOS where they don’t guarantee anything even for paid accounts is definitely not ok and suable for damages if something happens.

Work and home ip address/geolocation.

Work domain.

Work projects.

Browser fingerprinting.

Vscode telemetry data.

Windows telemetry data.

There are lots of ways to track it, and probably there’s a machine learning algorithm that helps it, because every time I find a loophole, when I’m suspended again the loophole stops working.

I can’t avoid contributing to work projects though.

Well, there’s also the point that a person might even regret comments they made!

But the ban is forever, there is zero transparency, and no appeal.

Unfortunately I’m in Brazil, GitHub does not operate in Brazil.

I’m thinking of suing a distributor or the local Microsoft subsidiary.

Work and home IP address, possibly. Work domain. Vscode settings possibly.

I tried that. It’s the third account they terminated.

Whether or not the comment warrants a permaban or not, I’d gladly delete it, avoid the behavior in the future, and also clearly regret it!

euclidea is the best!

The pypy folks and a bunch of other alternative python implementations have pooled together and are working on a soft fork of the c extension api to enable existing established projects that make heavy use of the c api to better work with the superior faster python implementations.

I believe this is the way forward. Existing packages are essentially tied to cpython because that’s what the python.org website offers for download, and people will just use that by default.

Once all major packages support the new c api, it will be easier to just use something other than cpython by default.

State of the art python packaging must include support for common use cases such as conda+machine learning.

It’s incredible how even Julia’s Pkg.jl supports better python packaging in combination with conda than the official python packaging tools.

This is very clearly a question of the culture of the core python developers (such as brett cannon) who seem to think the machine learning people with their compilers and JITs are not an important part of the community.

I work at a hedge fund, so yeah, I’m kind of an analyst.

At first I thought Julia could fill role, but it has many problems with correctness (bugs), proper documentation, tooling…

What languages have you tried, and what in them did not work?

What’s wrong with casting variables to mutate their type?

Now, all we need for crystal to succeed is numpy, scipy, something pandas-like, and of course matplotlib (not plots, matplotlib).

By the way, how are we on data-science friendly IDEs? Debugging? Automatic thorough documentation generator? Tooling in general? Is the time to first plot fast?

Where I work, we desperately need a fast python.

In Brazil there’s a practice called “pack do pezinho” where teens advertise selling sexual content on twitter.

The only thing I miss about the vscode setup is support for a decent PDF viewer (not sumatra), and that magnifier loupe thing that other editors have.

Very cool, and even replying works!

Vscode is all dandy and fine until you try to debug something and inspect an object in memory only to find out that msft programmers hard coded the object representation as a string [Object object] cause they couldn’t be bothered to properly implement the debugger.

Microsoft Teams in my opinion is the worst.

Maybe it’s for the better, if in the future there’s no service perceived as the default one.

Perhaps then we’ll get something better than git.