it to make the text appear older than it was at the time.
Sigh. Doesn't *anyone* know Cosby any more? Kids today, no appreciation
for the classics. :-(
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ght be interesting to see how it does announcement/discovery. Or maybe
just use it directly, if this happens to be a case of "gee, I didn't
know that wheel had already been invented." :-)
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"Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK... your post seems to indicate a belief that everyone else is
> somehow incompetent.
Xah's just a troll - best to just ignore him. He posts these diatribes
to multiple groups hoping to start a fight.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I wonder if his postings are related to the phases of the moon? It
> might explain a lot.
Yes, it would. Note that the word lunatic is derived from the Latin word
luna, meaning moon.
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Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:02:14 -0400, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>>> I wonder if his postings are related to the phases of the moon? It
>>> might explain a lot.
>>
&g
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As a similar example: I've been told by various women independently,
> that "there are more babies born near a full moon."
>
> So... is there a correlation between insanity and babies being born? :)
If you weren't insane before the baby was born, you wil
Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Richard Gration wrote:
>> Are you fucking seriously fucking expecting some fucking moron to
>> translate your tech geeking fucking code moronicity? Fucking try writing
>> it fucking properly in fucking Perl first.
>
> Fucking excuse me?
>
> Fucking ma
Richard Gration <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are you fucking seriously fucking expecting some fucking moron to
> translate your tech geeking fucking code moronicity? Fucking try writing
> it fucking properly in fucking Perl first.
Good fucking job! That's the funniest fucking response I've ever
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> there is a MacPerl program posted in 1998 that uses Mac's speech synth
> to sing Daisy Bell.
> See:
>
> http://bumppo.net/lists/macperl/1998/11/msg00412.html
>
> can anyone modify it so it runs out of the box on today's OS X?
For pre-Tiger OS versions you'l
Ulrich Hobelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> btw, why is this posted to every newsgroup EXCEPT a PHP one?
Xah's a pretty well-known troll in these parts. I suppose he thinks someone
is going to take the bait and rush to "defend" the other languages or some
such nonsense.
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"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> Computer Language Popularity Trend
>>
>
> Careful there with the sweeping generalizations and quick judgments
Such things are all Xah does. Look at the distribution list for this
message - of what possible use is cross-posting so
"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:35:19 -0300, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
>> Tempo wrote:
>>> Has anyone sucesfully built a *.exe file on a mac operating system
>>> before from a *.py file? I have been trying to do this with
>>> pyinstaller,
desktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> for k in range(10, 25):
> n = 1 << k;
>
> I have never read Python before but is it correct that 1 get
> multiplied with the numbers 10,11,12,12,...,25 assuming that 1 << k
> means "1 shift left by k" which is the same as multiplying with k.
Shift left
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 26/04/2007 7:10 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>
>> Shift left is *not* the same as multiplying by k. It is the same as multi-
>> plying by 2^k.
>
> Where I come from, ^ is the exclusive-or operator. Of course YMMV i
"Alvin Bruney [MVP]" writes:
>>Top posting
> Did not. I replied to the message at the bottom of the thread.
Congratulations, you've now made a fool of yourself in public.
Top posting has nothing to do with where your reply is placed with
respect to other messages. Top posting is when you add yo
"Juan T. Llibre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Top or bottom posting is a user choice.
Yes, one can choose to be polite and follow established usenet
conventions, or one can choose to be rude and self-centered.
Those who choose rudeness over courtesy can expect to be called down
for it - which i
Joe Eagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sorry just a test.
Sorry, you failed. You missed alt.test by a mile.
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Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So..at 11:23 we got version 0.7.8...at 11:30 was version 0.8.5...now
> there is a 0.9.1 version?? Have a coffe dude
Sounds more to me like he needs to lay off the coffee, or at least switch
to decaffeinated for a while. :-)
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Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>>>> Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> So..at 11:23 we got
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>> Python is a better language, with php support, anyway, but I am fed
>> up with attitudes of comp.lang.perl.misc.
>
> Please, if you must fred the troll, drop comp.lang.python from the
> discussion (i.e. post trplies only to th
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sherm Pendley wrote:
>> Gerardo Herzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> So..at 11:23 we got version 0.7.8...at 11:30 was version 0.8.5...now
>>> there is a 0.9.1 version?? Have a coffe dude
>>
>&
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On c.l.py there are standards of behavior, and we encourage people to
> observe them (while attempting to engage politely with those who
> don't).
We also do that on c.l.perl.misc.
The problems tend to arise when people get defensive and argumentative i
Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jim Burton wrote:
>> Or you could stop feeding the trolls.
>
> Does not apply. The OP was not being trollish
You obviously don't know Xah. He's been doing this for years, cross-
posting to various language groups trying to start an argument between
them. He even
Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But if Xah were being trollish, why didn't they jump on my response
> and call me names?
Xah never replies to the threads he starts. At least, I've never known him
to do so.
> I still think that analysis of the original post is a useful exercise
> to learn Java.
Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Of course I realise the modern mantra that "premature optimisation is
> the root of all evil" but I don't subscribe to it.
Note the first word - premature. It's an important distinction, and you've
entirely missed it.
Optimization is premature if you haven't ye
kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for a collection of useful programming projects, at
> the "hobbyist" level.
>
> My online search did turn up a few collections (isolated projects
> are less useful to me at the moment), but these projects are either
> more difficult than what I'm lookin
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Chris Lasher a écrit :
>
>> so I thought I'd ask here to
>> see why the Python idiom is the way it is: why should we NOT be
>> placing classes in their own separate files?
>
> Because it just sucks.
...
> Just ask him why Java insists on 'one-(pu
Steven Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On class per file was easier to do when Java was developed (remember
> it was develop to control vending machines
Not quite. Java grew out of a set-top box at Sun, code-named "Oak".
>; scary. Reminds me of the movie 'Tron'
Vending machines in "Tron" wer
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sherm Pendley a écrit :
>
>> It's a stylistic thing, nothing more.
>
> A bit more than just 'stylistic' IMHO. It's a matter of
> convenience. Having to manage hundreds of files each with a dozen
&
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sherm Pendley a écrit :
>
> In my book, it's huge classes and methods that are usually a smell of
> a design problem.
Obviously we're reading different books.
But that's OK - I'm not on a crusade to con
"Nate Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As to the guy who writes 1000+ line classes dude, refactor some.
> You're trying to make the class do too much, almost by definition.
You haven't even seen my code, you don't even know what language it's in,
but you're telling me it's wrong?
Wow -
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sherm Pendley a écrit :
>> Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>>Sherm Pendley a écrit :
>>>
>>>In my book, it's huge classes and methods that are usually
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason F. McBrayer) writes:
> A determined and technically savvy user will surely find
> the key (not least by debugging the start-script).
... and then write a patch that disables the key, and distribute that to
a few million of his not so determined or savvy friends.
> Basica
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having more than one index start point would be a maintenance
> nightmare best avoided.
Quite right.
> (It can be done in Perl).
When was the last time you used Perl? It was allowed in Perl 4 and earlier,
because many Perl users were moving from Awk, which
"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't think we should add it to Python
> because it would make porting VB code easier.
Great Cthulhu no!
I chimed in because your first comment regarding Perl implied that it's
commonplace for Perl programmers to fiddle with the index base. It can
be done,
tool the wrong way.
> And why not use 1 and 0 for TRUE and FALSE?
Sounds reasonable in general, although a parental advisory would more
often be a range of possible values (G, PG, R, MA, etc.) rather than a
boolean.
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> no amount of explanation can tell them exactly it was like, because it
> XL> has become HISTORY — if you didn't live it, you can't feel it.
>
> CGI is still used in some places today, hello?
Yeah, James Cameron made a *ton* of money using it to make Avata
t as well.
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, and passes the list of found files as arg-
uments.
Probably not a big deal in this case, but if you're passing a long list
of files to a script that has a long startup time, it can make a big
difference.
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> with a relatively small number of files, but will fail on a large one.
How? -exec passes each file name to a separate invocation of the given
command - it doesn't build one large command line with multiple args.
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remain 32-bit, even if they're running on a 64-bit
capable OS. Assuming you're running Snow Leopard on your Mac, you're
using a 64-bit Python interpreter *and* a 64-bit OS. You need to have
both to take advantage of a 64-bit memory space.
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Jürgen Exner writes:
> Alexander Burger wrote:
>>In PicoLisp:
>
> What the f does PicoLisp have to with Perl?
It's Xah. He cross-posts in an attempt to start a language feud.
Please don't feed the troll.
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Jürgen Exner writes:
> livibetter wrote:
>>Here is mine for Python:
>
> What the f*** does Python have to do with Perl?
Xah is a cross-posting troll. Please don't feed the troll.
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