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by driax 14y ago
Python's philosophy is often said to be: "There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it." Which is not exactly the same as "one way to do it". There can be many ways to do it, if they are obvious from perspectives, ju
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by driax 14y ago
The pyramids were not built by slaves (at least there's no real proof of it). A lot of the workers who died during the construction where buried in decorated tombs which says something about their wealth, which probably says they couldn't b
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by driax 14y ago
1) CPython is written in portable readable C code. 2) CPython has been around since 1991, and thus people have had the time to port it properly. 3) Python have shown an interest in supporting both Unix and Windows for a long time (and later
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by driax 14y ago
.com/.org/.net are not desginated to the US. They are generic top-level domains operated by a US company. Go use .us if you want a ccTLD for the US. Or .edu/.gov/.mil which are sponsored TLDs for use by the US.
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by driax 14y ago
I don't think PyPy is faster. Their design is significantly more complicated and thus takes longer to tune. Additionally I think python is a small bit more dynamic then Lua, complicating things. I remember seeing a comparison between LuaJit
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by driax 14y ago
Could you please stop doing that! If you don't know anything don't say anything. If you know that it truly isn't AGI (as you may do) say why!
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by driax 14y ago
I have not heard of a Google AI Car crashing into another car. I have heard that one of the Google AI Cars was involved in a small crash (the other car crashed into the Google Car) while it was driven manually just outside Google's headquar
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by driax 14y ago
Because the money he spends raises the price of goods etc. Therefore your 20,000 becomes less money. This is easy too see in expensive cities. The same middle-class person would have to demand more money to live at the same standards as he/
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by driax 14y ago
No it doesn't. Adobe did open-source their JIT and partnered with Mozilla for further development. But Mozilla could not make it fit Javascript well enough, and eventually their own JITs became faster, so they concentrated on them.
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by driax 14y ago
But let us not forget that it took the Danish Government two tries to get it right. First they tried to push digital signatures on everyone, with the idea that people should use their personal certificate to login to banks and government sy
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by driax 14y ago
> I have trouble reconciling 'privacy' and 'you can buy it'. I'm not sure, but I would assume that the idea is that data from Adwords, etc. is more anonymised. You can't build a system that tracks peoples searches across visits (using
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by driax 14y ago
I never really accepted the argument that Scheme/Lisp is simpler than a language like Python, simply because everything in the language is reduced to constants/terminals (what's the right terminology here?) and functions. Many language diff
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by driax 14y ago
Amen. I can't see the right page because I have two monitors and the magazine is centered across the entire desktop, while fullscreen only fills the (primary) left monitor. How I loathe programmers who try to redo everything inside flash; a
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by driax 14y ago
I've always thought that this didn't seems so bad idea. We use vendor prefixes so specific vendor errors and omissions doesn't become a property of the released standard. An alternative to vendor prefix could have been draft prefixes instea
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by driax 15y ago
You must be insane. Good thing it didn't work! :)
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by driax 15y ago
I did the same. It's puzzling how some suggestions really comes up a lot. "racist" and "rude" seems very common. I get why "racist" would be so common, but "rude" odd. But maybe it tells something about how other people view a new country.
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by driax 15y ago
The problem lies in that you never have a "Car" which should inherit "Vehicle". It's a question that never comes up in programming. The bad part of it, is that it sometimes makes new programmers look for these kind of concepts in their code
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by driax 15y ago
Concerning your 1st point. While it certainly whould be nice to forget CPython and focus on PyPy, I don't think that really is an optional for the forseeable future. CPython is written in very cross-platform portable C, and supports a lot o
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by driax 15y ago
Please provided a picture when discussing google results. It's really difficult to know what your point is when I'm not sure what Google returns to you. The above links seems like a normal search result to me (without any factual google-pro
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by driax 15y ago
Well every other operator is infix, so it's not really that inconsistent. " " (space) selectes descendents, ">" selects children, "+" selectes next-siblings and so on. The weird feeling of "/{attr}/" is probably just that the operator i
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by driax 15y ago
As I understand the first (development) versions was in OCaml, but now the compiler is completely self-hosting.
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by driax 15y ago
They say that Debian servers come from new servers, and many subsequentially change to Ubuntu. From the graph it's clear that CentOS and Debian is mostly steady, Ubuntu is on the rise and everything else is on the way down (in percentages o
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Richard Hamming - "You and Your Research"(cs.virginia.edu)
4 points by driax 15y ago|0 comments
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by driax 15y ago
Here in Denmark Google doesn't advertise their browser. However Microsoft does. So a search for "browser" returns an ad for IE, wikipedia as the top result, and then Firefox, Opera and Safari without Google Chrome anywhere on the first sear
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by driax 16y ago
Pyramid is actually pretty much a fork of repoze.bfg with some minor changes that allow Pylons developers easier porting. Essentially repoze.bfg were newer than Pylons (and therefor learned a lot). It incorporated more flexiblity while bein
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by driax 16y ago
On window I use Autohotkey. Remapping Capslock to F-15 (so that I can customize that button differently in each program) is a simple script: Capslock::F15
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by driax 16y ago
Java is not a systems language. You need a virtual machine to run Java (or at least that's the point). Why is Go an excellent language for writing daemons? I think[1] that it's because Go is light-weight language, but still a "systems langu
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by driax 16y ago
I also really like how the birds flew in and I thought that it's one of the things people always said couldn't be done without Java or Flash plugins. By that metric html5 really is a success. Although I wouldn't say there's a best part. The
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by driax 16y ago
The point is that you can't pass an object. The object lives on the heap and you always pass references around. Thats why when we pass in a list we can change the contents. The passed-in value is a copy of the reference to our list object.
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by driax 16y ago
I remember reading somewhere from the NativeClient developers that they have thought about ARM, but just didn't focus on it yet. Of course ARM probably requires some significant new code because you can't use the same barrier technology as

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