Goladus

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by Goladus 14y ago
You can always install from source and pass --prefix and --exec-prefix options to ./configure. Virtualenv is not strictly necessary to run in an isolated environment. And as for whether virtualenv should have been part of the OS... it alre
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by Goladus 14y ago
Sort of, but they necessarily approach the problem from different vectors. An operating system design with a seamless, straightforward, easy-to-use mechanism for handling all potential dependency conflicts on a multi-purpose, multi-user sys
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by Goladus 14y ago
> I'll see your Joel Spolsky and raise you Possibly not necessary. The underlying theme with Joel's point, if you look past the hyperbole, is that you don't want to take successful software and start over, re-implementing everything f
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by Goladus 15y ago
That's not what codeblocks does, though. You use a with statement and a new operator (<<). Then use indentation for the blocks. It doesn't look like you're passing a block to a function. The result is quirky code that will be ha
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by Goladus 15y ago
> How would you solve this in Python? The question is how does codeblocks solve this problem in Python, not how does Haskell solve this problem in Haskell.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I understand anonymous code blocks is something that python doesn't do natively and other languages can do. What I don't understand is why it's worth the bother, given the hoops one must jump through to get it to work in Python specificall
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by Goladus 15y ago
Interesting, but I'm having a hard time seeing how this syntax saves me much in terms of code size and complexity compared to just wrapping the code blocks into named functions and passing those.
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by Goladus 15y ago
He's the only one making that point, though, and it's a point worth making.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> The fraction of the total waste stream that you can affect is irrelevant when deciding whether to recycle. Any single industrial waste creator could make the same argument-- my company only creates 0.001% of the waste stream, so it do
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by Goladus 15y ago
Men who are inappropriately aggressive get kicked in the balls, then get called a bitch (by men) or loser (by women). Alternately they are simply considered irritating and are ignored until they go away. If there's an equivalent insult in
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by Goladus 15y ago
For men, the startup legend is one they would like to fulfill Ah, but why do you think that is? It's not the really legend they are chasing, for the most part. Men are competitive, driven to be successful, make lots of money, and driven
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by Goladus 15y ago
In my experience the main problem with older tablets (pre-2006) was that they had a horrible usability/cost ratio. If you had lots of cash to blow (from corporate IT budgets) on gadgets you could get a slow, awkward version of windows to b
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by Goladus 15y ago
The goal wasn't "tightly packed" the goal was "one line." In Python that means, essentially, one expression. That's what makes it a stunt.
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by Goladus 15y ago
While I don't think the title and point of the article is exactly wrong , it doesn't fairly consider the potential difference between one or two people failing to power down their devices and several hundred people using multiple devices.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I hate this sort of comment. It's naive. You're just using different semantics for "advertisement." When people talk about advertising they mean something more direct; where an advertiser pays a content-provider to insert arbitrary c
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by Goladus 15y ago
> MySpace failed because a better competitor came along. It had a history of predators, spammers, and viruses, and was hard to use well. (Did you see the pages people made?). A big reason facebook was better is that it wasn't crudded up
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by Goladus 15y ago
> Facebook has far more intrusive ads than myspace did.. MySpace had surprise obnoxious audio ads, MySpace had "punch the monkey and win" flash ads, MySpace had header banners inserted above all of the content you wanted to see. Faceboo
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by Goladus 15y ago
The fate of MySpace suggests otherwise. The existence of radio stations exuberantly announcing "commercial free this hour!" suggests otherwise. The prevalence of adblock suggests otherwise. Ads are inherently disruptive, most people DO mi
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by Goladus 15y ago
"Play ball" is a popular baseball phrase, commonly shouted by the umpire after performance of the National Anthem. In fact I would say the American-ized version is less clumsy and more poetic.
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by Goladus 15y ago
The outline and first section of the tutorial look really good to me, though the pages are taking forever to load.
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by Goladus 15y ago
> There are two basic components in house prices: the cost of land and the cost of construction. Those are the components of house cost, not price. Price is determined by supply and demand. Take two identical houses on the same street
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by Goladus 15y ago
The language stuff is only part true. It's true enough, perhaps, that it's not usually the most important thing to emphasize on a resume, especially if you're doing simple CRUD apps, but nevertheless programming languages and their impleme
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by Goladus 15y ago
> It's not that great a career; you have to love it to stick with it forever. Many are driven to stick with it because if they don't, they'll get deported.
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by Goladus 15y ago
I think it's more likely he wasn't worried so much about gotcha-style internet scrutiny than making a general point about diminishing returns.
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by Goladus 15y ago
Yeah, you might be able to get a high-paying recent-grad job but odds are you won't, either because you don't make the cut technically (the bar is high) or because your job-finding, interviewing, and negotiating skills are crap. Often, it's
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by Goladus 15y ago
From what I can tell, knowing several who have earned or are pursuing PhDs, is that an academic career requires a long-term commitment and a willingness to do a lot of hard work for rewards that are a long ways off (and not guaranteed).
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by Goladus 15y ago
> If you want car drivers to respect bikers, stop running red lights and stop signs. Sometimes this is true, but often it's not. Often, the person in the car is just jealous and angry that the cyclist breaking rules and getting away wi
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by Goladus 15y ago
> How the hell can you hold such a paradoxical statement? I think in this case, the paradox unravels if you realize that I precisely chose the words "having a child" instead of "raising a child." The decision to mate is usually selfish,
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by Goladus 15y ago
> I think it's incredibly selfish to bring new kids into the world when there are so many that nobody wants. Having a child is a selfish thing to do regardless. That's not really much of an accusation.
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by Goladus 15y ago
It's worth knowing given the intent of the original post.

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