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by m0th87 16y ago
I have, and it amazes me that everyone speaks so positively of it. I'm not going to argue it's a bad library, or it's not worth investing it, but it's not without its problems. And I certainly don't think it's applicable to all distributed
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by m0th87 16y ago
Given you're trying to sell a product, the NSFW in the sample coupon (i.e. the green one) seems like a really bad idea.
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by m0th87 16y ago
I would be extremely excited about a static type checker, and given how favorably Python is seen in this community, plenty of others would be here as well. So please do post when you have a finished product! I'm sure you've seen these alrea
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by m0th87 16y ago
I'm sure there's a sizable percentage that are in school / grad school (myself included) who are not represented by this poll.
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by m0th87 16y ago
I agree, but I think an important aspect is that ISS has a lot of political appeal to it as well. There's something nice about having all these countries working together and plugging into each others' modules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by m0th87 16y ago
At some point electromagnetism was a "low level" theory, but now you've taken advantage of all that basic research by typing that comment up in a computer and publishing it for the world to see. The practical application of this sort of stu
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Facebook Patents Social Search (Courtsey Of Friendster)(searchengineland.com)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Maybe the list is for a public event, and they don't want people to call in or come to the office just to add their names. Maybe the list got too long and difficult to manage. Maybe the maintainer of the list wants to search for specific pe
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by m0th87 16y ago
That's along the lines of what most programmers do, and each defeat is chipping away at inefficiency. You're doing your part in the greatest productivity revolution in history :)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Learning to program with a language as academic as this would be like learning about the basics of electromagnetism by building a particle accelerator :)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Btw, Linda's name was "inspired" by Ada. Except instead of using a famous female mathematician (Ada Lovelace), he used a famous female pornstar (Linda Lovelace): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace Edit: Reference: http://c2.com/
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Impossible colors(en.wikipedia.org)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Unless the original high speed rail plan has been scrapped, it is far more sophisticated than "just" a link from the east coast to the west coast: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/16/a-vision-for-high-sp...
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by m0th87 16y ago
> What you're saying is you don't believe because (a) she's a woman... Just as you argue edw has an ungenerous interpretation, you make a far more blatant ungenerous interpretation in suggesting he's a misogynist. That really isn't nece
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by m0th87 16y ago
I agree with you until the ad hominem attacks on Penelope Trunk. A quick google search shows she runs Brazen Careerist the venture-backed startup .
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by m0th87 16y ago
I think you're seeing this project too much from the perspective of whether it will succeed/fail in the marketplace. That is not the point of research. This should be viewed as an exploratory search for new paradigms in multicore computing.
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by m0th87 16y ago
It's a research project. User uptake is not a (major) factor.
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by m0th87 16y ago
1) You have no guarantees that code you write will resume from a method invokation point. 2) How do you do safe resource cleanup? If you open a file and pass the method to a handler, how do you guarantee that you can close it after the meth
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by m0th87 16y ago
The title uses CSS transforms to rotate the text, rather than images. Beautiful.
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by m0th87 16y ago
That is so painfully wrong.
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The White House's 2012 Federal Budget(whitehouse.gov)
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by m0th87 16y ago
I made a project that did news recommendations a few years ago. One major problem I came across while developing it is that there's a trade-off between accuracy and bias. The more accurate recommended articles are to a user's taste, the mor
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by m0th87 16y ago
> ...a more scalable alternative to traditional relational database management systems (RDMS) written in the SQL language. Huh, apparently RDBMS' are written in SQL...and all this time I thought SQL wasn't even Turing complete.
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by m0th87 16y ago
£0.57 ($0.92) per pixel (it was 32x32 :)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Sadly enough, I did this when I worked at $BIG_CO, not so much because it improved my productivity, but because the day was excruciatingly long with a clock staring at me in the corner. It helped a lot.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Does anyone know of a website or means with which I can reliably determine whether there's good coverage from a service (in this case Virgin) in my area? I'd love to switch, these AT&T rates are killing me.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Say what you will, but I find my Tornado templates much less verbose than in Django, even when respecting the rules of "proper" templating. Also, I just realized you're my former coworker. Hi Igor, it's Yusuf :)
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by m0th87 16y ago
Proof is in the pudding. Where's the pudding? :) From a quick google search, they seem pretty comparable. And in fact Django oftentimes wins. http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/GenshiPerformance http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1324238/wh
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by m0th87 16y ago
I don't see it as so much of a performance issue as a usability issue. Tornado uses eval for parsing templates. The nice effect of this is that you write Python snippets in your templates rather than learning an entirely new DSL for it (lik
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by m0th87 16y ago
Linking directly to the source, that's true Hacker News style :)

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