prawl's comments

On: Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

[prawl]

You are surprised by how deep-rooted America's hostility is towards Iran, so you seize the opportunity to incite hatred against Sunnis?

On: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

[prawl]

This isn't a vast majority by any stretch of the imagination.

[jhall1468 → prawl]

The overwhelming response here saying use single quotes begs to differ.

[ambivalence → jhall1468]

That's not how this works. All the people who are just happy or indifferent about double quotes don't comment about it. And some of the ones that aren't happy about it commented here multiple times.

Judging from the additional stars on GitHub, and projects that just migrated (pytest!), I'd say there's a very vocal minority which is very attached to single quotes.

[jhall1468 → ambivalence]

> Judging from the additional stars on GitHub, and projects that just migrated (pytest!), I'd say there's a very vocal minority which is very attached to single quotes.

Accuse me of selection bias. Immediately use even more biased selection bias.

[pkilgore → ambivalence]

Selection bias is real here.

I thought dbl quotes smart for all the reasons in the readme. Me commenting 'this is great' is just noise on HN, and discouraged by the rules. Never take self-selected anything as truth, especially comments (tweets/posts/voluntary votes)

[aldanor → ambivalence]

This is all subjective unless some data is collected. I could say with just as much confidence that all of the major Python projects I've seen or contributed to use single quotes -- e.g. numpy or pandas.

On: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

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You edit code, test it, and then have some program rewrite your code after testing but before it becomes an immutable commit hash?

On: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

[prawl]

A double quote is in no way harder to read. Only on Hacker News.

[abiox → prawl]

this seems a bit reductive.

On: Black: An uncompromising Python code formatter

[prawl]

A different comment character could have been chosen, but this affects nothing. It's not insane.

On: A day without JavaScript

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If the main work your site is doing is showing pictures and text - and this is still and always will be a large part of the web - the browser has a number of features that work very smoothly and reliably out of the box: scrolling, page history, following a link when it is clicked, right-click save as, searchability, basic accessibility, etc. - and typically much quicker rendering than something which waits for a lot of extra HTTP requests and extra work being done in a VM somewhere.

Reimplementing these features in JS is often pretty feasible, and occasionally there are use cases for it, but it's a lot of additional overhead and it's not at all unusual to introduce bugs that really hurt the UX. (UX is not just adding as much branding as possible on top of vanilla browser behavior.)

The average newspaper website should not load 15 megs of junk from 20 different domains with a massive amount of Angular code just so I can read a single paragraph of plain text. This is an example of a document, it's what the web was made for and browsers already do it well without turning most documents into an SPA.

On: WebAssembly 101: A developer’s first steps

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Not to disagree with you, but native apps are extremely popular and well-accepted on smartphones.

[z3t4 → prawl]

The web is a forest, but transparent, so you can see what's behind the trees, while mobile apps are a closed garden.

On: NHSbuntu – an OS for the NHS [video]

[prawl]

Can you spell out what you are implying? Are you saying that the NHSbuntu project is somehow involved with WannaCry, or that they are somehow profiteering?