I hate slashdot: Python 3000 is incompatible?!!!

February 1st, 2008 § 10 comments

A sen­sa­tion­al­ist title, sum­mary and nor­mal slash­dot com­menters: “Python 3.0 To Be Back­wards Incom­pat­i­ble”

I get more insight­ful com­men­tary and dis­cus­sions on Ron Paul arti­cles from Digg. :|

edit to add: Mar­tijn Faassen calls me out for call­ing out the head­line. I under­stand his points and his present (and past) con­cerns, there is some valid­ity to approach­ing this (the future, py3k) with caution.

  • Doug Napoleone

    Remark­ably most of the higher rated com­ments are good now. Things seem to be set­tling down. Yes there are still idiot posts, but most now have rebut­tals that are by peo­ple who can actu­ally think.

    Slash­dot is no longer ‘news for nerds and stuff that mat­ters’ and has become the tech equiv­a­lent of the Enquirer.

    I just wish the posts about speech recog­ni­tion were as well thought out. It seems that every­one thinks that speech recog­ni­tion is:

    1. Any audio source in -> text out
    2. That stuff I use on the phone that never works
    3. Was awful on my 400Mhz machine 5 years ago, sucks, and will never ever be any good (because of x, y, and z which are all dead wrong assump­tions about noth­ing in particular).

  • http://farmdev.com/ kumar303

    what’s slightly more alarm­ing is the arti­cle that got slash­dot­ted doesn’t men­tion any­thing about the 2to3 migra­tion script. I also just noticed that googling “python 2 to 3 migra­tion script” gives you no use­ful infor­ma­tion what­so­ever. Not to men­tion, googling “python 2to3” gives you a con­fus­ing svn repos­i­tory layout.

  • jnoller

    I think given it’s still in alpha, it’s ok to expect there won’t be a lot of infor­ma­tion fly­ing around about migra­tion. Build­ing a test plan/migration plan on shift­ing sand is dif­fi­cult at best.

    That being said, more infor­ma­tion about what efforts there are to work on tran­si­tional tools and releases in a more focused loca­tion would be nice.

  • jnoller

    I used to work for one of the /. crowd’s favorite whip­ping boys (hint, flash) and now I work for a stor­age com­pany, and the gen­eral misinformation/lack of infor­ma­tion has been get­ting worse.

  • http://holdenweb.com/ steve

    How typ­i­cal of slash­dot to try and make news of infor­ma­tion that’s over a year old.

  • jnoller

    Yes, sad but true. If they only had pic­tures of bat boy, it would be complete.

  • http://jessenoller.com jnoller

    I think given it’s still in alpha, it’s ok to expect there won’t be a lot of infor­ma­tion fly­ing around about migra­tion. Build­ing a test plan/migration plan on shift­ing sand is dif­fi­cult at best.

    That being said, more infor­ma­tion about what efforts there are to work on tran­si­tional tools and releases in a more focused loca­tion would be nice.

  • http://jessenoller.com jnoller

    I used to work for one of the /. crowd’s favorite whip­ping boys (hint, flash) and now I work for a stor­age com­pany, and the gen­eral misinformation/lack of infor­ma­tion has been get­ting worse.

  • http://holdenweb.com/ steve

    How typ­i­cal of slash­dot to try and make news of infor­ma­tion that’s over a year old.

  • http://jessenoller.com jnoller

    Yes, sad but true. If they only had pic­tures of bat boy, it would be complete.

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