garnet7

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by garnet7 17y ago
My guess is that it's just making it take even longer for people to switch to 3.
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Are Common Lisp and C++ in the same boat re. large number of lang features?
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by garnet7 17y ago
I don't mean to single you out, Jesse. I realize it takes guts to put your opinions online publicly.
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by garnet7 17y ago
I'm detecting some patterns in language-related blog posts lately: * Python: What we're doing is correct! Can't you see that it's correct? Just look at the gleaming correctness before you! * Perl 5: We're not dead. We're actually growing
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by garnet7 17y ago
Heh. Some other fun "anti-Perl" stuff: [the Python xkcd comic]( http://xkcd.com/353/ ) and the [ESR rant]( http://www.python.org/about/success/esr/ ). That said, another satisfied Perl user here. :)
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by garnet7 17y ago
I'll bet it's some tight subset of C++, leaving out some of the more "advanced" features.
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by garnet7 17y ago
Shoot. Thanks for the info. Anything you wish you'd done earlier if you only knew? (That is to say, things you could have done to forestall the rsi.) EDIT: Thanks for the reply in your EDIT. I've got mild symptoms that mostly only appear
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by garnet7 17y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or being serious. Didn't using dvorak instead of qwerty help your rsi? Also, did you try switching to an ergonomic keyboard, for example, a [Contoured]( http://kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm )?
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by garnet7 17y ago
> Any emacsen around that could shed some light on Minor note: "emacsen" refers to various and sundry implementations of Emacs, not users of emacs. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Emacsen
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by garnet7 17y ago
I don't understand: does this link mean that we're looking at Linus's own branch of microemacs/uemacs? Is he patching the one he uses, and if so, are the changes going back into [Jasspa's MicroEmacs]( http://www.jasspa.com/ )?
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by garnet7 17y ago
After having spent some time looking around for a tiny emacsalike ("ersatzemacs") for making quick edits on remote systems, I settled on [zile]( http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ ).
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by garnet7 17y ago
Is there such as thing as an e-book reader that runs free software and that can display html and also plain text?
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by garnet7 17y ago
I haven't used Django much, but one thing I can say about Drupal is that adding a feature is often a 15-minute affair of downloading a module, un-tar'ing it into your modules dir, then enabling and configuring it via the admin. That's prett
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by garnet7 17y ago
> If you are looking to build a website, Drupal is awesome. If you are looking to build a web app, Drupal is painful, and something like Django (or RoR, CodeIgniter, etc) is a great solution. FWICT, "websites" often morph into having we
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by garnet7 17y ago
If you can tell this to your wife, and she's supportive and will accept a lower standard of living in exchange for a happier family, then you're an extremely lucky man. AFAICT, many wives will just run you until you're nothing more than a b
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by garnet7 17y ago
Yup. Their standard "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" routine.
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by garnet7 17y ago
I've seen a lot of good analysis of Go, and I hope its creators carefully consider it and work to make Go (if they keep the name) even better.
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by garnet7 17y ago
> This is why so many Microsoft products have such generic names Actually, in their case, I think it's more that they want to choose names are a mix between commonly-used word and one that is similar to an already existing product. Word
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by garnet7 17y ago
What do you think of Perl 6 so far?
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by garnet7 17y ago
What is the defining characteristic of Mandriva that sets it apart from Ubuntu and Fedora? (As an aside, I think one of the worst things to happen to Mandrake/Mandriva was the awful naming choice.)
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by garnet7 17y ago
> Linux is meant to be stable, secure, reliable. Disagree. It's meant to scratch a lot of different itches that a lot of different contributors have.
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by garnet7 17y ago
More details on the page -- regarding what the money is needed for -- would probably help increase the amount of donations. Also a link to the local news story would be good.
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by garnet7 17y ago
My guess is that scientific computation is a lot of fun. Plenty of clean mathematics. Probably not too much dingy boiler room stuff. I can see how one would be attracted to using languages like Python (and maybe Scheme too) for such tasks.
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by garnet7 17y ago
Damn!
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by garnet7 17y ago
> You can combine subway, bus and bike. You can do the same thing (though not quite as convenient) with a folding bike. They could put a plan in place to offer incentives for people to buy some standard folding bicycle. Folders are ex
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by garnet7 17y ago
When I first heard about UnladenSwallow I cheered. Then read that it was not targeting Python 3, and realized that this is really throwing a wrench into the works for Python 3. I mean, switching to Py3k for the clean-ups and features is nic
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by garnet7 17y ago
IIRC, they didn't choose PLT (over other Schemes) for any particularly compelling reasons.
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by garnet7 17y ago
[Werkzeug]( http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ ) also seems to have good docs.
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by garnet7 17y ago
> If the documentation is missing, someone can and eventually will write it. ... > There is no such issue with documentation. Anyone can document something, Well, in practice, I think it's more like: if the library is there but the
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by garnet7 17y ago
> I wonder what's driving it. Just some guesses/thinking-out-loud: * people are getting sick of php (well, sicker than usual) * Python 3 has been out for a while and it's starting to be used by more people * Perl 6 is seeing regular rel

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