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by ronnix 16y ago
More detail here: https://www.fis.dowjones.com/WebBlogs.aspx?aid=DJFVW00020110...
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by ronnix 16y ago
Not sure if it is viable, but Google has been doing it for some time with Android. The open-source version is free, and if the manufacturer includes the various Google Apps on top, they get a cut of the ads revenue.
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by ronnix 16y ago
If Dropbox is still hosted on EC2 and S3, I guess there's not much hardware to see. :) There are rumours they're moving away from Amazon, however: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Dropbox-moving-away-from-EC2 Anyone has insights on this?
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by ronnix 16y ago
I think 80 characters is getting a bit narrow, but some people like to be able to open several files (e.g. the code and the tests) in VIM or Emacs, with the buffers vertically arranged next to each other.
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by ronnix 16y ago
$ python -c "import this"
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by ronnix 16y ago
Great advice! I've always been annoyed by those e-mail invitations to the beta of a service I signed up to many weeks ago, that don't give me any clue to remind me why I cared in the first place...
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by ronnix 16y ago
Most compilers typically do a good job, but I was surprised to see such a difference on some examples. On those examples, Clang seems to be usually better than GCC at static code evaluation and local optimizations. However, GCC beats Clang
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by ronnix 16y ago
Here is a comprehensive list of Python implementations: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonImplementations
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by ronnix 16y ago
It's not dead, it's sleeping.
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by ronnix 16y ago
You can also write it this way, which is more similar to C: x = (a==42) and f() or g()
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by ronnix 16y ago
Scala and (to a lesser extent) Clojure seem to be more popular choices among (ex-)Java people nowadays.
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by ronnix 16y ago
You can have a one-line "if" statement [1]: if a == 42: print "Yes" ; do_stuff() It's true that you cannot have a "else" statement on the same line, however. But in some cases, you could use a conditional expression instead [2]: