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721.
by kbd 14y ago
> I'm certainly very intrigued to see how it looks because 1920x1200 at 15" would be ideal. Ditto. My concern is the same as the author's. Any antialiasing while looking at code drives me nuts, so I use a pixel-perfect bitmap font and t
722.
by kbd 14y ago
They couldn't even report the name accurately. It's "Lua" not "LUA".
723.
by kbd 14y ago
For old articles, please put a date in the title. In this case, (2003).
724.
by kbd 14y ago
They added Git support but not Mercurial :(
725.
by kbd 14y ago
> The language of the web is javascript. Until web browsers allow Go as the embeddable language, node will remain useful. Do people really get that much code re-use between client and server that using Javascript on the server provides
726.
by kbd 14y ago
That's a(nother) pretty big real-world advantage for Go then, no? I know the solution for Node is to just run one instance per-core, but it's automatic with Go. I'd love to see a second set of benchmarks of the same code on multiple cores.
727.
by kbd 14y ago
So does Go's net/http module really provide basically exactly the same programming model as Node? If so, why use Node? One thing the author didn't mention is that Go will use multiple cores in this example, whereas Node is single-threaded.
728.
by kbd 14y ago
> On a few smaller, more regular examples like richards, I did measure the performance. It is not great, even taking into account that it has no JIT so far. Running pypy-stm with one thread is roughly 5 times slower than running a regul
729.
by kbd 15y ago
And in Python 3 it's a generator with zip(range(len(seq)), seq)
730.
by kbd 15y ago
List comprehensions iterate in the same order as the for loops. If it helps, stick a mental newline in there :P [(x, y) for x in range(10) for y in range(5)...]
731.
by kbd 15y ago
What does that even mean?
732.
by kbd 15y ago
There's no way I'd put Python 3 and Perl 6 in the same sentence. Also, IMO there's no chance of Perl 6 being successful in time (which makes me sad, because 10 years ago or so I was really hopeful about it).
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by kbd 15y ago
Ruby is almost 20 years old...
734.
by kbd 15y ago
TLDR: You can write a comparator function and use it like with C's 'qsort'.
735.
by kbd 15y ago
> A small barcode that can be scanned with the device that everybody already has in their pocket is a cool thing, and QR codes are nearly that. Why nearly?
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by kbd 15y ago
> like apply(f, args) however that is done in Python Python 2 has an apply function [1], but it was deprecated for a long time and removed in 3.0 [2]. apply(f, args) is equivalent to f(*args) in Python. [1] http://docs.python.org/libra
737.
by kbd 15y ago
I'm glad he made the correct distinction between partial application and currying. The article is worth it for his helpful explanation of the two alone. Though, it's slightly off on the initial presentation of currying. Currying is the act
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by kbd 15y ago
> PyPy still have a long startup time. This is false last time I looked. Try it. It's a little more than CPython but definitely not "long". It's nothing like the JVM startup time, for instance.
739.
by kbd 15y ago
Well, here's Michael Foord's (@voidspace, referenced in the slides) Mock library so you can see what extra stuff it gives you. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/
740.
by kbd 15y ago
Thanks for the flashbacks from the TiP BoF. I thought we'd never get to the end, but man that was a fun and nerdy time.
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by kbd 15y ago
Every time I'm reminded of Tcl's history through Sun I wonder how much would have had to have been different for Tcl to have ascended instead of Java. Was it the decision of one man who just liked Java better? Was it for more technical reas
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Go vs C benchmark. Could Go be faster than C?(roberto.costumero.es)
14 points by kbd 15y ago|0 comments
743.
by kbd 15y ago
Neat, works in the CoffeeScript REPL too, thanks!
744.
by kbd 15y ago
Try it. It's very slightly longer than CPython. It's nothing like, say, the JVM.
745.
by kbd 15y ago
Yes, so as to 1-up Gandi, Namecheap announced today that they'll be doubling it if they make it to $25k. That's what this post is about...
746.
by kbd 15y ago
I vote for Lamar Smith. It's a wonder that man still has any of his soul left to sell.
747.
by kbd 15y ago
There's a lot of "I type fast on qwerty so why would I bother switching?" Speed isn't even the main reason I use dvorak. The primary reason is that it's more comfortable to type in. In addition, as a programmer, a lot of the characters ac
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by kbd 15y ago
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335217
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Plotting using matplotlib from PyPy (proof of concept embeds CPython in PyPy)(morepypy.blogspot.com)
3 points by kbd 15y ago|0 comments
750.
by kbd 15y ago
I do this. I sync'd my iPhone's contacts with my Google Apps account and actually got rid of all the contacts on my iPhone itself. Now all the contacts on my phone are my Google Apps contacts accessed through Google's Exchange. I finally ha

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