I feel like saying something general about the topic - I'm way past Ballmer peak:-P
I'm an amateur theatrician. To me, the difference between Linux and Windows is like that between doing amateur theatre and buying a DVD movie. You can try and judge the quality of the end product, but the main difference is participating in a community vs. being at the mercy of a faceless giant.
As for the 'really cool things', the same analogy applies. The bleeding edge does happen in the amateur scene, and a lot of it does trickle down to the commercial sphere with a few years' lag. Personally, I don't have much love for prepackaged cool with a price tag.
IIRC, Apache Python module allows curly braces as block delimiters for this very reason. OTOH, a nice general programming language does not necessarily make a great shell, and vice versa — bash is quite awkward in anything bigger than a single terminal window.
Because it writes and reads like pseudocode, but works.
To elaborate a little, consider the phrase "write once, run everywhere". Do you ever write a program just once, and it runs correctly straight away? Python is the only language where I've experienced that, albeit after years of getting used to it. It's not perfect, though — I wonder if the same syntactical ingenuity could work with a really powerful language such as Fortran 90+...
It's a bit like the English language and IPA — why don't we just write everything the way it's pronounced? Would it make a language any less powerful if they made it easier to write? (My native language is Finnish, which is pretty much phonetic.)
One could argue that Python is learning from some of the early mistakes. For example print function vs. statement. On the other hand, one of the key strengths of Python is having lots of nice libraries by default, and these have undergone changes independent of the 2 -> 3 core language changes. It's a little inconvenient, but libraries evolve, no matter what language you use.
I use regular qwerty, and mouse with my left hand (I'm right handed). For actual, extended typing (such as now) I do use both hands, but for a lot of tasks it makes sense to keep the right hand on the keyboard - arrow keys, del, backspace, pgup/dn etc. are all on the right side.
Also, if you use full size keyboards, a mouse on the left is much closer to the typing space for quick switching.
I think there is a more general argument about using both hands more evenly. A lot of equipment designed for right-handed people seem to assume you want to do almost everything with the right hand. OTOH, studies have shown that your less dominant hand is often more spatially capable. For example, guitar players do pretty demanding tasks with their less dominant hand - you'd think they would switch to a leftie guitar if the left hand could not handle it.
Equating gun operation by a grunt with software development is the single stupidest analogy ever made.
My English is a little rusty, so is the equality here between "gun operation" and "a grunt with software development"? I'd say that's a little insulting to the fine marksmen...
I like these articles about Amarok because they inevitably lead to people discussing the alternatives, and sometimes I'll give one of them a try.
One of my favourite players is Herrie. Playlist management is simple enough to do in text mode.
OTOH, I still maintain my textmode frontend to Audacious, because the Python code makes it easy to add custom functions. As a theatre sound guy, I don't want to futz around with a mouse in the midst of a play.
Text-mode players such as these are also convenient over ssh - it's quite neat to manage the player with a phone/tablet from the dance floor...
It was 20 years ago today...
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you'd sit on your toilet in the morning, and then get a message from your doctor saying there's elevated levels of marker in your urine and he wants you to come in the office to check something out
This is why I always pee in the sink - though it probably won't be long before the National Sewage Agency will be filtering and inspecting every packet in all of the tubes..
If you're going to buy hardware for Bitcoin mining, there are much, much more efficient alternatives, and they still produce plenty of heat.
I think USD is useless fake money, because I cannot use it locally, but there are other places where you can use it to buy plenty of stuff, and then there are exchanges.
The software is open source so you can see if it's cracking passwords for yourself, instead of randomly guessing.
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I feel like saying something general about the topic - I'm way past Ballmer peak :-P
I'm an amateur theatrician. To me, the difference between Linux and Windows is like that between doing amateur theatre and buying a DVD movie. You can try and judge the quality of the end product, but the main difference is participating in a community vs. being at the mercy of a faceless giant.
As for the 'really cool things', the same analogy applies. The bleeding edge does happen in the amateur scene, and a lot of it does trickle down to the commercial sphere with a few years' lag. Personally, I don't have much love for prepackaged cool with a price tag.
..but also Ballmer peak.
IIRC, Apache Python module allows curly braces as block delimiters for this very reason. OTOH, a nice general programming language does not necessarily make a great shell, and vice versa — bash is quite awkward in anything bigger than a single terminal window.
Gotta be the half-assed initial support for OO. Either that or the print statement :P
Because it writes and reads like pseudocode, but works.
To elaborate a little, consider the phrase "write once, run everywhere". Do you ever write a program just once, and it runs correctly straight away? Python is the only language where I've experienced that, albeit after years of getting used to it. It's not perfect, though — I wonder if the same syntactical ingenuity could work with a really powerful language such as Fortran 90+...
It's a bit like the English language and IPA — why don't we just write everything the way it's pronounced? Would it make a language any less powerful if they made it easier to write? (My native language is Finnish, which is pretty much phonetic.)
One could argue that Python is learning from some of the early mistakes. For example print function vs. statement. On the other hand, one of the key strengths of Python is having lots of nice libraries by default, and these have undergone changes independent of the 2 -> 3 core language changes. It's a little inconvenient, but libraries evolve, no matter what language you use.
It will be removed only if the defendant is found not GIL-cup.
I use dvorak-left and my mouse in the right hand.
I use regular qwerty, and mouse with my left hand (I'm right handed). For actual, extended typing (such as now) I do use both hands, but for a lot of tasks it makes sense to keep the right hand on the keyboard - arrow keys, del, backspace, pgup/dn etc. are all on the right side.
Also, if you use full size keyboards, a mouse on the left is much closer to the typing space for quick switching.
I think there is a more general argument about using both hands more evenly. A lot of equipment designed for right-handed people seem to assume you want to do almost everything with the right hand. OTOH, studies have shown that your less dominant hand is often more spatially capable. For example, guitar players do pretty demanding tasks with their less dominant hand - you'd think they would switch to a leftie guitar if the left hand could not handle it.
Equating gun operation by a grunt with software development is the single stupidest analogy ever made.
My English is a little rusty, so is the equality here between "gun operation" and "a grunt with software development"? I'd say that's a little insulting to the fine marksmen...
I like these articles about Amarok because they inevitably lead to people discussing the alternatives, and sometimes I'll give one of them a try.
One of my favourite players is Herrie. Playlist management is simple enough to do in text mode.
OTOH, I still maintain my textmode frontend to Audacious, because the Python code makes it easy to add custom functions. As a theatre sound guy, I don't want to futz around with a mouse in the midst of a play.
Text-mode players such as these are also convenient over ssh - it's quite neat to manage the player with a phone/tablet from the dance floor...
Aww, fsck it, not this meme again...
I couldn't find your webpage, but dude, I totally found my stash!
(See also: hash error)
PROTIP: Remove your laptop battery if you are running from the mains most of the time and keep it in a cool drawer somewhere.
PROTIP: MacBook Air batteries aren't removable (in that sense).
I thought MacBooks are some of the coolest things you can have. Unfortunately, I got a Mac (a Powerbook) before they were cool...
Wish I'd thought of that when Linux itself turned 20 -- oh, wait... http://iki.fi/teknohog/music/col_torvalds.php
Google: putting the 'anal' in 'analysis' since 1998.
I'm not sure if you can use 'nym' as a standalone word... perhaps the correct term would be 'hackronym'? Also, obligatory Vint Cerf
you'd sit on your toilet in the morning, and then get a message from your doctor saying there's elevated levels of marker in your urine and he wants you to come in the office to check something out
This is why I always pee in the sink - though it probably won't be long before the National Sewage Agency will be filtering and inspecting every packet in all of the tubes..
Dr. Hu, I presume?
I use cheap disposable single-bladed razors.
Use once, throw away.
$1 for 10 of them.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely, the Environment
"If Edison thought more about what he was doing, he would not sweat so much!" - Nikola Tesla
I feel for you, bro. I wrote an FPGA bitcoin miner before it was cool.
Bluetooth
You saw me drinking alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
From TFA:
On Thursday, the board of O-Net gave approval for residents to get access to a full gigabit (or 1,000 megabits) per second of bandwidth
Bandwidth is measured in Hertz. I don't actually care how much bandwidth they use to deliver my 1 Gbps of channel capacity.
If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Fixed that for you.