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borntyping | 8 years ago | on: Ellen Pao: My lawsuit failed. Others won’t

"Don't ask, don't tell" meant something very different in the US military - barring openly LGBT people from service, but allowing "closeted" LGBT people to serve.

borntyping | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tasks do you automate?

Anything I have to do more than once. If I have to do it a second time, I'll probably have to do it a third..

borntyping | 11 years ago | on: C++ named operators

I did much the same thing in Python a while ago: https://github.com/borntyping/python-infix

borntyping | 11 years ago | on: Intelligent chat that makes your team communication twice as fast

Looks very similar to https://slack.com/

borntyping | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: pkgname, choosing good package names

Seems to be broken, the list of reasons for a bad package name are blank: http://i.imgur.com/0U06IGS.png

borntyping | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What source code is worth studying?

Python: Flask (and related projects)

borntyping | 12 years ago | on: Why Puppet, Chef, Ansible aren't good enough

And most of these would not be solved by the package manager described in the article.

borntyping | 12 years ago | on: Q – Execute SQL on text. Supports joins across files, RPM available

It's also the name of a well known Python debugging tool[1]. Name conflicts will happen when you pick a name for shortness, not clarity.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/q

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source

> Sounds like someone had a Lua hammer, so everything looked like a Lua nail.

Same could be said for most of the JS proponents in the thread.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: A static website generator in Python

I've been looking for a static site generator that used jinga for a while! :)

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: How To Package Your Python Code

It sounds like you're trying to package an entire application, not a python package. If thats the case, maintaining and distributing it may be simplest to do with a git repository.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: How To Package Your Python Code

Doesn't distribute miss out on a few of setuptools really useful features, like develop installs?

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: How To Package Your Python Code

I put the version information inside the package, then anything with access to the package (which both setup.py and sphinx have) can access it - quite useful for doing things like checking the version number from the REPL, for instance.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: How To Package Your Python Code

While I've already been doing things a similar way, it's nice to have a clean, clear explanation of how to package stuff.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: How To Package Your Python Code

Because the only difference there is neater indentation, which you could do using the keywords method.

Additionally, there's no point checking that the script is the main file, as there's only ever one use-case for the script, and that's to call setuptools.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: Underscore.py / a python port of underscore.js

There is absolutely no reason to use this. As far as I can tell, it's a direct port of underscore.js, and implements nothing but functionality that's already in python.

borntyping | 13 years ago | on: Blessings: a pythonic answer to curses

After having difficulty trying to write a console application with python/curses, this looks a much nicer way of doing it.