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by fijal 14y ago
Is using pypy a reasonable default? Who's there to make that choice? I suppose the answer is "no", while it makes sense to use it while benchmarking.
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by fijal 14y ago
Ok. Maybe people leaving in the US don't know about that, but spending time with US border officials is absolutely normal on the entry to the US. I travel to the US about once a year, and my times spent on the border look roughly like this
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by fijal 14y ago
Can you find some documents under which circumstances this is a crime? I find that you should not do that for money or in court on wikipedia, but I somehow fail to find that "giving advice" or even "drafting legal documents" can be a cr
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by fijal 14y ago
FB IPO is bad for the inflated startup world around the FB ecosystem. All stuff "social" and "connected". It's hopefully good for everyone else who is bringing some value, but was turned down/undervalued, because they're not social enough.
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by fijal 14y ago
According to forbes [ http://people.forbes.com/profile/timothy-d-cook/6607 ] he has 52bln$ in stock. He's just giving up on loose change. This is comparable to me giving up back to the company around $30, I think I would not have a problem
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5 years 2 months and 28 days(alexgaynor.net)
12 points by fijal 14y ago|0 comments
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by fijal 14y ago
Patents are also required not to be discoveries. I claim the orbit existed long before the Boeing company was funded.
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by fijal 14y ago
PyPy is officially sanctioned as python 2.7 interpreter. Cannot run scientific code does not rule it out. This is more a problem on the scientific code being too implementation specific (for good reasons though). This is known to be a pro
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PyPy STM work update(morepypy.blogspot.com)
60 points by fijal 15y ago|10 comments
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by fijal 15y ago
Well ok, I was just trying to provide some food for politicians
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by fijal 15y ago
I think you missed the point. The job will be performed whether the person is on the soil or not. It's next to completely irrelevant whether you accept someone or not - he'll do the job anyway with modern IT infrastructure. That's obvious
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by fijal 15y ago
Maybe it is a little douchy, but open source is definitely much more crucial to the worlds infrastructure than ukulele. It's one of the key aspects of why building your own business in the IT world i cheaper than ever. However, I'm not argu
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by fijal 15y ago
and you gonna pay $5000 * number of countries that you visit? That's plain insane. Have you noticed how many countries are out there? I'm fine with "pay taxes wherever you are" also given that you actually spend money on local economy by bu
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by fijal 15y ago
Typically you have enough credibility to go and find a better job. Also, if you're a person living out of open source, it's relatively easy to check your credibility and how easy it is for you to find a job. "I wrote an obscure clock in pyt
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by fijal 15y ago
So in my experience this works incredibly well as long as everyone is generally willing to cooperate. A single person that has dictatorial inclination can ruin it all, because you can no longer reach consensus on pretty much any topic. You
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by fijal 15y ago
that's the point - the analogy does not work. A difference in performance between an average worker and an exceptional one is not very large. The difference between an average programmer and a good one can be between having or not having st
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by fijal 15y ago
Cython is both differently defined and serves a different purpose. First of all, RPython is runnable , Cython is not. RPython has type inference, but more importantly, because it works from live objects, it has Python as a metaprogramming
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by fijal 15y ago
Can you give him some slack? It's sunday, he says the vulnerability is fixed and this is all you should care about. Surely you would rather have him looks if it's really fixed rather than issuing an official statement. Surely an official st
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by fijal 15y ago
Don't you think it also works the other way around? The majority of people don't like you because you support a violent dictator that's clearly bad for them.
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by fijal 15y ago
"mastery" is not a very correct word in my opinion. What they do is they provide absolutely 0 information, while still calling the blog a rumor. I was very skeptical about the blog post up until now, when tesla essentially agreed to all it'
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by fijal 15y ago
Right. I think we actually violently agree with each other on that :) Note that in general it's ok to not write much python and live very happily just using it for non-performance critical parts. No doubt we both know a lot of people who ar
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by fijal 15y ago
I guess I should clarify that - performance sucks. There are obviously various ways around it, but you just can't write a lot of performance critical python that way and I guess this is one of the reasons why julia exists in the first place
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by fijal 15y ago
It seems like both 0 and 1 based arrays is asking for trouble :) I would prefer 0-based, but still prefer 1-based to mixed or optional.
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by fijal 15y ago
Python+numpy+scipy does work only if you actually don't write much python or at least not run much python. Otherwise it sucks
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by fijal 15y ago
PyPy is missing complex support in numpy (on trunk anyway) and numpy.random to run those benchmarks. Those that run: fib - roughly the same time as CPython parse_int - 10x over CPython which is extrapolating to their python vs julia a
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by fijal 15y ago
Here you go, documented - http://pypy.org/performance.html I think your point about "should work for most purposes" express my view as well. Choice is tricky and especially programs violently optimized for CPython might find PyPy's charac
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by fijal 15y ago
After a bit of debate - this is actually a good idea, I'll make sure it's on the pypy website.
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by fijal 15y ago
http://bugs.pypy.org , what can I say. Also "Is X always better than Y" is very often false for large enough domains.
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by fijal 15y ago
It's the creation of large dicts to be precise. The thing is we try to attack those problems as they arise and as people report bugs. Generally pypy slower than cpython is a bug and we consider it as such. That also means that those are mov
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by fijal 15y ago
This is an example approach how this might work - http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/12/plotting-using-matplotl...

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