kingkilr

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by kingkilr 17y ago
Not all of them have been backported, but basically anything that says it's been contributed by Collin Winter or Jeffrey Yaskinn is something that's been backported.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
That's not a compiler for Python. It's a compiler for a limited subset of Python that works via source to source translation targeting C++, you could write a version of it targeting Objective-C if you wanted.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Yes, they have.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
If you head over to python-ideas there's actually some really good discussion about removing the GIL right now. Someone has proposed using CAS operations (which I know nothing about) to remove the fine grained locking that is needed under
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I sort of read this as more BSDish philosophy. One of the fundamental things he cites is the freedom for others to do something you might not like, which, IMO, is more of a BSD notion.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I'm sorry, who the heck actually thinks they are?
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Nope, I'm at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. I'm just from Chicago.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Man, being a student out in the middle of nowhere sucks, I miss all the cool events in the city.
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Optimising compilers are there so that you can be a better programmer(lazypython.blogspot.com)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The site was made by Eldarion, primarily coded by James Tauber (jtauber on here) and Brian Rosner.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
As you get to higher levels you get more fonts unlocked, plus lower case letters, and other challenges. It gets harder :)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
Indeed, any bug reports, ways to make it better, and best of all: patches welcome! (I'm the guy who wrote it)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I'm fairly convinced the most badass part of that is that he can just do ".distinace.m" and get it in meters. Of course there are other units if you prefer: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/co... :)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
C++ templates are turning complete.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
That's correct. This is why most WSGI people (such as Graham Dumpleton, author of mod_wsgi) are opposed to adding any sort of async stuff to the WSGI spec as well.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
You might want to invite the EveryBlock guys, they're pretty much the defininition of what you're looking for :)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
... this same tripe was submitted to reddit, they haven't actually switched yet, this is just a random paste of the timsort.txt file that exists within the Python SVN repository.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I've contributed a few patches to unladen-swallow, but most of my time is spent contributing to Django (I'm the multi-db guy :P)
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I use github for hosting all of my projects right now, but I've been writing my own software in my spare time and I can't wait to migrate, doing everything for yourself brings some really nice advantages.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
For displaying this kind of data I've recently been shown: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualizati... and I'm 100% convinced. Plus Wilson Miner provides such nice and simple HTML+CSS even people who are bad at design
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by kingkilr 17y ago
I think what he wants is instead of defining a table that a model maps to he could also just definea SQL query to select from. This is somewhat possible with Django 1.1 if you use a DB level view and unmanaged models.
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by kingkilr 17y ago
You answer the first 3 questions quite definitively, however I spoke with the Software Freedom Law Center just this past week about these same questions and was told the answer to all of them was "maybe" as this has never been tested in cou
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by kingkilr 17y ago
The FSF provides an opinion on some of these questions, unfortunately their opinion, that any import or dynamic linking triggers the GPL, a) has never been tested in court, ever (unlike for static linking), and b) is often not matched by th
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by kingkilr 17y ago
That sounds about right (we started Wednesday evening and had the current code by Friday evening, it just took us some time to get our setup.py scripts right :) ).