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by etanol 9y ago
I didn't take a deep look, but it reminds me to Bret Victor's proposal on "Inventing on Principle" from 2012: https://vimeo.com/36579366
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by etanol 9y ago
> this is an unfortunate blow to Python Just as unfortunate as how Python turned its back to Mercurial
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by etanol 9y ago
In Spain, Amazon was the major retailer introducing the Black Friday to the local masses. During the next few years, other sellers joined the trend pushing it even more. This year, in order to stay competitive, Amazon Spain has been "f
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by etanol 9y ago
> Copying files onto a USB stick requires physical proximity, and is uncomfortable for transferring long-term secrets because flash memory is hard to erase. Copying files with ssh/scp is fine, but requires previous arrangements and
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by etanol 10y ago
Not to undermine its merit, but most of the dirty work and heavy lifting is done by its dependencies: https://github.com/kennethreitz/maya/blob/d57a78c6bc6b5295f7... And i18n support in humanize is a bit lack
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by etanol 10y ago
How about Tk? Is it or will it be implemented?
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by etanol 11y ago
Spoken language is backed by other optional channels of information: * Audio: speaker controls tone, speed and emphasis * Video: body language * Feedback: listener can acknowledge reception or ask for repetition Written language has more ti
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by etanol 11y ago
Related project: https://github.com/replit/empythoned It's a pity it didn't get more traction. The effort invested seems a bit more worthwhile.
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by etanol 12y ago
By the same principle, this girl will be also pulled of a CS degree becase the man will be frustrated again that she will be stuck wasting her time in college taking yet another set of computer architecture, operating systems, compiler desi
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by etanol 12y ago
This is one example of what happens when the population gives absolute power to a single political party: lobbying paradise. We spaniards have the politicians we deserve.
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by etanol 13y ago
Or Hy: http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/language/api.html :-]
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by etanol 13y ago
Calling yourself a software engineer implies an software engineering degree. Otherwise you would be a liar. I bet not many people have the guts to call themselves mechanical engineers just because they know how to fix the break pump of a ca
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by etanol 13y ago
I can't see any mention of the new asynchronous programming support presented by Guido in this year's PyCon. Has it been discarded from this release?
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by etanol 13y ago
He took it to his local computer repair shop. The geeks there went to work. In the course of their work they found a number of images of naked children. I want to believe that the blame is on the image thumbnails on the Desktop or some fo
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by etanol 13y ago
I think you can customize most parts of the Web UI: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Cookbook#css
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by etanol 13y ago
The size issues of the SQLAlchemy repository come from the way Mercurial handles copies and renames. I prefer Mercurial because is much easier to use but this file rename issue always make me feel uncomfortable when reorganizing code. These
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by etanol 13y ago
Too bad there are no comments on the blog: SQLAlchemy's issue repository will remain hosted on Trac; while a Git repository can be mirrored in any number of places, an issue repository cannot (for now! Can someone please c
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by etanol 13y ago
It is interesting how SQLite is so well known but de SCM built on top of it, Fossil, and by the same author did not catch so much.
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by etanol 13y ago
It is the kernel the one that interprets shebangs, not the shell: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
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by etanol 14y ago
I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
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by etanol 14y ago
Read carefully: "sudo -i" to replace "sudo su - root". You should check the "su" manpage and look for the -/-l/--login option.
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by etanol 14y ago
So I've read, congratulations! It's just that these things always remind me to a Simpsons episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Just_Want_to_Have_Sums Hence my whining. I hope I'm very wrong.
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by etanol 14y ago
This kind of gender segregation makes me sad. So many years fighting for women to have the same rights as men, and now it turns out that IT, the youngest technology of all, suffers from gender discrimination. Thus motivating the creation
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by etanol 14y ago
Well, there is still one use case where IE is indispensable : http://www.bourkedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ie-po...
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by etanol 14y ago
«An asynchronous, event-driven architecture based on highly optimized coroutine code scales across multiple cores and processors, network cards, and storage systems.» It may be a dumb question, but isn't this statement
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by etanol 14y ago
I have the funny impression that, before, hardware was taken for granted, i.e., people bought the Comodoer64 to code in BASIC. Now seems that software is taken for granted, e.g., you download TCP/IP Arduino implementations to connect your c
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by etanol 14y ago
This is a kernel issue, it has nothing to do with userspace tools. For example, the Linux code responsible for parsing shebangs is here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stabl...
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by etanol 14y ago
While I agree about the use of /usr/bin/env, you should be aware that some systems will perform only one word split on the shebang line. That means that if you use env, you can't pass any options to the $executable. You can try it if you w
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by etanol 14y ago
Amen.
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by etanol 14y ago
The document talks about C89, even though the last Copyright year is 2003. Isn't it about time that we start movin on? Where are the restricted pointers, the flexible array member and so on? And, by the way, I think the comment at the bot

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