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by ii 18y ago
I guess that software shares its soul with its creators. Thus heavy Emacs use can influence longer hair (look at RMS!). But Bill Joy is not bald either (or am I mistaken? -- looked only at Wikipedia photo).
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by ii 18y ago
Does anybody know what's happened? I've just recommended it to one person, emailed a link and ... oooops. 500 server error. Update: now it's up, but I'm still curious.
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by ii 18y ago
Thanks for info. I have some adult art drawn by myself that just sit there; there should be a way to share it with a real world... I've never even thought about do it with normal hosting company or, "God have mercy", do it on my own servers
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by ii 18y ago
FogBugz integrates with VSS, SVN, Mercurial, CVS, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Perforce, Vault and SnagIt. No Git support makes it unusable for me.
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by ii 18y ago
For those who don't know: Pyjamas is a working Python port of Google Web Toolkit. To my eyes it looks like a hidden gem of open-source world, the post is from a guy who wrote Adobe AIR-alike overnight. Of course it's not polished, ready for
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Informal Python GUI toolkits overview(mail.python.org)
1 points by ii 18y ago|2 comments
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by ii 18y ago
You forget about your own survival. You simply will die from hunger if you won't go hunting. Mating and children was always a second priority. The most essential dichotomy is between leisure and running for your life, I think.
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by ii 18y ago
For a set of 27 non-trivial test programs (at about 7,000 lines in total; see the ss-progs-0.0.29.tgz download), measurements show a typical speedup of 2-40 times over Psyco , and 2-220 times over CPython . Because Shed Skin is still in
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An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler(shed-skin.blogspot.com)
6 points by ii 18y ago|2 comments
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by ii 18y ago
Unfortunately it didn't work: Alex Badea has actually made a pyxpcom extension for Firefox3, but it is a somewhat different approach as it relies on a matching python being installed on the system and other extensions using pyxpcom may not
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by ii 18y ago
Read the story. Edit: I agree that he isn't talking about the "dangers of science". It's more like "Nerd in the city"
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by ii 18y ago
The most amazing thing is that you can use real Python inside web pages instead of JavaScript (only for your Gecko/Mozilla apps not for all the web for obvious security reasons).
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Python extension for Firefox(pyxpcomext.mozdev.org)
74 points by ii 18y ago|14 comments
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by ii 18y ago
It's amazing how Dostoevsky captured the dark essence of nerdiness in this story. Here's the original for those who know Russian: Его пожирала страсть самая глубокая, самая ненасытимая, истощающая всю жизнь человека и не выделяющая таким су
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by ii 18y ago
No killer apps? What about this http://www.python.org/about/quotes/ ?
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by ii 18y ago
Of course C++ will beat Python in speed if you invest enough time in it. And assembly will beat C/C++ if you invest even more time. My point is that some people assume that if they would just sit and write something in C++ without putting e
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by ii 18y ago
Try to rewrite something simple written in Python in C++ first and measure the differences in speed/dev time first. Chances are you may end up with a story like this: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_threa... Albeit
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by ii 18y ago
As it was "impossible" for Apple to decide when all they had was the old Macintosh toolbox and NextStep UIs, but they did it. They made Carbon/Cocoa to look reasonably consistent despite huge internal differences. Linux can do the same with
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by ii 18y ago
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) -- Andy Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds http://groups.go
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by ii 18y ago
They don't have to use the Linux kernel in the first place ... they could use the Hurd, NetBSD or FreeBSD instead ;) http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux Linux distros are more GNU than Linux, the problem is in the name -- 'GNU' sounds a
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by ii 18y ago
Thank you. The reason why old people keep telling this BS is that they just don't understand what it is. They can understand a person practicing musical instrument, they can understand a person working with canvas and brushes, they can unde
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by ii 18y ago
Native GTK is not the Apple problem. GTK developers could use Mac application paradigms instead of Windows's and embrace GNUStep/Objective C for GIMP and GNOME instead of implementing their own toolkit. They made the choice of going Windows
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by ii 18y ago
I don't think that it's a direct correlation. It's more about culture and knowledge. Most of armenians, azerbaijans and moldovans don't even KNOW that software can be bought. PC by itself is a huge amount of money for them (and many of them
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by ii 18y ago
Python already has Psyco[1] and some people claim[2] that Python+Psyco is faster than V8. [1] http://psyco.sourceforge.net/introduction.html [2] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/f90342f5...
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by ii 18y ago
... and switch to something like "Facebook for Enterprise 2.0", not Outlook. update: I bet every popular web service eventually will have enterprise-oriented version, like Yammer is to Twitter.
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by ii 18y ago
I must admit that the best ideas and solutions I have ever had were born under the heavy stress of almost missed deadlines.
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by ii 18y ago
Python could then evaluate the fetchmail --configdump output and have the configuration available as the value of the variable “fetchmail”. Never ever do it. Python has very good parsers now. Using "eval" is crazy. Python is not just a
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by ii 18y ago
In Python you can do the same: 'if not bool: ...', 'while bool: ...', '[for ... if not bool]'. Crazy one-liners are also possible. We have just enough formatting flexibility and we prefer readability .
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by ii 18y ago
Some users are scared to death when they see "ActiveX Plug-in" in "about:plugins" page while others criticize "the lack of ActiveX support". How ironic.
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Chrome, Firefox 3.1b and IE8b3 speed tests(lifehacker.com)
7 points by ii 18y ago|3 comments

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