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by eliben 15y ago
A direct link to the project is https://github.com/dturnbull/ruby-redis
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by eliben 15y ago
s/it's/its/ ... oh, how I hate this mistake
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by eliben 15y ago
It is, but I would guess the majority of desktop users are in offices and will be just fine with the on-core CPU (keep in mind it is pretty powerful - the current ones are on par with medium-low range discrete cards, and Ivy Bridge's are li
934.
by eliben 15y ago
What percentage of users _use_ a discrete graphics card, though? Especially on ultra-light laptops?
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by eliben 15y ago
Boring, really? What excites you about tech news is not their intrinsic technological value (as in "whoa, nice hack"), but soap-opera-married-reality-show-like drama announcements? (as in "X said Y about Z. OMG, OMG. What will Z say back? s
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by eliben 15y ago
But... the trees!
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by eliben 15y ago
Well, he has it since before the iPad. And isn't iPad kinda hard on old people? (shaky hands, etc.)
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by eliben 15y ago
Although I'm (very very) far from being a MS fan-boy, I find an inherent flaw in such reviews written by programmers/hackers/power users. What they all miss is the real target audience for Windows - i.e. my Grandpa.
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by eliben 15y ago
The problem is providing a generic solution that will work for all kinds of functions. Much Python code uses C calls under the hood, so this isn't easy to do.
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by eliben 15y ago
Sadly, this is because about 80% of programmers think they are "10 to 1".
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by eliben 15y ago
I've heard this argument before, but I'm not convinced by it. There's a vast difference between paper and software. Paper is bounded - it's just paper. Yes you use it to organize matters more efficiently (although the Babylonians were just
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by eliben 15y ago
Yes, I have :) http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/
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by eliben 15y ago
You should by all means do it, because you don't have a CS degree. Don't worry about the math too much - it is all explained there, and whatever isn't you can easily find out. Don't forget that the most important thing here is the learnin
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by eliben 15y ago
When I started the project, I preferred CL over Scheme. Later, however, I had some experience with PLT Scheme and really liked the programming environment, so I decided to give it a try. I figured that using both languages will help me unde
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by eliben 15y ago
Don't forget to mention that these numbers are in 1,000s of NIS (currently 1 NIS = 0.29 USD) per month. Besides, except for "production manager" I don't think any of these salaries apply to Intel's production fab, where most employees are (
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by eliben 15y ago
Agreed, and yet implementing the features that make Github (& Bitbucket) what it is doesn't sound terribly difficult, and most importantly won't ruin the other "project-y" features of Google code. Personally my projects are still on Goo
947.
by eliben 15y ago
Suppose my salary consists of base, bonuses, social (retirement and savings funds, medical insurance), and stocks. Which do you count to get to this number?
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by eliben 15y ago
Can you be more specific? Which output of clang are you referring to?
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Parsing C++ in Python with Clang(eli.thegreenplace.net)
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950.
by eliben 15y ago
My experience as an interviewer showed that in addition to the things you listed, people often fail to grasp binary representation of numbers in a computer at all. This most often comes up when people are asked to do some binary manipulatio
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by eliben 15y ago
I'm not too familiar with memcached, but isn't one of Redis's strong points is the data structures it provides out of the box, and not simple lookups?
952.
by eliben 15y ago
While arguably interesting, I don't see how this is related to the linked password leak
953.
by eliben 15y ago
You should really give Firebug a try then ;-) Not that Chrome's dev tools are bad, but Firebug is terrific
954.
by eliben 15y ago
This is interesting. Do you have profiling information about Rails vs. Django in general and Django on PyPy in particular? It would be very curious to look at it from a performance point of view.
955.
by eliben 15y ago
Why such a negative approach? Wouldn't it be more useful to specify how to reproduce the problem, to let the author fix it?
956.
by eliben 15y ago
I wonder why neither the original link nor this SF blog post mention BitBucket - I think they give a pretty good, GitHub-like experience, just with Mercurial. Both are definitely more pleasant to use than SF
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by eliben 15y ago
No, you write down a detailed proposal and send it to the python-ideas mailing list, which Guido mentioned in this post. The decision making process in Python is fair and egalitarian. It's useful to have a "dictator" to give the final rule
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by eliben 15y ago
Interesting how many different interpretations the same phrase have in different languages. In Hebrew, "turning green" means being jealous.
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by eliben 15y ago
Fabrice Bellard is truly impressive. There's a nice article about him, called "Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Superproductive programmer", here: http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/03/fabrice-bel...
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by eliben 15y ago
AFAIU, OpenCL is still a new technology - poised as competition to Nvidia's rather popular CUDA. However, in contrast with CUDA which is Nvidia-specific, OpenCL is an open standard backed by many vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, IBM, Qua

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