garnet7

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by garnet7 17y ago
Love riding the train. Such efficient transportation. So much more relaxing than driving the car. Personally though, I like the old technology. Steel wheels on steel rails still goes plenty fast, feels smooth, is cheap, and is so terribly s
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by garnet7 17y ago
> I would pass on them both. What? C'mon. You gotta give people a chance. Not everyone is going to fit into your expectations of the perfect employee.
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by garnet7 17y ago
Ok. I think you mean that they'll spend their time learning the basics of 6 different languages without getting in-depth in any of them.
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by garnet7 17y ago
Why? What do you see wrong with the Berkeley curriculum?
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by garnet7 17y ago
Wow! If I'm reading this http://lisperati.com/logo.html right, you're the one who came up with the "made with secret alien technology" logo. I love that logo. :) BTW, on that logo page, you mention that Scheme is your favorite Lisp dial
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by garnet7 17y ago
> Hashrocket is a boutique shop, so we can be very picky about who we hire. [snip] We've hired qualified interns, but we don't hire apprentice or junior-level folks. What ever happened to hiring good people and training them?
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by garnet7 17y ago
Firefox takes ... ... ... ... a very long time to start up. :(
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by garnet7 17y ago
Thanks for the reply. I've only ever used the method I described above. Seems nice to read the article on its own website (styled the way the author intended).
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by garnet7 17y ago
I just use the version number -- who needs another set of names to remember[^1]? [^1]: I'm looking at you , Apple.
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by garnet7 17y ago
I subscribe via RSS using Firefox's live bookmark feature (so, I've got a directory of bookmarks that list rss article titles). When I want to read an article, I go to the site and read it via that RSS bookmark link (ads are there and all).
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by garnet7 17y ago
I'm new to github. When I go to download it ("Downloads" tab at github) and click "latest" "tgz"; why do I get "petdance-ack-$extremely_long_number.tar.gz" instead of "ack-1.9.0.tar.gz"? Same thing happens if I click the curvy-cornered "dow
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by garnet7 17y ago
I think things would've been very different if Be Inc. had just kept being a desktop OS company. They didn't need Apple to succeed -- they could've just accepted that uptake of the OS would be slow, and just kept at it. Guess that wasn't go
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by garnet7 17y ago
Well, I hope that whichever Yaks need to be shaved in the process (PEPs written, approved, implemented, whatever) get shaved expeditiously so things can move forward.
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by garnet7 17y ago
Python 3 can't just be better than 2.x to get those package distributions ported, it's gotta be substantially better. One way to make it substantially better is to get the new [Distribute]( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute ) finishe
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by garnet7 17y ago
This reminds me: did anything ever come of Zed's "Curing Python's Neglect" blog post? He wrote: > but I realize that none of this will be fixed until > there’s a cultural shift in Python away from this > habit of Neglect. Did th
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by garnet7 17y ago
Oh, well, that sounds great then. Thanks for the reply. One thing though: you mention in your post to the ML, "removing things with low test coverage, poor docs or things which simply are not the best option". I just hope, along with that
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by garnet7 17y ago
I'm sorry, I don't think I understand. Is the plan going to be: keep the "standard lib" but at the same time remove it from "core"? If that's the case, then it won't make any difference to end users except that the Python that they download
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by garnet7 17y ago
When the boss says to make the website in php, they mean the whole website. You usually don't get to just do the presentation in php and use $your_language_choice for everything else.
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by garnet7 17y ago
It's being actively developed right now: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute
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by garnet7 17y ago
Keep the standard library and continue to make improvements == good. Remove it so users can roam the wild countryside to hunt for the bits that they want == bad.
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by garnet7 17y ago
> It's just that CGI doesn't scale, and so you'll want a framework for anything more complicated than that. No, that's not the issue. The issue is, when you have a relatively small webapp that you want to be fast . It's large and fanc
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by garnet7 17y ago
Everywhere I look, when new programmers ask what language to learn first, they are most often told to learn Python. C is too low-level, Perl's too old and crufty, Ruby's too trendy, Scheme is too esoteric, Haskell's too difficult, Lua doesn
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by garnet7 17y ago
> It's easy to deploy. Yup. This is the reason PHP is trouncing Python. Python should be where PHP is, right? But it isn't. If you ask the Python folks for easy deployment, they'll go into a lecture about how it's ugly, or a hack, or n
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by garnet7 17y ago
Admin work is weird because when everything's working, no one says a peep. No, "hey, great job with that update last night which we were largely unaware of because it all happened seemlessly!". It's only when something goes wrong that anyon
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by garnet7 17y ago
> Your fingers are going to be crossed for a long time. Hm. That's going to make it very difficult to type. > I think the Steering Committee has too many divergent interests on it for there ever to be agreement on a serious standard
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by garnet7 17y ago
Surprised to see so much discussion on that. Instead, would expect someone to simply implement it, throw it on the table, and provide instructions for building it into your own apache. If it catches on, then you have a replacement to the cu
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by garnet7 17y ago
I'm interested in learning Scheme, and keeping my fingers crossed that they can come together and specify some kind of "batteries-included" standard library. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll only be able to fiddle with Scheme for an hour or two o
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by garnet7 17y ago
There are currently some big developments happening in the Scheme community. Definition of the new Scheme standard is currently underway and there is a lot of motivation to produce something that will bring the community together. Check o
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by garnet7 17y ago
Is `=&` actually an operator, or is it simply: $foo = &$bar; "set $foo to the address of $bar", like you'd expect from C?
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by garnet7 17y ago
> The thing about OOP is that you need your objects to belong to your solution domain, not your problem domain. Would be great if someone wrote up a nice blog post giving a concrete example of how this works out in practice. That is, co

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