devinj

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by devinj 17y ago
Nobody with any sense calls that "faking" objects, and that doesn't have anything to do with C anyway. He's probably talking about the use of C structs and functions that operate on them to create an object system.
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by devinj 17y ago
I think he was suggesting his comment was downvoted after a reader read the first line or two.
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by devinj 17y ago
Pure Python code can do a lot. Large parts of the stdlib are extension modules, and can release the GIL (e.g. one of the tests on the bug tracker used time.sleep()). In practice, if your code is IO-bound, it's doing work in an extension mod
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by devinj 17y ago
No. It's a terrible webpage design. Am I the only one who still values things like http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html ?
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by devinj 17y ago
Firefox didn't either. I assumed it was a deliberate joke.
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by devinj 17y ago
He hadn't won as of 2004: http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Solace-William-Gardner-Pierce/...
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by devinj 17y ago
I may not be old, but I still find your blatant ageism disturbing (I would say only slightly disturbing, except that you've taken this offensive viewpoint to something of an extreme-- so it's not slight at all). "Old people" can be just as
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Declarative processing for computer games (2008)(portal.acm.org)
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by devinj 17y ago
How are Python's scoping rules less clear? They are identical to Javascript's (and Scheme's), except that instead of defaulting to global scope, they default to local scope (which can be overridden with `global foo`). Also, it has one extra
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by devinj 17y ago
Looks great, except for the corner case of nth = 1. I was too lazy to figure out the slicing solution myself. :)
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by devinj 17y ago
I find it hard to believe that the largest cause (or even a significant cause) in the difference of flexibility of two languages is whether or not you can declare variables to belong to a given scope, and to which scope they default to.
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by devinj 17y ago
Egh, some of those other languages are more Scheme-like than others. In particular, Javascript is certainly more scheme-like than Java, which lacks even first-class functions, for example. And, well, Python is basically just Lisp with diffe
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by devinj 17y ago
Well, Java would still come out on top, in all likelihood. I don't think even the idiomatic solutions in Python/Ruby/etc. would be faster unless they have some really nice JIT compilers I'm not aware of, or they changed the algorithm. The
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by devinj 17y ago
Best solution is just to put the javascript in another file. Barring that, escape your javascript. Replace < with <, etc. I am not sure CDATA exists in HTML (I seem to remember it being something for XML and DTDs).
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by devinj 17y ago
What? Why does something have to be perfect for somebody to get angry over it?
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by devinj 17y ago
They are WSGI servers. Which one you choose probably only depends on the speed it can interface WSGI to itself to the client, how reliable it is, and so on. The framework you choose is a different layer, on top of WSGI.
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by devinj 17y ago
Sorry for not getting back to you, not used to HN yet. It's not that the color scheme is hard to see-- I can tell apart faded and bright green fine enough for the purposes of discriminating that they are different. What I can't tell is whet
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by devinj 17y ago
Or Cython. That one is nice.
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by devinj 17y ago
It seems sort of like you're destroying the possibility for growth with this, though. From what I understand of Google's work, they really have improved tremendously from analyzing data (to find how searches go wrong), and from using the da
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by devinj 17y ago
I believe cuil (hee hee) has advertised their lack of logging. http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/
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by devinj 17y ago
Actually, most likely they thought it would have been fine. Just not as fine.
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by devinj 17y ago
It wouldn't be wise, or kind, to judge based on hearsay, even pg's hearsay.
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by devinj 17y ago
This is eerily reminiscent of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex". (Or maybe I'm just being geeky.) I feel this way whenever somebody tries to compare the internet to a living organism, and I guess it's similar to the way I would feel
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by devinj 17y ago
The halting problem (in finite time).
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by devinj 17y ago
The difference between rendering strings and numbers as HTML is not very clear, and could probably be improved (by using quotes around strings). A faded green 2 is a string ("2"). A bright green 2 is a number. Also, "Strict JSON" is not ver