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811.
by illumen 17y ago
Using non-threadsafe calls with threads... yeah, that's not going to be nice.
812.
by illumen 17y ago
It get's me thinking back to university, where there were a number of mature age students, most of whom were putting in much more than students on average. These people were obviously passionate, and had experiences in other industries. No
813.
by illumen 17y ago
Python needs better email servers. I'm not sure this is the final answer, but it's nice that there's something other than the stdlib one, and the twisted one... neither of which offer a good total solution.
814.
by illumen 17y ago
Google wave will make all sorts of interesting interaction possible. I love how it mixes and matches a bunch of different technologies and use cases together. A really interesting protocol. I wonder if it'll take off like how email did?
815.
by illumen 17y ago
The claim is Arc is agile and short... The Arc one has too many ()() all over the place. The arc one is also less powerful, because it uses different function invocations for different types of events. It's also likely more people will und
816.
by illumen 17y ago
ah, events as function calls. How so terribly 50's. here's a way where events are objects... rather than an invocation. Much more flexible. a python + pygame example... cu, key_handlers= dict(u=rotate, j=drop,
817.
by illumen 17y ago
Can't do much without batteries.
818.
by illumen 17y ago
It's wrong because it's a faulty abstraction. It's generalising. That is, assuming that one or many things are one way just because some things are one way. Just because one person is one way, doesn't mean they all are, or even mostly are.
819.
Grandma errors, and splling mistakes...(renesd.blogspot.com)
1 points by illumen 17y ago|0 comments
820.
by illumen 17y ago
It's also interesting to compare the number of slaves in the USA before slavery became illegal, to the number of prisoners in the USA working for almost nothing. That's right... there's now more slaves in the USA than before it became illeg
821.
by illumen 17y ago
Is it true that Apple has made more money from developer signups (600,000 developers I heard) than from sales from the app store? There's money in shovels and picks...
822.
Python's float makes me want to smoke crack(renesd.blogspot.com)
12 points by illumen 17y ago|7 comments
823.
by illumen 17y ago
Definitely! $5k can last a year in india. Just freelance for your existing clients and live like a king for a year... on 1-2 jobs. Only 7-25% of Americans own a passport... so I doubt that many people would actually do it. http://www.gyf
824.
by illumen 17y ago
Linux does have something like Bifrost - and better stuff. OLPC uses linux. Newer versions of windows also have a very advanced security model. OSX is the weakest current OS, and one of the easiest to exploit. There's a number of ways you
825.
by illumen 17y ago
Let's see how long it takes the hacker news team to fix! (Or even some lisp hackers to beat pg with their own patch!) Three main issues: 1) improper use of hashing. No salt used. 2) sha1 is not the best hash to be using. 3) passwords are n
826.
by illumen 18y ago
Part of NoScripts behaviour is the display of it's ads. That's what it does - it displays ads as part of its website on the extension update page. So those ads are part of the extensions behavior. Obviously some users supported the NoScrip
827.
by illumen 18y ago
C works in CUDA and OpenCL - which for scientific programming is the fastest thing there is. The GPU is used with C. C isn't faster than hand coded assembler on cpus... but is pretty damn quick. There are specialist compilers for C, like ve
828.
by illumen 18y ago
Adblock also blocks the behaviour of no-script... by blocking the ads. Both are doing wrong in a way... but not in others. It's a contradiction, but neither can claim to be the white knights... both are at best grey.
829.
by illumen 18y ago
Heaps of games representing many projects that people have worked on with pygame. I hope someone enjoys it. Lots of detail is shown in less than two minutes.
830.
Pygame 2001-2009(8 years), 1100 projects - an animation representing pygame work. Enjoy(youtube.com)
1 points by illumen 18y ago|1 comments
831.
IPv6 - the Australian isps that support IPV6...
1 points by illumen 18y ago|0 comments
832.
by illumen 18y ago
I really like that they're supporting the posix realtime scheduling extensions, and async IO. Very nice. Even if to know such things are available on more platforms now.
833.
by illumen 18y ago
bzr can do that. It's used by people to track /etc/ and all sorts of stuff. Have your files in: /somewhere/.bzr /somewhere/yourfolders/ So there is only one .bzr directory at the top.
834.
by illumen 18y ago
Although about python, the same idea holds true for packages and applications made in all other languages too. Include tests with your program.
835.
Distributed testing the easy way.(renesd.blogspot.com)
1 points by illumen 18y ago|1 comments
836.
by illumen 18y ago
Thanks OLPC.
837.
by illumen 18y ago
It directly applies to the skilled immigrants in question. Since there are many better places in the world to live than in the US - what I said listed some reasons why the US is not a very good place to live. Why are highly skilled immigra
838.
by illumen 18y ago
Except the US has lower standards of living, a worse education system, a terrible human rights record, really high obesity levels, and more poverty than many other counties. No wonder they are leaving... there's many better places to live:
839.
by illumen 18y ago
It shows how linux use is increasing a lot in the personal use space. Especially because of all these netbooks, and mobile phones running linux coming out. Maybe this is the year of linux in the handbag, on the lap, and in the pocket?
840.
Microsoft -- 'Linux client use, higher than Apples'.(osnews.com)
1 points by illumen 18y ago|1 comments

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