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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 1 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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bla2 ◴[12 Jul 18 16:02 UTC] No.17515883[source]▶
> I don't ever want to have to fight so hard for a PEP and find that so many people despise my decisions.

Leading a large open source project must be terrible in this age of constant outrage :-(

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sjm-lbm ◴[12 Jul 18 16:09 UTC] No.17515955[source]▶
It's PHP and not Python, but every time I read something like this from a major open source figure, I always think of this old PHP mailing list thread:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50696

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ErikAugust ◴[12 Jul 18 16:54 UTC] No.17516461[source]▶
I'm sure 'endosquid.com' is currently being by hammered by people wanting to find out who was so rude and unreasonable.
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Operyl ◴[12 Jul 18 17:09 UTC] No.17516603[source]▶
Looks like it has been dead for a bit now.
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1. currysausage ◴[12 Jul 18 18:45 UTC] No.17517457[source]▶
Since 2010, it seems: https://web.archive.org/web/*/endosquid.com

Guess they went out of business before they could typecast all these nasty empty strings.