Nick Bastin

Ok, really that should be 2.6.4 and 2.7.1a1, but I’d imagine this problem might exist for more than just those versions. I haven’t tried to build 3.x.
I don’t quite know the exact steps that produce this problem (maybe any/all configure option?), but if you do:
./configure –enable-shared
as is my wont to do, Python happily builds [...]

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Slashdot simply reposted this blog entry at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/20/1433257/The-Environmental-Impact-of-PHP-Compared-To-C-On-Facebook
Passing on an opportunity to bash slashdot for lacking any sort of edited treatment of these stories (if they advertised themselves as a curated RSS aggregator, I wouldn’t even care about this, but they don’t), the source entry itself is not much short of a marketing pitch. It’s [...]

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I generally abhor wasted space on web pages, but some situations are less of a problem than others. As with all things, you should consider your audience. For example, if you’re the Mozilla wiki, you probably ought to consider that your users are likely reading your pages while trying to do something else [...]

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I know I haven’t written in a while. I might start again. I might not. I’m really unreliable like that.
However, I would like to take this moment to state that I really, really, hate Trac. Possibly I hate how people deploy it, but the common deployment for the wiki is quite [...]

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In the process of unrolling some recursive algorithms to be iterative, I’ve started using collections.deque, and I’ve decided it’s my new favorite general-purpose python data structure. This wasn’t a hard decision – lists are the general utility collection type and they suck, so really anything ordered and mutable was probably going to be better [...]

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While this was mostly already true, I’m making it official and trying harder. From now on, every document I create and message I send will be unicode and unicode only. If your mail client or text editor can’t read it, try upgrading and joining the rest of us in the 21st century. [...]

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Look, site hackers are generally bad people. I don’t think we need to have much discussion on this topic – at best, they’re up to no good, and at worst they’re truly malicious. However, some of the quotes in this story quite miss the point:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm
I have exactly zero sympathy for these people. [...]

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Ok, I could write an entire book about things I hate. Maybe even several volumes. But today, I bring you one special nugget of hatred: blogs whose feeds do not contain the entire contents of their entries. I have banned these blogs from my reading list, even though I might otherwise want [...]

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The seemingly interminable tenure of Leonard Slatkin as the music director of the National Symphony has indeed found an end, 12 years too late. Iván Fischer will take over for the next 2 years, but it’s unlikely that he’ll be able to make any significant headway in such a short span.
Let me make this [...]

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