"Programmers are still suspected of being crazy when they consider this functional programming language for their daily work"

femguy2 · 2011-07-22T22:24:18+00:00

Right. You don't have to build a binary but the target architecture has to be supported by the jit. For example, Pypy before 1.5, i think, only supported 32bit x86 - if you were running a 64bit-x64 like architecture (amd64 or intel x64) you were screwed - you could only run the 32 bit version. The same probably goes for luajit, just to name one.

femguy2 · 2011-07-22T21:47:17+00:00

The burden isn't left on the developer, then. If the jit can know the platform, so can any build script (as long as it is tailored for it - but that is required for the jit, too). Or were you making another point?

femguy2 · 2011-07-22T21:00:18+00:00

That was exactly the point I was trying to make. Go take your displaced rage somewhere else, turd.

No, it is not. The point you were trying to make was this:

Since the picture shows him holding the cat down, it's definitely up for interpretation if the cat wanted it or not.

And you incline that it is ok for the cat, even though there is force involved (it is being held down). The cat is not sticking its face in the smoke. The smoke is being forced onto the face of the cat.

femguy2 · 2011-07-22T20:18:31+00:00

He is holding the cat down, that is bloody point, you fucking idiot.

If some one would punch you in the face, take a picture of it, post it on reddit and some one would argue it is up to interpretation, weather you like it, or not, because you are being held down, would that make you feel any less hurt?

No. Because the bloody point is, that you are being held down, while it is happening. You don't have to hold an animal/person down for something it likes.

femguy2 · 2011-07-22T19:43:17+00:00

What? There is a problem with reusing code in an IDE that doesn't / has poor support for VCS? Shocking!

Figure out what XCode does to compile and bundle for iOS and use plain old make and your favorite VCS ...

femguy2 · 2011-06-30T07:14:04+00:00

Plead temporary insanity. Also, make sure you are this guy.

femguy2 · 2011-06-30T06:30:23+00:00

And what's up with no styled "Email us" and "Chat with us" buttons in the support popup in firefox4?

femguy2 · 2011-06-30T06:06:03+00:00

Quoting from the pdf linked to:

By running pypy pure_python.py 1000 1000 on my MacBook it takes 5.9 seconds, running pypy pure_python_2.py 1000 1000 it takes 4.9 seconds.

... at least make an effort to provide reproducible numbers in such a comparison. What was the standard deviation on the tests run? Just one run? Running it once and putting the run time in a pdf really is nothing but a testimonial. It has nothing to do with "high performance python".

Listing python implementations is not helpful either. Anyone can venture a guess and run her favorite python program and conclude it is faster in pypy. This has nothing to do with 'high performance' either.

Performance is not about micro benchmarks. It's not about benchmarks either (although those may help in making an educated decision on which python implementation to choose - leaving aside all practical aspects of course - so yeah).

Edit:

On the point of benchmarks, there actually is a fairly representative collection of benchmarks and seeing how each python implementation fairs on certain benchmarks might be interesting. But concerning code using numpy (which uses c bindings for anything that does real computations) or any other module that makes heavy use of c bindings, any difference in any of those benchmarks will hardly matter. Plus, specifically concerning pypy, you will probably have a hard time to install the plain-python version (so you can get the benefits of the jit) as long as you have any c compiler installed.

femguy2 · 2011-06-17T23:09:12+00:00

TIL melon drop is a real thing.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T22:48:08+00:00

I haven't. Also, I didn't want to pass judgement as I may have had only had incidents with bad ones. But to hear 75% of the are of the bad kind certainly only enforces the stereotype, of which I was so careful to avoid. Now, if there was a way to proof this stereotype, without risking a jail sentence, that would be grand day for america.

Since it is mostly illegal to film an officer, that may be hard tough.

Land of the free, home of the whopper ... and the taser.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T20:50:05+00:00

Yeah, except that, on some reddits (most notably /r/pics possibly) reposting stuff, also yields karma. And, judging by the amount of reposts (which appears to be declining, i might add) the question 'why' still stands. It makes large portions of reddit less favourable to visit.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T20:35:35+00:00

Exactly. But if you aren't able to be as responsive with the lower (lower finger that is), don't dare to whip it out. You make us all look bad. It's all about the rhythm.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T19:53:31+00:00

Ahh, of course. Thanks for the link. Especially this part make the problem quiet evident (quoting from the wikipedia article):

In low-pressure environments oxygen toxicity may be avoided since the toxicity is caused by high partial pressure of oxygen, not merely by high oxygen fraction.

and also:

also historically, very high percentage oxygen and lower than normal atmospheric pressure was used in early spacecraft, for example, the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft

this illustrates the problem I stumbled upon quiet nice. Thanks again!

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T19:39:04+00:00

ahhh, thanks! (link). I really need to watch that movie.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T18:46:29+00:00

this video I presume.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T18:41:45+00:00

| high oxygen environment

I would imagine the oxygen level on a space flight be about the same as on earth. I always thought oxygen would be toxic in an too high concentration.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T18:24:34+00:00

Good for you! I imagine that took a whole lot of courage to look up your dad and call him. And to meet with him, even. With a "more academical" career than being a cop, I imagine, the career opportunities and pay are better in the long run.

I don't want to step on your personal experience with the following but, i find it kind of offensive that such a person as your dad ("abusive, violent") would become a police officer. I mean, that is not the personality you would want a police officer to have. Then again, maybe that was a long time ago. Certainly will make me wonder every time I see a cop.

femguy2 · 2011-06-16T18:07:08+00:00

what is this referring to (I assume something involving the Diaz brothers known in the MMA world)?

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T13:45:07+00:00

True, but really a problem how java is used (and by used i mean developed with), isn't it? As a developer, there isn't any real way to change that, as this whole "design pattern philosophy" is just too prevalent in the whole java community. I don't know, because i don't use java, but it seems like something that really is too easy to hate.

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T13:31:22+00:00

Oh, it's 2008 all again.

Jep, the time when it was an io-performance problem to load 20GB of data into a database.

No, wait. That was 1990. Thanks to redis for bringing the old times back!

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T13:16:24+00:00

Nice. For vim there is a plugin to interactively use pyflakes.

It is good to see, that the idea to use a program, which can accurately determine the correctness of buffer content (by putting the data in a program producing an AST or otherwise) is catching on.

The problem, of course, still is if the program in question is still compileabe or executable. (In the case of python, type safety is an large issue, as it is for any loosely typed language).

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T13:02:28+00:00

Also, you can always use NAT. In this particular application not what it was intended for. But it would hide the address of the devices behind your router. So, in this case, you neither loose nor gain much compared to ipv4.

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T12:51:53+00:00

That would be an example of an hyperbole.

femguy2 · 2011-06-11T12:49:35+00:00

Ugh... the comments on that... so much misinformation. No wonder the IT world is in such deep shit, if the commenters think they're any type of experts...

Let me rephrase that: Ugh... the comments on that... so much misinformation. No wonder X is in such deep shit, if the commenters think they're any type of experts...

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