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by glyph 12y ago
This exact example features in the blog post draft I copied most of my comment from :-). Even more pernicious than that though - you say " the men think they are being fair and honest", but research repeatedly shows that women a
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by glyph 12y ago
"Meritocracy" is not a real concept of how to run a community, but rather a satirical term used to lampoon the idea that "merit" is a 1-dimensional concept which can be measured linearly and used to judge people and rank
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by glyph 12y ago
I don't think you read the article very carefully. Specifically, what I am claiming about (shared-state) threaded code which is not true of "any re-entrant code" is the fact that you cannot tell whether threaded code is re
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by glyph 14y ago
You might be able to write the drivers without running afoul of the law. If it's a signature check, breaking it could be construed as a DMCA violation (in the US, probably some other law in friendly countries). Neither one's great, but th
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by glyph 15y ago
Python outperforms C in many cases. http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...
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by glyph 15y ago
Twisted has a benchmark suite and release-to-release tracking of performance information, so that we can be sure optimizations have a positive impact. http://speed.twistedmatrix.com/timeline/
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by glyph 15y ago
Twisted's event loop is faster than gevent and tornado. http://cyclone.io/
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by glyph 15y ago
I can definitely relate; I was somewhat discouraged that it wasn't open source, and was somewhat resistant at first. It would have more value to me that way. I paid my $60 and I would easily pay another $60 if he'd open it up :). So I und
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by glyph 15y ago
But that's the whole point of the article: the whole value of the CrunchFund (and its ilk) is that Arrington (and his ilk) will be a douche on your behalf. If it were just the money, it wouldn't be worth it for the companies they invest
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by glyph 15y ago
Thanks for the thorough critique! Obviously doing all of this is a ton of work, so it's not going to get done right away, but none of this is inconsistent with our existing long-term plans for Twisted's documentation. I hope that if you d
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by glyph 15y ago
There's plenty not to like about JavaScript, but the biggest mess is this: js> x = 1 1 js> z = x.y js> // WTF?? In other words: it's not an error to access an attribute of an object which isn't there. It's dicey enough that you
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by glyph 16y ago
Actually, PyPy is already a drop-in replacement for many uses, and is getting closer to being a complete drop-in replacement all the time. For example, they have a source-compatible implementation of the CPython C API: http://morepypy.b