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by w0utert 14y ago
>> To be sure, Safari is invoking a system level PDF reader to handle inline PDFs. That's what gets you that silky performance and nice rendering. Which, IMO, is the way it should be, and not just for PDFs. I'm impressed by the fa
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>> And I agree with the original article: Apple's software has been playing catchup for multiple versions, isn't introducing novel features and is barely keeping up with the competition Playing catchup with what? Please enlighten
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I really believe you should lighten up a little. I can see where you're coming from and I don't disagree with everything you say, but from the way you put things in your comments in this topic, I get the impression you're drawing the line t
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I get your point and I think I mostly agree with it, but from a utilitarian point of view, it's actually not that much of a stretch from 'because people like it' to 'it is okay' ;-) This fundamental problem of any form of normative ethics i
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Universal morality doesn't exist, so whether you like it or not, what most people deem acceptable is usually the closest thing we have to judge morality.
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>> As far as I can tell, your argument is "because people like it, it is okay." This is obviously wrong, so please explain your argument in more detail. I would be much more interested in your arguments for concluding it is 'obvious
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Fair enough... You could say it wasn't very thoughtful of the presenter, probably distasteful even, but in my opinion there's a whole world between bad taste and sexism. I honestly don't understand why anyone would get worked up over someth
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by w0utert 14y ago
>>So do you suggest that the way women are represented + put to use in the media/marketing is okay? >> There's an obvious point being made when a slide with women clad in bikinis is shown at a geeky male-dominated conference
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by w0utert 14y ago
You can also easily write component-based architectures in Python, for example using zope.interface/zope.component (ie: the modules only, not the full Zope CMS). For example the Trac bug tracker/wiki works like this, and for its purpose I t
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All of this going on the assumption that the charge station is not fully occupied at the time you want to recharge, which with 30 to 60 minute recharge times is going to get improbable pretty fast when electric cars become more popular. Ima
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The most inspiring and insightful comment I've read on this a while ago was: "you'll be surprised how much you can accomplish with just half an hour every other day", from someone with a day job, a family, and other hobbies besides programm
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>> Everyone is an asshole in someone's mind. That's a nice one, have to remember that :-)
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I'm not sure why you were expecting to respect Plato for everything he wrote about. Plato may have been one of the brilliant minds of all times and have produced some of the most valuable bits of Western culture, history and philosophy, but
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by w0utert 14y ago
I'd say 'because the market still has confidence in Amazon', which is reflected by their market cap. While market cap has no relation whatsoever to the profitability of a company, it does allow Amazon to keep investing in expanding into all
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by w0utert 14y ago
They might not pre-pay for the inventory, but they still have fixed costs, and they are rising, they have over 50k employees now. They _need_ to sell at huge volumes with the profit margins they are taking, otherwise they will bleed money.
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Sure the margins are lower in online retail, but even then Amazon is performing abysmally, and the trend in almost all their numbers is downwards. The only reason they are still around in the first place, is sheer size. Smaller retailers wo
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It's very easy to brush all of these as "don't matter in practice" or "just use <insert sane equivalent of ...>", but if we go that route, almost any language can be considers 'good enough' to write code in. I see 2 problems with th
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by w0utert 14y ago
No language is perfect, but if those are the worst examples you can come up with for Python, there really is no comparison with the insane JavaScript WTF's I've seen. Default list/dictionary arguments are plain evil in Python, no disagreein
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by w0utert 14y ago
>> In the recent time I've often read posts about people suggesting: learn language X to a reasonable proficiency before you criticize. Hard to disagree with this. That said, I think even JavaScript guru's generally agree that the
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FTA: Just recently I decided that I would give myself another dental check up. I seemed to have forgotten my horse racing lesson because I was expecting to have perfect teeth, again. I didn’t. I was given a bill that would be the equivalen
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by w0utert 14y ago
Versioning AST's has been on my mind for some time as well, I got interested it as a way to store source-code in a coding-style-neutral way (check it in & out with whatever coding style you're used to), and to be able to categorize chec
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by w0utert 14y ago
Sometimes the goal of a personal side-project is not to produce something meaningful, but just to learn and have fun while doing it. If I take myself as an example: I have this git repository checked out as 'coding' on all my machines, whic
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by w0utert 14y ago
Oh totally agree, Matlab-the-language is terrible, and Python is a million times nicer to work with. My comment was only about the suitability of Pyhton + Numpy + SciPy + Matplotlib as a Matlab replacement for non-programmers.
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>> For anyone looking for a "better MATLAB", Python has NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib which are pretty much everything. I hear this at work all the time, "just use Python, we're going to use Python everywhere we use Matlab from now
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I would even go as far as assuming there are many more reasons why Apple attracts so much criticism, unfounded rumors and hate, besides 'emotional opinions' (which as far as I'm concerned indeed also includes hate). Rational reasons such as
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>> So I'd add a fifth explanation: You're seeing lots of these stories because you're following people who blog about Apple . Is this your gut saying it can't possibly be true that Apple attracts lots of negative press mainly becau
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Yeah, well, maybe you're right ;-)
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It's not about people being offended, but about making sure the notes are as neutral as possible, because they are used by Europeans in 17 different countries. Hence the imaginary buildings on the notes, instead of real national monuments.
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I'm aware of that, so I can understand where the idea to put Europe in the watermark is coming from. That said, with everything that is going on, it's at least a little insensitive to have a symbol from Greek mythology on your bank notes, t
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Great advice, you should take it yourself ;-)

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