dazzawazza

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by dazzawazza 19y ago
Big fan of Mochikit. As a python programmer it's got some good pythonic interfaces but it doesn't trample on the elegance of Javascript.
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
Oric 16k can't say I liked it but I learned to program in assembly on it which was fun.
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
I left a startup last year (poker company). I was a founding member. We chose to go with c++ for the backend architecture and custom client. My choice was python but I was overruled. It took a LONG time to develop a C++ server, the client w
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
A startup I worked at received investment from a group of investors. While doing due diligence the investors said we made it easier for them because we were using Microsoft technologies. They turned out to be really bad investors who were r
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
http://www.ipligence.com/en/products/ never used them, just adding it to the list
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
+1 for moinmoin
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
can you imagine trying to get through US customs with what looks like a hollywood bomb on your wrist!
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
The next revision (1.5) will have branch/merge tracking. It will also have sparse checkouts so you don't need to get the entire repository to do real work. I've used SVN on a LARGE project where the repository got to well over 200gigs of da
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
I've had great success (and fun) using wxPython. wxWidgets combined with python is great.
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
I've worked with the facegen library in a past life to create faces of various races and ages. They use a statistical model to create faces. There is also a Russian company whose name escapes me atm that also use a statistical model to gene
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
All of the high end (Nokia S80 style) phones can do flash light but there are still problems with it. J2ME runs across nearly all phones but some of the older phones (Nokia S40 style) have very small screens and the Java runtime seems to be
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
If you work alone you can never be sure you don't fall foul of the Dunning-Kruger effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect :-) (This was on reddit today which is how I know about it!) Seriously though. I basically code al
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
I tend to write unit tests for core functions/modules as I develop them. It helps me create an API and to think about it's use/documentation. I also write tests whenever I come across a non trivial bug: write a test to create the bug, fix t
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
People seem to really dislike frameworks and I know they can be more trouble then they are worth at times but I really like TurboGears. It's python based, sits on top of CherryPy (webserver) and you can take as much or as little as you need
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
Surely the next step is to contact some VC companies and ask for say, $10 million :-). This really is an open ended question! If you are about to start programming then there is no limit to the possibilities so you'd better pick a direction
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
+1 for python. Why? excellent docs, excellent libraries, excellent books, flexible language thats easy to learn.
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
Wikipedia provides a query api for accessing pages and links within pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Query Its very useful and I think people should use it if they want to scrape Wikipedia. At least it gives the Wikipedia guys a chan
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by dazzawazza 19y ago
I'm currently working with Turbogears ( http://www.turbogears.org) which is a (real, no snake oil here) python framework. It's not perfect by a long way but it pulls together some really excellent technology from all over the python world.
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by dazzawazza 20y ago
I've got a Quad Core 3Ghz MacPro... and yes it is REALLY fast!