tdavis

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by tdavis 18y ago
This seems like an interesting idea, but I think daily entries would be a bit excessive. Perhaps a weekly or monthly e-mail? It might make sense to keep minor notes so you don't forget stuff, but I really couldn't see myself writing an e-ma
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by tdavis 18y ago
The website claims it was recorded in 2006 which I have a slightly hard time believing.
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by tdavis 18y ago
It's rather unlikely you're doing anything wrong. IIRC, BeautifulSoup docs acknowledge that it is rather slow. Also, if you don't make use of the methods that extract/unravel object trees, they may not be properly GC'd, leading to further s
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by tdavis 18y ago
That sort of depends, but for the most part CSS frameworks can provide: - Sensible defaults for sizing and other attributes that tend to differ across browsers, including typography and such (see Y! CSS Reset) - Helper classes for forms, in
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by tdavis 18y ago
wget is synchronous while Twisted is an asynchronous networking engine. This means that you don't need to wait for a request to finish before making another one (or making pancakes, or doing whatever you want). I essentially wrote a paralle
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by tdavis 18y ago
For long-running, large jobs I can tell you from experience it would work about a gazillion times faster . Especially if you drop BeautifulSoup for something like lxml.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Awesome, now somebody go back in time 3 months and release this so I could have not spent that time writing the same thing (okay, not exactly the same, mine isn't nearly as pluggable).
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by tdavis 18y ago
A car is a simple utility. Find something cheap and reliable that you wouldn't feel bad about smashing up. I have a '99 Accord with nearly 100k miles on it that has never had an issue, despite being banged up pretty good.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I'll be the first to admit that http socket issues exist and drop-in replacements are indeed often buggy. That being said, this wouldn't be a huge issue to overcome were Stackless given more TLC. Regardless, it has many other valuable uses.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Very true, and if this were a case of me disliking a fundamentally better language due to foreign syntax I would change that. However, after doing a lot of reading and experimenting with Ruby, I can't really find anything fundamentally bett
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by tdavis 18y ago
From your explanation, I would then imagine that were I a long-time Smalltalk/Lisp user I would decry Python for its silly keywords. As you noticed, I tried to make it obvious that some of my reasons were in no way objective.
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by tdavis 18y ago
"Because [language feature in A] doesn't look like [language feature in B]." Well, obviously. It's not like I'm arguing that Ruby's syntax is for The Gays because it differs from Python's. I find nothing fundamentally wrong with it, oth
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well, I have a tendency to be naturally adverse to anything that is incredibly hyped, so that should frame it. However, I have many complaints with the language itself and things surrounding it, so here I go, in no particular order: - I don
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by tdavis 18y ago
I don't think Stackless is nearly as well-known as it should be. It has a solid value proposition and is blazing fast in my experience as well.
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by tdavis 18y ago
It's not even so much about the money. I just find it pathetic that there is a market for a utility which produces fart sounds. Hell, it could be free and I'd still find it sad. I mean, okay, maybe farting was funny when I was five. But if
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by tdavis 18y ago
I pretty much hate Ruby as much as any man can, but Zed has proven himself quite smart and capable, beyond "making a website".
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by tdavis 18y ago
I simply find it sad. Not because all these apps were made -- there's obviously money in it, so whatever, free market and so forth. What's sad is... there's money in it.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I'm a big fan of Pragmata. It's the only programming font I've tried that hasn't had nagging annoyances.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think the problem with those languages is they're too different for a starting course. Scheme is obviously very powerful, but its syntax is wildly different than most popular programming languages used today. As for Ruby, don't even get
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by tdavis 18y ago
I would be incredibly surprised if such a thing happened. Not because GitHub isn't awesome (it is), but because most non-programmers would look at you funny if you said "distributed version control". I mean, most people can barely use the
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by tdavis 18y ago
There is a big difference between "If you have trouble with applets..." and "If these applets rape your browser with a rusty pole..." -- I would have preferred a... heartier warning. Firefox froze so bad it didn't even know it was frozen. I
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by tdavis 18y ago
What amazes me more than anything is that we've gone from no computers to computers in everything -- in less than a single lifetime! That truly is incredible.
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by tdavis 18y ago
It does seem pretty inefficient!
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by tdavis 18y ago
I just got a server error trying to load a comments page with > 100 comments ;)
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by tdavis 18y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with accepting software costs money. When I was younger and had basically no money, I would pirate software that I needed to improve a skill or something along those lines. Once I got older and started ha
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by tdavis 18y ago
Your "How to install" blurb needs a couple s/surround/repeat ;) Thanks for another useful plugin I was completely unaware of!
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by tdavis 18y ago
Also discussed here: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/14/packaging/ On HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397426
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by tdavis 18y ago
No worse than "gems" ;)
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by tdavis 18y ago
Let me see if I've got this straight. It took one guy to write the BitTorrent protocol in the first place, but it takes 19 people (previously even more) to fail at turning it into a business? As soon as you have titles like "Chief Scientist
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by tdavis 18y ago
My handwriting is nearly illegible, even to me. I think the main problem is that I try to make writing as efficient and fast as typing which results in blobs that don't necessarily look like words. I still prototype stuff on paper, but if I

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