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by eliben 14y ago
Very cool, well done.
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by eliben 14y ago
Because this is about PyCon, not Jesse. With all due respect (and I respect him - he did a great job) he's not the only one who's been working to make PyCon possible and great. Not to mention the other people working on the organization, th
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by eliben 14y ago
"And if you want to say “thank you” you should do so on Jesse’s Gittip page." OK, seriously?
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by eliben 14y ago
So 0.3% is a measurable difference and 0.1% is noise. That doesn't sound overly pragmatic to me. Benchmarking is an art, and from his setup 0.3% seems like noise as well.
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by eliben 14y ago
I've always found it amusing how very important $150/month Clipper passes are deemed by devs earning $200K salaries.
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by eliben 14y ago
Why is this useful?
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by eliben 14y ago
Why so much bitching about everything? The conference is popular - they got sold out quickly. All important talks will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing? So what are you all complaining about?
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by eliben 14y ago
I like it how Google Plus is being used as a micro-blogging platform
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by eliben 14y ago
It's funny how every piece of news can be immediately retargeted as a diatribe against the ever-evil "rich bankers".
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by eliben 14y ago
Most of these "dark corners" have been in C for at least 25 years and have been repeated over an over for at least 20. My main take-away from this is that Google Drive seems like a nice way to put presentations online :-)
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by eliben 14y ago
Feel free to propose edits to such answers with constructive criticism. In practice, there aren't many of these on SO.
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by eliben 14y ago
IIUC, programmers.stackexchange.com is where "why?" questions should be asked. And IMO this sucks. I hate the SO fragmentation problem.
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by eliben 14y ago
Please don't use the TIOBE index as a measure of language popularity. It's trash. [Disclaimer: I love Python and if anything, it's more popular than TIOBE indicates. This comment expresses an opinion about TIOBE, not Python]
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by eliben 14y ago
Supply and demand is a simple process, really. You set tickets to price X and you get 10 times as many people wanting to attend than you have seats. What do you do next year? Lottery? Beauty contest? It's logical to raise the price in such
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by eliben 14y ago
According to the post, it also pays $125K / year for a full-time job with the requirement to deliver 6 articles . Doesn't sound very bad.
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by eliben 14y ago
Folks should first learn to correctly use "its" vs. "it's" and "lets" vs. "let's". Then graduate to correct past-perfect usage :-)
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by eliben 14y ago
Very interesting, thank you.
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by eliben 14y ago
It would be interesting to see the total cost of this mission, and compare it to the total cost of similar NASA missions in the past.
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by eliben 14y ago
When will this fascination with how much other people in private corporations earn end? I know, I know, it never will...
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by eliben 14y ago
I watch Ubuntu's recent steps with trepidation. I love using it for a home Linux machine (indeed upgrading just to LTS-es), and I could not care less about its "convergence" aspirations. I don't want Ubuntu on my phone or my tablet, or at
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by eliben 14y ago
The video is worth watching. I like this initiative. For some reason it brings up a lot of cynical responses, but if you really think about it, it's a pretty good thing to encourage young students to learn at least some coding.
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by eliben 14y ago
"... Google has never had a successful product that people pay for ..." plonk I hope the crowd here is old enough to remember what this means in newsgroups/irc ;-)
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by eliben 14y ago
As the assembly language of build systems, I agree that Make works well. But there, IMHO, its utility ends.
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by eliben 14y ago
I think what you were looking for here is actually a shell script, rather than a Makefile. A shell script is much more suitable for general purpose programming. Or better yet, use Python ;-) And, let's admit it, for small projects dependenc
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by eliben 14y ago
I'll have to respectfully disagree. IMHO, the utility of DSLs like Make is high when used very sparingly, for simple flows like the one the linked article describes. The more complex your Makefile, the less you should be using Make. If you
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by eliben 14y ago
Genuinely curious - aren't fusion plants both safer and use cheaper-to-get and more-abundant materials?
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by eliben 14y ago
ReST and Markdown are not at odds. The former can be seen as a (vast) expansion of the latter. It's not an actual extension, of course, because the syntax is somewhat different, but it is conceptually.
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by eliben 14y ago
Interesting. Such tricks is exactly why Stack Overflow originally went against Expert Exchange, promising never to hide user-contributed content, and explicitly licensing it as Creative Commons. Quora is its content. Its content is user con
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by eliben 14y ago
Isn't it just February? What if a company announces quantum teleportation in November 2013? What list is it going to make? Sheesh, I bet the authors of this article drive model 2014 cars already...
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by eliben 14y ago
I really, really fail to understand how this is not a super-expensive laptop, essentially? Is it considerably smaller/faster than an ultrabook? I'll grant that this is an interesting attempt at converging two devices, but such attempts ulti

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