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   by mattip 13y ago

   Some of us use python as a rapid prototyping language before writing "real" code in c or even (horrors) c++ for performance. This is what makes ctypes so popular, python becomes the glue between calls to well tested low level func
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   by mattip 13y ago

   From a naive reading of their privacy policy [0] it seems they also keep a history of sites visited, and make this available to third parties. That doesn't sound like "anonymizing your locality" except to your local ISP, and
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   by mattip 13y ago

   While every death is a tragedy, 150 per year makes the phenomenon quite the outlier. For perspective, cancer takes over 500,000 lives a year in the US [1]. And lightning kills around 50 [2]. [1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
4. 244.▲
   by mattip 13y ago

   what is the py2exe equivalent for linux /OSX ?
5. 245.▲
   by mattip 13y ago

   What's with the formatting on android - the right hand margin is off the screen and I cannot pinch to zoom out?
6. 246.▲
   by mattip 13y ago

   If you're going to engage in an arms war, you better have the best tools. I never really understood how small investors think they can do microtrading, but apparently it is common since the trading sites bombard you with the very lates
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   by mattip 13y ago

   Matlab is usually run as an ide with an interactive window (command line interpreter). Graphics are built in and interactive, you can interact with any number of graphics windows and with the command line at the same time (this is difficult
8. 248.▲
   by mattip 13y ago

   Graphics in general, handle graphics in particular, and no I'm not kidding. OOP for visualization can't be beat.
9. 249.▲
   by mattip 13y ago

   The first publisher of an invention has a year to file a patent on it. Because of the length of time taken to get to a filing, by the time this prior-art shootout takes place more than a year will have gone by and the prior art will actuall
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    by mattip 13y ago

    Maybe a more appropriate tribute is actually HN itself as a manifestation of his Collective IQ, from http://www.dougengelbart.org/about/vision-highlights.html "Collective IQ" is a special set of collective ca
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    by mattip 13y ago

    It also needs a way to tell the user what it is doing, pypy has a jit viewer, cython has c code, how do you know what optimizations have been done in numba which AFAIK writes directly to llvm ir?
12. 252.▲
    by mattip 13y ago

    Annoying, yes, but easy to opt out.
13. 253.▲
    by mattip 13y ago

    Thanks, this was helpful.
14. 254.▲
    by mattip 13y ago

    My thought exactly the choice of name is suspicious, and lack of ingredients even more so. Is this all a joke?
15. 255.▲
    by mattip 13y ago

    I would add that the configured program should spit its final configuation back out as it starts up, either as a set of command line parameters into a log file, or if that gets out of hand, as a file in /tmp with all external cofigurable va
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    by mattip 13y ago

    Please help PyPy by providing an example benchmark. The project is test and data driven, and the more data it has the better it can be