Clark Fitzgerald

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I started playing with this today and like the new functionality where the person writing the `%

Keeping the API simple sounds great. I was thinking of only modifying the `lazy` argument if it isn't explicitly set. For example, suppose `authenticate()` takes a few seconds and is...

> I think this is a use case where "time will tell" and built-in support can be added later. Sounds good.

It may also be useful to link to a more thorough explanation of best practices, ie: http://library.stanford.edu/research/data-management-services/data-best-practices/best-practices-file-naming which talks about incorporating dates to filenames, etc.

I just read the portion in the lesson again and see that it doesn't mention __consistency__, which is the most important thing in my mind. That is, if you join...

Another possible way to make this clear and simple for users is to list positive and negative examples along with the explanations, ie: Safe names for files: - `report.txt` simple,...

I appreciate the thoughts on file versioning. The use case with large files I described above was dumps of a database after various changes were made in the system. In...

The more general question here is: what's SWC's stance on external links to resources that aren't official documentation? Before bringing it up on the mailing list maybe maintainer @gdevenyi can...