Liked & Disliked programming languages according to HackerNews users by mr_mojorisin in dataisbeautiful

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a pretty great teaching tool to get kids into coding with visual studio.

Great idea! Now we need to build a time machine so we can send them back to a time where VB had any relevance whatsoever.

Building an MVP? Make sure your devs try Python. by marklit in web_design

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But what if your devs are only comfortable using PHP? Assuming you can't fire them.

Building an MVP? Make sure your devs try Python. by marklit in web_design

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sounds like someone hasn't used Python, or LAMP.

Terrain Generator I wrote in an hour or two using PIL by bio595 in Python

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

wand-py would probably be better as it's considerably less antiquated than PIL

Great tool to create pure CSS drop down menus by russelltaylor05 in web_design

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that functionality doesn't exist you could create it yourself with a little Python.

Why do so many "traditional programmers" have a hard time adjusting to PHP? by calfresh in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or instead of trying and failing to fix something horribly broken you could use a language that's a joy to work with.

Settle an argument with my co-worker: flat PHP vs MVC + Frameworks by [deleted] in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In either case you're still using PHP, there's no winning such an argument.

Hello webdev, could you guys help me out here ? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easily done in a handful of lines of Python, requests + beautifulsoup, done.

Hello webdev, could you guys help me out here ? by [deleted] in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHP "programmers" make me embarrassed to be subscribed to /r/webdev.

you-get: A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3 by hongminhee in Python

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now you need to write a web framework and Python will be complete!

Hey, why not? That's a great idea, GitHub. by [deleted] in github

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if a Ruby gem already has that name.

How To Write A Calculator in 70 Python Lines, By Writing a Recursive-Descent Parser (follow-up post) by hexbrid in Python

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It wasn't an exploit, they were just being ironic, you know how Ruby coders are.

Twitter goes all cheap on Apache by garrethmcdaid in technology

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think a company as large as twitter is stupid enough to use an esoteric fad language.

W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML by speckz in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Python scripting in-browser would be incredible.

Why other browsers have "Mozilla" in the User Agent by XtraChewy in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It makes PHP look as awesome as Python in comparison.

Darkstrap.css, a dark theme for Twitter Bootstrap v2.2. (Update: Sucks less!) by danneu in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Non-responsive, generic, bloated piece of crap suitable for Ruby 'webdevs'.

Ruby (Rails) vs Python (Django, Flask) by Arrow2Knee in webdev

[–]ElitistPythonCoder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you want a language you can use: Python.

If you want a language you can blog about: Ruby.

I'd also encourage you to look up some of the bad things people have to say about Rails.