Hacker News: pekk

New comment by pekk in "Introducing Surface Laptop"

pekk — Tue, 02 May 2017 18:15:33 +0000

Apple IIs were all over US schools for this reason.

New comment by pekk in "Red Hat OpenShift.io – Free, end-to-end, cloud-native development"

pekk — Tue, 02 May 2017 18:12:36 +0000

Why would I be digging through Red Hat's blog to find this, and not find it on the site of the actual thing itself?

New comment by pekk in "NeoVim 0.2.0 released"

pekk — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:27:02 +0000

I wouldn't read too much into changes of version numbers. vim was being updated continuously.

New comment by pekk in "NeoVim 0.2.0 released"

pekk — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:26:08 +0000

All they wanted was to fork the project to "clean up" the code in ways they wanted, manage the community themselves, etc. It wasn't like all their patches were flawless and Bram just wouldn't accept them.

Just dumping any old code into a project the first time it's demanded is a sign not of enlightened maintenance but of gross negligence. It's good if there's a lot of feedback on patches, it's not some kind of aggression.

New comment by pekk in "NeoVim 0.2.0 released"

pekk — Tue, 02 May 2017 16:21:08 +0000

I can already use the mouse normally in vim... is it that the configuration is too hard?

New comment by pekk in "Why Use Postgres?"

pekk — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:48:49 +0000

Devil's advocate - how is it really better to have a bunch of autogenerated Django migration files?

New comment by pekk in "Why Use Postgres?"

pekk — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:23:37 +0000

What does PG need to improve, then? I see a lot of discussion of how Oracle is better at this or that but not much discussion on how PG will come to parity and how we'll know when it's finally good enough to use.

New comment by pekk in "Why Use Postgres?"

pekk — Mon, 01 May 2017 05:17:56 +0000

It's worse than that. You're not just choosing a reliable solution, or even a solution with a conservative reputation so that your butt is covered. You're choosing a solution which may actually be worse because when you fail to deliver for someone else, you have someone to scapegoat. If there is nobody else to blame, you might take the blame for having chosen open source with no specific party to blame (the hot potato stopped with you).

New comment by pekk in "Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features in older versions"

pekk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:55:15 +0000

You can absolutely do string handling in a common subset of Python 2 and Python 3. It won't work for legacy string handling code if you relied on implicit coercion, but then the same apps are unlikely to support unicode either.

New comment by pekk in "Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features in older versions"

pekk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:48:47 +0000

FORTRAN 77 is just as likely to be abandoned in 2020 as well. And?

New comment by pekk in "Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features in older versions"

pekk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:47:37 +0000

We've already had tools like 2to3, but they weren't all that popular, and this won't be either. Most things are ported to Python 3 now and most new projects just use Python 3. Never fear.

New comment by pekk in "Show HN: Python-to-Python compiler for some 3.6 features in older versions"

pekk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:44:56 +0000

Pigs fly - he already has a draft of LPTHW for Python 3

New comment by pekk in "Write Fast Apps Using Async Python 3.6 and Redis"

pekk — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:42:46 +0000

Those benchmarks aren't any more standard than anything else.

New comment by pekk in "Google is Crushing the Internet"

pekk — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:08:54 +0000

Google produced more relevant results than Altavista. That's about it. They didn't build or save the internet. Without them, search engines would have improved anyway and we'd be just fine. Google was never a charity and we don't have to protect such corporate behemoths from criticism.

New comment by pekk in "Ubuntu on AWS Gets Serious Performance Boost with AWS-Tuned Kernel"

pekk — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:35:32 +0000

Ironic since Ansible's lack of Python 3 support was due to vociferous insistence by key Ansible developers that it would be wrong even to allow the use of Ansible with Python 3 as long as popular CentOS versions did not have it.

New comment by pekk in "Me and SVG"

pekk — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:00:14 +0000

What product needed to be built that harnessed HTTP, when it was first created? It wasn't Google, Facebook and pets.com right away. It took a lot of time to figure that out. There is a place for foundational work, it's just hard to get funded for it.

New comment by pekk in "New IPython release drops Python 2.7 support"

pekk — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:47:39 +0000

Let's say you developed a Python-like language called Python 2.6, can you call on the Python-2.5 community to convert all old code? Come on, nobody was forced at gunpoint to port to Python 3, that's why there are still abandoned Python 2 projects all over the Cheese Shop.

New comment by pekk in "New IPython release drops Python 2.7 support"

pekk — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:43:02 +0000

This is simply not true. For example, Python 2.6 deprecated string exceptions. If you expect in any language to write code and have it run forever, you expect that language never to change.

New comment by pekk in "New IPython release drops Python 2.7 support"

pekk — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 22:39:45 +0000

Low-content jokes never did particularly well on HN. Like it or loathe it, it's been a cultural feature here for years.

New comment by pekk in "Wealth isn’t created at the top, it is merely devoured there"

pekk — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:22:49 +0000

Sure, if the wealthy voluntarily decide to do this, or if they can be convinced to do so in civil conversation.

Given the heat of pushback on small tax increases, I wouldn't bet on this happening without chaos. I wouldn't bet on it happening with chaos either.