Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

2013-10-16 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: getaddrinfo NXDOMAIN exploit - please test on CentOS 6 64-bit

2012-03-31 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: stackoverflow question

2012-03-10 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: stackoverflow question

2012-03-10 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: Idiom for shelling out to $EDITOR/$PAGER?

2011-12-23 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: importing class objects from a pickled file

2011-05-03 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-31 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Put up or shut up (Was Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!)

2010-12-30 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-12-30 12:36:05 -0500, rantingrick said: On Dec 30, 9:51 am, Kevin Walzer k...@codebykevin.com 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

Re: general problem when subclassing a built-in class

2010-12-22 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: Why Is Escaping Data Considered So Magical?

2010-06-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
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 the sense that using correct

Re: Why are String Formatted Queries Considered So Magical?

2010-06-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said: On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article 14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,  Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What

Re: Why are String Formatted Queries Considered So Magical?

2010-06-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said: On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote: In article 14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,  Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What

Re: Why are String Formatted Queries Considered So Magical?

2010-06-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
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

Re: Why Is Escaping Data Considered So Magical?

2010-06-25 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-06-25 20:49:09 -0400, Lawrence D'Oliveiro said: In message slrni297ec.1m5.grahn+n...@frailea.sa.invalid, 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

Re: Why Is Escaping Data Considered So Magical?

2010-06-24 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-06-24 21:02:48 -0400, Roy Smith said: In article i00t2k$l0...@lust.ihug.co.nz, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote: I construct ad-hoc queries all the time. It really isn’t that hard to do safely. All you have to do is read the documentation I get worried

Re: List weirdness - what the heck is going on here?

2010-01-27 Thread Owen Jacobson
On 2010-01-27 21:06:28 -0500, Rotwang sg...@hotmail.co.uk 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

Re: Distributed RVS, Darcs, tech love

2007-10-21 Thread Owen Jacobson
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 literate