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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 191 posts.

2011
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ZSFA -- Rails Is A Ghetto (2007-12-31)

I’ve more or less kept my mouth shut about some of the dumb and plain evil stuff that goes on in the Rails community. As things would happen though I’d take notes, collect logs, and started writing this little essay. As soon as I was stable and didn’t need Ruby on Rails to survive I told myself I’d revamp my blog and…

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PEP 263 – Defining Python Source Code Encodings

This PEP proposes to introduce a syntax to declare the encoding of a Python source file. The encoding information is then used by the Python parser to interpret the file using the given encoding. Most notably this enhances the interpretation of Unicode ...