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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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One day we need to go back in time and show it to him. Timeline consistency be damned.
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In college in Brazil, the rich engineering students had HPs (41s first, 48s later) while the average kid had a CASIO. The really lucky ones had a BASIC-powered calculator. I was very lucky in getting …
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The best known programming language in the 1980s, BASIC, had a FOR that was limited to counting. A lot of people without formal CS education would think Python’s for can go over a finite set of things…
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How was this flagged?!
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> don't really care about any reciprocal contribution (or else they would write copyleft-licensed software) Also don’t care about their users having the same rights they enjoyed getting softwa…
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I'm curious - these StoreVirtual machines don't seem to have any ports I could use to install my software on them. There is a USB port and that's about it. Is it installed with help of …
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One thing I'd love to see is a polished MacBook. I'll probably have to buy a dead one for experimentation.
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One of the reasons it’s very quiet is that you can only do what the company that provided it to you allows you to do with it. You can’t reinstall a fork of PlayStation OS, for instance. Sony won’t pro…
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Very few people who use Python realize the loop is not just looking into the values but asking the values to produce an iterator. It's only when they outgrow this early stage that they are ready …
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I would say Python really wants to look as much not-C as it can. In this case it's not the word "for" but the "for x in" construct.