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by nas 11y ago
This makes me want to play KSP. ;-)
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by nas 11y ago
I currently use Workflowy. It is not FOSS but it is has some nice features. It syncs between devices, has a decent mobile client, works offline, seems to have a good developer, doesn't cost an unreasonable amount, has pretty good mul
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by nas 11y ago
I really doubt it is him. The writing style doesn't seem to match.
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by nas 11y ago
You sure? Satloc was doing GPS guidance for aerial guidance for decades (crop dusting planes). They adapted it for ag guidance in the 1990s I believe. This technology has been evolving for years and saying that John Deere or some single
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by nas 11y ago
Imagine you have a company that does something not related to software. You have some important business tools that are implemented in Python. What is your incentive to spent money and take the risk of new bugs porting to Python 3? It do
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by nas 11y ago
Quite the logic you have going on there. Certainly you should also consider other arguments.
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by nas 11y ago
I forgot to mention that in my sibling comment but I agree, because 2.x is so stable is the main reason it is and will continue to be so popular. You can't have it both ways (new features and stability). Python 2.x is not going anyw
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by nas 11y ago
Open source developers work on what they like to do. Guido was the primary developer of asyncio, funded by dropbox, as I understand. The asyncio library depends on some Python 3 features that other developers have implemented. I believe
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by nas 11y ago
Glyph is a smart guy and has been doing async code for a very long time (at least in computing terms). It would be wise to consider his arguments. I've done a project making heavy use of Python 3's asyncio feature. It is much ni
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by nas 12y ago
> the younger generation can't afford to live there So live somewhere else. I don't really get the problem, seems like normal market forces to me. Canada is a huge country.
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by nas 12y ago
Hard to say that, we don't know what the final price of the Boeing plane would be. I liked the Boeing design better, simpler and should have been cheaper and more reliable. Complexity just kills budgets, schedules and reliability. I
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by nas 12y ago
I'm in the middle of doing an embedded control system project and I'm using Python 3.4 to do it. The embedded computer runs Debian Linux on an ARM processor. The Python program interfaces with the following: J1939 (CAN bus) netw
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by nas 12y ago
> There are thousands of us here who have each spent hundreds of hours struggling with IE compatibility when we could have been building cool stuff. This is the issue that pisses me off more than anything. There must be hundreds of man-
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by nas 12y ago
It was a totally different world for development 15 years ago though. These days web applications are taking over what used to be in-house developed Windows apps. Those in-house apps represent a huge amount of software development. I thi
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by nas 12y ago
It was really fun at the time. Computer chess enthusiasts were discussing the match on rec.games.chess and analyzing real-time on ICC. PC chess programs could not check as deep as Deep Blue so there was lots of speculation on how good the
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by nas 12y ago
Not so strange when you realize the amount money flowing to the breeders or their dominance over staple crop seed. US soybean area is expected to be about 83.6m acres. Patented soybean seed costs roughly 35 $/ac more than non-patente
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by nas 12y ago
It used to be the case but there are powerful groups having good success in changing it (and making great profits as a result). See http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmorrell/2014/03/26/can-this-... f
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by nas 13y ago
I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean in this context. Testing for "is not None" is more explicit and avoids the trap being discussed. I don't know how the second sentence applies, maybe "if timeval:" i
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by nas 13y ago
While I agree this is surprising behavior and I wouldn't design an API this way, it is documented behavior. From the docs: "in Boolean contexts, a time object is considered to be true if and only if, after converting it to minute
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by nas 13y ago
I wonder if publishing these metrics would go a long way to solving the problem. I know I'd must prefer to sign up with an ISP that doesn't throttle traffic I care about. I guess the big problem with that idea is that in many ar
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by nas 13y ago
Coding using mathematical proofs only works if your problem is defined at a similar level of rigor. That sounds obvious when stated so simply but I think it is the major downfall of formal coding methods. Depending on the field, business
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by nas 13y ago
How about not using system administrator privilege to edit a TODO list? Good grief. If you want a simple text file, add "cat $HOME/TODO.txt" to your login profile script and then "etodos () { $EDITOR $HOME/TODO.tx
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by nas 13y ago
Lout is quite a bit saner but doesn't have much traction. It seems to be in "deep maintenance" mode now.
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by nas 13y ago
I'm never liked this list, mostly due to Python but I think other languages are also incorrectly characterized. Guido worked on ABC and wanted something for scripting tasks on a Unix machine. Python was mostly inspired by ABC but som
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by nas 13y ago
> a sudden increase from a slowly declining level That's worrying. I'm much more concerned about a Sybil attack or similar attack on the P2P network than an attack on the cryptography. Given the current size of the ledger, th
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by nas 13y ago
This points to a problem with the idea of early adopters getting an unfair advantage. Say you are an early adopter and you bought at $0.10. Should you cash out at $10? How about $100? At any point along the path an early adopter could ca
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by nas 13y ago
No kidding. How about Bayer, BASF, Syngenta, Pioneer, Dow Agro? There are many players in agriculture, it's a huge industry.
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by nas 14y ago
> inflation is an absolutely necessary force in an economy I don't think there is good evidence of this "fact". Economics is not a hard science. A few points, one, you can't argue that bitcoin deflates and therefore is worthless. The
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by nas 14y ago
I had no trouble ordering a Nexus 4 from the Canadian Play store. It arrived a couple of days after I ordered it. So far, I'm very happy with it. It's a huge upgrade from my Cyanogenmod running Galaxy S1.
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by nas 14y ago
Or poker ( https://sealswithclubs.eu/ ). If you snoop around on the twoplustwo poker forms you will see there is some interest and decent reviews of the site. I imagine for someone that gambles regularly, it's easier for them to leave the

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