bbernard

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by bbernard 5y ago
Author here. You're absolutely right about Canada ;)
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by bbernard 5y ago
Author here. Your thinking is equally weird to me. I value my time for sure, but isn't there a cost in not persuing what I'm genuinely curious about? What if a successful startup had come out of it? By the way, this took place in
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by bbernard 5y ago
Author here. This story took place in 2011-2012, but I wrote this post in April 2021.
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by bbernard 5y ago
I'm the author of the post. I can confirm that I 100% enjoyed it.
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by bbernard 5y ago
Thanks for your comment - author here. You're absolutely right - the good old trial and error applies when it comes to innovation. There's just no way someone could come up with a breakthrough technology or product on their very f
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by bbernard 8y ago
There's already a client-side implementation of Python in JavaScript. See: https://brython.info/ But it might not give you the sort of compatibility between the client and server code that you're looking for.
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Automating the Stack Overflow Developer Survey(benbernardblog.com)
1 points by bbernard 8y ago|0 comments
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by bbernard 8y ago
Everybody here is talking about PSP 5.0+. But for me, the best version ever was 3.0. I was able to draw pretty impressive diagrams at the pixel level, without any problem. In subsequent versions, they modified the zoom tool, the GUI and t
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by bbernard 9y ago
I'm currently experimenting with CodeMirror for one of my projects, and it shows that you spent a lot of time to refine its design and API. You did an awesome job, seriously. I haven't tried ProseMirror yet, but I'm pretty su
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The Tale of Creating a Distributed Web Crawler(benbernardblog.com)
2 points by bbernard 9y ago|0 comments
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by bbernard 9y ago
Public speaking isn't a skill. It's a habit. The more you practice it, the more comfortable, the more structured and the more natural you become. I've been in Toastmasters for almost 7 years now. And it seriously changed me f
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by bbernard 9y ago
Big respect for Google! Creating that site is a really cool move, and it will encourage other people to do the same. I especially like the fact that they'll mount sensors for air quality on Street View cars. And the fact that they&#x27
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by bbernard 9y ago
The longer between your requests, the better. If you generate a load greater than what a human would do, this might become problematic. A human wouldn't poke a website forever every 10-15 seconds. The 10-15 seconds is more for web craw
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by bbernard 9y ago
The way it works was not immediately clear to me either. If you go to her website: http://profane-justice.org/profane-justice.org/ (yep, you have to enter this weird URL) At the bottom, it's stated that if you cop
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by bbernard 9y ago
Hey thanks for posting my article to HN. Glad that you found it helpful! :)
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by bbernard 9y ago
I guess that we see things differently. On one hand, you see the economic value of airlines, cars and factories, so for you it justifies the environmental consequences that they have. Fair enough. On the other hand, you don't see the e
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by bbernard 9y ago
Elon Musk has already said that burning fossils fuels and pumping it into the atmosphere is the "dumbest experiment in history". So I guess we've just found the second dumbest one. I just can't understand why some people
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by bbernard 9y ago
What do you think creates more pollution between: 1. All airlines in the world. 2. All cars in the world. 3. All factories in the world. 4. All rockets in the world. Right now, I think that 1, 2 and 3 combined have much deeper
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by bbernard 9y ago
The meaning of your statement isn't clear. Do you see resource extraction on Earth as something having no consequences whatsoever?
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The Case of the Mysterious Python Crash(benbernardblog.com)
2 points by bbernard 10y ago|0 comments
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Robomongo has been acquired by 3T(blog.robomongo.org)
1 points by bbernard 10y ago|0 comments
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Criticism of bad research: More harm than good?(andrewgelman.com)
2 points by bbernard 10y ago|0 comments
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Using Uber's Pyflame and Logs to Tackle Scaling Issues(benbernardblog.com)
1 points by bbernard 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbernard 10y ago
For those interested, the official court document can be accessed here: https://www.scribd.com/document/274211118/Judge-denies-Faceb... It describes in details what happened.
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Tracking Down a Python Memory Leak (Part 2)(benbernardblog.com)
1 points by bbernard 10y ago|0 comments
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by bbernard 10y ago
Good to know! My only experience so far with Cython comes from lxml. It's a weird language that seems to have a lot of corner cases, though. Just like C++/CLI.
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by bbernard 10y ago
Check out this SO thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2017381/is-it-possible-to... . There are indeed many interpretations of what a memory leak is in Python. In C/C++, you can forget to free memory, th
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by bbernard 10y ago
Interesting approach! It's hard to tell the difference between a real memory leak and Python objects being accumulated infinitely in memory - at least if we rely only on the memory use of a process. That's why we need to use eithe
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by bbernard 10y ago
Looks like a lot of fun! :) I agree that some memory leaks are rather hard to find.
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by bbernard 10y ago
I've had quite a few issues with cPickle myself, so I see what you mean. Indeed, Python packages built over C extensions can be quite hard to debug, as seen with lxml. But what makes it even harder is the fact that lxml is partly built

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