ultravoices posted:

There is a lot of useful stuff sort of squirreled away in the methods. str.format() does all the heavy lifting but it's not obvious, you have to read examples or the docs.

gonadic io posted:

on the other hand, "declarative" is one of the words that's used by fart-huffers too so as soon as you see something like "declarative minimal embedded dsl" then it's time to start being a little sceptical.

hey tef, does your bullshit programming dictionary have "embedded" in it?

NihilCredo posted:

link to the bullshit programming dictionary? I want to see the entry for "lightweight"

https://programmingisterrible.com/post/65781074112/devils-dictionary-of-programming posted:

simple — It solves my use case.

opinionated — I don’t believe that your use case exists.

elegant — The only use case is making me feel smart.

lightweight — I don’t understand the use-cases the alternatives solve.

configurable — It’s your job to make it usable.

minimal — You’re going to have to write more code than I did to make it useful.

util — A collection of wrappers around the standard library, battle worn, and copy-pasted from last weeks project into next weeks.

dsl — A domain specific language, where code is written in one language and errors are given in another.

framework — A product with the business logic removed, but all of the assumptions left in.

documented —There are podcasts, screencasts and answers on stack overflow.

startup — A business without a business plan.

hackday — A competition where the entry fee is sleep deprivation and the prize is vendor lock in.

entrepreneur — One who sets out to provide a return on investment.

serial entrepreneur — One who has yet to provide a return on investment.

disrupt — To overcome any legal, social, or moral barrier to profit.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

pythons docs are p decent but i dont think ive read much of them except io stuff

gonadic io posted:

just lol. who gives a gently caress, nothing means anything.

ultravoices posted:

itertools, functools in the docs & sentdex and raymond hettinger's videos on youtube were very helpful for me.

St Evan Echoes posted:

pls tell if this was an autocorrect so i know whether to lol or tut

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

ya its the decorators mate

for example the pyramid web framework does this to signify views

i'd recommend making a toy app in pyramid after you get used to the flask basics btw, it is a lot more powerful than flask and a nice framework to work with mostly

gonadic io posted:

declarative programming is a style where your variables are generally immutable, often is more functional/side-effect light.
so you might do like

code:

def circle = new Circle(2)
def transform = new Translate(0.1, 2)
def transformedCircle = new Circle(circle, transform)
draw(transformedCircle)

as opposed to something like opengl's implicit state machine

code:

applyTransform(0.1, 2)
drawCircle(2)
doOtherThing()

akadajet posted:

mongodb -> came from mongo from blazing sadals -> probably came from the word "mongoloid"

CommunistPancake posted:

mongodb claims it comes from the word "humongous"

CommunistPancake posted:

mongodb claims it comes from the word "humongous"

akadajet posted:

bull


poo poo

quote:

Actually the name choice really does come from the word humongous. A couple years earlier a naming consultant showed me a list of 50 names for potential companies and consumer web products, and it was in that deck, and the point made was that it connoted “big”. But as you say some folks joked about the movie reference when we gave that name to the db, and I didn’t elaborate on the logic behind the naming at the time I would guess. I certainly didn’t in my mind make a negative association about the name at the time; my last encounter with it before that point was probably in Shrek 2. I knew it was campy but it was just a piece of the tech stack at first, not then a big standalone product and technology as it is today. Of course I now know that in some parts of the world it’s an odd choice — apologies about that to those of you in those locales.

akadajet posted:

reminds me that solyent claims to not come from solyent green

mtgox claimed to not have anything to do with magic cards

and php doesn't stand for personal home page lol

CommunistPancake posted:

here's the claim:


from https://www.kchodorow.com/blog/2010/08/23/history-of-mongodb/

akadajet posted:

reminds me that solyent claims to not come from solyent green

mtgox claimed to not have anything to do with magic cards

and php doesn't stand for personal home page lol

cinci zoo sniper posted:

DELETE CASCADE posted:

it was renamed that once rasmus decided that "personal home page tools" was no longer an apt description, though the engineering sophistication has still not advanced beyond that original stage

jony neuemonic posted:

been dabbling with cmake just so my wagon isn't hitched to msvc and msbuild quite so tightly. it seems good but jesus did anyone ever write down how to use this thing? so far this is the best learning resource i've found but it's half-finished and the author's english isn't exactly great (totally understandable though).

on the plus side it really does seem solid and vcpkg is designed with it in mind so it's theoretically possible (lol) to treat windows more or less the same as anything else.

Xarn posted:

CMake the language sucks horrible rear end and is likely fragmented worse than Python 2/Python 3.

It also holds plurality of usage, so you have to use it anyway

cinci zoo sniper posted:

python is not terribly fragmented

Xarn posted:

Last time I was paid to work with Python, you could either use Python 2 and cloud compute (AWS Lambda, Google App Engine, ...), or Python 3 with non-lovely handling of unicode strings. IIRC AWS Lambda moved to Python 3 earlier this year, so there probably aren't many more widely used holdouts, but still, even last year there were significant reasons not to go with Python 3.

jony neuemonic posted:

been dabbling with cmake just so my wagon isn't hitched to msvc and msbuild quite so tightly. it seems good but jesus did anyone ever write down how to use this thing? so far this is the best learning resource i've found but it's half-finished and the author's english isn't exactly great (totally understandable though).

on the plus side it really does seem solid and vcpkg is designed with it in mind so it's theoretically possible (lol) to treat windows more or less the same as anything else.