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by AF 18y ago
I don't think so. Most people don't want massive screens and don't know how to effectively use more than one anyway. Game developers are already having problems with the expense and time required to push out the artwork for today's games. T
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by AF 18y ago
Don't be so sure either of those are that important. You can get a laptop with comparable power to some of the more expensive desktops now for about the same price. Look at the Gateway p-6831. Also more and more power will continue to be fi
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by AF 18y ago
Because projectors require a few things that TVs do not. 1. A dark room 2. Nobody getting in between the projector and the surface it is displaying on 3. Extra space Don't get me wrong, projectors are cool, but there is a reason they aren't
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by AF 18y ago
Please be smart and go with the ThinkPad (parcticularly a T61p). Right now they have a 25% off sale on them, not to mention you can get another 5% off if you have a Visa card, or are a student, or a number of other things. In addition to th
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by AF 19y ago
How many books do you need for a web framework? Django is pretty simple. There's already the official book in print. Not to mention one of the reasons Rails has so many books to begin with was due to really poor online documentation. Django
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by AF 19y ago
There are advantages to both approaches. Obviously as you suggested, only using indentation makes templating more difficult than have an 'end' delimiter. But for the 90% of code that I write which isn't an HTML template, it is pretty nice
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by AF 19y ago
Kind of an old post, things have changed for both Rails/Django since then. Though I'd like to comment on part of his article. He says that Django "is not as straightforward as Rails", and then goes on to complain about how Django requires y
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by AF 19y ago
You can directly compare the speed of an application or a language. It is not subjective to say 'C is faster than Perl' or 'Perl is faster than Ruby'. That is true, in almost every instance, C IS faster than the equivalent Perl code and the
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by AF 19y ago
The article is correct. In this interview ( http://twit.tv/floss11 ) Guido states that Python has been OO from the outset (1990). The thing you have to understand is Ruby and Python do OO differently. To Python everything is a hash table. T
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by AF 19y ago
> It is increasingly dangerous to have a child past 30. The danger is most pronounced for older women. Do you mind explaining? It seems like I see more and more people having children after 30, even 40 these days.
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by AF 19y ago
I don't mean this to come out as negatively as it might sound, but JRuby being faster than Ruby 1.8 isn't saying much; MRI is pretty slow.
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by AF 19y ago
Yeah he definitely didn't start Reddit. He joined up with the Reddit team in December '05.
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by AF 19y ago
You are right about GEdit's power. it is pretty amazing. Also, Scribes isn't only a Python-editor, unlike what the title suggests (maybe I'm reading it wrong).
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by AF 19y ago
I don't see the point in this as a serious production language. As a project to just have fun, of course it is a cool idea. Lisp systems moved to generic functions for a reason - Lisp dialects for some time used a Smalltalk-based message se
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by AF 19y ago
What is the best alternative to an RDMS in most cases?
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by AF 19y ago
Hmm. I wonder if the continued need to explain the benefits of using Lisp is evidence for or against your statement?
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by AF 19y ago
It is the internet. You can build an interesting app even faster without touching Facebook's platform at all.
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by AF 19y ago
Is he serious about this being the coolest application to date? I mean really, a music video that will end up embedded on even more people's profile page and which will be interesting maybe the first time I watch it but then I'll be annoyed
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by AF 19y ago
I'm sure you know that the idea of using code in templates is controversial anyway. But I do like it, and Mako, imo, solves the issue with Python very well. % for row in rows: * Here is a row: ${row} % endfor http://ww
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by AF 19y ago
People continue to bring this post up. It is 2 years old, and Guido has said he will not be dropping functional constructs in Python. And the reason he wanted to remove them is not because he wants to 'dumb down' the language, but rather be
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by AF 19y ago
Hey gwen...what do you mean by this: "If JS is Lisp in disguise"?
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by AF 19y ago
It is unfortunate because it seems that those that succeed (especially in the computer industry) are the biggest jerks. The article does mention Gates, who was involved in some pretty shady stuff when it comes to establishing Windows. You l
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by AF 19y ago
Just get a basic knowledge of each of them. CL is pretty special and has features you just won't find in most other languages (macros, interactive error-handling, generic functions), and raw speed (SBCL). OCaml...I hear discussion about it,
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by AF 19y ago
You know I really do like apt, but it isn't perfect, and 'rough around the edges' isn't a bad description for it (I know he meant Ubuntu as a whole). I've had multiple times that by using apt-get autoremove, my entire Ubuntu installation ha
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by AF 19y ago
It is definitely something to consider, and while I don't think translating Python to Common Lisp would be all that difficult, I do think that getting the C libraries that Python wraps working with CL might be a significant effort. A lot of
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by AF 19y ago
I thought I made it clear. The point of doing that is because you'd have simple access to Python's massive collection of quality libraries.
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by AF 19y ago
As I mentioned in another post, I'm aware of the qualities of SBCL. I know it is a much better VM. That's not what I am concerned about...what I like about Python is its quantity and consistency of libraries and its overall consistency peri
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by AF 19y ago
Well, if you wanted to ship a desktop application or such, you'd have to open source your code. That doesn't work for all companies.
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by AF 19y ago
You are right about the runtimes. SBCL is something else. And there have been attempts to pull Python into Lisp: http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/ The only thing is, I find CL a really baroque language. The issues have been t
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by AF 19y ago
The GPL licensing would be an issue for some. Edit: Unfortunately Logix seems to have been dead since 2005. http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/

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