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by fijal 14y ago
Switzerland is very special for multiple reasons. They have a direct democracy, federal system with very small cantons (equivalent of states) and until very recently every mail had an assault rifle at home. They're also very law-abiding cit
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by fijal 14y ago
May I ask how gun control is not a tool to deal with that? In other words, what are the differences between Americans and Europeans that prevent most of such violence happening in Europe (mostly at least), other than hard access to guns?
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by fijal 14y ago
I want to see you ranting like that next time a technology demo doesn't work on ie. Also, do you have any figures for ad market share on browsers?
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by fijal 14y ago
er no. iPad is broken. If apple provides a platform that doesn't respect standards and disallows other browsers from working as they're intended to, it does not mean the entire world that does not feel like supporting the walled garden is
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by fijal 14y ago
How about astrophysics? Climate science? We don't always get a whole lot of experiments to do, sometimes one.
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by fijal 14y ago
indeed, python does not specify the complexity, it's just what everyone expects. Anyway, my problem is not with "not quite Python", my problem is with calling it "Python". As long as you call it "a language with Python inspired syntax", it'
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by fijal 14y ago
I'm genuinely shocked that this made it to the top of hackernews. I would expect better. While the idea of having the Python interpreter in the browser is very likely better than having a compiler Python -> JS (if we care about Python),
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by fijal 14y ago
I wonder where do you take your experience from. I do pretty much all of what you described and while yes, there are definitely jerks around, there is no correlation between the level and jerkness. Maybe it's just hard to become "the best"
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by fijal 14y ago
This completely doesn't ring the bell for me, but maybe Python community that I typically interact with is different. Maybe we're such jerks that we don't even know how much of jerks we're.
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by fijal 14y ago
You're bringing a strawman. Obviously having an operation is slightly worse than learning english. Regarding the utility - the final utility of male and female company is known to be better than a male only one, even if for a short period o
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by fijal 14y ago
The argument comparing to gay/woman is just a fallacy. you can learn english, everyone can. You cannot stop being a woman or being gay (despite the latter being argued many times in the past). And you should learn english. The problem is no
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by fijal 14y ago
How are you supposed to know this link if you have no facebook account? It's not on the company page, it's nowhere available unless someone either sends it to you directly or you have a facebook account.
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by fijal 14y ago
there are lots of technical reasons that are perfectly valid, true, but it's not absolutely necessary.
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by fijal 14y ago
None. The life on earth as we know it in a traditional sense is based on carbon-based compounds. You can use anything else that forms polymers essentially, but carbon happened to happen.
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by fijal 14y ago
It's not completely true. Google news does host all the content for some pages (I have no idea if they have the agreement or not). This might depend on the country though as I can't see anything right now that looks like that.
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by fijal 14y ago
it's a technical way to prevent google from reaching your site. You easily can do it right now (even better, use robots.txt instead of obscure hacks), but the publishers don't want it. They don't want google to stop showing their content, t
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by fijal 14y ago
Well. the luaJIT benchmark page does not contain any large benchmarks, while it does contain computer language shootout ones which are small. There might be many many legitimate reasons for that, but it does imply that LuaJIT cares for smal
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by fijal 14y ago
Hi Mike. Seriously, I would not try to say LuaJIT is worse than PyPy, ever. I picked richards, because it's the best benchmark from the set I know, while still being not a very good one. I'm all for saying "this is a bad benchmark". I think
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by fijal 14y ago
Not in the current incarnation, the HTM buffer is too small.
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by fijal 14y ago
but this is not the attitude you have to have when writing compilers. from the compiler standpoint, it has to be correct, even in corner cases (which are not even as corner as you would like them to be). A competent group can leave a dorman
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by fijal 14y ago
The problem really is Python import semantics. As soon as you can provide me with a way to say "this imported code is identical to the one you loaded before", I'm fine with providing a way to save the JIT state. Note that "identical" means
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by fijal 14y ago
I've seen at least 3 independent people saying that. We're investigating (it works on OS X Mountain Lion though)
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by fijal 14y ago
There is very limited data for non-artificial and non-numeric benchmarks for Lua and Python, so treat it all with a grain of salt. PyPy mostly cares about large scale programs (thanks to a large quantity of Python libraries it's not that ha
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by fijal 14y ago
it seems that it's just overloaded. EDIT: back for now
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by fijal 14y ago
iOS does not allow you to run any sort of non-apple just-in-time compiler (there is no public API to get executable mmaped pages to be precise), so a no go, you cannot.
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by fijal 14y ago
If you feel like providing such a benchmark for speed.pypy.org, we would be very happy to accept it. I'm not sure how hard would that be though.
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PyPy 2.0 beta 1 released(morepypy.blogspot.com)
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by fijal 14y ago
You live in America don't you? Outside of it things are not all that rosy, as author points out. Sometimes it's plain impossible to buy something, so the options are either not use it (or not listen to it or not watch it) or pirate it. I wo
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by fijal 14y ago
"The Tesla Roadster was a modified Lotus Elise with off the shelf components combined with an off the shelf electric engine and a container of common laptop batteries all coordinated with on board software" You call it evolutionary I call i
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by fijal 14y ago
Would you rather find a certainity that every now and then turns into a lie? I wouldn't.

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