If comfort is your goal, have you tried hunt and peck?
I was a hunt & pecker for 20 years and never experienced stress or fatigue while typing. I did start to experience these when I started to learn to touch type. I believe this was because my hands were free to adopt a more natural variety of positions instead of always returning to the fixed position over the home keys.
Hunt and peck may not be as fast or accurate as touch typing (which is why I currently use Dvorak), but I think there are advantages in comfort which are overlooked.
When I first heard about the case I thought it was a travesty of justice. However I have come to think this feeling was because I liked his writings and felt a certain empathy for Randall.
I have wondered about how I would feel about probing security weaknesses at a company where I was a contractor, on by own iniative and where this kind of thing wasn't in my remit.
I find it hard to understand that one could consider it professional behaviour and find it hard to believe that one could act in this way without thinking that the there was a significant risk that some very bad things could come out of it.
I am not saying that I like the way he was treated, but as my mother says - if you play with matches, you could end up being charged with arson.
For python you can use freeze (comes with the source distribution) or py2exe.
I've used this to produce different binary versions of the same program that ran happily enough on Win2k/NT, HP-UX and Solaris, all without having to distribute the interpreter itself, or require that these systems had python installed.
> and Ruby/Python/Perl all seem to me to have a BASIC odor to them; >> Now you are really grasping. That claim isn't even solid enough to refute
I decided to conduct a test. I fired up the visual basic development enviornment.
I sniffed around the keyboard mouse and the system itself. Then I fired up PythonWin and did the same.
I can report that the odor was in fact identical.
My conclusion: never judge a programming languange on smell alone.
Yes, I do that. But as I've usually got the wretched thing in my jeans, I find what usually happens is that an intense an unexpected vibration so close to my nadgers causes me to lurch violently while emtting a small whimper.
This combination is usually more distracting to those around than a phone ringing.
If I were to make such a grandiose gesture, I would be tempted to check what I had written. Makes me suspcious when I see:
"While he was undoubtedly chosen for political reasons as a Russian is a good example for the US public the risk extends arbitarily further"
It makes no sense, but was perhaps intended to be: "...Russian, it is a good example for the US public that the risk extends arbitarily further...."
and
"Usenix by its choice of a US location is encouraging other programmers, many
from eastern european states hated by the US government to take the same
risks." may be:
"...is encouraging other programmers, many
from eastern european states hated by the US government, to take the same
risks."
To me, the level of literacy makes me suspicous that this was not posted by someone who had deeply considered their message.
British Engineers have spent too long playing with Mechano (or Lego) and too little time playing Monopoly.
The common view from within Britain is that they can come up with innovative products but have no idea of how to successfully market them. British Engineers have a tendency to work without regard to the $$ (or ££, or wherever you get that funny euro symbol).
There's an anecdote that Albert Einstein did not commit his telephone number to memory - asked why not, he explained that if he needed to know it, he could look it up in the book...
I haven't tried your examples, but I have found that even if the output from these is rather verbose, given some judicious regular expressions the output can be cut down to manageable size.
I think as well as comparing the modules 'out there' one shouldn't forget the modules that python comes with.
There are more than you could shake a very big stick at including XML, smtp, telnetlib, threading to name but a few.
Together with other 'almost standard stuff ' such as Mark Hammonds win32 and asy interfaces to tk/wxWindows it makes a very attractive package.
I hope it continues to snowball.
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If comfort is your goal, have you tried hunt and peck?
I was a hunt & pecker for 20 years and never experienced stress or fatigue while typing. I did start to experience these when I started to learn to touch type. I believe this was because my hands were free to adopt a more natural variety of positions instead of always returning to the fixed position over the home keys.
Hunt and peck may not be as fast or accurate as touch typing (which is why I currently use Dvorak), but I think there are advantages in comfort which are overlooked.
When I first heard about the case I thought it was a travesty of justice. However I have come to think this feeling was because I liked his writings and felt a certain empathy for Randall.
I have wondered about how I would feel about probing security weaknesses at a company where I was a contractor, on by own iniative and where this kind of thing wasn't in my remit.
I find it hard to understand that one could consider it professional behaviour and find it hard to believe that one could act in this way without thinking that the there was a significant risk that some very bad things could come out of it.
I am not saying that I like the way he was treated, but as my mother says - if you play with matches, you could end up being charged with arson.
> I wonder if a whiskey barrel is gonna be air tight
The severity of this problem depends on the method used to drain the whisky barrel.
Hic
But there are other ways.
For python you can use freeze (comes with the source distribution) or py2exe.
I've used this to produce different binary versions of the same program that ran happily enough on Win2k/NT, HP-UX and Solaris, all without having to distribute the interpreter itself, or require that these systems had python installed.
> and Ruby/Python/Perl all seem to me to have a BASIC odor to them;
>> Now you are really grasping. That claim isn't even solid enough to refute
I decided to conduct a test. I fired up the visual basic development enviornment. I sniffed around the keyboard mouse and the system itself. Then I fired up PythonWin and did the same.
I can report that the odor was in fact identical.
My conclusion: never judge a programming languange on smell alone.
I think you have a typo and you meant it to be this
But then while you are at it, why not try a Python tutorial.
I'd suggest Code Complete by Steve McConnell, published by Microsoft Press.
Is non paper documentation allowed? I've always thought that Python Documentation (editor Fred L. Drake, Jr) is clear and well presented.
For non computer books, I've found I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew to be an excellent motivator, full of food for thought.
Yes, I do that. But as I've usually got the wretched thing in my jeans, I find what usually happens is that an intense an unexpected vibration so close to my nadgers causes me to lurch violently while emtting a small whimper.
This combination is usually more distracting to those around than a phone ringing.
...spread as source code and then recompile on various client computers, thereby appearing to be different viruses on different platforms...
Is this how java got so damn popular?
Is this post genuine?
..."
If I were to make such a grandiose gesture, I would be tempted to check what I had written. Makes me suspcious when I see:
"While he was undoubtedly chosen for political reasons as a Russian is a good example for the US public the risk extends arbitarily further"
It makes no sense, but was perhaps intended to be:
"...Russian, it is a good example for the US public that the risk extends arbitarily further.
and
"Usenix by its choice of a US location is encouraging other programmers, many from eastern european states hated by the US government to take the same risks."
may be:
"...is encouraging other programmers, many from eastern european states hated by the US government, to take the same risks."
To me, the level of literacy makes me suspicous that this was not posted by someone who had deeply considered their message.
I have noticed a bias on /. for linux over other OS's, even though many of the news items are on M$.
Do we know the posters are real, or could Cowboy Neal be taking payola from Linus? Ralph Nader should be told.
British Engineers have spent too long playing with Mechano (or Lego) and too little time playing Monopoly.
The common view from within Britain is that they can come up with innovative products but have no idea of how to successfully market them. British Engineers have a tendency to work without regard to the $$ (or ££, or wherever you get that funny euro symbol).
Maybe they choose not to.
There's an anecdote that Albert Einstein did not commit his telephone number to memory - asked why not, he explained that if he needed to know it, he could look it up in the book...
How on earth will people know how clever I am if my PC doesn't spew pages of abstruse messages when I boot?
Set up a trademark "OL" and hire some fancy lawyers to countersue the company with the confusingly similar "AOL"
While not wishing to fan these flames further, there are some (IMHO) good utilities from sysinternals which allow you to do this for free.
filemon will report file update/access and regmon will report registry update/access.
I haven't tried your examples, but I have found that even if the output from these is rather verbose, given some judicious regular expressions the output can be cut down to manageable size.
Every couple of months we have a 'Normal Week'.
We attempt to simulate deadlines being met, documentation standards being adhered to, workloads being realistic and sensible management,
I feel this is an invaluable exercise should we be subject to an outbreak of normality at some stage in the future.
However unlikely it may be, it makes sense to be prepared.
I think as well as comparing the modules 'out there' one shouldn't forget the modules that python comes with. There are more than you could shake a very big stick at including XML, smtp, telnetlib, threading to name but a few. Together with other 'almost standard stuff ' such as Mark Hammonds win32 and asy interfaces to tk/wxWindows it makes a very attractive package. I hope it continues to snowball.