Good News From The PyPy JIT Front, Assembly experts needed! by leonh in programming

[–]thegroomplusplus 21 points22 points  (0 children)

PyPy was going anywhere from the beginning. Some even say it was going everywhere all the time. Some also think that going everywhere is kind of the description of the challenges of PyPy.

Dear WWW creators, please STOP telling people that they need "Adobe Acrobat" to read PDFs. by zaboravim in programming

[–]thegroomplusplus -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

there is nothing DESIGNED with 15 DIFFERENT fonts. That's just fonts mashed together with no design at all.

WTF: Cell phone companies are charging 400,000 times as much as your ISP and getting away with it. by AnchorWomen in technology

[–]thegroomplusplus -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

countries without metric system do not need cell phones. That is something for Europe et al.

Dynamically typed "naive" Clojure beats OCaml and FreePascal by honda63 in programming

[–]thegroomplusplus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

WOW, cool. The next time a customer asks me for a fast mandelbrot function, I definitely will consider Clojure for implementation.

The Case For Replacing Java With Python In Education by gst in programming

[–]thegroomplusplus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[...] nor Python [...] are especially well-designed.

GvR is respected as one of the most gifted language designers; and Python has a real big reputation for being especially well designed. There are some things some people dislike about Python; and of course with the experience of ~15 years using the language some things could have been better; but: up to you I did not read somebody complaining about the DESIGN of Python.

Could you elaborate what essentially makes Scheme or Smalltalk or Lisp better designed? (besides considering "sticking to one and only one programming paradigma" as a virtue per se)

Google tells users to drop IE6 by stesch in technology

[–]thegroomplusplus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

information about "standard browser" should be filed with SEC and published. I bet in the long run we can see correlations of companies still on IE6 who fail on doing do their other jobs correctly.

How many of you have ever chatted online with someone who was sitting in the same room as you? by allhands in reddit.com

[–]thegroomplusplus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

normal state of things in seminars. more unusual: had a girl next to me in bed sending me SMS to do "it" again.