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by jackdied 15y ago
Cambridge, MA. HiveFire, Inc Software Engineer, Engineering Manager, UI/UX Frontend ( http://www.getcurata.com/careers ) Small Django/Python shop. We make a curation product and have actual customers who pay us actual money (crazy concept
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by jackdied 16y ago
The roadmap doesn't need to be modified. The roadmap has always been "the transition will take five years."
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by jackdied 16y ago
Sadly no, but now I know for sure you aren't Jim Baker (the jython commiter). Most python users have never heard of anyone other than Guido. That's fine because people who contribute to open source projects don't do it for the fame, and th
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by jackdied 17y ago
Jack Diederich (my nick is an old UNIX login, "jackdiederich"[:8]). I'm an invited speaker this year so I'll definitely be there. At least two automated trading firms sent contingents to PyCon last year so you won't be alone (I think both
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Dominoes AI in Python(jackdied.blogspot.com)
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by jackdied 17y ago
emacs or vim? You aren't asking a technical question, you are asking a religious question.
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See PyCon talks in Boston Wednesday(jackdied.blogspot.com)
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by jackdied 18y ago
"Ruby does it this way and people like it" isn't an argument that will work. You can accomplish the same things in Python with an extra line of overhead. If you want to get this past python-dev you'll need to explain the benefits, here's a
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by jackdied 18y ago
HN carries "Come to Jesus" links all the time. Oh wait, it doesn't? In that case this link is off topic, and very creepy.
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by jackdied 18y ago
As a sometimes Python core developer allow me to say stuff. The main goal was to remove mistakes; an all-at-once deprecation. The release was actually much less ambitious than the original name "Python 3000" implied. Guido read one of Jo
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by jackdied 18y ago
Long story short: CPython uses a custom memory allocator on top of the OS malloc because some mallocs are really bad and python knows more about it's memory usage patterns than the OS. The newer CPython allocator plays better with popular
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by jackdied 18y ago
so they spend who knows how much on a four-letter domain and then require a newer version of flash than every other video site on the internet? Brilliant.
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by jackdied 18y ago
You are too kind. Two of the names he listed, Freud and Marx, were wrong. His third "forgotten man" is Hegel and while you can't call a philosophy wrong he certainly is harder to read than similar alternatives. The author might have had m
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by jackdied 18y ago
A dual-head linux box (two 20" LCDs) and a windows box with a matching 20" LCD. Running Synergy as a virtual KVM so I only need one keyboard/mouse.
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by jackdied 18y ago
If you are asking for introductory economics +1 for "Basic Economics" by Sowell and "Free to Choose" by Milton Friedman (Sowell is one of Friedman's proteges). PBS made "Free to Choose" into a series back in the 1980s. You can find all the
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by jackdied 18y ago
I'd go with something that can generate javascript code and then port an existing player to that. I believe PyPy has a javascript backend or one in development.
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by jackdied 18y ago
And that reminds me of my CS professors who used file timestamps to determine if you submitted by midnight. The TAs were the ones who checked the assignments and they got around to it .. eventually. Clever man that he was the prof gimped
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by jackdied 18y ago
Clever, but as others pointed out likely to anger anyone who has to read your code. NB: python bitwise operations are not super fast like in C. They don't get optimized down to single CPU instructions but instead are looked up like regular
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by jackdied 19y ago
1) Yes, this doesn't belong on YC 2) Superdelegates are supposed to make the kind of calculations you are suggesting. They have a big advantage in that they vote last so they know the most up-to-date breakdowns of the individual states. S
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by jackdied 19y ago
Fark isn't in the same ballpark as reddit and digg. The only users that get to vote on stories are the core users who have ponied up $50/year for a totalfark membership and I believe only the admins can put a story on the front page. All
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by jackdied 19y ago
Daylight savings is a feel-good scam and always has been. Congress gets to look good by being "green" at the cost (to them) of zero dollars. Of course the rest of us have to pay for the tampering - last year's change personally cost me at
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by jackdied 19y ago
The Python community has the advantage of being older. The fanboys (if there were any) have moved on or calmed down. The libraries and documentation have had more time to be beefed up. A few years can make a lot of difference.
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by jackdied 19y ago
A little googling turns up ASPN cookbook recipe for a simple SSL server http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/4424... The MeTooCrypto package from the Chandler project http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooC
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by jackdied 19y ago
For the same reason that open source projects are started by one guy with running code and not by committees talking about what to do. Everyone with an opinion isn't necessarily your customer - they are just guys with opinions. You could b
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by jackdied 19y ago
Please see reddit for your anti-capitalist green ranting needs. "You can't run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely." I'm going to drop that one at a cocktail party and count how many people nod versus sigh.
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by jackdied 19y ago
Wow, that guy has strong opinions on lots of things and he isn't afraid to share them. (did I understate that adequately enough?) Edit: but the dtrace part is very good. Around the 1 hour mark he starts demonstrating using dtrace to instr
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by jackdied 19y ago
Definitely, you don't want to scan the filesystem to do searches. But finding user 1234's profile in profiles/1234.data is easy. In my experience this works well (even with the wasted space) though operations like fsck start to get painfu
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by jackdied 19y ago
SQL is good for doing arbitrary queries. Most web sites don't need to do that! Look at duels.com (a simple player-vs-player game). On each page it needs to know your stats/equipment and that of the person you are dueling. In an SQL datab
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by jackdied 19y ago
Bigtime, The lists are worth a lot of money because sending out mailers to people who won't act on them is expensive. I'm simultaneously creeped out and impressed by the Comcast commercials that offer to target ads by age, sex, voter status
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by jackdied 19y ago
I do just that with mutt. To add notes to an email hit 'e' and it fires up the raw email in emacs (or your favorite editor). Just add comments and save it. Mutt doesn't have a fancy UI but it is fast. It has no problem handling the 150k+

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