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by raymondh 13y ago
There appears to be a single main diagonal that includes China, Russia, Italy, France, and Germany. Above that diagonal are countries where it takes less money to achieve that same satisfaction as those on the main diagonal. Apparently, Br
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OCZ gets offer from Toshiba to buy assets in bankruptcy sale(reuters.com)
2 points by raymondh 13y ago|0 comments
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The Original Concept for StackOverflow(joelonsoftware.com)
3 points by raymondh 13y ago|0 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
Summary: The author wishes that the third-party requests module were part of the Python standard library (ignoring the wishes of the person who wrote the requests module). The title is link bait. The "batteries" work fine - some
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Energy-Saving Secret of Jellyfish(nytimes.com)
2 points by raymondh 13y ago|0 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
Key quote: "Any one of us would be lying if we said we didn't learn plenty of web development from that site when we were getting started." I've found w3schools to be a fanastic resource for my students. I've used
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by raymondh 13y ago
The full text of the speech is in the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
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Why California Per Capita Energy Use Flat While Rest of U.S. Has Increased 50%(paid.outbrain.com)
2 points by raymondh 13y ago|1 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
Here's a follow-up Op-Ed piece: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/opinion/puder-york-aol-firing/...
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by raymondh 13y ago
Tulip is a work in progress. It will be ready when it is ready :-) Guido is still planning for this to make it into Python 3.4. This isn't a beta release. There are more features to come.
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by raymondh 13y ago
In my opinion, the enum module will do very little to improve your life. It uses a great deal of machinery to solve a somewhat shallow problem. Yes, there will be a few cases when it will improve code and help manage complexity. But it in
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by raymondh 13y ago
Adding a MOV shifts subsequent instructions and can relieve deleterious aliasing in the branch prediction buffer. Here's a full explanation (with references and links to the diagnostic tools): http://stackoverflow.com/
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by raymondh 13y ago
And this from "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual": Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 2. (M impact, ML generality): Use the SETCC and CMOV instructions to eliminate unpredictable conditional branches
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CMOV a Bad Idea on Out-of-Order CPUs(ondioline.org)
59 points by raymondh 13y ago|10 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
The core problem with Reservoir sampling is the huge number of calls to the random number generator. That quickly drains the entropy from PRNGs. Also, for some sampling applications, the calls to the PRNG are the slowest part of the algori
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by raymondh 13y ago
Python's __init__.py files are useful and can be zero bytes long.
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by raymondh 13y ago
The author's point is that "valuable" isn't the same as "valued by others who are willing to pay you", and that the latter can interfere with the former.
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The Replicator has Arrived: NASA's 3-D food printer for astronauts(reuters.com)
1 points by raymondh 13y ago|0 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
Some of these capabilities are already built into Python. See Guido's "dictionary views" described at: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3106/ In Python 2.7, those dictionary views are exposed as d.viewkeys(), d.viewitems(), and d.viewv
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by raymondh 13y ago
The article( and its referenced article) recommends against using linked lists because they are inefficient on modern processors (due to cache misses). However, there is a better solution than throwing away a powerful and expressive data st
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Philips Partners with Apple on Smart LED Bulb(smallbusiness.yahoo.com)
2 points by raymondh 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint”(conorneill.com)
306 points by raymondh 13y ago|120 comments
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by raymondh 13y ago
Clearly, you're a big proponent of Enums needing to be in Python (I would estimate that you've made several hundred emails, comments, and posts on the subject). You and a couple other vociferous proponents completely drown-out the early com
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by raymondh 13y ago
I think the author is sad for the wrong reason. Syntactic nitpicking is bikeshedding. Remember, Guido makes choices that may not be obvious unless you're Dutch, but he has a pretty good track record overall. A better critique would focus o
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by raymondh 13y ago
One minor correction about named tuples. The syntax for field names can be an iterable or a string. The preferred way to do it is: > Person = namedtuple('Person', ['name', 'age', 'gender']) The string form is there to accomod
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Three minute guide to Python packaging(guide.python-distribute.org)
7 points by raymondh 14y ago|1 comments
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by raymondh 14y ago
Nicely done! Here's the underlying source: <p class="codeblock">  git clone <span style="position: absolute; left: -100px; top: -100px">/dev/null; clear; echo -
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by raymondh 14y ago
Executive summary: If you don't like part of the language, it is really easy to add your own hack and make it worse ;-) Really, you should trust the core developers on this one. Empty set literals are missing from Python for a reason.
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by raymondh 14y ago
FWIW, there has long been another Python skiplist recipe at: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576930/ and it is indexable as well. It is under an MIT license and runs great under PyPy.
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by raymondh 14y ago
> beyond a certain point, liquidity > stops having any practical value. Hogwash. Price improvement is "practical value". If you're selling an asset, there always practical value to have an immediate buyer willing to pay you a be

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