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Re:Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning (2010) on Saturday November 15, 2014 @10:31AM (#8611833)
According to the very knowledgeable folks on the pizzamaking.com forums, the best surface to bake pizza and/or bread is between 0.5 and 1" of cordierite, which is the kind of ceramic you find in pottery kilns. That's what I use with excellent results.
Re:Give PonyORM a chance on Monday May 26, 2014 @11:07AM (#7800007)
(FooBar.foo > 123) | (FooBar.foo == None) & (FooBar.bar < 12)

No strings, and I get an actual expression object instance that I can, for example, store in a variable and reuse in any number of queries.

Re:Give PonyORM a chance on Monday May 26, 2014 @09:29AM (#7799641)
Well, ORMs are useless if you're of the opinion that string interpolation and concatenation are a good way of composing logical units. Many of us prefer a proper API for doing that, and good ORMs like SQLAlchemy provide us with one.
Re:Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood on Friday May 09, 2014 @01:55PM (#7722282)
Optional typing is the main goal of the mypy project: http://www.mypy-lang.org/
Re:Extend Python 2.7 life till 2020 on Sunday April 13, 2014 @02:56PM (#7582426)
* psdash developers don't care ? then why is this: https://github.com/Jahaja/psdash/commit/f05c8e0a1011603d5ef4... * Twisted is getting ported. Scrapy too, according to the FAQ. * Beets ? http://beets.radbox.org/blog/py3k.html * PyJVM ? Who cares ? My point being, the whole community is moving forward.