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1. 751.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   What are the downsides of Ruby's alternate approach of having strings be bytes that carry an encoding object around?
2. 752.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   This is yet another exhortation to "visual" programming. Ironically, the author seems to believe that programming language syntax can done away with since the textual representation of a programming language is just an incidental detail, ye
3. 753.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Thank you. I was annoyed that someone who wants us to take his writing about language and programming languages seriously couldn't even spell Chomsky's name right.
4. 754.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Even if you've "stopped caring about Python 3" and favor PyPy, the PyPy developers themselves care about Python 3 support and are working to get there. Language != implementation. Everyone , including the PyPy developers, view Python 3 (
5. 755.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   This is completely wrong. Triple quotes in Python indicate a string. It happens to be able to be used for a multi-line comment because it officially leaves no artifact in the AST if it's not assigned to anything (can't find the documentat
6. 756.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   > giving me features which require all manner of annoying syntax in Python def foo(first, *rest): vs sub foo{ my ($first, @rest) = @_; ?
7. 757.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Python's lists are not linked lists. List indexing is O(1).
8. 758.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   I think that's a great point about working towards a minimal viable product. I was shocked to read recently about all the wasted time spent doing things like implementing versions of Python and Javascript on Parrot instead of working to mak
9. 759.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   While I often see "Puppet vs Chef", I never see Bcfg2 mentioned. Is its low mindshare related to its quality, it's exclusion from the set of Ruby-based config management tools, its origin in the government space, or its terrible name?
10. 760.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    One of my female friends is obsessed with this site. I don't get it, but then I'm not their demographic.
11. 761.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Which do you prefer between wxPython and PyQt btw?
12. 762.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    "if (this.moreCount > 5) return; // we only allow a max of 5. TODO: what happens then?" :D
13. 763.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I love the homage to the Win 95 easter egg.
14. 764.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I too went through my Facebook applications recently and there was a ton of stuff in there I never intended to authorize. Using a separate browser for Facebook sounds like a great idea.
15. 765.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Blogspam... Original post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018126 (top link at the moment). I don't think this link contains anything that isn't in the Google announcement: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94
16. 766.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    It's amazing to see just how much Apple is driving the industry. Microsoft is making an app store, completely rethought their UI and programming model for mobile devices...
17. 767.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I wish I had the level of focus he describes.
18. 768.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Additional discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/kd38b/pypys_python_3...
19. 769.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I really wish Google would support PyPy. It'd be such a small amount of money for them to fund development. Given the PyPy team's demonstrable success and Google's otherwise strong commitment to Python I can't understand why they don't.
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    PyPy support for Python 3 (pypy-dev)(mail.python.org)

    61 points by kbd 15y ago|17 comments
21. 771.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I keep waiting to get the ability to downvote. Every 50 karma I get I think, "maybe I can downvote now", but it never happens.
22. 772.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Do they mean 2x slower than CPython or 2x slower than PyPy? If they wind up with something 2x slower than current PyPy (which is much faster than CPython in many cases), that'll still be a version of Python much faster than CPython that doe
23. 773.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    It's implicit on the stack.
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    by kbd 15y ago

    FWIW all of those examples work in Python 3 as well. The language was extended with PEP 3132[1] to support "extended iterable unpacking" (I wish they would just call them "splats"). Python doesn't have a `values_at` method, though `map(hash
25. 775.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I linked to the release notes, here's their announcement: http://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/3.6.0.html
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    Samba 3.6.0 released(samba.org)

    1 points by kbd 15y ago|1 comments
27. 777.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Armin Ronacher (prominent Python developer) included a critique of decorators in a post about a month ago making precisely your point: > Decorators are somewhat of a pain because there is a difference between @foo and @foo(). If they we
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    by kbd 15y ago

    Oh hey, look at that, they un-deprecated <u> in HTML5: http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/u.html#u Even more reason for it to be supported in Markdown :)
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    by kbd 15y ago

    I've always wished _ meant "underline" not <em>. Of course the HTML standard only defines <em> and <strong>, but _ could create output like <em class="underline"> or <em style="text-decoration: underline"
30. 780.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Really? Verizon: "20¢ per text sent (per recipient) or received (including Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands)" AT&T: "All AT&T customers with Text Messaging-capable phones are pre-activated to send and receive