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1. 781.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Why is this on Hacker News?
2. 782.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   I use Youmail for voicemail and have been really happy with it. I pay the $20/year or whatever it is for a paid account.
3. 783.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Didn't read the OP's link yet, but it sounds like it's talking about this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/your-money/09shortcuts.htm...
4. 784.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Major improvement why?
5. 785.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   I went to an MS store in LA the other week. It was sad, but I couldn't stop laughing. Why is there an MS store when all of the products on display aren't even MS products? The tablet right in the front of the store didn't even work (touchsc
6. 786.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Ridiculous, Apple has nearly as much profit per quarter as Google has revenue .
7. 787.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   Here's a link to a PDF of the original 1978 paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.132...
8. 788.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   This. Sleep, and sometimes laundry.
9. 789.▲
   by kbd 15y ago

   7-zip gets no love.
10. 790.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Sheesh, I live in Austin, TX and according to that, my salary adjusted for San Francisco nearly doubles .
11. 791.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    This is completely unhelpful. All of those are changes for 3.2, not 3.2.1. 3.2.1 is a minor bugfix release. Source control has a changelog for 3.2.1 specifically[1] but I didn't see it posted anywhere outside of Mercurial. [1] http://hg.py
12. 792.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Yes, 'nonlocal' definitely closed a hole in the language.
13. 793.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I dunno if I'd say that's an issue of Python not having proper closures, or just that before you could say 'nonlocal' there was no way to refer to the outer scope, since the only scopes you could refer to were 'local' and 'global'.
14. 794.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Well, your first example makes sense. It ensures you're always referring to the same-scoped 'a' throughout your function. FWIW if you said 'global a' at the start of 'print_and_assign_a', Python wouldn't have a problem: >>&#62
15. 795.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    To learn Ruby I decided to redo my website in it, and I felt the complete opposite. I was surprised there's nothing comparable in the Ruby world to Jinja2 or Mako. Nothing supports blocks/macros or template inheritance, so I wrote my own sm
16. 796.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Linguist is GitHub's language identifier that determines which syntax highlighter should be used when you view a file. Some excerpts from the docs: > Most languages are detected by their file extension. This is the fastest and most comm
17. 797.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Great and thorough article. Here's a TLDR: * Javascript has some warts, and here are some examples. * It's going to take way too long to get these fixed to the point that we can actually start using new versions of Javascript because of slo
18. 798.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Excellent article. My favorite quote: > Apart from whether there is a central bank somewhere to bid against George Soros, doesn’t the difference between a real currency and an imaginary currency lie in some sense in the composure with w
19. 799.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    > I think it's funny how someone who's been here for a month is welcoming someone who's been here for 1100+ days to "hacking". Cause the age of your HN account = "hacker cred", right? How dare he talk back to an elder! Regardless, xtal'
20. 800.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    More like "how Ruby and Clojure don't really support keyword arguments". Unless you can do something like: >>> def foo(a,b): ... print a,b ... >>> foo(b=1,a=2) 2 1 then you don't support k
21. 801.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I'm very glad to see this more-serious optimization of the Go and C++ implementations of the original benchmark, which was less than thorough, and not equally fair to each language. It's interesting that the optimized Go and C++ code ultima
22. 802.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Wow, he said he might go to 2.8. This is madness.
23. 803.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Haven't finished watching this yet, but the GIL has been improved as of 3.2. For instance, the example he gives where threading two copies of a CPU-bound function doubles execution time isn't as terrible given the recent rework of the GIL.
24. 804.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Main thread already here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2530963
25. 805.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Heck, assignment itself is a statement. That's why you can't say while x=y: ... (and you'll notice the REPL gives no return value for an assignment). This "Python has no statements" error was one of my biggest annoyances with this article,
26. 806.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    Ah that stinks, sorry :( It's awful having to wonder "what if". Plus, the on-site interview is an experience in itself.
27. 807.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    So they never got back to you and you never followed up? >.>
28. 808.▲
    by kbd 15y ago

    I will love it if in a couple of years the mainstream implementation of Python is PyPy. People are going to be upgrading their Python installations anyway when they move to Python 3. If y'all can get Python 3 support in, maybe people will s
29. 809.▲
    by kbd 16y ago

    Blogspam , plus yet another minor release spam post on HN.
30. 810.▲
    by kbd 16y ago

    i-nigma on iPhone worked instantly on the "pretty-fied" one.