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by grifaton 14y ago
Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1]. One of the reasons I'm fond of Python is that, while there is a tradeoff between flexibility and perfor
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by grifaton 14y ago
I don't think anybody's suggesting that Dawkins called Skepchick "Muslima".
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by grifaton 14y ago
I'm afriad this doesn't make much sense from a Python point of view, where a metaclass is a very specific language construct. For more details, you can't do much better than the StackOverflow answer that JulianWasTaken has linked to.
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Method Combinators in CoffeeScript(github.com)
64 points by grifaton 14y ago|25 comments
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by grifaton 14y ago
This has obviously been a mammoth effort, so congratulations to all involved!
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by grifaton 14y ago
Seriously?
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by grifaton 14y ago
Looks like it'll cover similar ground to his Europython keynote (which I think was a rehash of his Pycon talk), a video of which you can see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbEEzl3bL4
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Implementing 'if' in Ruby(mudge.github.com)
2 points by grifaton 14y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 14y ago
I'm puzzled by the references to paper/scissors/stone. Why is "stone" the "most obvious move"? Later on, the paper states that the game is "well known to be power law distributed". I couldn't immediately find anything online to back this
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by grifaton 14y ago
Really? The UK's centre of population [0] is apparently Appleby Parva in Leicestershire [1], which is less than 25 miles from Coventry [2]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleby_P
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Redis from the ground up (2010)(blog.mjrusso.com)
1 points by grifaton 14y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 14y ago
I blogged about this, and other uses for mutable default arguments (with tongue somewhat in cheek) a few weeks ago: http://inglesp.github.com/2012/03/24/mutable-default-argumen...
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by grifaton 14y ago
Here's a rare example of obfuscated python, deceptively called "Python's Ellipsis Explained": http://blog.brush.co.nz/2009/05/ellipsis/
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Inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans(github.com)
4 points by grifaton 14y ago|1 comments
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by grifaton 14y ago
I sometimes use zip as a poor man's matrix transposition operator: >>> m = [(1,2,3), (4,5,6), (7,8,9)] >>> zip(*m) [(1, 4, 7), (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, 9)]
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by grifaton 14y ago
This would catch a SyntaxError raised by eval(). For example, try: eval(".") except: pass
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Python object creation sequence(eli.thegreenplace.net)
59 points by grifaton 14y ago|2 comments
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Non-sexist solution of the ménage problem(math.dartmouth.edu)
1 points by grifaton 14y ago|0 comments
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Tests that fail one day every four years(voidspace.org.uk)
2 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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Evernote blog: WhySQL?(blog.evernote.com)
150 points by grifaton 15y ago|73 comments
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Myspace "adds 1m new users in 30 days"(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
Sample bias?
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by grifaton 15y ago
I think this is interesting because it's the first time I've seen "hacking" presented in a positive light in the media.
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David Beazley on "Inside the Python GIL"(blip.tv)
3 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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Continuations in C(homepage.mac.com)
3 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
Could anything like this ever happen in the UK?
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Guardian's Digital Literacy campaign(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
What's the back story here?
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by grifaton 15y ago
It's not perfect yet -- Facebook knows that I went to university in Cambridge (UK) but keeps asking me if photos from my undergraduate years were taken in Cambridge (Massachusetts).
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by grifaton 15y ago
Jonathan Fine gave a talk on this at Europython this year. Looks like there's a video available at http://ep2011.europython.eu/conference/talks/javascript-for-... .

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