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by costan 17y ago
Oops, got below 0 for the first time. Sorry, I was joking a bit, didn't mean to be offensive. I didn't mean to offend python (this time). I think learning different languages helps the mind, and I try to experiment with at least 1 new langu
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by costan 17y ago
I think the point was that laws that are meant to protect some categories of people can end up hurting them more. Most people's instinctive reaction would be "let's add another anti-discrimination law". The post gives an example of how that
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by costan 17y ago
Haha, I was just thinking this rocks for Ruby and other upcoming languages. If people don't have new Python features to play with, they can spend the time learning new languages. I hope the proposal gets accepted, because I don't like pytho
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by costan 17y ago
That's because Ruby folks don't work on that as a community. We're all working on our pet projects, instead of helping get ruby1.9 into the popular OSes -- there's no one-click installer for Windows or OSX, and packages for various linux di
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by costan 17y ago
Great people and work environment, low pay and perks, not immigrant friendly. And they've been doing the iOffers for a long time now. I was an intern in 2006, and they looked just like that back then.
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by costan 17y ago
You should replace the colored water images on the left of each page with actual signatures. The colored water images are overly generic, and that's really disappointing coming from a business that claims to do visual design. Having signatu
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by costan 17y ago
I think it would be a good idea to put one sample report up on the site.
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by costan 17y ago
My sleeping schedule is unimpressed by my eating schedule. On the other hand, obeying the golden rule in the article helps me lose weight. I tracked my weight for the past 4 months with the Wii Fit, and there's pretty good correlation betwe
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by costan 17y ago
Got energized again to work on my Web service-backed iPhone app http://istockplay.com Does this count? I'll admit that, right now, it's little more than a tech demo for my iPhone libraries: http://github.com/costan/zergsupport - iPhone-
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by costan 17y ago
"So if food labels are giving consumers a potentially misleading picture of their dietary choices, what should be done about it? For many nutritionists, the answer is nothing." (the following phrases say revamping the system is too expensiv
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by costan 17y ago
The enterprise program lets you issue a provisioning profile that's not tied to UUIDs. Translation: you can have as many app users as you want. On the other hand... there's no easy way to charge. The provisioning profile is all that's neede
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by costan 17y ago
So... it's a cloud, but the database has to fit in one machine's RAM. Wow, Microsoft. Wow. Too bad. I was hoping they'd make a decent attempt at cloud hosting, so the Google App Engine sees some competition, and we get better pricing overal
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by costan 17y ago
I would argue that if your company has 50 people, you should already be budgeting for infrastructure, and the sudden jump in costs shouldn't take you by surprise. And $50/user/yr is still a hard-to-beat price if you're making good use of th
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by costan 17y ago
Releasing software into the public domain is tricky. I don't know a good way to do that, without running the risk that big company M will take the software, get a patent on it, and then sue me for writing my own software. Disclaimer: this i
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by costan 17y ago
Why do they need the dealers again? It seems to me that the dealerships are an even worse ripoff than real-estate agents.
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by costan 17y ago
"I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone -- employers and employees -- from the issues that really matter." I thin
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by costan 17y ago
It also looks like misaligned incentives to me. If ICANN is getting $25k / year per TLD... do they really want to notice? Won't they decide that they're better off waiting until there's a lawsuit? (that way they won't have to refund the 25k
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by costan 17y ago
I'm not sure $100/year is right... think experiments and personal domains. Plus it's an awful lot of money for people in other countries. It would be nice if ICANN or someone would shut down the big squatters though. Everyone knows what the
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by costan 17y ago
I believe the license says you have to run OSX on Apple-labeled hardware. So as long as you use a Mac Pro / Macbook... :)
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by costan 17y ago
Ubuntu is already pretty fast on a Dell mini 910n & a Dell mini 10v. I believe they have a goal of 8-second boot times on netbooks in 2010. And they usually achieve their goals. I believe Google will pull this off, because it entails re
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by costan 17y ago
When you're on mobile devices, the game changes a bit. It's not just about running fast enough, it's also about not draining too much battery. Sure, netbooks last 4-8hrs nowadays... but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be the case with 90% CPU
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by costan 17y ago
I think it's great that your framework is 100% tested. I hold my iPhone toolkit (ZergSupport) to the same standard. The part I wasn't happy about was that you need 8000 lines of tests for 3000 lines of code. Without having actually read you
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by costan 17y ago
"The repoze.bfg package contains 11K lines of Python code. 8000 lines of that total line count is unit test code that tests the remaining 3000 lines." And this is a win?
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by costan 17y ago
I think this is a very good point! Come to think of it, we, ruby programmers, don't really pay our dues. 1.9.1 has been out since January/February, and nobody bothered to package it for OSX, Windows, or Ubuntu. Thanks for bringing this issu
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by costan 17y ago
This looks a lot like UMA to me: http://www.umatechnology.org/technology/index.htm If that's the case, T-Mobile US has UMA working already. Caveat: you need a special WiFi router so the cellphone gets good battery life on WiFi. Does anyon
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by costan 17y ago
I wanted to understand the factors that led to a particular outcome: Python becoming the de-facto winner for scripting applications. I compared to Ruby, because that's the language I would choose for scripting, based on the ability to creat
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by costan 17y ago
I thought people would resent that as shameless self-promotion. Is it really acceptable to post my own blog articles, if they're relevant? Or should I let other people post them (rudimentary peer-review?).
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by costan 17y ago
Can you have 5000 share-holders in an LLC?
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Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?
87 points by costan 17y ago|196 comments
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by costan 17y ago
I was looking for numbers, like the incorporation tax and state taxes for each type of company. If the data was neatly put together somewhere, we could all draw our own conclusions.

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