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by timtadh 15y ago
Maybe a general strike would work better. Everyone should just stop writing code for their employers on Monday. EDIT: I made a submission about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361689 text ''' The world depends on software. We,
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Short answer no. Long answer, the Go authors (Rob Pike et all) have a pedantic issue with exceptions as implemented in Python, Java, etc. They feel they conflate errors and exceptions. Errors, unlike exceptions, are an expected part of th
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As some one who spent the majority of my primary education in various learning disabled programs I have to entirely disagree with you. These programs allow people like me to become productive members of society, without them many people who
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In the past the US had major issues with car bombs. For instance in 1976 the Cleveland area had 37 car bombs. http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2011/03/welcome...
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Prior to Fall 2007 when I started using Git on windows.
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So this all arose because you added a "type" field to your structs and then wrote a lot of code to do type switches. Finally, you realized Go already has this functionality. Note Go makes your life even nicer than you think. your code:
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I have been working on a Ternary Search Trie implementation for Python on and off for a while. This is definitely a good read for some other methods for fuzzy string search. The benefits of the TST (versus other Trie formulations) is summar
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Updating the source package is easier for one. Ubuntu's packages are often out of date, especially if you are running an LTS. It also integrates nicely with virtualenv which makes managing dependencies easier, via pip freeze.
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"if I needed a different parser/interpreter I am pretty sure that is the stage of 'new language' where new syntax and semantics are introduced. the 'dialect' he is introducing is a arc/clojure inspired syntax for what /already/ exists in py
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No I did read your post. Actually I read all of them. My point is he didn't "break" composition. In isn't like you import this guy's library and suddenly function composition no longer works. Breaking isn't the right word. It is agressive a
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What is with all the hate lately on anyone who dares to write Python with different semantics than employed by the stdlib builtins? 'You've invented your own incompatible dialect of python. ' It isn't a "dialect." You don't need a different
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How do you tell the difference (for mis-spelled words) between people doing an actual search and people spell checking a word? It could be that a significant percentage of the 10% are not "search queries" but "spelling queries"
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I worked at a company that had a ton of business logic in stored procedures. Yes, queries can get ridiculously long. All of their queries were written by hand.
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This was your moment. These are the biggest questions any potential buyer will have. You leave me unconvinced you have solutions to any of the questions Thomas outlined. 1. ? Clarify "paint it on right." 2. "We made it this way. Trust us."
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Good to know. When I said I don't know what is going on, I meant why the simplejson people are not focusing on the stdlib version. It seems strange to basically have a fork...
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To all your questions: Because it takes time. It takes time to add things to the stdlib, especially if the are replacing "an old reliable." In the case of Requests, it is just a wrapper on the stdlib. There is nothing in Requests you can't
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Out of curiosity (as I couldn't find an article by you on the subject with Google) what was your negative re-action to Go?
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I was really into this, until I ran into: It appears your browser does not support 8 of the CSS3 properties used by Alice.js. Please use a WebKit-based browser like Chrome, Safari or the PlayBook Browser. I could not figure out exactly what
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Please don't lump Go in with Dart. It is a totally different beast and a pretty nice language over all. Considering the people who are writing the Go language (eg. Pike, Cox, etc...) and the language itself it really doesn't have anything t
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I was honestly hoping for an Open Intermediate Representation of web languages to be part of the announcement. One that both Javascript and Dart could target so developers could ship binaries to the browser. I am disappointed in the languag
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Is the point a modernized "You can write Fortran in any language"? I am getting a little tired of these types of responses to "you can't parse X with regular expressions." Someone always feels the need to come up with a tremendously complex
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Agreed. I used the passage not to equate the two but to illustrate moral issues are not always straight forward. I personally am not sure that lying your way to a better school is the right approach.
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Endless are the arguments of the Rabbi's. In all seriousness though, this passage was a big point of discussion in the middle ages. Many were uncomfortable with the midwives apparently being rewarded for lying. One solution was although the
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Since you are purporting that falsehood is never wrong... exodus 1:15-20 (NRSV) The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, ‘When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on
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Or you know, (re)install linux and use any of the great text editors available on that platform. I think linux is the best platform for CS types in college.
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Actually for the company that Hewlett and Packard founded see Agilent. After the HP/Agilent division around 2000, Agilent took most of the early HP records. Why? Because Agilent's business lines were the original HP business lines. http://
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"An OS with a Pkek matching that installed in the firmware may add additional keys to the whitelist." Does this mean you can just add you own key and self sign any code you want?
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I am going to argue for as a straw man... If you believe theologically, ideologically, or otherwise that "all men (and women!) are created equal" then it follows they should pay equally. I would argue equally means normalizing their income
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Rising (and then dramatically falling) housing prices destroyed the wealth a large portion of established families. If they bought a house in say 2005, they lost money and are saddled with a huge mortgage. Even families who own their own ho
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nice site. there is a small typo you can fix in the "Manual" section. > "Precision Speed The lower the percentage the more accurate your mouse become." should be: "Precision Speed The lower the percentage the more accurate your mouse be

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