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by raymondh 10y ago
The Steve Jobs reference wasn't lost on me, but it is a distractor from the central topics of non-accountability, integrity, and management. Especially when women are involved, discussing what outfit is being worn is a red herring and
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by raymondh 10y ago
I almost downvoted this comment. What a person wears is a personal decision and irrelevant to this discussion.
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by raymondh 10y ago
Well said. I thought this was a brilliant insight.
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by raymondh 11y ago
I concur. The response was first rate. Behind the scenes, I'm sure they will iterate on failure prevention and risk analysis.
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by raymondh 11y ago
Overall, SICP in Python 3 is first rate. I highly recommend it to anyone wanted to improve their sophistication with Python and programming in general. The exercises and demonstrations in each section quickly build from an elementary intro
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by raymondh 11y ago
Sorry, I have to downvote this as an ad hominem comment that ignores the article's content indicating that Microsoft is making a measured, useful, and intelligent step forward.
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Silicon and Graphene Combo Finally Achieve Lithium-Ion Battery Greatness(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by raymondh 11y ago|0 comments
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by raymondh 11y ago
Barry Warsaw proprosed List Comprehensions 16 years ago in PEP 202. The original concept was that it provided a more concise way to write loops so that: t = [expr(x, y) for x in s1 for y in s2] was just a short way to write: _t
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by raymondh 11y ago
Thank you for your work on Peewee. The code is nicely written and is easily read start to finish.
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by raymondh 11y ago
One of my favorite Python people recently collected all of her swag t-shirts and made quilt out them. The end result was beautiful and functional.
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by raymondh 11y ago
There are much better resources for kids to learn Python. I recommend Chris Roffey's excellent series of Coding Club books. They are engaging, well-written and have more meaningful exercises.
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by raymondh 11y ago
And cheers from me as well :-)
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by raymondh 11y ago
It would be interesting to do a parallel study so with the follow-up game being more winnable by extra effort instead of by cheating. My hypotheses is that winning begets a desire to continue winning -- if the only way to win is cheating, t
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by raymondh 11y ago
This paper is first-rate. That said, it would have be nice to have links to the C code used for the performance comparisons (reproducable research). Python currently uses David Gay's algorithm and would likely benefit from Errol3. Ho
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by raymondh 11y ago
It is interesting that designers universally agree that fonts matter, but programmers can't agree on whether syntax matters.
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by raymondh 11y ago
See also: http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/05/demysti...
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by raymondh 11y ago
Brief and well written article giving insights into how group dynamics shapes software development.
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by raymondh 11y ago
Also worth noting that those lines are immediately followed by: try: # Load C helper function if available from _collections import _count_elements except ImportError: pas
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by raymondh 11y ago
More "naïve" than "controversial". Unfettered access ==> ability to run criminal business, organize groups, stalk victims, perpetrate fraud, etc.
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by raymondh 11y ago
Even higher accuracy is possible by storing all partial sums. Here are several ways to achieve higher accuracy: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090-binary-floating-p... Also see Shewchuk's "Adaptive P
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by raymondh 11y ago
The Python code is mostly clear and beautiful. Just one small wish: please use collections.deque() instead of showing an O(n) insertion into a list using "deck[0:0] = [card]".
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The Oxford Comma(en.wikipedia.org)
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by raymondh 11y ago
A person who acts to the detriment of their employer should have regrets. Good news, you got some momentary fame. Bad news, you've told future employers that your interests aren't aligned with theirs and you don't care if t
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by raymondh 11y ago
I'm glad to see that this import project continues to get updates.
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by raymondh 11y ago
On a related note, the source code for Python demonstrates a practical way to cache-optimize the heapify() operation for the garden-variety heap implementation of a priority queue: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file&#x2
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by raymondh 11y ago
The results are somewhat disappointing with examples like "sqrt(x * x + y * y)". Compare that result to http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/06/02/whats-so-hard-about...
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by raymondh 11y ago
Anaconda is a fine distribution where many otherwise hard to install tools work right out of the box.
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by raymondh 11y ago
See also: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/dice...
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by raymondh 11y ago
Technical standards would be vastly improved by adding a because-clause to all of the do-this and don't-do-that requirements. Section 9.5: "NOTE: Do not use spiral wrap sleeving on mission hardware including launch vehicles."
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by raymondh 11y ago
Python also suffering in this regard. It has moved from being "a language that fits in your head" to a language where very few people on the planet know most of what's in it.

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