Sovereign immunity, as I understand it, is supposed to mean that a state's government cannot be sued in a different state's court unless it has consented to it. So, for example, you can't sue the US government in a Canadian court unless the US government has consented to it (say, via a treaty or a contract).
Obviously the same cannot be said for individuals, which is why we can try leaders or perpetrators for war crimes.
And the mandatory whitespace is just idiotic, sorry but it is.
Python just implements it badly. Nobody complains about mandatory whitespace in Haskell, partly because it doesn't have Python's rough edges, and partly because it isn't strictly mandatory.
You can't have a high level language that supports threading and is also easy to use unless you have a GIL. Or at least, if we presume that you absolutely have to have a C/C++ interface for libraries, then you need a GIL to have threads.
Rubbish. Even for extremely simplistic implementations, you don't need a GIL where a "global foreign function interface lock" would suffice.
Most C and C++ libraries are thread safe (for some definition of "thread safe") these days, and any non-toy language with a C foreign function interface can cope with this just fine. This is doubly true of declarative languages, which tend to go to a lot of trouble to ensure that you can call pure functions in C with no locking overhead.
You can tell a lot of thought was put into Python, but almost exactly none of that thought came from anyone who knew more than a couple of programming languages. Python reimplements many of the mistakes of the past, and not very well.
IT would indeed be poorer without Python. There's a whole cottage industry in getting rich from fixing broken Python code.
I'd rather they try something and fail rather than do nothing at all.
Nonetheless, either they didn't let any programmers at Apple try out the 2016 MBP keyboard, or programmers at Apple have a worse workflow than I thought.
Because even the sleaziest people in the world are, sometimes, legally in the right.
Kim Dotcom's civil rights are the civil rights of anyone else in New Zealand. I don't live in New Zealand, but that's not relevant. As an Australian, I care that my New Zealand cousins are treated properly and ethically by their legal system.
As volatile as politics are now, I wouldn't trust anyone to be "objective" anymore.
I mean this in the most respectful possible way, but doesn't that make you part of the problem? Polarisation feeds distrust, and distrust feeds polarisation.
For example, at some point we need to agree that there is such a thing as objective reality, and that most big news outlets report it accurately enough most of the time.
A "Pythagorean triangle" is a right-angled triangle where the sides all have integer length. This guy claims to have found some of those, in particular there's a rectangle of stones that mark important sunrise/sunset events and moonrise/moonset events which, when you cut it in half, is Pythagorean.
Which seems odd to me. If the stones are determined by the calendar events, that's the reason why they have those proportions, not Pythagoras' theorem. The builders may have discovered this integer ratio relationship and found it interesting, but I doubt it's the other way around.
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Yeah, I make a living fixing Haskell code written by morons.
Sovereign immunity, as I understand it, is supposed to mean that a state's government cannot be sued in a different state's court unless it has consented to it. So, for example, you can't sue the US government in a Canadian court unless the US government has consented to it (say, via a treaty or a contract).
Obviously the same cannot be said for individuals, which is why we can try leaders or perpetrators for war crimes.
Does anyone know if you can hire woodchucks?
A typical Hotspot VM has something like three interpreters and a JIT compiler. Modern Java is essentially designed to waste RAM.
I agree. Of all the hurdles preventing anyone from shipping production-quality code in Python, this is by far the lowest.
Let's just say I've had that sig for a while.
And the mandatory whitespace is just idiotic, sorry but it is.
Python just implements it badly. Nobody complains about mandatory whitespace in Haskell, partly because it doesn't have Python's rough edges, and partly because it isn't strictly mandatory.
You can't have a high level language that supports threading and is also easy to use unless you have a GIL. Or at least, if we presume that you absolutely have to have a C/C++ interface for libraries, then you need a GIL to have threads.
Rubbish. Even for extremely simplistic implementations, you don't need a GIL where a "global foreign function interface lock" would suffice.
Most C and C++ libraries are thread safe (for some definition of "thread safe") these days, and any non-toy language with a C foreign function interface can cope with this just fine. This is doubly true of declarative languages, which tend to go to a lot of trouble to ensure that you can call pure functions in C with no locking overhead.
Remind me never to hire you.
Or to put it another way, Python is the 8-bit interpreted BASIC of the 21st century.
You can tell a lot of thought was put into Python, but almost exactly none of that thought came from anyone who knew more than a couple of programming languages. Python reimplements many of the mistakes of the past, and not very well.
IT would indeed be poorer without Python. There's a whole cottage industry in getting rich from fixing broken Python code.
That's why you use Feedburner, or whatever the modern equivalent is.
I'd be happy with just an escape key. #BehindTheMac is a programmer trying to switch modes in vim.
I'd rather they try something and fail rather than do nothing at all.
Nonetheless, either they didn't let any programmers at Apple try out the 2016 MBP keyboard, or programmers at Apple have a worse workflow than I thought.
Kia ora, mate.
Your response checks out. It's easily the most New Zealand thing I've seen all day.
He's not one of your New Zealand cousins.
The AC respondent correctly interpreted my meaning. If the New Zealand legal system mistreats anyone, that's a problem for New Zealanders.
Because even the sleaziest people in the world are, sometimes, legally in the right.
Kim Dotcom's civil rights are the civil rights of anyone else in New Zealand. I don't live in New Zealand, but that's not relevant. As an Australian, I care that my New Zealand cousins are treated properly and ethically by their legal system.
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As volatile as politics are now, I wouldn't trust anyone to be "objective" anymore.
I mean this in the most respectful possible way, but doesn't that make you part of the problem? Polarisation feeds distrust, and distrust feeds polarisation.
For example, at some point we need to agree that there is such a thing as objective reality, and that most big news outlets report it accurately enough most of the time.
Take a cue from the C++ people. VM separation protects you from Murphy, not Machiavelli.
Ah, here we go. Apparently this is a standard term.
I've always called that a Pythagorean triple, but I was going from what the second link said. I figured it might be a usage I wasn't aware of.
I was thinking specifically of beer.
Not quite.
A "Pythagorean triangle" is a right-angled triangle where the sides all have integer length. This guy claims to have found some of those, in particular there's a rectangle of stones that mark important sunrise/sunset events and moonrise/moonset events which, when you cut it in half, is Pythagorean.
Which seems odd to me. If the stones are determined by the calendar events, that's the reason why they have those proportions, not Pythagoras' theorem. The builders may have discovered this integer ratio relationship and found it interesting, but I doubt it's the other way around.
It's generally true of any country that the stuff that's exported isn't the best.