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rbanffy
194,607karma·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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The cynicist in me would like to point out that pretty most every revolution accomplishes their leaders´ goals. Pretty few of them have the same goals the leaders stated before the crowds that helped …
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There is zero risk and infinite risk. Betting your company on another company and having no exit strategy available (or possible) may be lucrative, for some time, but, in the end, may prove quite pain…
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I may risk to say understanding the ad will qualify you as not human.
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Repeat with me: "I will never, ever, even think of betting my company´s future on another company´s product"
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"Django just released and that's all." they have been releasing for a long time. The news here is the 1.0 version number.
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I really think that there should be a way to shut down "smart" content that´s invisible as not to steal CPU cycles from other tasks. I don´t think Flash content is that much important you need to run …
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Niagara... cough... Larrabee... cough... If you really think Larrabee is only a GPU, think again. Each core is a full 64-bit x86 that can quite happily run anything that´s running on my Core 2 Duo.
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I believe the GP was not talking about shared memory spaces but shared memory buses. It would not be trivial to have 50 processors sharing a single pool of physical memory even if the processes don´t …
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It´s the same that comes with WebKit (at least the Mac builds). Very nice indeed.
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OK... So it´s not a major win. BTW, how is threading under Jython?
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I think it may indicate the project started as a Chrome layer on top of Gecko and they decided mid-project to use WebKit instead. Just a tought. They may as well change the name.
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From reading the headline, I imagined something on the lines of a new server... ;-)
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I loved the multiprocessing module. Getting rid of the GIL is a major win. I would prefer not having a GIL, anyway, but this is far better than nothing.
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Geez... I couldn't see that coming...
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I think that is what the VC company's site could be used for.
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True, but it was created by one guy and one NeXT cube in a particle accelerator ;-) Talk about odd partnerships.
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If we are talking a month of involvement, you may as well learn both. I would also throw Lisp in. And Forth. And Haskell. And Smalltalk... But then, we are not talking about a month anymore...
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"then I could say my-variable without it mistaking a hyphen for a minus" That's something cool. It would involve a new PEP and aggressive enforcement of PEP 8
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The "XP" in Windows XP stands for "experience". Still, XP was not fun the day it launched and it's not fun now. Vista is not fun to use either. And Microsoft's name... Well... They did have some fine …
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Seinfeld?! Boys... Those folks at Redmond are really out of touch. Do they think Jerry Seinfeld can "inject coolness" into their brand?
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This does not solve the GIL problem - it reduces it just a little. ZEO and ZODB are nice, but using them also does not solve the problem - there is still one serialization for every update and one de-…
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They can get away by using fewer servers because those servers do less work. Microsoft's on-line operations are a fraction of the size of Google's. It's unlikely any OS is significantly better on reso…
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This proves at least one of two things: that computers can be more intelligent than people or that one doesn't need to be intelligent to play Go.
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#django, #zope and #plone, mostly. Had some trips to #ubuntu, #ubuntu-laptop and so on because I want to buy a netbook and wanted opinions. People were not very friendly there. #startups seems a great…
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A Ferrari can be four times as expensive as a Corvette. News at 11. It's an apples to oranges comparison. Average selling price is a terrible comparison tool - it only works for very similar products …
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OSX and Xcode? ;-)
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Like I said there, it looks like "(my if (0)) $var = 0" is happening. It would be interesting to run some other tests.
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This is really sad. Such a great country founded on such beautiful ideals... It really does not deserve this.
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That's really a great analogy.
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Don't be unfair. #3 is pretty good.