convore.json/groups/pycon-2011/useful-namespaces-context-managers-and-decorators-jack-diederich/messages.json

[{"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871606.516598, "message": "oh, that makes me feel better.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325833}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871630.6554921, "message": "@alex ah", "group_id": 373, "id": 325840}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299871486.3282659, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871459.6362679, "message": "\"working set\" is a handy metaphor", "group_id": 373, "id": 325801}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871563.3421431, "message": "did not know about the lru_cache", "group_id": 373, "id": 325826}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871602.0885091, "message": "@mwhooker I am ashamed to admit I didn't either", "group_id": 373, "id": 325832}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299871671.266077, "user_id": 10411}, {"date_created": 1299873906.0669601, "user_id": 18843}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871653.324064, "message": "functools.wraps is the bomb diggity", "group_id": 373, "id": 325845}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871520.913554, "message": "PHP gives me nerdchills", "group_id": 373, "id": 325816}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871647.426183, "message": "still don't know what lru_cache is", "group_id": 373, "id": 325843}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871672.8953199, "message": "who's going to write a decorator decorator decorator?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325849}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871761.0648429, "message": "so it's constrained memoization of sorts?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325872}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872087.0606251, "message": "@ericflo because _lt_ returns the same value when the value is eq or gt", "group_id": 373, "id": 325964}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871507.7831349, "message": "Decorator/Manager Mashup sounds pretty interesting", "group_id": 373, "id": 325811}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871597.823014, "message": "@mwhooker its brand spanking new", "group_id": 373, "id": 325831}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872488.3020861, "message": "Danit, why does VanL need to be so smart?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326103}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872715.465776, "message": "i didnt have a better question", "group_id": 373, "id": 326146}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872116.3259971, "message": "I think this talk just went Godwin's Law on us...", "group_id": 373, "id": 325974}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872568.975039, "message": "lol, this guys' discussion was a total topic of discussion at the language summit", "group_id": 373, "id": 326117}, {"user_id": 1844, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871673.1475041, "message": "what's a good use case for functools.wraps?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325850}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871689.1797459, "message": "@ericflo Who isn't?!", "group_id": 373, "id": 325853}, {"user_id": 210, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299871735.8340139, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871694.7926781, "message": "That is hot (total_ordering).", "group_id": 373, "id": 325855}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871839.681035, "message": "Fun fact: in ActionScript, `isNaN(x)` is orders of magnitude slower than `x != x`", "group_id": 373, "id": 325886}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871928.415509, "message": "or cold fusion, for that matter", "group_id": 373, "id": 325909}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871956.9666431, "message": "i still have fond memories of VB", "group_id": 373, "id": 325920}, {"user_id": 6279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872003.36342, "message": "I'm still pretty sure Cold Fusion exists in the coldest depths of programmer hell.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325937}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872022.723109, "message": "it does, i know of a company in the bay area whose main product is still CF based.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325942}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299871305.2280419, "user_id": 1}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871251.1612041, "message": "I wish I I had a 175 bowling ave.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325756}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871534.723877, "message": "Whoa, he'd like to break the taboo of monkeypatching?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325819}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871554.2033949, "message": "@alex Ahh, cool", "group_id": 373, "id": 325823}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872019.4352541, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872000.7830801, "message": "@wolever use iPython though, much nicer :)\n\n>>> nan = float('nan')\n\n>>> %timeit nan != nan\n1000000 loops, best of 3: 234 ns per loop\n\n>>> %timeit isnan(nan)\n10000000 loops, best of 3: 196 ns per loop", "group_id": 373, "id": 325936}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872183.0070031, "message": "@ericflo oh, there you go", "group_id": 373, "id": 326000}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872233.9523239, "user_id": 208}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872221.292351, "message": "FTR unicodenazi doesn't monkeypatch anything AFAIK", "group_id": 373, "id": 326015}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871533.8818891, "message": "http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/db/transaction.py#L247", "group_id": 373, "id": 325818}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871354.8484321, "message": "I still have PHP nightmares.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325782}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871519.1964331, "message": "@ericflo it's similar to what Djanog has for transactions", "group_id": 373, "id": 325815}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871705.3975289, "message": "@jprice any time you write a decorator that replaces the original decorated function/method", "group_id": 373, "id": 325859}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871714.867085, "message": "@nickstinemates might butcher this, but it's a bounded cache which evicts the \"least recently used\" keys", "group_id": 373, "id": 325860}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871769.297405, "message": "exactly", "group_id": 373, "id": 325874}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871795.7575221, "message": "if you don't want to key on arguments I guess", "group_id": 373, "id": 325878}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871944.9700179, "message": "or not... shocking", "group_id": 373, "id": 325916}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872031.176995, "message": "i used to work for them ;d", "group_id": 373, "id": 325944}, {"user_id": 214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872034.682519, "message": "I don't get total_ordering. You can't actually derive both __eq__ and __gt__ from __lt__, but that's what it looked like he was claiming it did.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325948}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872077.7424819, "message": "Thanks @alex\u2026 Jerk.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325961}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872091.689503, "message": "http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b36cb4602e21/Modules/mathmodule.c#l1587", "group_id": 373, "id": 325966}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872096.0851841, "message": "but this has been the best talk so far", "group_id": 373, "id": 325967}, {"user_id": 19788, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872128.2992201, "message": "@cleverdevil  Oh, man, I miss HyperTalk...", "group_id": 373, "id": 325980}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872375.5825379, "message": "But normally you'd use hash + equality (ie, like a dict)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326077}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872499.2891679, "message": "i like this guy", "group_id": 373, "id": 326104}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872059.589658, "message": "@carljm Why can't you?", "group_id": 373, "id": 325955}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872109.1984301, "message": "@mwhooker so you check both", "group_id": 373, "id": 325971}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872320.532588, "message": "Its like a decorator for stupid users.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326052}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872454.126369, "message": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyMB19q7ms", "group_id": 373, "id": 326096}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872583.9079671, "message": "not that we dislike the current semantics, just that there's fun inconsistancy with C and python functions", "group_id": 373, "id": 326123}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872589.1234879, "message": "I don't have python 3.x installed. Could someone try creating aclist, getting the id(), apped the list, and check if the id changed?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326126}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872802.708565, "message": "I liked how every time someone said something, he said \"the question was...\" and it made it very clear when it wasn't a question.  If that makes sense.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326160}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872807.001152, "message": "@j2d2 (unless there have been *huge* changes to Py3 I'm unaware of)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326161}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871985.962781, "message": "pwned.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325931}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872049.3704741, "message": "O_O", "group_id": 373, "id": 325952}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872069.472306, "message": "Dangit, there's a talk going on, but I'm not listening to it :|", "group_id": 373, "id": 325957}, {"user_id": 6279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872210.8222649, "message": "it makes me laugh everytime I use it", "group_id": 373, "id": 326011}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872227.21134, "message": "it does a small trick with sys, but not a monkeypatch", "group_id": 373, "id": 326018}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871736.60303, "message": "@jprice It saves one level of explicit decorator nesting.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325865}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872031.369729, "message": "@wolever I bet it's an O_ONE func in C, which have a fast path (I got the name wrong)", "group_id": 373, "id": 325945}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872079.8473811, "message": "this chat is more interesting than the talk", "group_id": 373, "id": 325962}, {"user_id": 1127, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872265.1024899, "message": "@scopatz haha I love the name :)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326032}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872315.8702071, "message": "@cleverdevil what's the problem?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326050}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871906.6379349, "message": "you guys with post-traumatic php disorder should be luck you didn't code actionscript, I guess", "group_id": 373, "id": 325904}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871969.2568569, "message": "@nickstinemates are you a sadist? :)", "group_id": 373, "id": 325925}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872017.829277, "message": "@alex oohh, awesome!", "group_id": 373, "id": 325940}, {"user_id": 1127, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872147.368643, "message": "unicodenazi is neat", "group_id": 373, "id": 325989}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872170.562279, "message": "@ericflo I think the premise was that only __lt__ was available", "group_id": 373, "id": 325997}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872334.4303191, "message": "@mwhooker cool, thanks. That function looks very useful.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326059}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872718.872355, "message": "but that was a terrible question", "group_id": 373, "id": 326147}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871880.23103, "message": "@wolever it is in Python as well", "group_id": 373, "id": 325895}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871967.3660231, "message": "@alex I don't think that's true\u2026\n\n>>> timeit.timeit(\"isnan(x)\", \"from math import isnan; x = float('nan')\")\n0.085093975067138672\n>>> timeit.timeit(\"x != x\", \"from math import isnan; x = float('nan')\")\n0.08308100700378418\n>>>", "group_id": 373, "id": 325924}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299871994.9986169, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871983.878412, "message": "@wolever just did the same, I'm totally shocked", "group_id": 373, "id": 325930}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872161.771322, "message": "a < b == False and b < a == False implies a == b", "group_id": 373, "id": 325994}, {"user_id": 6279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872206.089242, "message": "unrelated, but BeautifulSoup has a class called UnicodeDammit", "group_id": 373, "id": 326008}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872298.475563, "message": "Ah, what was the name of that context manager function which let you use yield + try/finally?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326039}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872398.0130861, "message": "(that is, \u201clike a dict uses to store keys\u201d)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326087}, {"user_id": 18601, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872575.410845, "message": "proposed documentation for the \"with\" statement: not VisualBasic's \"with\"; you should use to write a DSL for html.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326119}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872669.74348, "message": "oh lord", "group_id": 373, "id": 326138}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871933.412523, "message": "@mwhooker try the VB sweats. Yowch!", "group_id": 373, "id": 325911}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872037.5015299, "message": "HyperTalk FTW.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325950}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872363.0570531, "message": "@j2d2 you can use `id(x)` to get the identity of x", "group_id": 373, "id": 326072}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872371.3167269, "message": "@cleverdevil you said \"ouch my brain!\"", "group_id": 373, "id": 326075}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299871987.1487479, "message": "@cleverdevil I didn't know any better, I was 9-12", "group_id": 373, "id": 325932}, {"user_id": 6279, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872031.5850279, "message": "*shudder* x 10", "group_id": 373, "id": 325946}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872137.3927219, "message": "@carljm Why not/", "group_id": 373, "id": 325982}, {"user_id": 19788, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872208.464349, "message": "@cleverdevil Buddy of mine and I implemented a rinky-dink Starcraft in HyperCard.  Ah, those were the days. :-)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326010}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872724.698899, "message": "i want an hour of steve holden asking him questions from his memoirs", "group_id": 373, "id": 326148}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872143.948998, "message": "@mpirnat word.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325988}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872234.449604, "message": "@ryanpetrello Hah!", "group_id": 373, "id": 326022}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872302.3235991, "message": "We use UnicodeDammit all the time.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326042}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872349.188077, "message": "whoa", "group_id": 373, "id": 326066}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872483.5520229, "user_id": 20624}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872458.646369, "message": "RED SHIRT GUY", "group_id": 373, "id": 326097}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872896.9795909, "message": "Hmm... Side effects. Drat.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326171}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872333.2882209, "message": "How does python handle identity for objects?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326057}, {"user_id": 7, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872684.344588, "user_id": 228}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872679.7992489, "message": "good lord", "group_id": 373, "id": 326140}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872964.6172259, "message": "And, more importantly, why is it surprising that Python has side effects?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326178}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299873090.247241, "message": "@wolever They make some very tricky bugs.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326190}, {"user_id": 1844, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872036.2596259, "message": "@ryanpetrello Cold Fusion still exists... and certainly is painful for sysadmins...", "group_id": 373, "id": 325949}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872343.7089529, "message": "@nickstinemates which problem?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326064}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872475.820816, "message": "Nice question, buddy.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326100}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872009.82688, "message": "@alex I'm actually surprised too\u2026 Mostly that the function call is that fast.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325938}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872032.65223, "message": "Of course, I \"programmed\" in HyperTalk at age 9, so what am I complaining about.", "group_id": 373, "id": 325947}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872321.4766901, "message": "This context manager / decorator stuff blew my mind a little.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326053}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872359.8490479, "message": "For example, are the memorization decorator safe from side effects?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326070}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872391.086555, "message": "@nickstinemates ah, the whole decorator and manager at the same time thing.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326082}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872423.2791431, "user_id": 14463}, {"date_created": 1299872427.674994, "user_id": 10411}, {"date_created": 1299872447.9206071, "user_id": 20624}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872403.1300089, "message": "\"stunned applause\"", "group_id": 373, "id": 326088}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872201.354409, "message": "OUCH. MY BRAIN.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326002}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872543.3886769, "message": "See https://github.com/alfredodeza/konira for proof", "group_id": 373, "id": 326113}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872618.766113, "message": "s/aclist/a list/", "group_id": 373, "id": 326132}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872886.6974909, "message": "@ericflo and would interrupt the question very well (ask asking a question on the spot can create nerve-wracked wording) and rephrase it for the audience extremely cohesively before trying to answer.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326170}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872167.468545, "message": "@zeeg The name is a turn off", "group_id": 373, "id": 325996}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872319.3450949, "message": "@wolever contextlib.contextmanager I believe", "group_id": 373, "id": 326051}, {"user_id": 20050, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872336.078634, "message": "yeah http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.2.html#contextlib", "group_id": 373, "id": 326060}, {"user_id": 20626, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872378.926851, "message": "wondering what's brain hurting :)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326079}, {"user_id": 560, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872393.0726409, "message": "l = [1]; x = some_memoized_func(l); l.add(2); x = some_memoized_func(l)", "group_id": 373, "id": 326084}, {"user_id": 10411, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872394.295738, "message": "Man I love duck typing!", "group_id": 373, "id": 326085}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872517.4097691, "message": "Language abuse is awesome. I don't care what anyone says.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326107}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872545.3839419, "message": "It's fun to play with\u2026 But in my experience it causes nothing but pain when you start doing it for \"real\" code :\\", "group_id": 373, "id": 326114}, {"user_id": 214, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872580.530122, "message": "@ericflo How can you \"check both\" if all you have is an implementation of __lt__ that returns either True or False? It will return False for both the \"equal\" and \"greater than\" cases.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326121}, {"user_id": 14874, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872584.358989, "message": "That monkeypatch example was rad.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326124}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872645.969095, "message": "did he just say \"a branding issue\"?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326134}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872658.3608689, "message": "This is not going to go well.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326137}, {"user_id": 5699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872691.010375, "message": "*headsmack*", "group_id": 373, "id": 326141}, {"user_id": 1175, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872692.1447101, "message": "now we need /me", "group_id": 373, "id": 326142}, {"user_id": 228, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872713.1322429, "message": "jack is my new q&a hero", "group_id": 373, "id": 326145}, {"user_id": 6279, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299872797.052501, "user_id": 2435}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872726.1660819, "message": "@cleverdevil Let's get Alfredo in a corner and throw rocks at him for Python language abuse", "group_id": 373, "id": 326149}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872783.934737, "message": "@j2d2 it won't change", "group_id": 373, "id": 326157}, {"user_id": 18972, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872784.1965489, "message": "by the # of comments on this talk... sounds worthy of checking out the video later.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326158}, {"user_id": 2435, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872831.2677081, "message": "Language abuse is perfectly fine as long as it is contained and well implemented. PHP is not well implemented.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326164}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299873125.347054, "message": "@j2d2 yes\u2026 But also for very easy implementation :P", "group_id": 373, "id": 326198}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872859.0688109, "message": "@gpshead +1 \u2014 it was a good talk.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326166}, {"user_id": 14463, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872943.290422, "message": "@j2d2 what's wrong with side effects?", "group_id": 373, "id": 326174}, {"user_id": 1844, "stars": [], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299872976.543793, "message": "@wolever ... you ask Dr. Jekyl", "group_id": 373, "id": 326179}, {"user_id": 20660, "stars": [{"date_created": 1299873394.965054, "user_id": 561}, {"date_created": 1299873399.2972729, "user_id": 14463}], "topic_id": 12411, "date_created": 1299873329.7260261, "message": "any chance of getting a look at the slides for this? They went by pretty fast.", "group_id": 373, "id": 326224}]