kingkilr

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by kingkilr 14y ago
The author doesn't really respond to the point, he simply says they were non-trivial in complexity, which may be true, but that doesn't mean they're non-trivial in their dynamacism (is that a word?). Moreover it in no way responds to the c
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by kingkilr 14y ago
I'm reasonably convinced that once my program has passed the typechecker, it is logically correct Yup, this is one of my favorite things about Haskell, that's how I know that http://bpaste.net/show/32033/ is a totally correct pr
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by kingkilr 14y ago
If you can convert a program from one language to another (which is non-trivially different), in the time it takes to complete your masters, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a very interesting program. Further, the quality of the developers is go
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by kingkilr 14y ago
I had a laptop hard lock in the middle of a talk once. That was fun. For the record, I handled it by immediately swapping out my laptop for the session runner's (can't risk it happening 2x during the talk), my slides were online and I jus
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by kingkilr 14y ago
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/src/default/pypy/module/__bu...
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Failure also produces a lot of false negatives though, I've failed at a lot of things not because I was bad at them (though, lord knows I have enough failures because of that), but because of bad luck, or bad instruction, or what have you.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
For others who are slow: He means Larry Ellison, not Larry Page.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
You may not need to be smart, but you for damn sure need to be good at what you. And I know this because I've seen the range of quality in pizza, and I've seen pizza places shut down. Can we find something more interesting to do than try
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Kickstarter (last I checked) requires you to be American, so it won't fly for Mike (who is German).
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by kingkilr 14y ago
I'm not familiar with how Julia uses it, but I've worked on two different projects that tried to use LLVM as a JIT backend, I've written a small bit on the experience: http://www.quora.com/LLVM/Is-LLVM-not-good-for-interpreted-l...
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Probably because .py is paraguay, .pl is poland, .net is ... whatever.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
If absolutely nothing else (and there are many others), Java has primitives.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Was the show you were wathching "Australia's Naughties Home Videos"? I know that was cancelled half way through it's first episode by the network owner.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
I accidentally upvoted you, so I figured I should leave a comment explaining why I intended to downvote you: you either failed to understand the question, or chose to intentionally provide a useless and snarky answer. The GP was asking a s
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Those two don't sound mutually exclusive to me.
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by kingkilr 14y ago
I wasn't suggesting have a generic queue API in Django, I was suggesting any APIs needed to enable that to live outside Django entirely, whether that's better hooks into transactions (e.g. so I can wait until a DB transaction is committed t
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by kingkilr 14y ago
Let's not, Celery is doing an absolutely fantastic job in this space, let's just stay out of their way and do what we can in terms of exposing APIs to make their job easier. There's a reason django-core didn't write celery in the first pla
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by kingkilr 14y ago
a) These "jokes" are beyond unacceptable. b) Violent video games do increase aggression in kids, it took less than 2 seconds to find dozens of journal articles on the subject.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Do you think it's just limited to schools?
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by kingkilr 15y ago
It's a standard for 1.8.7, right?
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by kingkilr 15y ago
It's not a java virtual machine; a java virtual machine executes a specific instruction set. It's a VM that runs the dalvick bytecode, and a Java source to dalvick compiler.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I was going to say, is that not a standard feature of test runners today? py.test is amazing though :)
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I gave a talk yesterday on implementing a VM in 30 minutes. I'm not sure how well it went (it's a lot of material for 30 minutes), but I hope I at least got some people excited about implementing languages.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
It's been a while since I looked at the data, but my main source was: http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/python-for-cs1... (a talk Bill Punch gave on those papers). I think it goes into more detail on the non-CS majors.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I think it matters more than you give it credit. Michigan State did an experiment where they replaced one of the Intro to CS classes (which were formally in C++) with Python. The result they found is that for people who went on to CSII (i
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Because the hello world program has so much boilerplate. It means from the get-go you're telling students, "Don't worry about this, and this, and that; ignore it and we'll explain it later." You could go months into learning programming b
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by kingkilr 15y ago
If only we had some sort of way of explicitly telling our computers that we wanted to to convert a sequence of characters into a number.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
PyPy is using a pure-python JSON parser as well.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Yeah, or I can live in some other big city that doesn't have all the shitty parts (or at least less of them). Plus it has all the good stuff. Please stop with this insane dichotomy that I have to choose between the stuff I like and living
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by kingkilr 15y ago
They've introduced S-Gen which is a good, precise, generational collector. I don't know if it's the default, but it is considered production ready IIRC.

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