mwhooker
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Comment · 13 years ago
could not have said it better
Comment · 13 years ago
this is not funny. this is less funny then when engineers sit around and make puns about ruby idioms
Comment · 13 years ago
this is useless. In the python interface they are obviously lists. Is the author arguing that cpython implements them as C arrays? I don't know because the terms weren't defined.
If the author believes clarity will arise from pedantry, maybe he should start with wikipedia
> In computer science, a list or sequence is an abstract data type that implements a finite ordered collection of values, where the same value may occur more than once.
Comment · 13 years ago
"10000 year old lamp shows mesolithic man used quantum mechanics"
Comment · 13 years ago
If learning anything makes us worse at something we should just stop learning
Comment · 14 years ago
compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.
Comment · 14 years ago
Looks like 10 text books (read: ~$100 each) with no descriptions and referral links to Amazon.
edit for clarity.
Comment · 14 years ago
let me save everyone some time:
> Jim Keller, the chief designer behind the A4 and A5 chips used in Apple's iPhone and iPad products has joined AMD as chief architect and VP
Comment · 14 years ago
I found this paper on the "semi-living artist" mentioned in the article fascinating. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533587/
Answered a lot of my questions about how the brain was cultured and stimulated.
Comment · 14 years ago
Not sure if the two are related, but http://youarelistening.to/ has this for a couple other cities.
Comment · 14 years ago
ahh, cool. suppose I should have read past the rules
Comment · 14 years ago
seems like per #1 & 2 you could either write a dsl or line-processing library and get it done in 1 line
Comment · 14 years ago
it's not as if we were purchasing one language. It's a stretch goal, with python as the reward. The goal and the difficulty of implementation are not related.