Re: Performance: sets vs dicts.

2010-09-03 Thread John Bokma
Terry Reedy writes: > On 9/1/2010 8:11 PM, John Bokma wrote: [...] > Right. And if 'small values of n' include all possible values, then > rejecting a particular O(log n) algorithm as 'unacceptable' relative > to all O(1) algorithms is pretty absurd. I have l

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-19 Thread John Bokma
od book, and start over again would be quite the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well? I do speed read but not the books I read for pleasure. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-19 Thread John Bokma
AK writes: > On 09/19/2010 10:32 PM, John Bokma wrote: >> AK writes: >> >>> On 09/19/2010 07:18 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote: >>>> AK wrote: >>>> >>>>> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at the speed of half a page >>&g

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
back to them. As an additional note: tinyurl allows one to enter a postfix to use, so instead of /xc4ax7 you can have /something-more-readable. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
Seebs writes: > On 2010-09-20, John Bokma wrote: >> I didn't mean that there are spoilers in the first 70 pages, just that >> to me the excercise would spoil the book, so, I wouldn't do it. I >> consider a book like a meal, I wouldn't gobble down food, regu

Re: [OT] Speed-reading

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_total_number_of_pages_in_the_%27Harry_Potter%27_series [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading#Claims_of_speed_readers -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
Terry Reedy writes: >> On 09/19/2010 10:32 PM, John Bokma wrote: > >>> the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well? > > I sometimes watch movies (or parts thereof) on 1.5x, especially if it > has a lot of 'filler' scenes. But only when my wife is not

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
hing. What happens if I quote such a message? It's archived, right? -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
Tim Chase writes: > On 09/20/10 20:12, John Bokma wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano writes: >>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:25:09 +, Tim Harig wrote: >>>> Usernet users also have the right to use the X-No-Archive header field. >>> >>> They do? Is th

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-20 Thread John Bokma
r more of the answers. Yup, exactly. Or people who did a lot of searching but somehow were not able to compile a good query. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma F

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-21 Thread John Bokma
googled for. If I miss and > you've done your homework already, well, at least you get the smug > satisfaction of knowing that I was too stupid to understand your > question. It makes you a patronizing fuck in my book. And no, that's not a joke. -- John Bokma

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-21 Thread John Bokma
ople are ashamed of telling that they have used Google, and couldn't find it. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-21 Thread John Bokma
to movie theaters all over the world by chaining themselves to the entry. But, hey, then they have to get out of the couch and get out of the house. And their moms might start to ask questions... -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://john

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-21 Thread John Bokma
Dennis Lee Bieber writes: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:12:01 -0500, John Bokma > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > >> I never saw the point of the whole X-No-Archive: Yes thing. What happens >> if I quote such a message? It's archived, right

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-21 Thread John Bokma
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes: > In message <87aanbx5lq@castleamber.com>, John Bokma wrote: > >> I never saw the point of the whole X-No-Archive: Yes thing. What happens >> if I quote such a message? It's archived, right? > > Where did they com

Re: Down with tinyurl!

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
amond teeth :-D. Also, the RIAA has been breaking the law as well. They do it via hired sneeky companies, but in my book they are still responsible. (dDOS of torrent sites/clients) -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
eady somewhat complex (or noisy) I probably would use a "normal" if else. What surprises me is that this is still discussed. It's like argueing about significant whitespace. :-) -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://john

Re: Too much code - slicing

2010-09-22 Thread John Bokma
Seebs writes: > I dunno. I like the "next if /^$/" idiom, I don't (as a Perl programmer), I prefer: $line =~ /^$/ and next; Or: $line ne '' or next; which I read as: line must not be empty -- John Bokma

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-26 Thread John Bokma
report him with Google Groups and with his hosting provider 1&1 like I do. Dreamhost kicked him out that way. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & P

How to Deal with Xah Lee Spam/Abuse (was: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms)

2010-09-27 Thread John Bokma
oogle.com/search?q=site%3Axahlee.org%20bokma [3] What's sad is that some of its stuff is actually good/not bad. But tainted: Xah Lee is a spammer and a Usenet abuser. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebo

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-27 Thread John Bokma
him money. See: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Axahlee.org%20bokma While I am named in that article be assured that I was not the only one contacting dreamhost (+10 for doing this, btw). Quite some people contacted me via email that they also talked with

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-27 Thread John Bokma
Seebs writes: fup set to poster > On 2010-09-28, John Bokma wrote: >> Seebs writes: >>> On 2010-09-26, J?rgen Exner wrote: >>>> It was livibetter who without any motivation or reasoning posted Python >>>> code in CLPM. > >>> Not exactly

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-28 Thread John Bokma
ld speak for themselves 2) Stop abusing Usenet. Instead focus on writing more good stuff on your site. 1) & 2) will keep me from linking to your site, ever. And I am sure I am not alone in this. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: h

Re: toy list processing problem: collect similar terms

2010-09-28 Thread John Bokma
Paul Rubin writes: > John Bokma writes: >> Xah Lee writes: ... >> Can you stop crossposting? > > John, can you ALSO stop crossposting? Since the issue is on-topic in all groups: no. I did set a follow-up header, which you ignored and on top of that redirected the thin

Re: Crummy BS Script

2010-10-02 Thread John Bokma
es: >> >> >> >> But where is this saving the imported file and under what name? >> >> >> > Looks like samples.csv: >> >> >> >> f = open('samples.csv', 'w') > How do change where output goes and what its c

Re: IMAP support

2010-10-03 Thread John Bokma
. Nevermind is so ekhm... nevermind... -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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