smeg

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by smeg 14y ago
"but it's a lot cooler" Are you referring to the work or Perl? Most programmers I know working in a scientific area switched to Python years ago and run away screaming when they hear the work "Perl".
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by smeg 14y ago
People still building software in Perl ought to be arrested.
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by smeg 14y ago
If your looking for a powerful canvas feature, qt is really your only choice. That's what swung me away from gtk and wx.
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by smeg 14y ago
Well I guess it is "unnecessary" to the extent it is unnecessary to be able to Control-C your programs. Personally I like my programs to respond to signals.
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by smeg 14y ago
Or just write the fast bits in C, call it from Python via ctypes and get the GIL unlocked and parallelism for free.
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by smeg 14y ago
Same here. As a nice side effect, QThread somehow makes signals work again, so you can Ctrl-C a MT Python program (you still have to set a handler for SIGINT but at least it works). For this reason, I actually use QThread in console apps as
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by smeg 14y ago
So if mass and charge are both just attributes of particles, what is the "charge equivalent" of the Higgs boson? And if there isn't one, then why is it assumed the HB exists? Why cant particles have a innate "mass charge" in the same way th
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by smeg 14y ago
If it were simple why aren't these lawsuits being thrown out the front door? Why isn't FRAND turning out to be the watertight defence it ought to be? (serious question I would love to know the answer to, as these FRAND related lawsuits seem
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by smeg 14y ago
Python3 and Perl6 can both fuck off. I look forward to the day PyPy is considered the real Python. Look at PyPy's homepage ( http://pypy.org/ ), doesn't even mention Unicode as a significant feature. Instead it talks about speed, security,
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by smeg 14y ago
Legal in what country?
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by smeg 14y ago
>Google's is worse because it takes all rights to use your work however it likes, and then states in its Privacy Ppolicy that it won't use it for anything other than to provide the service. Please point to the part of the Privacy Policy
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by smeg 14y ago
> Well, first off, Google has a privacy policy [1] where they commit to not publishing my entire works without my consent. It doesn't say that anywhere. The Privacy Policy covers "What information we collect and why we collect it.". In
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by smeg 14y ago
>Google specifically enumerates the rights that you're granting them They sure do. It just turns out one of these rights is that they can use your content for promotional purposes (advertising?). Dropbox may not have such a detailed TOS
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by smeg 14y ago
Right, so native code generated by Go probably needs some kind of runtime initialization before it can even start executing.
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by smeg 14y ago
Well given that the current runtime (written in C) doesn't have a runtime, I would assume there wouldn't be one, as Go compiles down to native code just like C does, using the same toolchain (6c/g -> 6a -> 6l). My current guesses ar
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by smeg 14y ago
"What's changed in the last decade?" Uh...the need for highly scalable web servers handling tens/hundreds of thousands of lightweight, I/O bound, concurrent requests?
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by smeg 14y ago
Does anyone know why the Go runtime is written in C? The FAQ says it is to get around bootstrapping, but that does not seem obvious, as the Go compiler (6g) is written in C, so why cant the runtime be written in Go and compiled with the res
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by smeg 14y ago
"You are saying that Agile is supposed to mean programming in Ruby instead of Java?" Of course not. But in my experience and observations, corporate IT programmers, especially those with a Java background, are the worst offenders when it co
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by smeg 14y ago
Why don't you go back in time and tell that to Napoleon. And Genghis Khan.
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by smeg 14y ago
I could not possibly agree more. Like many early Agile adopters I have been shocked and saddened by what it has become. I think the problem is that brainfucked corporate IT programmers (Java, .NET, whatever) have jumped on the bandwagon and
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by smeg 14y ago
When the oil runs out.
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by smeg 15y ago
I remember watching another video about the Falcon Heavy Rocket, and how it was designed with a large number of small rockets cones at the bottom, so a certain number can die yet the whole thing can still reach orbit. I just seemed so elega
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by smeg 15y ago
Yep. I don't even use/like Facebook, but I just deleted my 10 year old Yahoo account in protest (in truth it was only a secondary account after Google, but still).
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by smeg 15y ago
Coudlent agree more. Py3 was/is a shocking disaster. All this work and effort for nothing...except crap that most people dont care or know about...like how Unicode strings a dealt with internally and stuff. Things that would have made Py3 e
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by smeg 15y ago
I found this post on SO quite enlightening: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101268/hidden-features-of... It now also has many links at the top to other SO answers on various topics - this is amazing.
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by smeg 15y ago
"The WORST thing is that: G+ app searched all my mobile and ext-sdcard, got all my personal photos stored in mobile, and uploaded them onto the Internet without my permission." If true, that is pretty disgusting. Especially if it made them
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by smeg 15y ago
The problem is you are applying linear Earth-scale concepts of space to the whole Universe. In reality space (or space-time) is curved - as you approach the "edge" of the universe you actually are traversing a loop around a 4-dimensional hy
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by smeg 15y ago
I recently discovered the Spyder ide/debugger development environment. It is quite powerful and well featured. Before that, Eric4.
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by smeg 15y ago
And here I was hoping it would be a damn nice RSS/Video downloader/player in the way Google Listen is a fantastic RSS/Audio player...
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by smeg 15y ago
That they would try such deceptive tactics to prop up G+ shows how truly desperate they are.

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