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811.
by ivank 18y ago
Creating empties with {} takes just 58% of the time as dict() [0.25 us, 0.39 us] because there's no need to LOAD_GLOBAL and CALL_FUNCTION. 'not not variable' is similarly faster than bool(variable). (not that I've run into this often in Pyt
812.
by ivank 18y ago
IE really doesn't support this. For any real testing, you want a separate virtual machine for each version of IE. This was discussed; see wayne's comment, which links to Microsoft-provided VM images: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=353
813.
by ivank 18y ago
My untested hypothesis is that your parents and peers expect you to act a certain way (based on your appearance) and many people accept these subtle nudges without resistance. So, it basically becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
814.
by ivank 18y ago
That's "arbitrary", and not random at all. Some basic testing shows that the same dictionary keys will always lead to the same popitem order.
815.
by ivank 18y ago
He means the test is broken if it fails more than once in one million test runs.
816.
by ivank 18y ago
lower signal:noise, fragmented discussion
817.
by ivank 18y ago
You would need a lot of real-world analysis to make this work right. Consider the case of 10 annoying dialog boxes that pop up in sequence, which the user presses enter to close. The no-focus-stealing OS thinks the user can't possibly respo
818.
by ivank 18y ago
Google selecting your cookie for the test run.
819.
by ivank 18y ago
htop can also do this.
820.
by ivank 18y ago
"Microsoft spent over $100 million a year[1] in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on IE by 1999.[2]" (wikipedia) I think the IE7 team was less than a dozen people. IE8 is probably a bit more.
821.
by ivank 18y ago
For operating systems, there's http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
822.
by ivank 18y ago
This is barely noticeable on faster computers, so many designers miss this. The browser has to re-draw the whole page because some of it scrolls, yet the static background doesn't.
823.
by ivank 18y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Mart...
824.
by ivank 18y ago
The CLI is more than just the shell's capabilities. Microsoft expected people to use PowerShell with the same horrible cmd.exe, and ignore the multi-second startup times.
825.
by ivank 18y ago
There are some differences between the 98 and 2000 look, but it might just be the default color palette. I would imagine it looks like 2000.
826.
by ivank 18y ago
I don't find those two especially funny, just memorable. I read tptacek's comment as a general criticism of xkcd, without the implication that it must be funny to be good.
827.
by ivank 18y ago
Launchy can do this on XP or Vista, and it's a few magnitudes faster.
828.
by ivank 18y ago
I like Vista for the proper 64-bit support, the user-level driver model, and the improved file dialogs. But I agree with all your points. Server 2008 has SuperFetch off by default, but then again it's not Microsoft's desktop offering.
829.
by ivank 18y ago
xkcd was great back when it was http://xkcd.com/144/ or http://xkcd.com/123/ But no good things last forever.
830.
by ivank 18y ago
Any crashes with my NVidia card just lead to a restart of the Forceware driver (no reboot).
831.
by ivank 18y ago
You could look at SQLAlchemy, Storm, Schevo, or Nevow Stan. Or even BeautifulSoup's element-finding.
832.
by ivank 18y ago
Yes, exactly. The subtleties are so dangerous that even Google gets it wrong (Google Images did this wrong, at least for a long time)
833.
by ivank 18y ago
Tip #2 is nice in theory, but styling button spacing in a cross-browser manner is nearly impossible. Tip #7 is awful. By the time the images load, the user could already be typing in another input box. If you must set focus, do it right aft
834.
by ivank 18y ago
My speculation: because there are no drawbacks to yawning too much, we've evolved to yawn with even the slightest triggers.
835.
by ivank 18y ago
In case you can't play anything at ustream, it's because they're serving their FLVs on non-standard ports.
836.
by ivank 18y ago
If you don't like it, why haven't you turned Aero off, or replaced the theme? Windows doesn't force you to live with any defaults.
837.
by ivank 18y ago
In case anyone is wondering, you can quit the game and continue from where you left.
838.
by ivank 18y ago
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839.
by ivank 18y ago
If you are forced to take memory dumps to debug your database-backed application, or lock things to write out a line to a logfile, you are probably doing everything wrong. This reflects more on Jeff Atwood's poor choice of technology than p
840.
by ivank 18y ago
foobar2000 has been eating iTunes' lunch for 6 years.

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