devinj

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by devinj 16y ago
I never said Python was perfect. I consider it seriously flawed in many respects. I'm not defending Python as a perfect language. I'm just saying this "flaw" doesn't make any sense as such. If you want to tell me that with some perspective
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by devinj 16y ago
Really? You're calling Python a messed up programming language because ten years ago it got lexical scoping? I don't know about Ruby, maybe it's had a rougher road, but that's really the only scoping rule change Python got. It got an additi
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by devinj 16y ago
Dean Kamen looks like he could be on the way to being a proper heroic inventor. Although people will always make fun of him for Segway. :)
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by devinj 16y ago
Very much relevant to anybody who found this interesting: http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/04... I found it in a used bookstore for $5 once, totally by accident. It's probably the best nonfiction book I've ever st
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by devinj 16y ago
Not really. Actually I think the GP was mistaken. The big reason gamers don't want 24FPS is because if it's 24FPS during normal play, it's gonna stutter. There will be times when it goes down to, say, 12 FPS, if not lower. And 12 FPS is sim
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by devinj 16y ago
The Dune miniseries was wonderful. I watched it as a kid and never got over it. It's a very nostalgic thing for me. Maybe it doesn't match up to the book, but if I ever read the book it would only be because of the miniseries and comments t
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by devinj 16y ago
Pretty easily. If it's distracting or somehow bad for me, because of the aesthetics, I could dislike it for logical reasons. If I open up a law firm and then the decorator puts a gigantic mural of H.R. Giger's work on the walls, I'd probabl
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by devinj 16y ago
Have you ever read the original version(s)? ( http://www.jennifersdreams.com/inspirations/footprints.html )
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by devinj 16y ago
Static typing is like a helmet that forces a speed limit, too. It won't necessarily help you experiment faster-- the common wisdom is that it does the opposite, in Java/etc. style static typing.
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by devinj 16y ago
You could or you couldn't?
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by devinj 16y ago
Sorry for the lack of clarity. I meant that the form of presentation should be useful for aiding understanding, not coincidental. I didn't mean to implythat the content itself should be useful (in the sense that it has practical application
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by devinj 16y ago
So well spent that it didn't even feel like 20 minutes. This is what videos should be like-- not essays delivered more slowly and painfully, but real useful things presented visually in a way that takes full advantage of the medium.
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by devinj 16y ago
No they're not. They're welcome to submit an app to approval. They have no freedom to control what gets released.
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by devinj 16y ago
Did you rape and murder a little girl in 1990? Questions aren't that much better than statements.
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by devinj 16y ago
What more do you need to stop bleeding? It's not like we're worried about gangrene here.
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What the Tortoise said to Achilles (1895)(ditext.com)
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by devinj 16y ago
Because then it would look as if she were off-topic.
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by devinj 16y ago
It still happens, though. See: Facebook and Zynga.
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by devinj 16y ago
Yes, absolutely. A project I've wanted to run with for a bit is writing a Scheme implementation in PyPy. It would provide a wonderful way to better learn the parts of Scheme I don't know, and use Scheme alongside Python code (which is nice,
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by devinj 16y ago
PyPy's sandboxing hasn't been as thoroughly analyzed and tested as, say, Javascript's (not by far) or Java's, but the actual construction is simpler and arguably better. The PyPy devs, at least, are fairly convinced of its robustness. Basic
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by devinj 16y ago
He's not your friend, guy. That phrase needs to go away.
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by devinj 16y ago
PyPy has no such limitation. PyPy has perfect sandboxing.
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by devinj 16y ago
The Junk Science site is scary, because it's so close to the truth. You really shouldn't take "may" or "possibly" as a statement of fact, and it's true that statistics can be used to manipulate facts and present false ideas. And yet muc
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by devinj 16y ago
throwing an exception in the constructor comes to mind I don't know C++ and thus don't know all the different ways to break constructors and destructors, but this particular way will be banned-- exceptions are off-limits. I kind of think
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by devinj 16y ago
Which means it wasn't a terrible invention at all. So again, why is it on this list?
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by devinj 16y ago
As an goal in and of itself, it seems like one would go "did it get rid of frame introspection?!" in a happy voice, rather than "does it support frame introspection?" Maybe you wanted to ask, "does it run Twisted and/or Zope", which use fra
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by devinj 16y ago
Hero worship is sadly not transitive.
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by devinj 16y ago
I'm not sure you've ever seen an injured worm. As for ants:perhaps so. The thing is, ants are really different and interesting. As I said, perhaps some animals don't feel pain, but they'd have to be pretty weird. I would suppose ants qualif
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by devinj 16y ago
Nah, the LHC dudes think there's an actual zero risk. The LHC doesn't produce collisions of any magnitude greater than collisions that occur in the upper atmosphere (from what I understand). That was the ultimate debunk of things like the w
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by devinj 16y ago
Disclaimers are for avoiding liability. i.e. you adda disclaimer because you have some hidden agenda or other fact that hurts your cause. Caring about usability on the web isn't any of these things. It's really more of a "and it's not like

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