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by janzer 13y ago
It doesn't make sense to me then why over 2/3rds of the trials this study looked at were excluded because they registered >1 month after enrollment started. Have they all found exceptions to, or ways to work around, the above r
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by janzer 13y ago
Yet another one is http://www.rsnapshot.org/ there have been a fair number of these created over the years.
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Origin of metaclasses in Python(python-history.blogspot.com)
3 points by janzer 13y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 13y ago
Did no one else read this title as, a fork of the C frontend for LLVM by Neal Stephenson is being abandoned? I was pretty interested in seeing why Neal Stephenson felt the need to fork it in the first place. :)
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Python Gets High Marks for Open Source Software Security(securityweek.com)
4 points by janzer 13y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 13y ago
I admit by the time I made it through this comment thread, I wasn't quite laughing out loud, but I was having a good chuckle.
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PyPy: Py3k status update #11(morepypy.blogspot.com)
4 points by janzer 13y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 13y ago
According to http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/images/mchb_infantmortality_pub... "The infant mortality rate in the United States showed a consistently downward trend between 1935 and 2000, with the rate declining from 55.7 per 1,000 live birt
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by janzer 13y ago
He was a guest on EconTalk a few months back and it was mentioned that he is now at the University of Texas. Most of the conversation was about Valve's corporate structure, http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/varoufakis_on_v.htm...
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by janzer 14y ago
While I'm not a pypy developer, I know they treat any python* code running slower than cpython as a bug. They love to try and help with it if you stop by #pypy on freenode irc. It's best if you can give them a self contained example they ca
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by janzer 14y ago
Congratulations to the team. PyPy and cffi look to be maturing and coming along quite nicely. Spot of trivia; ESR recently contributed a nice bit of optimization documentation. It can be found at http://www.pypy.org/performance.html
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PyPy 2.0 beta 2 released(morepypy.blogspot.com)
100 points by janzer 14y ago|24 comments
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Community, conduct, conflict, and communication(nedbatchelder.com)
2 points by janzer 14y ago|0 comments
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Parallelizing the Python Interpreter: An alternate approach to async(speakerdeck.com)
4 points by janzer 14y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Note that this article is from 2011. Trying his tests on firefox 20 beta, shows no difference between id and class selectors (the article says there was minimal difference in ff6), also no difference between between the type and "heavily ov
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by janzer 14y ago
It's a nice post about something I've had an interest in doing for a while. It would probably be a lot better to link directly to the post though, not to the reddit link of the article.
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Google Removes Asteroid Near Miss Doodle(madmadrasi.net)
2 points by janzer 14y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Yes, but that is not the url type being talked about by patio11 or the original article. For the url type under discussion here: 1. Visit https://www.google.com/ 2. type "hackernews" into the search box and hit enter. 3. look at the long
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by janzer 14y ago
It's rather funny, rather sad to see the comments about how overpriced this is. Especially the implications that the overpricing is because the laptop runs linux by default. The XPS-13 line is a standard ultrabook line from Dell. The closes
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Life after Facebook(bob.ippoli.to)
5 points by janzer 14y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Bah, nothing here about wild drunken partying. ;) To his credit the correct word is used throughout the article, just got a miss in the title.
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by janzer 14y ago
Unfortunately this isn't even getting close to the longest time for people to be imprisoned for contempt of court. The US record goes to Mr. Chadwick[1] at 14 years. I certainly do agree that these cases don't seem in line with a properly o
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PyPy: Cape Town 2012 sprint report(morepypy.blogspot.com)
3 points by janzer 14y ago|0 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Only relation being that 64k is 2^16 I imagine.
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by janzer 14y ago
Yes, most definitely this. For instance small niche site I run mostly dealing with females 30-60 years of age, Chrome has 17%, Safari 18%, Firefox 22% and IE 36%.
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by janzer 14y ago
This is from the decimal benchmarks included in the python source[1], in the recipe given in the decimal documentation[2] the precision is increased for the intermediate steps of the algorithm so it gives the correct end result. >&#
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by janzer 14y ago
And 80x is apparently actually an understatement, at least for a few cases. Some numbers recently posted to python-dev show up to a 124X improvement: Precision: 9 decimal digits float: result: 3.1415926535897927 time: 0.113188s
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</CaptureTheFlag>(stripe.com)
84 points by janzer 14y ago|20 comments
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by janzer 14y ago
Anyone that is running servers for a large percentage of the time should be using reserved instances that are priced much lower than the on demand prices shown here. For example for a small instance that runs constantly, using a heavy utili
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by janzer 14y ago
There is a large gap between true statistical significance and a fair coin toss. Bad testing (of whatever flavor A/B, MAB, etc.) is likely to land somewhere in that gap. Most likely worse off than proper testing but also quite likely better

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