E. M. Bray

Yeah, I looked at the CParser class in PyYAML just now and immediately went NOPE and closed it. But I was able to skim through and understand your code in...

I've actually been really wanting to write a bit-array dtype for Numpy. I think this would enormously useful and worth the effort, especially for masks and page table-like applications.

This can probably be done like in the `CommentedHeaderHeader` example here: http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/ascii/read.html#advanced-customization but with a [`FixedWidthHeader`](http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/api/astropy.io.ascii.FixedWidthHeader.html#astropy.io.ascii.FixedWidthHeader) as the base class. It would have to offset everything to include space for...

> There are only two hard things about computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. :laughing:

I had a similar thought--that either something like this must be out there or if it's not (or too buried in other code or otherwise difficult to adapt) this seems...

I meant to add, this is related to, but different from #1162. That issues suggests adding an expiration time to cached files, which could also be included in this scheme....

On the other hand [CacheControl](http://cachecontrol.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) seems reasonably powerful. It allows pluggable storage backends (including a persistent store similar to what we use) and can use a combination of time-based and...

Just rediscovered this issue when using Astropy as a nice demonstration of class inheritance diagrams. I can't believe this has been broken for 6 years :exploding_head: I'll have a look...

@alexisGandar Interesting; I thought that seemed a bit sketchy but this old [stack overflow answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/23626119/982257) offers a tantalizing clue: apparently when you launch a task with `singleInstance` it OR's `launchFlags...

I did have a cygwin build machine but at some point I couldn't access it anymore and had to take it down. I think it might have actually been hijacked,...