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In message pan.2010.06.29.09.35.18.594...@nowhere.com, Nobody wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
HTML is also
On Saturday 03 July 2010 19:33:44 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
In message pan.2010.06.29.09.35.18.594...@nowhere.com, Nobody wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
On 6/30/10 11:58 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
There's nothing silly about it.
It is an exaggeration though: but it does represent a good thing to
keep in
Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/30/10 11:58 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
There's nothing silly about it.
It is an exaggeration though: but it does represent a
Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote:
The quote does not deny the power of regular expressions; it challenges
widely held assumption and belief that comes from *somewhere* that they
are the best way to approach any problem that is text related.
Well, that assumption comes from
On 7/1/10 3:03 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
Re is part of the python standard library, for some purpose I guess.
No, *really*?
So all those people who have been advocating its useless and shouldn't
be are already too late?
Damn.
Well, there goes *that* whole crusade we were all out
On 7/1/10 5:11 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Stephen Hansenme+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote:
The quote does not deny the power of regular expressions; it challenges
widely held assumption and belief that comes from *somewhere* that they
are the best way to approach any problem that is text related.
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:41:03 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
I know, I'll use regular expressions.
Now they have two problems.
That's silly. RE is a
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
I know, I'll use regular expressions.
On 6/30/10 7:14 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
On 6/30/2010 8:22 AM, Nobody wrote:
I've noticed over the years a significant anti-RE sentiment in the
Python community.
IMHO, the sentiment isn't so much against REs per se, but against
excessive or inappropriate use. Apart from making it easy to write
illegible code, they also make it easy
Terry Reedy wrote:
On 6/30/2010 8:22 AM, Nobody wrote:
I've noticed over the years a significant anti-RE sentiment in the
Python community.
IMHO, the sentiment isn't so much against REs per se, but against
excessive or inappropriate use. Apart from making it easy to write
illegible code,
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:14:38 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29, Stephen Hansen wrote:
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem,
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:30:36 +1200, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
HTML is also effectively a string-based API.
HTML is a data format. The sane way to
Owen Jacobson angrybald...@gmail.com wrote:
However, not every programming language has
the kind of structural flexibility to do that well: a library similar
to SQLalchemy would be incredibly clunky (if it worked at all) in,
say,
Java or C#, and it'd be nearly impossible to pull off in C.
Nobody nob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
I know, I'll use regular expressions.
Now they have two problems.
That's silly. RE is a good tool. Like all
On 6/29/10 5:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
Nobodynob...@nowhere.com wrote:
And what about regular expressions?
What about them? As the saying goes:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
I know, I'll use regular expressions.
Now they have two problems.
On Jun 28, 3:07 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:02:57 -0700, Stephen Hansen
me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:
(This is an area where parametrized queries is even more important: but
I'm not sure if MySQL
In message
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com, Carl
Banks wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
HTML is also effectively a string-based API. And what
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:07:29 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Coding for something like a DBTG network database did not allow for
easy changes in queries... What would be a simple join in SQL was
traversing a circular linked list in the DBTG database my college
taught. EG: loop get next
On Jun 24, 6:02 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article i00t2k$l0...@lust.ihug.co.nz,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
I construct ad-hoc queries all the time. It really isn’t that hard to do
safely. All you have to do is read the documentation
I get
In article
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they need a string-command based API?
How about this instead (where
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
What makes databases so special that they need a string-command based
API?
Because SQL is a text language.
--
On Jun 27, 4:35 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or languages.
No, not really. Almost all types of libraries
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
makes databases so special that they need a
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API. What
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
On Jun 27, 4:35 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
Seriously, almost every other kind of library uses a binary API.
Except for the huge number that deal with text protocols or
On Jun 27, 8:19 pm, Owen Jacobson angrybald...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2010-06-27 22:51:59 -0400, Carl Banks said:
On Jun 27, 3:20 pm, Roy Smith r...@panix.com wrote:
In article
14e44c9c-04d9-452d-b544-498adfaf7...@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com,
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/27/10 7:51 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I'm not the biggest expert on SQL ever, but the only thing I can think
of is expressions. Statements don't express anything very complex,
and could straightforwardly be represented by function calls.
See, there's really two kinds of SQL out there.
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
instance, set operations:
query1 = rdb_query(...)
On Jun 27, 8:52 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote:
Then there's the type of SQL that results in DBA's having jobs-- and
deservedly so. Its *really* a very flexible and powerful language
capable of doing quite a lot to bend, flex, twist, and interleave that
data in the server
On 2010-06-28 00:02:57 -0400, Stephen Hansen said:
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with string queries. For
On Jun 27, 8:33 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
I'm disappointed, usually when you sit on your reinforced soapbox and
pretense the air of infinite expertise you at least use reasonable
logic.
Kindly stop inventing straw men to
On Jun 27, 9:02 pm, Stephen Hansen me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io wrote:
On 6/27/10 8:48 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
I don't know the exact details of all of these, but I'm going to opine
that at least some of these are easily expressible with a function
call API. Perhaps more naturally than with
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
On Jun 27, 8:33 pm, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
I'm disappointed, usually when you sit on your reinforced soapbox and
pretense the air of infinite expertise you at least use
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