The only two things that really bother me about python are: 1) after 25 years they still refuse to add a switch/case statement (makes writing FSMs harder) 2) there is no gaurantee that a destructor is ever called, thus you cannot implement a RAII pattern with objects
As for white-space delimiting, don't knock it till you try it. Just use a good editor (eg emacs, or other smart editor). Once you get used to it, it's actually very easy on the eyes sans having extra delimiters (curly braces, semicolons, etc.) and winds up saving typing to boot.
The libraries are pretty great. The documentation could be organized better, but on the hole is fairly complete. The community is for the most part very responsive in #irc to questions. (Just don't offend them or get obstinate about doing it a non-python way...after all the help they provide is *free*).
http://millenniata.com/ Produces optical media with a rock-like substrate on optical media--you're literally etching in stone. They claim it will last at least 10,000 years.
I use 8pen--it's great. I can use it with one hand w/o even looking. Try that with *any* layout-based or tap-style input method. With two hands I can go very fast--much faster than with swype. The only real competition to 8pen for speed and usability might be some variant of slide keyboard.
Have someone else comment your code. If they can make sense of it to describe what it does, that's a good indicator it's decent code. If they can't figure it out--big red flag. Plus, they may find some bugs in the process.
Midi-Maze on the ATARI could network up to 16 players with a Midi-loop. Non-textured, but 3-d. Fun as hell in it's day. (Would be boring comparing to the stuff we have today though.)
How is this logic sound? If vaccines actually work (I'm not claiming either way), then logic should say that only the unimmunized are ever at risk, and that the immunized are completely safe regardless. Otherwise, what's the point?
Well, I don't see how they could possibly implement this w/o some sort of id tag on the owner. It should be interesting to see how they attempt to implement this in any reasonable fashion, if it is indeed possible...
"...after the state attorney general determines a smart gun prototype is safe..." Since when are guns safe? They are inherently unsafe last I checked--as implements of destruction usually are.
How does the mechanism they descibe (the grip test) prevent "accidental gun deaths and suicide"? If the owner grips it and fires, _it will go off_ --that's it's purpose! Also, will their 'grip id' work through gloves? It doesn't seem likely. If not, cops couldn't wear gloves in the winter!
Even more interesting, would be to follow the money trail to see who's really trying to make a buck...
Very interesting way to put it. I notice that this is exactly what all those people who profess evolution to be a fact rather than admit that it's still just a theory (and a poor one at that imo) do.
Load distribution. This company tracks visitor statistics among other things and experiences an extremely high volume of hits. Many users were high enough volume themselves to warrant their own set of tables, while low volume users were still grouped together.
I haven't actually looked at a banner ad in ages, and I can't even remember the last time I actually clicked on one. (probably not since I was testing an ad serving system I was being paid to develop...)
On that thought, while I was in that position (for over a year) the stat went from 10% click-thru ratio down to well under 0.5%. That was over two years ago. I can't imagine how ads could be of any use at all if they're even below that now.
They also waste valuable screen space in my browser which is just plain annoying.
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The only two things that really bother me about python are:
1) after 25 years they still refuse to add a switch/case statement (makes writing FSMs harder)
2) there is no gaurantee that a destructor is ever called, thus you cannot implement a RAII pattern with objects
As for white-space delimiting, don't knock it till you try it. Just use a good editor (eg emacs, or other smart editor). Once you get used to it, it's actually very easy on the eyes sans having extra delimiters (curly braces, semicolons, etc.) and winds up saving typing to boot.
The libraries are pretty great. The documentation could be organized better, but on the hole is fairly complete.
The community is for the most part very responsive in #irc to questions. (Just don't offend them or get obstinate about doing it a non-python way...after all the help they provide is *free*).
http://millenniata.com/
Produces optical media with a rock-like substrate on optical media--you're literally etching in stone.
They claim it will last at least 10,000 years.
I use 8pen--it's great. I can use it with one hand w/o even looking. Try that with *any* layout-based or tap-style input method. With two hands I can go very fast--much faster than with swype. The only real competition to 8pen for speed and usability might be some variant of slide keyboard.
no Atari 5200?
no Atari Jaguar?
no Colecovision?
Have someone else comment your code.
If they can make sense of it to describe what it does, that's a good indicator it's decent code.
If they can't figure it out--big red flag.
Plus, they may find some bugs in the process.
Midi-Maze on the ATARI could network up to 16 players with a Midi-loop. Non-textured, but 3-d. Fun as hell in it's day. (Would be boring comparing to the stuff we have today though.)
How is this logic sound?
If vaccines actually work (I'm not claiming either way), then logic should say that only the unimmunized are ever at risk, and that the immunized are completely safe regardless. Otherwise, what's the point?
Well, I don't see how they could possibly implement this w/o some sort of id tag on the owner. It should be interesting to see how they attempt to implement this in any reasonable fashion, if it is indeed possible...
"...after the state attorney general determines a smart gun prototype is safe..." Since when are guns safe? They are inherently unsafe last I checked--as implements of destruction usually are.
How does the mechanism they descibe (the grip test) prevent "accidental gun deaths and suicide"? If the owner grips it and fires, _it will go off_ --that's it's purpose! Also, will their 'grip id' work through gloves? It doesn't seem likely. If not, cops couldn't wear gloves in the winter!
Even more interesting, would be to follow the money trail to see who's really trying to make a buck...
Very interesting way to put it. I notice that this is exactly what all those people who profess evolution to be a fact rather than admit that it's still just a theory (and a poor one at that imo) do.
Probably not if you don't already have tickets. In my state the first two days are already sold out.
no doubt meaning that the customer keeps sending highly valued $$$ to M$ over a very 'long-term'...
Load distribution.
This company tracks visitor statistics among other things and experiences an extremely high volume of hits. Many users were high enough volume themselves to warrant their own set of tables, while low volume users were still grouped together.
"a database larger than MySQL could capably handle"...
There are users with over 50 million records, and I personally know a company that had nearly 4 million tables.
Why, exactly, was MySQL not 'capably handling' a mere 3 million records?
I haven't actually looked at a banner ad in ages,
and I can't even remember the last time I actually clicked on one. (probably not since I was testing an ad serving system I was being paid to develop...)
On that thought, while I was in that position (for over a year) the stat went from 10% click-thru ratio down to well under 0.5%. That was over two years ago. I can't imagine how ads could be of any use at all if they're even below that now.
They also waste valuable screen space in my browser which is just plain annoying.
Nothing considering it won't even compile. Dies with yacc errors concerning aicasm_gram.y