taraploughman

This seems a good time to point out that a few of us been organizing a revolt against HN. I wish it wasn't so, and the drama is mostly uninteresting. Suffice to say, expressing concerns about HN on HN is a quick way to end up beheaded.

If you're looking for an alternative: https://www.laarc.io/

You may find the site a welcome change of pace. We just had our first Show post today.

There is a good chance that this account will be quickly banned, this post killed, and this account marked as "uncommentable", meaning this is the last comment I am likely able to post under this handle. But you may also know me as sillysaurus.

I've missed you guys.

One of the best commandline tools I've ever used was `pirateflix`. You typed pirateflix, typed the name of any movie, then a few seconds later VLC would open and the movie started right away.

I didn't use it much, but it was an amazing example of "Do one thing well."

Does anyone know the origin story of reduce/filter in Python? It seemed interesting. I remember watching a talk by Guido. He mentioned that someone submitted a PR with it, and that it was very complete, so he merged it. But I'm curious what the decision making process was like for Python back then, or if there even was a formal process.

Programming language archaeology is a field that ought to get more attention.