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811.
by eliben 14y ago
Well, Chromium is FOSS so you can distribute it with your application if that need arises.
812.
by eliben 14y ago
"[...] before I ended up with just a broken spirit and a comfortable life." Loved this quote.
813.
by eliben 14y ago
I wrote a detailed set of articles for GameDev back at the time (2004) that goes the whole way - full regex matcher (for simple regexes) including NFA/DFA construction. First two articles: * http://eli.thegreenplace.net/files/docs/forays/c
814.
by eliben 14y ago
Amen. I've been using http://www.rapidee.com for ages though, with great satisfaction.
815.
by eliben 14y ago
Hmm, sounds to me like one of those "Flask vs. Django" arguments - Flask has less features, hence it's more flexible and better.
816.
by eliben 14y ago
Hmm... right, it was something with a C in it, but not sure what! Come on! Don't you have a constructive comment?
817.
by eliben 14y ago
Of course C doesn't "explain" how things work. C is a language, it doesn't explain anything. However, when you write and read real-life C code, you have a chance to learn how software works under the hood much better than with higher-level
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Eric Schmidt on Israel and its high-tech industry(plus.google.com)
11 points by eliben 14y ago|1 comments
819.
by eliben 14y ago
Great article - thanks for sharing. It's a shame that most comments here respond to the title of the article and not its contents. Hint: it's not what you think
820.
by eliben 14y ago
Nice. As a side-note, here's a related article on implementing a Python generator "for real" using the C API: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/04/05/implementing-a-gener...
821.
by eliben 14y ago
I always found this argument lacking. In any language you can build the necessary abstractions for higher expressiveness. Sometimes these reach things like auto-generating code from a DSL, but in the long run if a good team is working on a
822.
by eliben 14y ago
++ for being nicely documented
823.
by eliben 14y ago
How can it be 100% faster at anything? This is mathematically impossible. If a task used to take 100 seconds, 1 second (an unlikely improvement!) is just 99% faster.
824.
by eliben 14y ago
I really dislike the term "up to N%" - this reminds me of sleazy commercials reporting "up to 80% discount". 0.2% is also "up to 100%". Can't more accurate figures be reported?
825.
by eliben 14y ago
Yes, but an article about "the fall and rise of programming languages", in particular, that mentions Tiobe right at the start makes it clear that it's going to base its conclusions and observations on that worthless index. Search HN for Tio
826.
by eliben 14y ago
"The well-known Tiobe Index " [...] Dang. I stopped reading at this point.
827.
by eliben 14y ago
Dr. Dobbs should really hire a talented designer to take their website out of the 1990s
828.
by eliben 14y ago
Four blades? I must have been missing out - I'm pretty happy with a 3-blade razor.
829.
by eliben 14y ago
s/peace/piece/ - please!!
830.
by eliben 14y ago
Having kids also helps you with the "walking" aspect. A daily walk around the 'hood with a stroller, and at a later age combined with some "culture-dependent ball game" time, gives you some "free" opportunities to burn them calories. P.S. b
831.
by eliben 14y ago
IE in browser support: IE8+ yay ;-)
832.
by eliben 14y ago
I'm mostly happy about people switching from IE (particularly its older incarnations) to anywhere, than from Firefox to Chrome ;-)
833.
by eliben 14y ago
These TIOBE-based posts will never end, will they? Oi wei.
834.
by eliben 14y ago
Isn't this just a simple matter of probability? Given an event, however unprobable it is, it can happen given infinite time? From a purely mathematical standpoint, this is correct.
835.
by eliben 14y ago
My comment was not meant to mock the author. I truly believe, though, that writing syntactically and grammatically correct and comprehensible English is a very important skill every programmer should have. Code comments and documentation ar
836.
by eliben 14y ago
I disagree with the beginning of your second paragraph. Even when coding just in Python, a solid understanding of the fundamental data structures and algorithms is very important for writing efficient code. Without it, one can't understand
837.
by eliben 14y ago
11) Writing correct English [or was it auto-translated from some other language?]
838.
by eliben 14y ago
You do know that C and C++ are separate languages, right?
839.
by eliben 15y ago
From a cursory look - that's a nicely organized, formatted and documented piece of code. Well done.
840.
by eliben 15y ago
Yes, for a language as widely deployed and used as Python, retaining backwards compatibility and stability is more important than adding new and shiny tools to the stdlib at a faster pace. Users rely on the fact that a module in stdlib will

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