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1. 451.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   What a petty man.
2. 452.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   I think that if the instructors are allowed to be lazy enough to use a test bank, then students can't be blamed for using it as well.
3. 453.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   And she's got a double-space after "sad".
4. 454.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   I've been wondering for a long time, and this might be a good opportunity to ask: How do you pronounce "Buchheit"?
5. 455.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   Maybe the early startups should just be more patient?
6. 456.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   I want to see a current battleground along with a prediction of which one is the toy and which one is the non-toy. I agree. I'd be happy to see an additional article which explores a bunch of current technology battles as toy vs. enterpri
7. 457.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   Thanks for the corrections, I edited the article a bit. (I'm still comfortable calling the Arduino a "microcontroller with some software included" since this is what Wikipedia is calling it.)
8. 458.▲
   by cool-RR 16y ago

   Regarding the mainframes, I changed it now from "extinct" to "almost extinct".
9. 459.▲
   Technology principle: The toy will win(blog.garlicsim.org)

   75 points by cool-RR 16y ago|38 comments
10. 460.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I agree. However some of the reason for the anger may be that anger sells more Slate magazines than intelligent discussion would.
11. 461.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    If I'm not mistaken, (please correct me if I'm wrong,) Don Dodge's job is to do PR for Google. So this seems like just band-aid for the bad PR from Lars Rasmussen's departure to Facebook.
12. 462.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    The PhD is a set of projects, but the person is recognized not by the projects but by the degree. (As in "That guy's a doctor" and not "That's that guy who built the awesome Foobsnicator project".) This is what the argument is about here, t
13. 463.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    These kind of annoying disputes are a result of people basing their professional reputation on a degree, instead of basing it on projects.
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    Thinking of your software as a butler is difficult but important(blog.garlicsim.org)

    42 points by cool-RR 16y ago|13 comments
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    The value of a startup idea, or “Are startup ideas worthless?”(blog.garlicsim.org)

    2 points by cool-RR 16y ago|0 comments
16. 466.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    It's funny that you don't simply hire someone to do this.
17. 467.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I think PayPal has become bad enough to justify taking the "suitable alternative" search to the next level. Like considering a change of career or company strategy.
18. 468.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    My advice is: Before you think "how many months/years it will take me to create program X", just dive in for a couple of weeks to basic programming. The information you'll have from this experience will allow you to decide much more wisely
19. 469.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I agree. It might be good to have some distinction between promises and predictions on this hypothetical site.
20. 470.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I had an idea similar to this in my mind for years. My working title for it is BullshitTracker. Feel free to do it. It will basically track every famous person's promise or prediction. So for example Steve Ballmer will have a page where thi
21. 471.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    How does Psyco break Python's semantics? I'm using Psyco for years and I didn't know that it did.
22. 472.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    It's great that you got valuable information and that you're humble enough to realize you should readjust your plans to give people what they really need. I'm really looking forward to your beta! (P.S.: Your blog shows up in some foreign la
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    `uncertainties` module lets you make calculations while keeping track of errors(blog.garlicsim.org)

    4 points by cool-RR 16y ago|0 comments
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    The Hummus Manifesto: Problems with entrepreneurship in Israel(sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com)

    4 points by cool-RR 16y ago|0 comments
25. 475.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    Yes, but with most functions there's no choice, because most of the functions in your program do something (a) complex and/or (b) specific to your program. This `get_single` function falls into neither of these categories.
26. 476.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I'd avoid doing this, because people who'll read your code would have to check themselves what the `get_single` function does. Also, the performance here is probably much worse. (Although in many cases it would not matter.) But that's just
27. 477.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    More often than not you are receiving a list from some function, not constructing it manually. As an example: Say you have a GUI widget that can contain many entries, and you call `widget.get_entries()` which returns a list with all the ent
28. 478.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    I see what you mean. In this case it's indeed questionable whether this idiom would improve the code. The only improvement I can offer for this code is to fix the Yoda conditions :)
29. 479.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    Therefore this post, so people will have this knowledge.
30. 480.▲
    by cool-RR 16y ago

    Duck-typing means you don't assume that the object is from a certain type; Instead you assume that it's got the interfaces you need. (Either `.__iter__()` or `.__getitem__(0)` in this case.) `.__iter__()` is a more general and common interf