runevault

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by runevault 18y ago
Not really, I probably don't read as much because I find myself devouring so much online content, but just last night I sat down and spent 3-4 or so hours devouring a new book I'd been waiting to be delivered (and have 3 more like it waitin
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by runevault 18y ago
I take it you mean http://eli.thegreenplace.net/category/programming/lisp/sicp/ ? If so yeah great resource.
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by runevault 18y ago
True enough, though if they can't even police their own how trustworthy are they to handle others. Depending on how true all of this ends up being it leaves me rather anxious about the whole idea. Not fun.
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by runevault 18y ago
2.6 is for backwards compat, with as many of the 3.0 features as they could do without breaking changes. And frankly other then the whole GIL thing Python has been moving in a pretty solid direction all these years, so eh.
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by runevault 18y ago
Also not a fan. I saw this comment and thought "eh can't be THAT bad", then I clicked on the link. It is that bad. Ungh. The "flames" at the bottom in particular just bug me personally.
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by runevault 18y ago
Since Don't Make Me Think already came up, going to add About Face (have 2.0 but heard 3.0 is even better) http://www.amazon.com/About-Face-Essentials-Interaction-Desi... and Design of Everyday Things http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyda
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by runevault 18y ago
It does mention it though, but only briefly (in a 'it's in early beta but looks awesome so keep an eye for once it stabilizes more sort of way)