I don't really see that as first class though. You'll always be a step behind the official API waiting for the next version of kivy to drop. And the official docs and support expect you'll be using one of the "blessed" languages so when you aren't, you can expect little bits of friction everywhere. That said, I like kivy and its spiritual predecessor sl4a. The latter actually got me into Python.
When Taco was around, it was. I'm not saying it didn't have some political stuff back then but it was nothing, I mean nothing, like it is now. It's basically turned into a green "The Verge". At least the have the excuse of being bought out by Vox.
Maybe true but I just say that I write my fair share of Python scripts using multiprocessing and it works for me. That said, if somebody feels like the GIL is truly getting in the way, there is always IronPython and Jython, neither of which have this restriction. I also believe the PyPy team is working feverishly on getting rid of the GIL in their implementation which among other things is much faster than regular Python thanks to just in time compilation. I've used it for a few things and heartily recommend it if speed is of the essence.
I really like Python. I find it faster to develop in, more flexible, and more ubiquitous than just about any other language. However, maybe 20 years ago when the world was simpler, it would have had a better chance at some kind of dominance. These days though, there are just too many niches it doesn't work in. Can't make first class apps for iOS or Android, can't use it natively to manipulate the DOM in a web browser. It's not as easy to use server-side like PHP. And on and on. Yes, Python can be used in all those roles if you bend and twist it enough but in most cases, there is a better domain specific language that people just default to.
Personally I find Python to be peerless for system administration and automation. Even better than bash. I understand it's good for statistical and scientific programming too. That's it's place. Not "dominance".
I use Python along with Selenium for website automation and testing. I prefer it over Java in that regard as it is much faster to develop in and doesn't require as much "infrastructure". No compiling, no mandatory OOP, no need for an IDE, etc. Of all the things in that particular niche, I've found Python to be far and above the best.
It's still a thing and likely will always be a thing. That said, the multiprocessing module makes writing code that can spin up as many processes as you want and allow them all to communicate is relatively painless.
I like this site and I really liked it when the byline used to be "News for nerds Stuff that matter". Is there an extension or bookmarklet or something that I can use to filter out stories based on keywords? Keywords like Comey, Trump, Government, Clinton, Democrat, Republican, Brexit, and on and on? I sure would like that. I really would.
I like this site and I really liked it when the byline used to be "News for nerds Stuff that matter". Is there an extension or bookmarklet or something that I can use to filter out stories based on keywords? Keywords like Comey, Trump, Government, Clinton, Democrat, Republican, Brexit, and on and on? I sure would like that. I really would.
Yeah they're "private" but they take in a shit load of public money, to the tune of over 600 million dollars in a recent year. Not to mention the exemption they enjoy regarding their endowment. It's not as simple as just calling them private full stop when they sidle up to the public trough.
Most consumers happily buy Android hardware that's not even close to this fast
Uh, yeah, Android apps are written with typical smartphone hardware in mind. Window software authors assume much more powerful gear. Common sense should make it obvious what happens when you try to run the latter apps on the former. If not I don't know what to tell you man.
I'm posting this on my Thinkpad T420 with the 2520m Sandybridge i5 chip. A Snapdragon 835 benchmarks at almost exactly half the speed of this 6 year old laptop. So a chip that at best is half as fast as a low end device of more than half a decade old is now going to be loaded down even more doing "binary translation" of x86 calls into ARM. And I'm supposed to be excited?
FWIW, I dipped my toes into the Atom powered 2-in-1 market with the Acer 10 thing. It checks most of the boxes from this announcement regarding battery life, portability, etc. yet it collects dust. Why? Because it is slow. I don't care how pocketable a full Windows device is, if trying to do any real work on it is a frustrating experience of waiting that makes me want to chunk it out the nearest window, I think I'll pass.
Based on the fact that Intel couldn't even be bothered to stay in the market for this stuff leads me to believe that most other consumers agree with me.
If being interrupted by the opposite sex is a "gender-related" thing by now then I should top the charts of oppression and my wife has a lot of 'splainin to do.
Before getting into IT, I busted my ass roofing, landscaping, framing, and pouring concrete. My feet hurt so bad at the end of the day I'd have to walk on the sides of them and don't even ask how much money I was making. Now I sit on my ass all day typing shit in on a computer. If one finds IT "stressful", I assure there's a world of opportunity waiting in the trades. Let me know how wonderful and carefree your life becomes.
Hell with the carriers, make unlocked phones that work on all four as well as the MVNOs.
That's exactly what I have with the Moto X Pure I bought from Best Buy a few months ago. Great phone and it works with every carrier. I don't know why people would accept anything less when this thing is on the market.
At the current exchange rate, 15â is about eighty cents more than what I pay for services that covers all my needs extensively. All U.S. cell phone plans are not equal but the good ones are admittedly less visible.
I'm not sure myself. I have a 3570k Ivy Bridge system for when I feel like some gaming (not often these days) and for a while I had it up to 4.5 GHz. Everything seemed smooth, but one day it overheated so I just said to hell with it and went back down to the stock 3.4. Lo and behold I could not tell the difference. Games had about the same frame rate and the overall system felt just as responsive. Maybe you have to be at the edge of the CPU performance envelope and typical video gaming just doesn't do that yet. BTW, I game on Linux and Windows and I noted this on both sides.
It's called priorities. Everything is a trade off, and gaming for me is just a pastime. It's not a job, e.g., front-end development where it's useful to be up on the latest happenings to maintain employment mobility. I use Linux to get work done, and occasionally I fire up Portal to blow off a little steam. That is precisely the opposite of cutting my nose off despite my face so you can stick your pretentious bullshit up your ass.
I game exclusively on Linux with Steam. Works pretty good for me and I have a blast. The selection isn't as good as Windows but, hey, I can only play one game at a time.
I thought half the point of a Chromebook was that it was supposed to be cheaper than a standard laptop?
I'm sure that was the case at first as they were going up against the extremely dominant Windows platform and they felt like positioning the Chromebook as, among other things, a value was a good way to get some market share. Now that they have traction and people are buying Chromebooks on other merits like security, ease of use, and simplicity, the OEMs are taking a shot at going up market. Now the message can be, you know that Chromebook you like so much, yet was slow and cheaply constructed? Well now by just paying a bit more, you can have a more premium experience. It's not just buy a Chromebook instead of Windows because it's cheap, it's by this Chromebook rather than that one because it's faster/higher resolution/IPS/more RAM/better.
I'd say the sweet spot is around $800or so now, but you can pick from a number of pretty decent laptops for around $500.
You're still thinking, Chromebook vs. Windows. A chunk of the market is now sold on Chromebooks so for them it is Chromebook vs. better Chromebook and Asus, with this model, is casting their line there.
I bought my wife an Acer Chromebook, I think it has a 15 inch screen though. At any rate, she loves the thing. The Haswell? Celeron is very capable, the construction is good, has a nice bright 1080p IPS screen, the works. And all for 250 bucks. I'm not sure what the deal is with Acer as their Windows laptops in my experience suck but they make pretty good Chromebooks. It's like two different companies. I have a 10 inch Acer 2-in-1 I picked up on a whim a few months ago and it is horrible. The keyboard and trackpad are worse than the ones on my Aspire One netbook from back in the day. Almost literally trash.
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You know what else matters? Food. We all gotta eat. Are we going to start swapping recipes now, dipshit?
I don't really see that as first class though. You'll always be a step behind the official API waiting for the next version of kivy to drop. And the official docs and support expect you'll be using one of the "blessed" languages so when you aren't, you can expect little bits of friction everywhere. That said, I like kivy and its spiritual predecessor sl4a. The latter actually got me into Python.
When Taco was around, it was. I'm not saying it didn't have some political stuff back then but it was nothing, I mean nothing, like it is now. It's basically turned into a green "The Verge". At least the have the excuse of being bought out by Vox.
Maybe true but I just say that I write my fair share of Python scripts using multiprocessing and it works for me. That said, if somebody feels like the GIL is truly getting in the way, there is always IronPython and Jython, neither of which have this restriction. I also believe the PyPy team is working feverishly on getting rid of the GIL in their implementation which among other things is much faster than regular Python thanks to just in time compilation. I've used it for a few things and heartily recommend it if speed is of the essence.
More info here for those inclined.
I really like Python. I find it faster to develop in, more flexible, and more ubiquitous than just about any other language. However, maybe 20 years ago when the world was simpler, it would have had a better chance at some kind of dominance. These days though, there are just too many niches it doesn't work in. Can't make first class apps for iOS or Android, can't use it natively to manipulate the DOM in a web browser. It's not as easy to use server-side like PHP. And on and on. Yes, Python can be used in all those roles if you bend and twist it enough but in most cases, there is a better domain specific language that people just default to.
Personally I find Python to be peerless for system administration and automation. Even better than bash. I understand it's good for statistical and scientific programming too. That's it's place. Not "dominance".
I use Python along with Selenium for website automation and testing. I prefer it over Java in that regard as it is much faster to develop in and doesn't require as much "infrastructure". No compiling, no mandatory OOP, no need for an IDE, etc. Of all the things in that particular niche, I've found Python to be far and above the best.
It's still a thing and likely will always be a thing. That said, the multiprocessing module makes writing code that can spin up as many processes as you want and allow them all to communicate is relatively painless.
I like this site and I really liked it when the byline used to be "News for nerds Stuff that matter". Is there an extension or bookmarklet or something that I can use to filter out stories based on keywords? Keywords like Comey, Trump, Government, Clinton, Democrat, Republican, Brexit, and on and on? I sure would like that. I really would.
I like this site and I really liked it when the byline used to be "News for nerds Stuff that matter". Is there an extension or bookmarklet or something that I can use to filter out stories based on keywords? Keywords like Comey, Trump, Government, Clinton, Democrat, Republican, Brexit, and on and on? I sure would like that. I really would.
Yeah they're "private" but they take in a shit load of public money, to the tune of over 600 million dollars in a recent year. Not to mention the exemption they enjoy regarding their endowment. It's not as simple as just calling them private full stop when they sidle up to the public trough.
You're sound like a real fucking jerkoff. Lol.
Most consumers happily buy Android hardware that's not even close to this fast
Uh, yeah, Android apps are written with typical smartphone hardware in mind. Window software authors assume much more powerful gear. Common sense should make it obvious what happens when you try to run the latter apps on the former. If not I don't know what to tell you man.
I'm posting this on my Thinkpad T420 with the 2520m Sandybridge i5 chip. A Snapdragon 835 benchmarks at almost exactly half the speed of this 6 year old laptop. So a chip that at best is half as fast as a low end device of more than half a decade old is now going to be loaded down even more doing "binary translation" of x86 calls into ARM. And I'm supposed to be excited?
FWIW, I dipped my toes into the Atom powered 2-in-1 market with the Acer 10 thing. It checks most of the boxes from this announcement regarding battery life, portability, etc. yet it collects dust. Why? Because it is slow. I don't care how pocketable a full Windows device is, if trying to do any real work on it is a frustrating experience of waiting that makes me want to chunk it out the nearest window, I think I'll pass.
Based on the fact that Intel couldn't even be bothered to stay in the market for this stuff leads me to believe that most other consumers agree with me.
If being interrupted by the opposite sex is a "gender-related" thing by now then I should top the charts of oppression and my wife has a lot of 'splainin to do.
Before getting into IT, I busted my ass roofing, landscaping, framing, and pouring concrete. My feet hurt so bad at the end of the day I'd have to walk on the sides of them and don't even ask how much money I was making. Now I sit on my ass all day typing shit in on a computer. If one finds IT "stressful", I assure there's a world of opportunity waiting in the trades. Let me know how wonderful and carefree your life becomes.
Send them back to high school and make them get another participation award.
B-But, how would that be fair to the kids who didn't participate?
I've never had a 7 phone, but from what I recall, it was based on CE and its screen looked like an XP desktop screen.
Nope. The 7 was the first iteration of the departure from the XP-esque desktop. It had what used to be called the Metro interface and the whole bit.
Being an electrician is not a "profession"?
Wow. Just wow.
Hell with the carriers, make unlocked phones that work on all four as well as the MVNOs.
That's exactly what I have with the Moto X Pure I bought from Best Buy a few months ago. Great phone and it works with every carrier. I don't know why people would accept anything less when this thing is on the market.
At the current exchange rate, 15â is about eighty cents more than what I pay for services that covers all my needs extensively. All U.S. cell phone plans are not equal but the good ones are admittedly less visible.
I'm not sure myself. I have a 3570k Ivy Bridge system for when I feel like some gaming (not often these days) and for a while I had it up to 4.5 GHz. Everything seemed smooth, but one day it overheated so I just said to hell with it and went back down to the stock 3.4. Lo and behold I could not tell the difference. Games had about the same frame rate and the overall system felt just as responsive. Maybe you have to be at the edge of the CPU performance envelope and typical video gaming just doesn't do that yet. BTW, I game on Linux and Windows and I noted this on both sides.
It's called priorities. Everything is a trade off, and gaming for me is just a pastime. It's not a job, e.g., front-end development where it's useful to be up on the latest happenings to maintain employment mobility. I use Linux to get work done, and occasionally I fire up Portal to blow off a little steam. That is precisely the opposite of cutting my nose off despite my face so you can stick your pretentious bullshit up your ass.
I game exclusively on Linux with Steam. Works pretty good for me and I have a blast. The selection isn't as good as Windows but, hey, I can only play one game at a time.
I thought half the point of a Chromebook was that it was supposed to be cheaper than a standard laptop?
I'm sure that was the case at first as they were going up against the extremely dominant Windows platform and they felt like positioning the Chromebook as, among other things, a value was a good way to get some market share. Now that they have traction and people are buying Chromebooks on other merits like security, ease of use, and simplicity, the OEMs are taking a shot at going up market. Now the message can be, you know that Chromebook you like so much, yet was slow and cheaply constructed? Well now by just paying a bit more, you can have a more premium experience. It's not just buy a Chromebook instead of Windows because it's cheap, it's by this Chromebook rather than that one because it's faster/higher resolution/IPS/more RAM/better.
I'd say the sweet spot is around $800or so now, but you can pick from a number of pretty decent laptops for around $500.
You're still thinking, Chromebook vs. Windows. A chunk of the market is now sold on Chromebooks so for them it is Chromebook vs. better Chromebook and Asus, with this model, is casting their line there.
I bought my wife an Acer Chromebook, I think it has a 15 inch screen though. At any rate, she loves the thing. The Haswell? Celeron is very capable, the construction is good, has a nice bright 1080p IPS screen, the works. And all for 250 bucks. I'm not sure what the deal is with Acer as their Windows laptops in my experience suck but they make pretty good Chromebooks. It's like two different companies. I have a 10 inch Acer 2-in-1 I picked up on a whim a few months ago and it is horrible. The keyboard and trackpad are worse than the ones on my Aspire One netbook from back in the day. Almost literally trash.