dochtman

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   by dochtman 14y ago

   Err, yeah. I mean in 2.7, as in, 2.7.1+. I've updated my post to make that more clear.
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   Yeah, I think the "no new features in 2.7.1+" has been making Python less exciting to use for the past few years, as libraries have slowly started to support Python 3. I think the future might feel less bleak once Python 3 becomes a better
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   djb thought in March it was going to be Keccak: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/183552364953878528
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   Did you find http://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja before building this? If not, where do you think I should advertise it?
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   The compiler output looks roughly like this: var Jasinja = { "filters": { "attr": function(obj, name) { return obj[name]; } }, "tests": { "lower": function(val) { return val.toLowerCase() == val; } }, "te
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   I've written a Jinja-to-JavaScript compiler: https://bitbucket.org/djc/jasinja It reuses the Jinja front-end, it really only replaces Jinja's code generator and supports a pretty large subset of Jinja. I think this is particularly great b
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   I really want a cheap test device so I can start hacking on B2G. Sure, I guess I could get a second-hand SGS2, but those are still pretty expensive to use a test device.
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   SpiderMonkey should hopefully get a generational GC soonish: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619558 . (Incremental GC was completed recently, for Fx 16: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641025. )
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   by dochtman 14y ago

   +1. I recently tried to get a little bit of file I/O going and it was a PITA.
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Is it just me, or does it seem inspired by MS' Metro/Modern UI looks?
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    A Coursera course on Human-Computer Interaction? https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Also, Ericsson, in a different thread. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/rtcweb/current/msg04938... No other companies so far, apparently.
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    He uses a metric for importance other than just size. That said, his points that there were 600000 software developers in the US 10 years ago and more than a million GitHub members now, SO there must be significant developer mindshare seems
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    I find B2G very cool, I just hope the underlying stuff for the hardware (drivers; what's called a device tree in the Android world) is all open source or at the very least easily available so that people can easily do their own words. In ot
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Seems to me that that's what static typing proponents have been saying for years (if not decades), and it still isn't true. That said, I'm currently hacking on a compiler to see if I can come up with a design for a static language that's al
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    They're saying they did something to the glass to make it less reflective.
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    Socio-PLT: Principles for Programming Language Adoption(lmeyerov.blogspot.fr)

    1 points by dochtman 14y ago|0 comments
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    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression algorithm(code.google.com)

    2 points by dochtman 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Ah, you're right. I stared at the URL for a bit, but not closely enough, obviously.
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    So why did HN allow this to become a new post when I posted it just a few days ago? http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.ca/2012/05/fear-and-loathi...
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    New Garbage Collector(wiki.luajit.org)

    190 points by dochtman 14y ago|69 comments
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    That also explains why it references LLVM 2.8, while the dateline says it's from May 29, 2012.
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    Fear and Loathing and Windows 8(mobileopportunity.blogspot.ca)

    5 points by dochtman 14y ago|0 comments
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    It's a bit silly that this piece is dated June 4, 2012.
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Thanks! InfoQ "presentations" are so crappy...
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    I'm co-founder at a hedge fund startup. Much of our code may not be extremely sensitive to small delays, but picking the right datastructures makes a big difference even on small workloads. And we do have some big simulations where performa
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Knowing (in Python, for example) when to use a list, a tuple, a dict, a set or a deque makes a rather big difference, and is a skill I probably use almost every day at work. See also this tweet from last night for a real-world application:
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3968015
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    That's a real problem with generated code, though. It almost always ends up that there's some issue with either your original code or the code that generates the generated code, and you end up having to dive into the ugly generated code to
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    by dochtman 14y ago

    I looked at Riak a bit (we use CouchDB and Redis at our startup). It seemed to not scale down as nicely as CouchDB: no Futon, binary API's and a lot of emphasis in the documentation on sharding stuff (where we just run CouchDB on a single s