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by bobbyi 15y ago
If it's any consolation, it doesn't work with javascript either. I middle-clicked the "previously described" link and it took away the blog entry that I was in the middle of reading.
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by bobbyi 15y ago
Python has had proper closures since version 2.2, which is quite old at this point. You can verify this using the following code: def func(): x = [] def func2(): x.append(1) return x ret
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by bobbyi 15y ago
Scala had a CLR version from pretty much the beginning, so I don't think it was designed with the intention of exclusively targeting the JVM.
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by bobbyi 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Affine Systems generates data about online video using computer vision (face recognition, product recognition, scene classification, etc.) for advertisers to use in targeting and filtering their online video campaigns. We
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by bobbyi 15y ago
It would be good to also mention tox which makes it easy to install and test your Python project (and its dependencies) against multiple Python versions/ interpreters via virtualenv: http://codespeak.net/tox/
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by bobbyi 15y ago
People are working on it. For example, Quora is having Alex Gaynor help move their site to PyPy this summer: http://alexgaynor.net/2011/may/06/this-summer/
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by bobbyi 15y ago
> Math is the manipulation of abstract symbols according to abstract rules. That's the definition of a calculus, not the entirety of math. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus : >More generally, calculus (plural calculi) refers t
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by bobbyi 15y ago
Also, any family members or pets that they shot won't be unshot when you demonstrate that your router is open to everyone.
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by bobbyi 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Affine Systems generates data about online video using computer vision (face recognition, product recognition, scene classification, etc.) for advertisers to use in targeting and filtering their online video campaigns. We
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by bobbyi 16y ago
> if someone was selling diapers, and it was 1997, and they bought diapers.com it might actually make sense. And that's just the problem. It's not 1997. Amazon bought (the parent company of) diapers.com less than six months ago for $500
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by bobbyi 16y ago
GET is idempotent. It's fine if the first GET request to a resource has side effects (like creating it on demand).
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by bobbyi 16y ago
KDE 4 was released in January 2008.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way. So I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -Emo Philips
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by bobbyi 16y ago
It would be preferable to use getattr(scipy, x) rather than reaching inside the internals of the object (module).
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Why not just bring an extra (charged) battery when you are camping and swap it in when your phone tells you it is low? Rather than being stuck with the extra weight everywhere you go, you just incur it when you actually will be away from a
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Landlines are from a different era of expected reliability. They carry their own power because it was considered too unreliable to depend on your home's electricity.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Here's a benchmark comparison of PyPy (1.4 and "latest") against CPython 2.6.2: http://speed.pypy.org/comparison/?exe=1%2B172,3%2B172,1%2BL,... It's normalized so that CPython is 1.0 and lower numbers mean faster time on the benchmarks. T
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by bobbyi 16y ago
It lets you define functions on the fly and use them, so the only difference from anonymous functions is that you have to pick a name.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Vim supports scripting with MzScheme, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and Lua.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
The Flash VM used for Actionscript 3 (AVM2) is supposedly a total rewrite from Flash 8, so theoretically most of the codebase is pretty recent.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Is Google going to follow suit? They were the other ones to vote against Java SE 7 on the same grounds and seem to share Apache's concerns.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Similar confusion arises from the AT&T and Intel syntaxes for x86 assembly which differ in the order of operands: Intel: mov bx, 100 AT&T: mov $100, %bx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_assembly_language#Syntax
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Having the flexibility to choose between those is better than having your hands tied and not being able to make the choice. According to this article, the effect of TDD is to remove your ability to defer that decision until a time when you
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by bobbyi 16y ago
The ultimate goal would be to live in a world where nobody wants to blow up planes.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
I use Dolphin as my web browser primarily because it allows using the volume buttons to switch tabs. I haven't run into any problems and it's convinced me that more apps should offer similar options for using those buttons.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
Michael Bayer's other project, the Mako templating system, is excellent as well http://www.makotemplates.org/
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by bobbyi 16y ago
I don't understand why they need OS support to build DRM into their app. Amazon has a Kindle reader for Android that handles their DRM'd books. Apple sold music on Windows for years with the DRM system built into their app rather than provi
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by bobbyi 16y ago
> Safari has too small of a % to be relevant (except mobile obv) And IE has too small a % to be relevant, except on Windows.
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by bobbyi 16y ago
The article says there were 20 million Android devices sold in the US in Q3. This article: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Apple-iPad-T... says that in Q3 Apple sold 2 million computers in the US which was 10.6% of the tot
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by bobbyi 16y ago
You should probably (if it's possible to edit) add Objective C for people doing iPhone development. Also, Actionscript/ Flash might be nice to include since it would be interesting to see how its usage compares to Javascript.

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