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New comment by zeitlupe in "Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?"

zeitlupe — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:28:09 +0000

From time to time I am peeking over from VS Code to PyCharm and recently I have been surprised how much it seems to fall behind. No (official) ruff integration, you have to use 'External Tools', which is not part of the backup&sync feature. Seriously?

New comment by zeitlupe in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

zeitlupe — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:16:33 +0000

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Design patterns you should unlearn in Python

zeitlupe — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:29:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lihil.cc/blog/design-patterns-you-should-unlearn-in-python-part1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44759085

Points: 107

# Comments: 105

New comment by zeitlupe in "Git: The Stupid Password Store"

zeitlupe — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:40:31 +0000

hunter2 still gives me a smile

New comment by zeitlupe in "Tetris Font (2020)"

zeitlupe — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:36:46 +0000

It reminds me of long-gone times where the web was about sharing easy fun like this instead of viral marketing and influencers.

New comment by zeitlupe in "YouTube addiction, one month sober"

zeitlupe — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:44:03 +0000

To me, the most difficult part about quitting youtube, twitter or reddit is that these websites are incredibly rewarding and an incredible waste of time at the same time. Reddit has great discussions on careers, hobbies, whatever you do not stumble upon elsewhere, but the rewarding content unfortunately always comes in packs with some mindless scrolling and mediocre memes – I've never managed to have one without the other. Quitting them means to forfeit a huge, valuable chunk of input and I am yet not sure what's better.

New comment by zeitlupe in "Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)"

zeitlupe — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 09:21:41 +0000

The problem with multiple monitors for me is that you have to turn your head very wide to look onto the adjacent screens' center, which is definitely not ergonomic and healthy.

That being said, it is still my current setup as this wide turn holds me off from looking at the second screen, where slack and other distracting stuff is placed.

New comment by zeitlupe in "I don't use Bayes factors in my research (2019)"

zeitlupe — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 11:02:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect

New comment by zeitlupe in "Jupyter Notebook 7"

zeitlupe — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:51:02 +0000

I thought Jupyter Notebook has been superseded by Jupyter Lab. What reason is there to prefer Jupyter Notebook over Jupyter Lab?

New comment by zeitlupe in "Ask HN: Struggling with Productivity and Procrastination"

zeitlupe — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 13:46:17 +0000

Mind sharing what the diagnosis entailed for you to have such an impact? Medication, strategies, cognitive therapy? Relieve in the sense of "everything makes (more) sense now"?

New comment by zeitlupe in "The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs"

zeitlupe — Mon, 08 May 2023 17:57:31 +0000

Imho the problem with LaTeX CVs is that they all look bleak and the same because it is (on purpose) tedious to create anything except the standard format.

New comment by zeitlupe in "Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally"

zeitlupe — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:29:21 +0000

Spark is my favorite tool to deal with jsons. It can read as many jsons – in any format located in any even nested folder structure – as you want, offers parallelization, and is great to flatten structs. I've never run into memory issues (or never ran out of workarounds) so far.

New comment by zeitlupe in "Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science"

zeitlupe — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:52:52 +0000

> I have noticed some differences in engineers who have gone through bootcamps

How do they differ?

New comment by zeitlupe in "Replacing Pandas with Polars"

zeitlupe — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:35:35 +0000

Some more thought in the same direction: https://dataengineeringcentral.substack.com/p/whats-all-the-...

New comment by zeitlupe in "Replacing Pandas with Polars"

zeitlupe — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:03:34 +0000

I do not fully get the speed argument. If the dataset is small'ish, it does not significantly matter (given you only use the vectorized functions, of course). And if it's big data, I do not use pandas but Spark/a cloud data warehouse solution. For this reason I also do not get the use case for duckdb.

Beyond this, a dataframe api/syntax, compared to SQL syntax, is to me way easier to follow and to debug.

New comment by zeitlupe in "WhatsApp goes down for users globally"

zeitlupe — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:35:37 +0000

Why not Signal?

New comment by zeitlupe in "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau (2011)"

zeitlupe — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 18:46:19 +0000

To me this also misses the point. An eierlegende Wollmilchsau in my book represents a non-existent solution to every single problem in a context (or at least too many problems) at the same time. The whole point is that there is no such animal, and this should indirectly indicate that the author thinks this sought solution does not exist – not that it just has not been found yet but that such a solution is impossible, maybe even absurd.

New comment by zeitlupe in "Advanced Scientific Data Format"

zeitlupe — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:53:41 +0000

What is its advantage over parquet?

New comment by zeitlupe in "A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done"

zeitlupe — Wed, 25 May 2022 19:33:01 +0000

> An hour is not even close to being enough. A whole weekend may get you to 50%.

This is one problem I have with GTD: It talks and talks about collecting and sorting tasks but does not care much about whether you should do them in the first place. It invites overloading yourself with tasks and want-to-dos instead of thinking about if that tasks are truly important to you in the light of a perpetual shortage of time to do all the stuff you would like to.

Bnomial – We publish one machine learning question every day

zeitlupe — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://today.bnomial.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878353

Points: 3

# Comments: 1