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Python Creator Guido van Rossum Blames His Resignation Partly on Social Media

fmhul — Sun, 05 May 2019 14:46:54 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/05/0532257/python-creator-guido-van-rossum-blames-his-resignation-partly-on-social-media

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19833049

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New comment by fmhul in "Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported"

fmhul — Sun, 05 May 2019 14:30:06 +0000

Drugs are another industry. We will look back at SSRIs and benzos the same way we look at lobotomy now.

New comment by fmhul in "Claims that breakfast is a health panacea may be unsupported"

fmhul — Sun, 05 May 2019 13:04:15 +0000

>Nutritional guidelines have very short lives compared to every other field of science. It's such a minefield of contradictions.

Like psychology. And I'm sure there are many other examples.

New comment by fmhul in "Tell HN: Archive.is inaccessible via Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)"

fmhul — Sat, 04 May 2019 19:09:30 +0000

And even if they hadn't, how would that make them "Nazi-friendly"? I've always supposed Cloudflare is meant to be neutral. They only kicked out DS because they were stupid enough to pretend CF was endorsing them.

And well, in any case this is unrelated to this thread...

New comment by fmhul in "Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE"

fmhul — Sat, 04 May 2019 10:37:34 +0000

Reddit disagrees. And they weren't using 3, which is even slower.

New comment by fmhul in "Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE"

fmhul — Sat, 04 May 2019 10:30:44 +0000

You'll always need more performance so you'll end up rewriting big parts of the codebase in C because you can't afford the servers and/or can't scale anymore. You'll be kicking the can down the road again and again. Also C is hard. At that point you will realise using Python was a stupid idea when you had other options like Go. It has happened to many people.

New comment by fmhul in "Repositories held for ransom by using valid credentials"

fmhul — Sat, 04 May 2019 10:20:36 +0000

>The breaches seem to rely on the attacker having knowledge of the affected users passwords in order to wipe their Git repositories and hold them for ransom.

Yeah, until I go to my computer and use "git push" again. No?

Also gitsbackup.com is registered but has no A/MX records so...

New comment by fmhul in "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

fmhul — Sat, 04 May 2019 08:45:48 +0000

This is particularly bad because it's the kind of failure that will make people try Chrome. And when they do and see it's faster there's no way they'll be back with Firefox. It's simply catastrophic. Mark my words when I say there will be a very visible dive in the number of Firefox users as reported by StatCounter.