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by anthonyb 14y ago
Perhaps Fred is underpaid and needs a raise? I'm not sure where you're going with that analogy. It all depends on whether Fred's spending his money wisely or not.
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They're fat because they can't afford decent food and have to eat crap. Assumptions don't get you anywhere.
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I wouldn't wish PHP on anyone - even a bastard ;)
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Don't use a swap partition. That's typically the cause of early flash death. I have an old EeePC 901, with 12GB of onboard flash - it's still going after 2-3 years of relatively heavy use.
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> Should you spend $100K to live another 10 years or would you rather your grandchildren go to college? I'll take "false dichotomies" for $200, Bob. Or, to put it less facetiously, how much money do you think you could make with 10 year
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People used to make similar arguments in favour of assembly language, ie. you can't be a programmer unless you can drill down to the bare metal and make it do backflips/squeeze every last bit of performance out. Now computers are faster, co
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I know lots of really good programmers who wouldn't necessarily be able to describe the details of linked list algorithms or malloc. They're doing high level stuff with numpy/scipy, or working on web frameworks, and whether they know malloc
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This is for people learning to program, remember? If they have to install Mono, that's just an extra hurdle, and doesn't get them any closer to their goal vs. just using Python.
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Now you're just being an ass. What makes you think insert is important anyway? The typical use cases for an array/list are pop, append and indexing. Python's list implementation uses arrays, not linked lists, internally for exactly this rea
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Well then obviously you'd want someone who can deal with C. "DeepDuh" indeed. But you're talking hypotheticals - I can do that too: if you suddenly need big data then "Oops", you're going to want someone who knows Hadoop or Erlang. If you n
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So tomorrow we're all going to go back and start programming our web apps in C? Give me a break. Ask the right questions for the position. Python also does not have memory management or allocation, linked lists or "volatile". Memory managem
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Those questions would be stupid to ask for a Python position, unless there was some need for working with C APIs. Why waste your time and the developer's time? Much better to asking about relevant things; some common Python library, or why
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The canonical IT answer applies here: it depends . Learning C is good if you want to learn most of the canonical CS stuff - linked lists, bla, bla, bla. If you want to recommend it to someone who is learning how to program so that they can
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Particularly when you've been up for 3 days straight.
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Points to consider: ★ The "work for less" argument sounds like a weasel game. If you're playing weasel games before I've even started working for you, what are the odds that you'll continue playing games? Pretty high, I'd say. ★ $100/hour f
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Dev: "thanks for your time."
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It's not really a pattern though, is it? The row numbers are spaced closely enough that there'll be some space between people. You might get some people who don't pick their seat but just grab the nearest patch of carpet. I doubt that would
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Yes it does - just go stand on the carpet with your family.
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This is something that I tried to cover when I wrote my book (Hello! Python). Most experienced devs will have a library of stuff which they crib from to get going, or which solves tricky problems or library issues that they had. Beginners d
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Yes, the title is definitely out of whack with the article. My take is that a key part of learning how to program (or anything new, in general) is in the motivation - if your student is just "kicking the tyres" then forcing them to commit $
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Which packages? I'm curious, because unless you're trying to work in Python 2 and 3 at the same time, I can't think of any packages which don't support 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7. And I've been programming in Python about 10 years or so. Unless you
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GP was talking about built in modules in the standard library. I don't think they use distutils, but many of them still have some sort of version number.
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I hate PHP's standard library - I find it to be weird and inconsistent, arguments are in a random order, etc. and Python to be not so bad. I suspect this is because you have a lot of PHP experience, and I have a lot of Python experience :
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> it would have know way of understanding that the version was already included within the standard library Other than by introspecting which packages are installed, that is. Most of them will have a VERSION, __version__ or _version att
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My main issue with that attitude is that it primarily comes from older users with a ton of karma. Of course you don't need to worry about it.
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This is essentially why I wrote the script. My reflection is that you used to be able to disagree with someone on HN and have a discussion. It was occasionally heated, but nobody really took it personally. These days, anything mildly contro
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This is one of the downsides to the karma game - people tend to be reluctant to do anything which will hurt their score. Stories are dead after about 12 hours, and almost nobody checks their comments unless they're in a flame war.
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What do you have against jquery?
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I doubt it makes much difference once jQuery's loaded the first time, but I'll have a play around with it when I have a minute. There's some lag currently while it searches the page and replaces attributes, but it's fast enough for my needs

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