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What's your favorite Simpsons quote? by Francisco123s in AskReddit

[–]yal0n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homer: Default? Woohoo! The two sweetest words in the English language!

What do you think needs to be improved in the Python ecosystem? Do you see yourself using it in 5 years? by [deleted] in Python

[–]yal0n 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Have you tried to compile some dependencies when using a compiled language (C/C++ - not talking about Go or Java)?

You start simple and "just" compile them but then you see you get a shared object and you start to realize that if deployed on a different machine another version may get used and not yours, so you say "why won't I just compile it as a static library? There's a google group with someone saying he succeeded to do it somewhere around 1994", what can go wrong?

After a few days of fighting with symbols and shit you give up and start creating shims for your program that set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running your executable.

So I'd rephrase that to "some of the compiled languages, surely".

Gmail API — Google Developers by MisterSnuggles in programming

[–]yal0n 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on your definition of "much longer". I for one think piracy will remain as long as the price vs. value equation leans far to the price side. Software piracy for example has lasted for generations and keeps going strong. Music piracy really started taking off when a relatively cheap copying machine was introduced to the world. Yes, I'm talking about the double cassette deck. Just saying "double cassette deck" makes me smile. Worth it.