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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]▶

>>17515883 #

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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vxNsr ◴[12 Jul 18 16:34 UTC] No.17516240[source]▶

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O_o I wonder how many times I've spoken to someone and didn't realize who it was/how important they were because of the anonymity of the internet.

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1. jmmcd ◴[13 Jul 18 11:06 UTC] No.17521892{3}[source]▶

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I wrote to Ken Thompson when I was an undergrad doing a history of computing essay. And he wrote back with a potted autobiography! It was probably a bit before email became the scourge that it is now.

The sad part is: I lost the email in a transition from one machine/set of floppy disk backups to another.

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