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by reuven 12y ago
Israeli law says that men may take paternity leave. My brother-in-law did so when his youngest daughter was born. I wish all countries had such laws. That said, I think it's a bit short-sighted to say that maternity leave is a "
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by reuven 12y ago
I read about this new benefit over the weekend, and my reaction was extremely negative. It seems like a great way for companies to force young women to work harder and put their family plans on hold, in favor of the company. I can easily
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by reuven 12y ago
I wish that I had read this before upgrading. I have tons of stuff installed via Homebrew, and after two hours of "2 minutes remaining," and seeing in the logs that it was "restoring" stuff from /usr/local, I
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In Python, it’s all about the attributes(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote, from Israel I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, when I set up one of the first 100 Web sites in the world. I've been working as a consultant since 1995. I have extensive experience with Ruby (
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How I learned to love Python’s str.format, and gave up on %(blog.lerner.co.il)
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The relative speeds of str.format and %(blog.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 12y ago
Yeah, the fact that str.format is unique to Python, and isn't Python, is a problem. It doesn't matter how thoughtfully designed that mini-language is. Fortunately, the basics are simple enough that you can get your head around i
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How I learned to love Python’s str.format, and gave up on %(blog.lerner.co.il)
8 points by reuven 12y ago|2 comments
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Steve Ballmer quits Microsoft board(nytimes.com)
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After Skype, Then What?(talkingpointsmemo.com)
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by reuven 12y ago
Is Twitter really an example of a business? To be a business, you need to have higher income than expenses. So far, that has eluded Twitter -- and there's no indication that they are going to start spending less than they're maki
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by reuven 12y ago
Which means, based on your argument, that unless you're on someone's radar as living in a rich neighborhood and/or having lots to steal, this doesn't really apply to you. No?
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by reuven 12y ago
It's an interesting idea, tracking people's current locations based on their sharing on social networks, and cross-referencing other databases to find out if someone is at home. But this seems like a very high-threshold way to fin
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by reuven 12y ago
An interesting point, even if that episode depicts something quite different from our current situation. I don't think that HN is quite the place for such a discussion; I'd be happy to take it offline, and explain my viewpoint as
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Overview of reactive programming(blog.hackhands.com)
54 points by reuven 12y ago|4 comments
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by reuven 12y ago
As a programmer and person in high tech, I'm in awe of the Iron Dome. The speed with which it has to make decisions, and with which it does so, and the number of rockets that it has knocked out the sky, demonstrate what an amazing pie
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by reuven 12y ago
Fascinating article. Back in the early 1980s, my sleepaway camp went to Boston, where we visited the Children's Museum. It had a computer with which you could interact. Ever the aspiring nerd, I went over the computer. It asked me to
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by reuven 12y ago
I'm also an MIT grad (class of 1992). I took 6.001 back in the Scheme days. I loved it, and have found that the lessons learned in that class have stayed with me for a very long time. I now teach professional programming classes, an
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by reuven 12y ago
> Why do you think so? I have to admit that I was just guessing, but it seemed logical > (most notably the fact that only kosher food is available). What alternatives does an orthodox Jew really have? Orthodox Jews are about 20 perce
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by reuven 12y ago
It's unlikely that an Orthodox Jew will fly an El Al plane. Possible, but unlikely. As for the fact that El Al doesn't fly on the Sabbath: It used to, and stopped doing so thanks to a combination of coalition politics (since it w
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by reuven 12y ago
Observant Jews don't fly on planes, drive in cars, or use money on the Sabbath, either. So it's fairly unlikely that someone who observes the Sabbath would be asked to turn on a cellphone by the TSA at that time.
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by reuven 12y ago
I'm certainly proud to be associated with LJ, and to be writing for them. I'm also willing to believe that hackers who want to use encryption and other privacy-oriented technologies use and read about open-source technologies. Al
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by reuven 12y ago
I write for Linux Journal. Imagine how I feel! I had no idea that I was participating in subversive activities.
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by reuven 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote, from Israel I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, when I set up one of the first 100 Web sites in the world. I've been working as a consultant since 1995. I have extensive experience with Ruby (
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by reuven 12y ago
I find it a bit sad that with all of the languages that already exist, Apple found it necessary to invent a completely new one -- and then make it proprietary. Why not use Ruby, or Python, or JavaScript -- or even Go, Rust, Clojure, or Sca
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by reuven 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Israel and Chicago, but generally work remotely I've been a full-stack Web developer since 1993, when I set up one of the first 100 Web sites in the world ( http://tech.mit.edu/ ). I've been working
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by reuven 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but as an Emacs user since 1988, I've often found that the commands there were composable (to use the author's term), but in a different ways. I can kill to the end of a line (C-k), sentence (M-k), or sex
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by reuven 12y ago
I've never found myself wishing for a better type system, although maybe I've just been steeped in the world of dynamic, strongly typed languages for too long. But there's no doubt that concurrency is indeed one of Python&#x2
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by reuven 12y ago
Right. Students in my Python classes (who typically come from static, compiled languages) are always asking me how quickly certain operations execute, or how much memory is used. I try to explain to them that obviously Python developers ca

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