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by imok20 17y ago
And that's exactly the problem. In liberal arts educations (such as the one I'm receiving) or even at universities such as MIT, Python is the language of choice. It's great fun to teach, very easy to learn, but it's not an industry standard
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by imok20 17y ago
While some of this makes sense... this "Undergraduate courses lose their technical currency in something like five years on average" sticks out like a sore thumb. How well would we be served if C were taught in undergraduate programs? In de
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by imok20 17y ago
He outright typed it, doesn't just suggest. Forgive me... "As Jason Snell put it, imagine how much money Apple could have lost if only it had a netbook."
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by imok20 17y ago
I'm not disputing that, at all. I'm saying that if Apple HAD done it, they wouldn't be fucked. Gruber suggests that if they had made a netbook, they would have lost money. (Been fucked, in the lingua franca, evidently.)
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by imok20 17y ago
That's an excellent point. I can't believe that x86 netbooks will ever be able to outperform RISC-ier ISAs, not in the near future, and NEVER on battery life. Since netbooks don't really need to do much vector processing or too much FP stuf
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by imok20 17y ago
I'm not sure the analysis is correct at all... I own both an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, and neither of them quite serve the purpose a netbook would. I'm considering getting an Asus netbook within the next 6 months should I hear no word of an
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by imok20 17y ago
That's not true in the case of C – just reported in the case of Ruby. And only in some cases.
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by imok20 17y ago
Last you heard must have been a while ago. Even the engines aren't being written in assembly. Writing in x86 yields slower and less optimized code than letting gcc -o3 etc compile your C code in x86. It simply gets too complex to manage in
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by imok20 17y ago
It's beautiful. I think I'm in love! It's a wonderful framework giving me a graceful syntax and some nifty tools. I may just get involved!
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by imok20 17y ago
Plus, that short time period is hardly indicative of a long-term trend.
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by imok20 17y ago
This is a fantastic resource – it's taken me far too long to accumulate as many as I have now, and there are a few here I haven't seen before. I wish this had been around when I first started looking.
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by imok20 17y ago
Interesting... I have an almost morbid fascination with how this will pan out. I use and love a Mac, and I don't plan on switching to a different machine, but I'm curious as to how Cupertino will respond. I'm betting this doesn't get much t
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by imok20 17y ago
I think the issue that until a budding mathematician reaches upper-level undergraduate classes, foundation must be built, and built quickly, in order to catch him up with the current rigor of mathematics. It's the same with computer science
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Arrington Disagrees with PG's Assessment (twitter.com)
3 points by imok20 17y ago|1 comments
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by imok20 17y ago
This is rather old news, and has been seen on HN before – essentially, Khalid et al violated uncounted copyright laws and basically scammed most of his customers on the app store.
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by imok20 17y ago
Works great for me on Safari 4.0.3 (on OS 10.6).
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by imok20 17y ago
I've got to say, the markup for the comments page is pretty ugly. I'm not going to diss the one who designed it, but I think it could really do with an overhaul. It wouldn't be difficult at all - just cascading, nested divs with incremental
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by imok20 17y ago
Fantastic! 10 tabs open in Safari 4 @1ms using < 1core of my 2.66GHz Core2Dueo. Cheers and good luck! (I second, or third, the browser-war idea.)