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by mcantor 16y ago
I was an attendee for this session of ClePy (Cleveland Python); the docs linked in the article are extremely clear and useful. Here are direct links (FTA): Lab1: http://nickbarendt.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/lab1.pdf Lab2: http://nickba
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An Introduction to Erlang, and Concurrency in Erlang(the-bath-not-taken.barendt.com)
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think it's a little disingenuous, or perhaps naive, to say that Wired (for example) is faring "worse" because it has a disproportionately high amount of "Intermediate"-level material. I opine that Wired's distribution of Basic/Intermedia
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by mcantor 16y ago
I would pay $50 to have this on my Android device. In a heartbeat.
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by mcantor 16y ago
You know, I almost feel like we are both saying "believe," but that we both mean something different. When someone says "I really don't believe that," what I hear is, "I am certain that more of this story is false than true." Based on this
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by mcantor 16y ago
A man asked an artist to paint him a fish. The artist agreed and told him to return in one year. After the year passed, the man returned and requested his painting. As he watched, the artist produced a canvas and brushes and took five min
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by mcantor 16y ago
No, this has shit to do with "faith in humanity." All we can do is speculate about whether the story is true or not, and in practice, its veracity is completely irrelevant to our lives. You said " I really don't believe it ." What I under
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by mcantor 16y ago
That makes sense. I tend to roll out the "Sorry about that" in situations like that because apology can be used to signal more than just sorrow or guilt--it is also a widely accepted method of disconnecting from a conversation. Just becau
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by mcantor 16y ago
The story meshes perfectly with my experience of reality. For example, people who appear to be extremely wealthy are much less likely to be generous tippers, because most people with garish appearances are actually middle-class folk who are
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by mcantor 16y ago
She didn't want your help. It's OK. The correct response is to quietly apologize as soon as she starts lecturing, and then immediately walk away. Why did you feel obligated to stay for the entire lecture? EDIT: I'm very interested to know
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by mcantor 16y ago
I'm curious--did you honestly disbelieve the story, or were you just trolling?
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by mcantor 16y ago
I sort of agree, but a lot of us really are douchebags.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I did this exact same thing, and I'm an "information wants to be free" hippy at heart, so for a long time it was my favorite debate point in favor of piracy. But, Adobe really pushes the "Student" version of their products nowadays, and
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by mcantor 16y ago
The two preceding nitpicks were concrete misuses, whereas this one reflects a much greater amount of subjective reasoning. Not saying that's a bad thing... I just think the distinction is very important. :-)
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by mcantor 16y ago
By "lack of a good composition mechanism," are you referring to the trappings of writing and dealing with SQL syntax itself? As in, "Ugh. I decided to change this join into a subquery, and now my @#$#% parentheses are imbalanced!"? If so,
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by mcantor 16y ago
I agree as far as Create, Update and Delete are concerned. It's the Read part that gets me. I'm all for frameworks that map HTML forms to model object properties to database fields so you don't have to write boilerplate, but I don't think
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by mcantor 16y ago
There's a yawning chasm of difference between "a query that gets the right data in the right way, but does it somewhat inefficiently," and "a query that gets the right data in a stupendously roundabout way." For the former, query optimizat
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by mcantor 16y ago
I never understood the groans of dismay from other developers when the subject of writing SQL comes up. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool application developer, but I love writing SQL. Unlike HTML & CSS, which seem designed to spread into a gre
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by mcantor 16y ago
I expressly condone your decision. I dislike it when anyone says that, or when people say "UGH WHY AM I GETTING DOWNVOTED." But, I have noticed that sometimes I will be spontaneously aware of someone's voting patterns, and I catch myself
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by mcantor 16y ago
I came here to post about exactly that. My jaw dropped while reading... not because it was flagrantly unethical, or abusing the law, or anything like that, but because it reminded me so acutely of the stereotypical movie villain who enlist
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by mcantor 16y ago
I bet 90% of the time, any "expert" is working on things that any idiot can do. But that isn't why people pay experts! I think experts are paid so much because of the other 10% of the time. When convoluted edge conditions have made a mock
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by mcantor 16y ago
If you include a window list in your caption, I believe there is a specific flag that shows up (I want to say it's an asterisk), which indicates "other user viewing this window."
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by mcantor 16y ago
I agree that "if they ever release it" is a powerful point against screen. Is tmux actually better in that respect? I feel like your critique of screen's customization is a little inaccurate; you said that "screen only lets you change a fe
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's all good! Enjoy the cash; you have earned it! Thanks for the references.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I would be extremely grateful if you open-sourced roflbot. I've been meaning to learn lisp for a while, and an app like this seems like a perfect place to start by perusing its source.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Ugh. I was so happy , because I finally thought that this would be a direct comparison of screen and tmux from someone who was very experienced in one or the other. But, no. It was someone to whom even common features between the two were
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by mcantor 16y ago
" My illness has made very little difference to my scientific work. I was lucky to have chosen theoretical physics that is mainly pure thought for which my physical disability is no handicap. I may be mentally disabled as well, but if so, I
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by mcantor 16y ago
What this man did was find compassion for less intelligent people by becoming one. It is the habit of humans to condescend to less intelligent people, and to envy or undermine those who are smarter. Reaching across the boundaries of what
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by mcantor 16y ago
Wouldn't it be just as sexist to assume that someone named "Alice" is a woman? Well, maybe not just as sexist. But at least a little bit sexist. I mean, for all we know, someone named "Alice" could be a male-to-female transgendered ind
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by mcantor 16y ago
To disseminate some novel information to programmers who are interested in this sort of thing.

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