According to the very knowledgeable folks on the pizzamaking.com forums, the best surface to bake pizza and/or bread is between 0.5 and 1" of cordierite, which is the kind of ceramic you find in pottery kilns. That's what I use with excellent results.
Previously the only hankering I got from reading HN was to acquire some technical book. Now I'm nearly shopping for cookware after reading these posts on best cookware.
Well, ORMs are useless if you're of the opinion that string interpolation and concatenation are a good way of composing logical units. Many of us prefer a proper API for doing that, and good ORMs like SQLAlchemy provide us with one.
PDO in PHP has parameter binding and a way of loading a row from a resultset into a class. Safe, simple, and flexible. That's good enough for me. YMMV.
LINQ is a black-box that is often disastrous for application performance. The more LINQ in a project, the more likely the project is headed to failure.
are you aware that LINQ is not only about database access
Yes, I am aware. How is this relevant at all to the context of this thread?
The rest of your comment: You are simply wrong. A heavy use of LINQ is one of the surest sign that one needs to run from a project. It is almost always used and embraced by people who have no concept of the consequences, imagining that the conciseness of LINQ = programming goodness, when the opposite is generally true.
Cool about psdash, the commit didn't exist when I started to write the comment :)
Twisted and Scrapy are getting ported, and the community is moving forward. But this is not happening because of a miracle - people are making it happen. My point was not that Python 3.x is bad (I think it is good), it was that community still needs help, that writing alternative software is not the best way to do it, and that there are still reasons why writing new Python 2.x code is easier.
Praising 3.x won't make users switch if they need some unported package, and bashing 3.x won't make other people's lives easier either. So let's help twisted, scrapy and other modules to become 3.x compatible.
Scrapy reached an important milestone recently - its test runner can now run tests under Python 3.x; test runner was the main reason why porting haven't really started before. If anybody wants to help then ping me kmike84 at gmail.com, or check https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/682, or go to ScrapingHub booth at PyCon and talk to people there.
