Last week, Elad Maidar wrote a fairly short but readable opinion
piece[0] illustrating some long-standing social problems in the Ruby
community, ending with a very specific call to action around naming
conventions for Ruby projects and gems. To save you the trouble of
scrolling to the bottom of
On 2012-03-31 22:58:45 +, John Nagle said:
Some versions of CentOS 6 seem to have a potential
getaddrinfo exploit. See
To test, try this from a command line:
ping example
If it fails, good. If it returns pings from "example.com", bad.
The getaddrinfo code is adding ".com" to
On 2012-03-10 22:21:55 +, Ethan Furman said:
Owen Jacobson wrote:
On 2012-03-09 22:10:18 +, Ethan Furman said:
Hey all!
I posted a question/answer on SO earlier, but there seems to be some
confusion around either the question or the answer (judging from the
comments).
http
On 2012-03-09 22:10:18 +, Ethan Furman said:
Hey all!
I posted a question/answer on SO earlier, but there seems to be some
confusion around either the question or the answer (judging from the
comments).
http://stackoverflow.com/q/9638921/208880
If anyone here is willing to take a look
On 2011-12-23 06:02:18 +, Cameron Simpson said:
MacOSX has "open", though it won't be running a blocking editor, alas.
But it can be. From the man page:
-t Causes the file to be opened with the default text editor, as deter-
mined via LaunchServices
and
-W Causes open
On 2011-05-03 20:18:33 -0400, Catherine Moroney said:
Hello,
I have an object of class X that I am writing to a pickled file. The
pickling part goes fine, but I am having some problems reading the
object back out, as I get complaints about "unable to import module X".
The only way I have f
On 2010-12-30 19:43:21 -0500, Gerry Reno said:
For those that are lurking, this might provide a little background:
http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-wrong
Essentially, there is nothing "wrong" with Tcl and Tkinter. They are
part of a long evolutionary chain of
On 2010-12-30 12:36:05 -0500, rantingrick said:
On Dec 30, 9:51 am, Kevin Walzer wrote:
Tcl is not a domain-specific language for creating GUI's. Tcl is a
full-featured, general-purpose programming language that is a peer to
Python in its capabilities,
Anybody can gloat and gush about their
On 2010-12-22 20:22:36 -0500, kj said:
Suppose that you want to implement a subclass of built-in class, to
meet some specific design requirements.
Where in the Python documentation can one find the information
required to determine the minimal[1] set of methods that one would
need to override t
On 2010-06-28 00:02:57 -0400, Stephen Hansen said:
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
ins
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
In article
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
In article
<14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
Carl Banks wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they
On 2010-06-26 22:33:57 -0400, Lawrence D'Oliveiro said:
In message <2010062522560231540-angrybald...@gmailcom>, Owen Jacobson wrote:
It's not hard. It's just begging for a visit from the fuckup fairy.
That’s the same fallacious argument I pointed out earlier.
In
On 2010-06-25 20:49:09 -0400, Lawrence D'Oliveiro said:
In message , Jorgen Grahn
wrote:
I thought it was well-known that the solution is *not* to try to
sanitize the input -- it's to switch to an interface which doesn't
involve generating an intermediate executable. In the Python example,
th
On 2010-06-24 21:02:48 -0400, Roy Smith said:
In article ,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
I construct ad-hoc queries all the time. It really isnât that hard to do
safely. All you have to do is read the documentation
I get worried when people talk about how easy it is to do something
safely.
On 2010-01-27 21:06:28 -0500, Rotwang said:
Hi all, I've been trying to make a class with which to manipulate sound
data, and have run into some behaviour I don't understand which I hope
somebody here can explain. The class has an attribute called data,
which is a list with two elements, one
On Oct 21, 3:11 pm, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try using reason, logic and evidence for your points instead of merely
> shouting obscenities, hm?
You're expecting logic from someone who asserts that
> llothar wrote:
> > only contribution to software development was the theory of
> > "lite
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