kingkilr

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571.
by kingkilr 16y ago
> It's simply the better of two options And that's why we call it utilitarianism.
572.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Right, I'm asking for a way to see results in aggregate. Admittingly there's a problem of differing hardware (which I somehow overlooked).
573.
by kingkilr 16y ago
It'd be nice if one of the JS benchmarks actually POST'd the results back to the server, with current browser, and had a UI that allowed comparing the results for different browsers on different tests.
574.
by kingkilr 16y ago
If you're not saying he said that, why leave the comment in reply to him? Either you think he said that (or conveys that attitude), or your comment is blatantly off-topic.
575.
by kingkilr 16y ago
You know youtube is a Python shop right?
576.
by kingkilr 16y ago
The talk was recorded, and the video will be made available (once it's ready).
577.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Maybe this is just the shitty programmer in me, but I'm going to go right ahead using sizeof(char) (I knew it's hardcoded at 1 before this, and I'll know after this), it appeals to the foolishly consistent programmer in me.
578.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Jeremy actually did a tutorial on this at PyCon last year, video available here: http://pycon.blip.tv/file/3263942/
579.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Hrm not sure I agree, to my understsanding minimalism is all about making sure the main thing that draws your eyes is the content, here all of the stuff on the right is completely distracting from the content.
580.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Perl 6.
581.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Well you can't use it as a function. You can however combine the parsing of the "print" keyword, and the "(" and ")" taking precedence around the string to form KEYWORD STRING that looks a hell of a lot like a function call though.
582.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Idea for it that me and a friend had: often times when new users need help in IRC they paste some code, and make some changes, and repaste etc to show what their issue is. The idea is to write a plugin for editors that, at a click of a but
583.
by kingkilr 16y ago
It's kind of cheating to not even include a lexer/parser.
584.
by kingkilr 16y ago
IMO the authors understanding of the LSP is incorrect. The way he uses it ANY change would be invalid, for example adding a new method would change the property of "raises AttributeError when attempting to access XYZ" (in Python parlance).
585.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't it?
586.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Couldn't agree more, I hack on compilers a fair bit (one of my own, plus the JITs in PyPy and Unladen Swallow) and the Dragon Book was impossible for me to get anything out of.
587.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Definitely true, I distinctly recall the first few submissions on 09 f9 in the evening, then the next day they started doing bans arround midday, and then finally the site came crashing down about 24 hours after it originally started.
588.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Not really, during the aacs thing digg literally stopped to function under the weight of 09 f9 subissions. In comparison I've seen more pro-Ron Paul sentimennt on the front page at any given time than I have prop 19 stuff today.
589.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Reminds me of Roller Coaster Tycoon, the customers say stuff like "This park is a really good value" and you bump your entrance fee until they stop saying it. Except in the real world people rarely tell you your your product is too cheap.
590.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Uhh, in the context of an RDBMS a "relation" doesn't mean a "relationship" in the sense of a foreign key, it means a relational algebra relation, saying most applications will never need relations is like saying most applications don't use
591.
by kingkilr 16y ago
I don't remember my models of computation class so well, but wouldn't ASCII and UTF-8 be alphabets, not languages?
592.
by kingkilr 16y ago
That doesn't even require a broad definition. From Aho, Sethi, and Ullman: "a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the
593.
by kingkilr 16y ago
HipHop is not a JIT, it is an AOT compiler.
594.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Please please please do this :) I have enough books on my queue that I don't need any more ;), but when something from one of my favorite authors pops up I like to grab it.
595.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Eh, as someone who hacks on compilers (both my own, and JITs in PyPy and Unladen Swallow) I've been reading the dragon book, but I don't really care for it, it's a little too academic IMO.
596.
by kingkilr 16y ago
> Interpreting functions utilizing a hybrid of virtual and native machine instructions Are they serious? Unless I'm missing something this is a fantastic joke, JITs far predate Java.
597.
by kingkilr 16y ago
I've had a G1 for about a year now... I really want to upgrade at this point.
598.
by kingkilr 16y ago
Dunno, but if I find out it's certainly not going in a blog post ;)
599.
by kingkilr 16y ago
It's the second word. Perhaps an edit?
600.
by kingkilr 16y ago
It wasn't there when the the paper first went public, however it was there this morning.

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