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Walkman··on Show HN: I built an open source event-management system
Why on earth is this on front page?
Walkman··on Ask HN: Is knowing English a prerequisite for being a software engineer?
Yes.
Walkman··on GNU Mcron
Are you saying you have committs in cron, SysV init and in the Linux kernel?
Walkman··on GNU Mcron
Are there more persons implementing the timer or more sysadmins using the timers and specifying timer syntax every day?
Walkman··on GNU Mcron
which is more?
Walkman··on Hello Qt for Python
Yes: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyside-dev/pqwzngAGL...
Walkman··on Hello Qt for Python
I think PyQt is owned by a different company, so Nothing happened to it, I guess.

PySide is waaaay more Pythonic than PyQt ever was. Types are actually translated to Python native types and APIs are way more Pythonic and not just translated 1:1 like PyQt.

Walkman··on GNU Mcron
systemd timers are actually simpler than cron syntax!
Walkman··on Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
"As alluded to above, this does introduce a separate challenge with multi-file consistency. The team took an interesting approach here. The index file points to the location of the root of the page graph and free space map in each page cache file. When persisting a multi-file transaction, all page cache files are flushed to disk before the index file."

That sounds familiar: https://pthree.org/2012/12/14/zfs-administration-part-ix-cop...

Walkman··on Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers
I did, but it’s still asking the PIN every time :(
Walkman··on Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers
I tried on both OS X and Linux, works fine, though on Linux it asks for the PIN every time, which is very annoying.

Do you know a solution for that?

Walkman··on Yubikey/Smartcard backed TLS servers
I did not knew about that, thank you! I instantly changed my SSH key for the generated key in my YubiKey Neo and use it everywhere.

Here is a tutorial is anyone is interested: https://developers.yubico.com/PIV/Guides/SSH_with_PIV_and_PK...

Walkman··on Parsing JSON is a Minefield
If parsing JSON is a minefield, what about YAML? :D
Walkman··on Getting started with Python testing
why is this on the front page?
Walkman··on Should I just stop attempting to make these trivial patches? (2004)
Just keep reading: "Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn, they are _horrible_." :D
Walkman··on The Fossil distributed version control system
In GitHub and GitLab every wiki is a git repository, so it's already implemented.
Walkman··on Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
Anything from Armin Ronacher (the_mitsuhiko) or Raymond Hettinger, but I especially like "Thinking outside the box" [0] because it was such an eye-opener.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZVqBFtuLk

Walkman··on Ask HN: What human language features could be useful for the writing of code?
I would say Python is pretty close to English language, and that's part of why is it so easy to understand. If you write idiomatic Python code it can read like sentences. There are also jokes like "I wrote pseudo code and Python can actually run it". The ternary operator for example is more similar to English grammar than in any other language because it has been constructed with this in mind.
Walkman··on Ask HN: How does a great resume look like? What are the best tools to make one?
The best tool is Microsoft Word or equivalent.
Walkman··on Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
Now I’m pretty sure GitLab has a focus problem. It’s already very complex with somewhat unrelated things. You can’t be everything for everybody. This will even further decrease quality of individual parts of the system. It has been unusably slow for a long time. If they try to do everything, they will have way bigger quality issues than slowness.
Walkman··on My Python Development Environment, 2018 Edition
Ever heard about bind mounting? My current docker image for a Flask app doesn't even contains my code.
Walkman··on Ask HN: What has HN given you?
It changed my life. I found edw519's free ebook and after reading it, I jumped out of bed and learned Python. He wrote that you don't need a university degree to be a programmer. I believed that and I will be a senior developer soon. Never been happier in my entire life, really!
Walkman··on Twirp: A new RPC framework for Go
I did. It's pretty obvious they don't understand REST at all so they reinvented the wheel.
Walkman··on Python 2.7 Countdown
Oh ok, that makes sense.
Walkman··on Python decorators they don't tell you about
the article mention multiple examples, one of being the "registering things" when it returns the same function untouched, just put away the function instance in a list or something to use it later.
Walkman··on Python decorators they don't tell you about
if you run that code, it still won't run :D
Walkman··on Python 2.7 Countdown
Who on Earth would write "Python2" in their resume? I have "Python".
Walkman··on Python decorators they don't tell you about
It is showing confidence that the author know what he is talking about, because as you can see he ran the code and that part did not run.
Walkman··on Staging Endpoint for ACME v2
Wildcard certificates! \o/
Walkman··on GitMask – Develop Anonymously
May I ask why? Why did you feel you have to hide your identity?
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