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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 Posted under companies, twitter. | 16 Comments »
One thing I'd like to be able to do in Twitter is change my point of view. That is, see what Twitter looks like from the POV of another ... Read more..Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted under deferreds, python, tech, twisted. | Comments Off on A kinder and more consistent defer.inlineCallbacks
Here's a suggestion for making Twisted's inlineCallbacks function decorator more consistent and less confusing. Let's suppose you're writing something like this: @inlineCallbacks def ... Read more..Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Posted under python, tech. | 21 Comments »
A year ago we switched from SVN to Bazaar for source code control. I started using source code control in 1989 with RCS after comparing it with SCCS. Then I ... Read more..Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted under me, twitter. | 31 Comments »
Here, finally, are some thoughts on the creation of value. I don't plan to do as good a job as the subject merits, but if I don't take a rough ... Read more..Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted under companies, me. | 21 Comments »
When I was younger, I didn't know what to make of it when people rejected my ideas. Instead of fighting it, trying again, or improving my delivery, I'd just conclude ... Read more..Sunday, November 9th, 2008 Posted under me. | 19 Comments »
In 1997 I had a fairly simple idea. I spent a year thinking about it obsessively: where it might lead, what it would enable, how to implement it, etc. As ... Read more..Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted under deferreds, python, tech, twisted. | 4 Comments »
OK, I admit, this is geeky. But we've all run into the situation in which you're using Python and Twisted, and you're writing a new class and you want to call ... Read more..