catwind7

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Working with Python Sets(linisnil.com)
1 points by catwind7 6y ago|0 comments
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How to Use Multiple Versions of Python Using Pyenv and Virtualenv(linisnil.com)
1 points by catwind7 6y ago|0 comments
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by catwind7 6y ago
that's really sad :(. 300 light years ... gonna take a while. maybe the filter is space travel - no civilization is able to amass enough energy to go those distances
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by catwind7 6y ago
that said, the likelihood of there being _no_ filter is still lower than the others. if we detect life so near to us and _yet_ we still have yet to encounter life from another planet means there's likely still _some_ kind of filter. So
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by catwind7 6y ago
just learned about the "great filter", very interesting. I think it does mean that our observation tech is not good previously - it also sounds like if we did start observing life, the fact that we have yet to be visited / co
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by catwind7 6y ago
gotcha. I also get the feeling that GP was more interested in being right vs actually knowing how to get the emitter to emit assembly. It felt like the followup was just gonna be ... well WHAT ABOUT BINARY?
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by catwind7 6y ago
i think you succeeded in communicating your thoughts and feelings in spite of the metaphor. there are plenty of documentation in the form of tutorials on for nearly every aspect of every programming language I can think of. I think it'
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by catwind7 6y ago
there's certainly equivalent assembler, but depending on the architecture you're targeting this can be a pretty monumental task. Even a single function call can be north of a hundred lines or something (i'm making this up :D
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by catwind7 6y ago
nand2tetris is a great course that shows you how to design a computer from the chip level, build an assembler, and write a high level language + compiler that eventually produces the assembly code for the machine architecture _you_ built. I
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by catwind7 6y ago
so what if it is? i know what the bike shedding metaphor is and frankly you're stretching it a bit because all this person is trying to do is educate and they're not even saying this is the only way to do it. seems odd to pull out
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by catwind7 6y ago
this seems a bit like a false dichotomy - I don't think that's how the software industry is structured. Maybe it's how companies with dev teams in _certain_ industries are structured. I've even had managers in the past w
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by catwind7 6y ago
> not understanding something — or having a bug in your thinking — bothers you a lot. I find this to be true for nearly all of the best co-workers I've had. I think this is the same reason people enjoy debugging software. It's
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by catwind7 6y ago
yeah, this hits home for me because my team just spent a couple of years trying to get a product right and now it's on the verge of being replaced. I think I've typically associated that mantra with pure software companies, so it&
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by catwind7 6y ago
i agree. I think this is why I find companies like tesla and spacex exciting. They seem to have set up incentive structures that encourage _both_ quick execution and innovation (which requires deep understanding). One thing he's said t
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Pros and Cons of Different Approaches to Unit Testing External APIs in Python(linisnil.com)
1 points by catwind7 6y ago|0 comments
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by catwind7 6y ago
oh my god this is so cool. I just played a round of C.S in my browser. still letting that sink in.
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by catwind7 6y ago
hey thanks for catching that - turns out leaving out the protocol in markdown causes makes it a relative url. fixed.
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by catwind7 6y ago
thank you for this. We will be checking this out!
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by catwind7 6y ago
yeah so I have a user-agent generator that uses a random (valid) agent for each request. that, combined with cookies enabled, still didn't seem enough to get around the anti-robot barrier 100% of the time. 20% of the time, I get stoppe
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by catwind7 6y ago
I actually did notice that issue, even with using a stateful client like mechanize. Sometimes I had to scrape > 5 times in order to get through the "anti robot" page. Other times, I get no issue at all. It's weird - maybe
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by catwind7 6y ago
Not an advertisement for amazon prime :) These are free with prime, not free for non-subscribers I'm actually going to be cancelling my prime membership, which is another reason I wanted to see what I could watch for "free".
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by catwind7 6y ago
Author here. The list (both on my post + the google sheet) should be correct now - I underestimated how many different releases of the SAME movie title there are ... Thanks all for catching the mistakes.
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by catwind7 6y ago
i'm fixing this list ... just realized a few bugs in the code. sigh
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by catwind7 6y ago
updated the list. Thanks for the catch! sorry about that. I'm using an `in` keyword which just checks substrings ... that I meant to change. Woops
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by catwind7 6y ago
oh I need to try that - I had this feeling that there was a more stateful version but for ..... some reason ... reaching for a new dependency felt easier at the time haha. Thanks
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Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime(linisnil.com)
197 points by catwind7 6y ago|129 comments
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Python Context Manager Specification (PEP 343) with Python Code(linisnil.com)
2 points by catwind7 6y ago|0 comments
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Intro to Reading and Modifying Unix Permissions (In Plain English)(linisnil.com)
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Why Numbering Should Start at Zero(xahlee.info)
1 points by catwind7 6y ago|0 comments
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by catwind7 6y ago
To be frank, I'm not sure. I'll probably always keep a basic features free and have a price for integrations. What do you think about that?

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