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by avinashv 18y ago
> I've got my emacs rigged so that, when I type source code, I don't need to press Shift to get symbols out of the top row of keys instead of digits. I'd love to see a method to do this in Vim from anyone.
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by avinashv 18y ago
Now, I'm just waiting for the Memrom optimized build.
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by avinashv 18y ago
Weird. I haven't had a college professor who has to typeset mathematical equations who doesn't know LaTeX.
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by avinashv 18y ago
I agree, but as I tried to make clear in the article, I've only tried to make the code as generalized as possible. For the memoize class for example, you wouldn't care. For the safe class, you'd definitely write in more exceptions to hand
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by avinashv 18y ago
Not really familiar with TurboGears, but it's always awesome to see an app leveraging a language's natural power and flexibility. I concur about decorators being "insanely easy to use"--taking the memoization example I presented in the arti
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Python Decorators: Wonderful and beautiful syntactic sugar (avinashv.net)
8 points by avinashv 18y ago|5 comments
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Python and the Twitter API(avinashv.net)
3 points by avinashv 18y ago|0 comments
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by avinashv 19y ago
Beat me to the punch. Tabs is all I would have missed (I switched to OS X at Leopard).
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by avinashv 19y ago
What's the big deal with Terminal.app? I honestly don't see it--maybe I'm not power user enough, but it's fine for me.
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by avinashv 19y ago
Agreed. > The lambda alternative (which would make a great blog name) I'm stealing that.
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by avinashv 19y ago
I mentioned it in the article: map was going to be deprecated in 3000, but now will return iterators. Contextually, not what you want.
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by avinashv 19y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'll update the article. Edit: updated. Edit 2: apparently there's some controversy. I'm looking for a definitive answer.
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Getting in the Python Mindset: What is Pythonic?(avinashv.net)
20 points by avinashv 19y ago|17 comments
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Hover Menu: Extending jQuery's "animate"(avinashv.net)
1 points by avinashv 19y ago|0 comments
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by avinashv 19y ago
A student group I am a member of screened this on Tuesday for the campus. Good stuff, I liked it more than I imagined I would. I've been told it deviates somewhat from the book, which I need to pick up.
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by avinashv 19y ago
twitter @avinashv http://avinashv.tumblr.com is Tumblr
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by avinashv 19y ago
I'm @avinashv. Most of my friends tend to use more traditional IM or vanilla email, so I don't use the thing at all.
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by avinashv 19y ago
Not a bad reference for newbies, but this lacks some important things (dictionaries, tuples, list comprehensions, lambdas etc.). Also, the arrow-style explanations don't lend well to a quick-search reference.
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by avinashv 19y ago
Beautiful presentation for the main app, although I don't like the way two tabs are laid out for choosing whether you want to create a new question or make a quiz for your blog on the "Write" page. Addictive app, though. How are you guys
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by avinashv 19y ago
I'm not so sure about this code. Personally, I'd use jQuery, which has stuff to make this a lot easier. I haven't looked at the code, but Google turns up http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/design/css-dock-menu/
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by avinashv 19y ago
I spent 20 years in Dubai, and when this article came up on other sites months ago, it urked me how many mistakes there were. I'll address the glaring ones. 1. No, that's not true. Taxi drivers usually have a <i>great</i>
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by avinashv 19y ago
There's weed everywhere. Here, too.
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by avinashv 19y ago
You're right, that didn't occur to me. I don't type "www." and I would imagine a lot of people don't. Then again, I can't say for certain people like my dad understand that you can remove it.
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by avinashv 19y ago
This article is pretty old, and I've seen it pop up a few times on many of the other social news sites, but that isn't my problem. Something that has always bugged me is some of the ludicrous claims in the article. Take the following: "It