darkf

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by darkf 9y ago
Why not just `#define never (;0;)`? It even looks like an alien emoticon.
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by darkf 10y ago
Nah, I would love people to use Python -- just to help improve it as well (either through libraries, alternative languages or submitting changes through official channels.) Saying I am "self aggrandising" is disingenuous and misle
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by darkf 10y ago
Thanks!
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by darkf 10y ago
> in this case JS absorbed the best pars of CS. Actually my favorite part of CS is the instance var intitialization. e.g.: constructor(@x, @y) -> would initialize @x and @y to the arguments. It makes writing records much nice
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by darkf 10y ago
... Yeah, that's gnarly. :D That is emulating `let` using lambdas, though, and not mutable assignment. Still useful if you really want to nest them, but still immutable.
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by darkf 10y ago
>I know he won't be able, his talk is of ignorance and provocation. Says the person missing that it's an opinionated list, lol. It was more meant to provoke discussion, not hurt feelings (like your obviously seem to be).
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by darkf 10y ago
>In my opinion you may just not be the best writer for some reason (Lack of education? Incompetence? Both? Who knows). Then right back at you -- that triggers the same problems as the original statement. :D You could very well have state
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by darkf 10y ago
Yes, I'm seeing now that the tone of the post is more talked about than the actual contents. Learning!
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by darkf 10y ago
Fair enough, I never intended it to be posted to HN or receive this much attention or I'd have taken much more care with the tone. I retract the "ignorance" sentiment, as I do not actually know what Python developers are cons
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by darkf 10y ago
This is really cool. NamedDict is a useful thing indeed!
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by darkf 10y ago
I never considered it harsh. If anything, it should be a testament to how nice Python is -- if I /didn't/ like it, I would have a much, much longer list of complaints! People seem to be missing that sentiment -- I do love Pyt
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by darkf 10y ago
>Contrast a Python list with a NumPy array. To achieve speedier loops and vectorized arithmetic [0], the array gives up dynamic typing and dynamic sizing. In most applications, I would gladly give up some compute speed to gain some progr
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by darkf 10y ago
>Mobile support, you can't easily write a mobile application in Python. Depends on your needs, but there is at least Kivy.
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by darkf 10y ago
Nah, just people connecting that sentiment with other statements. It should be cleared up since it's causing some mass confusion. It's funny because I preface it by saying "Remember that it's a matter of opinion" (a
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by darkf 10y ago
Same reason you're complaining in a comment instead of doing things.
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by darkf 10y ago
Huh, that's clever! (You meant `[]` though, yes?)
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by darkf 10y ago
Yeah, I'll keep that in mind -- some people, even programmers, apparently don't like to read carefully. :)
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by darkf 10y ago
>You can't do that in Haskell either, and any FP purist would blanch at a statement like that. Obviously you've never met State and/or lens then. Yes, you can do it -- and no, I never said it should follow pure FP princi
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by darkf 10y ago
>lambda is fine, if you're writing in functional style you're using expressions for everything anyway. No, I /really would/ like to be able to write: foo.on_click(lambda: x += 1) The language not supporting this (when
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by darkf 10y ago
Cool, I think you completely dodged the point. I never said it was slow because they were incompetent.
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by darkf 10y ago
>but claiming solutions could exist without breaking back-compat is just not right. I mean, you have a good point on C extensions but code relying on them (without a really portable API) is almost never going to be forward compatible any
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by darkf 10y ago
>Arguably this difference is what caused Coconut to be made in the first place. Sure, that and it's far easier to write a new language and transpile than it is to fork and modify existing implementations. >There's ample disc
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by darkf 10y ago
>However, many are subjective preferences Certainly, it is titled "Problems I Have" for a reason. :-) I do not expect everyone to agree with me, but it is what I feel I personally lack when using it quite a lot. > I imagin
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by darkf 10y ago
You could probably do that fine with coroutines and/or asyncio.
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by darkf 10y ago
Hi! Thanks a lot for sharing details about it, it's an ingenious app. :) Could you please elaborate a bit on how you work with the TCP window size -- how might I set it to 0 and back? Do you simply use SO_RCVBUF or is there more to it?
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by darkf 11y ago
Which comparably featured Haskell servers beat nginx? Curious.
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by darkf 12y ago
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by darkf 13y ago
Not only is it possible, it's been done: http://www.caustik.com/cxbx/ It runs a few commercial games, but probably not all that well. I wonder why not a lot of people bothered to contribute.
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by darkf 13y ago
>BSD syscalls do the saner thing and just put everything on the stack. Is that not slower (requiring a memory store and a SUB, then a load and an ADD to pop) than just MOVing a register?
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by darkf 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...

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