On Dec 3, 8:24 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My example demonstrates several of Mathematica's fundamental limitations.
enough babble Jon.
Come flying $5 to my paypal account, and i'll give you real code,
amongest the programing tech geekers here for all to see.
I'll show, what kind
your judgement), or it turns out
Mathematica 6 is necessary, or any problem that might occure, i offer
money back guarantee.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Dec 3, 2:12 pm, "Thomas M. Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 3:15 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Dec 3, 4:22 pm, "Thomas M. Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 5:26 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Agreed. My paypal address is “xah @@@ xahlee.org”. (replace the triple
> > @ to single one.) Once you paid thru paypa
alright, here's my improved code, pasted near the bottom.
let me say a few things about Jon's code.
If we rate that piece of mathematica code on the level of: Beginner
Mathematica programer, Intermediate, Advanced, where Beginner is
someone who just learned tried to program Mathematica no more t
On Dec 4, 6:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For the interested, with MMA 6, on a Pentium 4 3.8Ghz:
>
> The code that Jon posted:
>
> Timing[Export["image-jon.pgm", [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Main[2, 100, 4]]]
> {80.565, "image-jon.pgm"}
>
> The code that Xah posted:
>
> Timing[Export["image-xah.pgm", [EMA
For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up
the essay with additional comments here:
• A Mathematica Optimization Problem
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimization.html
The result and speed up of my code can be verified by anyone who has
Mathema
On Dec 8, 5:10 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up
> > the essay with additional comments here:
>
> > • A Mathematica Optimization Problem
> >
2008-12-08
Xah Lee wrote:
> > Also, in this discussion, thanks to Thomas M Hermann's $20 offered to
> > me for my challenge to you, that i have taken the time to show working
> > code that demonstrate many problems in your code.
A moron, wrote:
> You failed the cha
Dear George Neuner,
Xah Lee wrote:
> >The phenomenon of creating code that are inefficient is proportional
> >to the highlevelness or power of the lang. In general, the higher
> >level of the lang, the less possible it is actually to produce a code
> >that is as efficie
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > A moron, wrote:
> > > You failed the challenge that you were given.
>
> > you didn't give me a challenge.
>
> Thomas gave you the challenge:
>
> "What I want in
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > A moron, wrote:
> > > You failed the challenge that you were given.
>
> > you didn't give me a challenge.
>
> Thomas gave you the challenge:
>
> "What I want in
On Dec 8, 5:25 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lest anyone doubt that problem size is important for comparing program
> run times, consider ...
just in case there's any doubt:
Simply change these lines in Jon's program:
Main[9, 512, 4] to Main[9, 512, 4.]
and it will run faster.
A
On Dec 8, 4:07 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, its past 'tonight' and 6 hours to go till past 'tomorrow'.
> > Where the hell is it Zah Zah?
>
> Note that this program takes several days to compute in Mathematica (even
> though it takes under four secon
Jon Harrop moron wrote:
> Only for trivial input and not for the challenge you were given.
what challenge?
> That code is evaluated once to build the scene. There is no point in
> optimizing it.
The point is optimizing your incompetence.
> That performance issue only affects trivial problems an
in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup the doc
for the function under cursor.
is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php?
(i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with
“perldoc -f functionName”, and in php it's php.net/functionName. Bot
Xah Lee wrote:
> > Let's say for example, we want to write a function that takes a vector
> > (of linear algebra), and return a vector in the same direction but
> > with length 1. In linear algebar terminology, the new vector is called
> > the “normalized” vector of
Xah Lee wrote:
> > For those of you who don't know linear algebra but knows coding, this
> > means, we want a function whose input is a list of 3 elements say
> > {x,y,z}, and output is also a list of 3 elements, say {a,b,c}, with
> > the condition that
> >
&g
On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or Java,
> > you'll have 50 or hundreds lines.
>
> C:
>
> #include
> #include
>
> void normal(i
On Dec 11, 12:32 am, Gerard flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Xah Lee wrote:
> >>> In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C
Xah Lee wrote:
• A Example of Mathematica's Expressiveness
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_expressiveness.html
On Dec 11, 3:53 am, "William James" wrote:
> function normal( ary )
> { var div = Math.sqrt(
> ary.map(function(x) x*x).reduce(functio
On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or Java,
> > you'll have 50 or hundreds lines.
>
> C:
>
> #include
> #include
>
> void normal(int dim, float* x, f
On Dec 11, 6:50 am, the.brown.dragon.b...@gmail.com wrote:
;; Chicken Scheme. By the.brown.dragon...@gmail.com
(require 'srfi-1)
(define (normalize vec)
(map (cute / <> (sqrt (reduce + 0 (map (cute expt <> 2) vec
vec))
Is it possible to make it work in scsh? (i'm running scsh 0.6.4, and
don'
> >On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy wrote:
> >> C:
>
> >> #include
> >> #include
>
> >> void normal(int dim, float* x, float* a) {
> >> float sum = 0.0f;
> >> int i;
> >> float divisor;
> >> for (i = 0; i < dim; ++i) sum += x[i] * x[i];
> >> divisor = sqrt(sum);
> >> fo
/html_correctness.html
plain text version follows.
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HTML Correctness and Validators
Xah Lee, 2008-12-28
Some notes about html correctness and html validator.
Condition Of Website Correctness
My website “xahlee.org” has close to 4000 html files. All are valid
html files. “Valid” here
Just spent 3 hours looking into Ruby today. Here's my short impression
for those interested.
* Why Not Ruby?
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/why_not_Ruby.html
plain text version follows:
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Why Not Ruby?
Xah Lee, 2008-12-31
Spent about 3
On Feb 23, 4:56 am, Roedy Green
wrote:
> On 19 Feb 2009 18:56:42 GMT, Albert van der Horst
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
> who said :
>
> >Note here, that eXtreme
> >>Programing is one of the snake oil,
>
> Extreme programming is a variant on Deming's idea of constant
> incremental
On Feb 25, 3:34 am, nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com wrote:
> the nasty cons then only appears in a single function which
> you can hide in a library
I think the following answers that.
Q: If you don't like cons, lisp has arrays and hashmaps, too.
A: Suppose there's a lang called gisp. In gisp,
On Feb 25, 10:18 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> On Feb 25, 3:34 am, nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > the nasty cons then only appears in a single function which
> > you can hide in a library
>
> I think the following answers that.
>
> Q: If you don't like
On Feb 26, 12:57 am, Miles Bader wrote:
> There is ample room for people to discuss this evolution, but approaches
> that start with "first, toss out the existing user interface" aren't gonna
> fly.
Who said to toss out existing user interface, you?
Are you saying that i start my suggestion wit
On Feb 26, 1:59 am, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> > is the suggestion of using modern standard shortcut set of X C V for
> > Cut, Copy, Paste, of which Linux uses, means it is turning emacs to a
> > fancy Notepad clone?
>
> The func
Of interest:
• Why Can't You Be Normal?
http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html
• Ban Xah Lee
http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ban_Xah_Lee.html
I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped
about in comp.lang.* groups today and in the pa
Favorite Lisp
Xah Lee, 2009-03-04
Javier wrote: “What open source implementation of Lisp do you prefer
and why?”
My fav is Emacs Lisp.
Because it is practical. More or less the most widely used lisp today.
Considered as a tool, it has probably some 10 times more users than
either Common Lisp or
Christian wrote:
On Mar 9, 1:22 pm, Christian wrote:
> XahLeeschrieb:> Of interest:
>
> > ⢠Why Can't You Be Normal?
> > http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html
>
> IMHO the point that you never reply to responds is what makes it
> problematic.
> I have seen 10 or more t
esult:
Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 5th
International Conference, MLDM 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 18-20,
2007, Proceedings (Lecture ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence) (Paperback)
by Petra Perner (Editor)
http://books.google.com/books?id=CE1QzecoVf4C&pg=PA4
Of interest:
• Why Must Software Be Rewritten For Multi-Core Processors?
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/multi-core_software.html
plain text version follows.
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Why Must Software Be Rewritten For Multi-Core Processors?
Xah Lee, 2009-06
On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Of interest:
> • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html
Addendum:
The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or
problems. It illustrates, how seemingl
I offer the python community complete rewrite of the Python doc. The
resulting doc would be one of the best technical writing among Open
Source community's documentations. (a fair verification can be
obtained by polling professional writers and editor community, e.g.
staff writers of Time Mag or ot
The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully
Functional Notations
Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
Let me summarize: The LISP notation, is a functional notation, and is
not a so-called pre-fix notation or algebraic notation.
Algebraic notations have the concept of operators, meaning
Xah Lee wrote:
« The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully
Functional Notations
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html »
A side note: the terminology “Algebraic” Notation is a misnomer. It
seems to imply that such notations have something to do with the
What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language
Xah Lee, 200502, 200603.
In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness.
English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all
the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and
dictions. There
Python has a new logo!
See http://python.org/
And it is a fantastic logo.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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is there larger versions of the logo?
and, any usage restrictions?
i also like to find out the the artist name. Any pointer is
appreciated. Thanks.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
> Em Qui, 2006-03-23 às 07:43 -0800, Xah Lee escreveu:
> &g
A Lambda Logo Tour
(and why LISP languages using λ as logo should not be looked upon
kindly)
Xah Lee, 2002-02
Dear lispers,
The lambda character λ, always struck a awe in me, as with other
mathematical symbols. In my mind, i imagine that those obscure math
symbolism are etched in stone by god
t version follows.
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The Condition of Industrial Programers
Xah Lee, 2006-05
Before i stepped into the computing industry, my first industrial
programing experience was at Wolfram Research Inc as a intern in 1995.
(Wolfram Research is famously known for their highly su
Dear comrades,
Hot from the press:
• Unix Pipe As Functional Language
http://xahlee.org/comp/unix_pipes_and_functional_lang.html
plain text version follows:
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Unix Pipe As Functional Language
Xah Lee, 2010-01-25
Found the following juicy
Some thoughts about Python 3 Adoption.
Xah Lee, 2010-01-26
Some notes of Wikipedia readings related to Python.
Unladen Swallow, a new project from Google. It is a new python
compiler with the goal of 5 times faster than the de facto standand
implementation CPython. Also note Stackless Python
e_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html
Xah
On Jan 26, 7:12 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote:
> * John Bokma:
>
> > "Alf P. Steinbach" writes:
>
> >> Please don't post more noise and ad hominem attacks to the group,
> >> Steve.
>
> > Funny that you
On Jan 26, 3:47 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> * Many functions that return lists now returns “Views” or
> “Iterators” Instead. A fucking fuck all fucked up shit. A extraneous
> “oop engineering” complication. (See: Lambda in Python 3000)
See also:
“Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object
Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator,
context, detail, see bottom of:
• A Lambda Logo Tour
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html
this is posted here because it relates to various computer software/
language's logo, a subject discussed by me several times
This is a short complaint on admin abuse on #python irc channel on
freenode.net.
Here's a log:
2010-02-02
(12:11:57 PM) The topic for #python is: NO LOL | http://pound-python.org/
| It's too early to use Python 3.x | Pasting > 3 lines? Pastebin:
http://paste.pocoo.org/ | Tutorial: http://docs.py
just wrote this essay. Comment & feedback very welcome.
Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages
Xah Lee, 2010-02-02
In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash: âmyHash = {}â and
âmyHash.clear()â. What is the difference?
â
The difference is that âm
()On Feb 2, 6:46Â pm, Ryan Kelly wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 -0800, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> I know, I know, do not feed the trolls. Â But this is just so *wrong*
> that I can't help myself.
>
> > In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash:
>
> No, n
ank you.
For anyone reading this thread and interested in my opinions, i have
written many essays related to this and netiquette. Many of which
detail other similar incidences that i personally experienced, such as
freenode's irc ban in #emacs channel. If you are interested, they can
be
ng.
So, i thought i'd post here to solicit some opinins from the programer
community i know.
Here's the plain text version
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The NoSQL Movement
Xah Lee, 2010-01-26
In the past few years, there's new fashionable thinking about anti
relational database, now bl
obably number one among the
world's user of databases, probably double or triple than the second
user with the most large datasize. At that point, it seems logical
that they need their own db, relational or not.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Mar 4, 10:35 pm, John Nagle wrote:
> Xah Lee wr
On Mar 8, 11:14 am, Duncan Booth wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of
> > database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be
> > that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users
&g
scale it.
Right, but that doesn't seems to have any relevance about my point.
Many says that scalability is key to NoSQL, i pointed out that unless
you are like google, or ranked top 1000 in the world in terms data
size, the scalability reason isn't that strong.
Xah Lee wrote:
> man
A essay related to the recent discussion of banning, and lisp
associated group at ycombinator.com .
-
Hacker News, Xahlee.Org, and What is Politics?
Xah Lee, 2010-03-14
Today, i noticed that someone posted one of my article “Why Emacs is
still so
2010-03-17
On Mar 10, 9:17 am, Ben Morrow wrote:
> Also, flamebait language-comparison xposts involving Lisp are one
> of Xah Lee's trademarks. You might want to look into not imitating
> him/her/it.
being a professional programer today, typically you know more than
just one language. Practical
discovered this rather late.
Google has a AI Challenge: planet wars. http://ai-contest.com/index.php
it started sometimes 2 months ago and ended first this month.
the winner is Gábor Melis, with his code written in lisp.
Congrats lispers!
Gábor wrote a blog about it here
http://quotenil.com/Pl
On Dec 20, 10:06 pm, "Jon Harrop" wrote:
> Wasn't that the "challenge" where they wouldn't even accept solutions
> written in many other languages (including both OCaml and F#)?
Ocaml is one of the supported lang. See:
http://ai-contest.com/starter_packages.php
there are 12 teams using OCaml. S
a opinion piece.
〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html
--
The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs
Xah Lee, 2011-01-03
Worked with Mathematica for a whole day yesterday, after about 10
years hiatus
On Jan 4, 3:17 pm, "ru...@yahoo.com" wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 01:34 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> > On 1/4/2011 1:24 PM, an Arrogant Ignoramus wrote:
>
> > what he called
> >> a opinion piece.
>
> > I normally do not respond to trolls, but while expressing his opinions,
> > AI made statements that are
some extempore thought.
Do you know what is CGI?
Worked with Mathematica for 5 hours yesterday. Fantastic! This old
hand can still do something! lol. My plane curve packages soon to be
out n am gonna be rich.
...gosh what godly hours i've spend on Mathematica in 1990s. Surprised
to find that i e
7;s Point Of View.
〈Avatar and District 9 Movie Review〉
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skina/avatar.html
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Avatar and District 9 Movie Review
Xah Lee, 2010-01-07
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Avatar
Went to watch the movie Avatar (2009 fil
might be interesting.
〈Guy Steele on Parallel Programing〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/Guy_Steele_parallel_computing.html
--
Guy Steele on Parallel Programing
Xah Lee, 2011-02-05
A fascinating talk by the well respected computer scientist Guy
Steele
On Feb 8, 9:32 am, Icarus Sparry wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:54 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote:
> > Xah Lee writes:
>
> >> problem with find xargs is that they spawn grep for each file, which
> >> becomes too slow to be usable.
>
> > find . -maxdepth
On Feb 11, 2:06 am, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:32:05PM +, Icarus
>
> Sparry wrote:
> > The key thing which makes this 'modern' is the
> > '+' at the end of the command, rather than '\;'.
> > This causes find to execute the grep once per
> > group of files,
might be interesting.
〈Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam;
Unicode; Fortress)〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/comp_lang_unicode.html
--
Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam;
Unicode; Fortress)
Xah Lee
On 2011-02-16, Xah Lee wrote:
│ Vast majority of computer languages use ASCII as its character set.
│ This means, it jams multitude of operators into about 20 symbols.
│ Often, a symbol has multiple meanings depending on contex.
On 2011-02-17, rantingrick wrote:
…
On 2011-02-17, Cthun wrote
i think for special purposes
OSes, they have quite a lot ... from Mitsubishi, NEC, etc... in their
huge robotics industry among others. (again, this is all second hand
knowledge)
... i recall having read non-english comp lang that appeared
recently...
Xah Lee
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• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html
plain text version follows
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Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
Xah Lee, 2010-06-24
This page discusses some problems involving the Form feed
On Jun 24, 5:41 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> • Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips
> http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html
a follow up question.
when i was learning python in ~2005, i remember seeing it in python
code, but i haven't done much python since. Does py
On Jun 24, 11:12 am, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
>
> Hi Xah,
>
> > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other
> > lang source code?
>
> It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists. The
> Gnus n
• Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html
plain text version follows.
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Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries
Xah Lee, 2010-06-28
This page collect tales of computer programer
just discovered a blog written by a old lisper Dan Weinreb, refuting
on a story on Lisp Machine companies as told by Richard Stallman.
“Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and
LMI” (2007-11), by Dan Weinreb. At
http://danweinreb.org/blog/rebuttal-to-stallmans-story-about-
• Death of Newsgroups
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html
plain text version follows.
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Death of Newsgroups
Xah Lee, 2010-07-13
Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See:
microsoft.public.windows.powershell
cleaned up and extended my previous post. Sentences and ideas made
more precise and detailed.
• Emacs Idolization: Have You Read the Emacs Manual From Cover to
Cover?
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_manual_cover_to_cover.html
plain text version follows:
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Great article.
〈Lost in Translation〉 (2010-07-23), by By Lera Boroditsky. From The
Wall Street Journal.
“New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences
the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese
and Spanish”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240
some collection of math symbols in unicode.
• Math Symbols in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html
• Arrows in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_arrows.html
• Matching Brackets in Unicode
http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_matching_brackets.html
these are grouped by
hi kenny!
Xah Lee wrote:
> some collection of math symbols in unicode.
> • Math Symbols in Unicode
> http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html
Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> I am surprised you do not include the numeric character codes.
i thought about it, but the page would
On May 25, 10:35 am, LittleGrasshopper wrote:
> With so many choices, I was wondering what editor is the one you
> prefer when coding Python, and why. I normally use vi, and just got
> into Python, so I am looking for suitable syntax files for it, and
> extra utilities. I dabbled with emacs at som
is there a python image library that does pretty much what imagemagick
does?
all i need is for converting png/jpg, and scaling images. No need
other fancy things imagemagick does.
i know there's a python wrapper for imagemagick, but i need
independent ones that doesn't require shell calls. Basica
For those of you interested in the Google tech of syntax coloring
source code in html on the fly using javascript, i've spent few hours
for a evaluation. See:
• Google-code-prettify Examples
http://xahlee.org/js/google-code-prettify/index.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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of recent talks about concurrency, this video interview would be of
interest:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design/
Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele: Concurrency and Language Design
Posted By: Charles | Oct 6th, 2008 @ 6:27 AM | 75,
Dear unixers & lispers,
i've been using Mac for the past 19 years, and been a professional sys
admin or web app developers on the unix platform, since 1998 (maily
Solaris, Apache, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP). In june, i bought a PC (not
for the first time though), and made a switch to Windows, for the
f
Xah Lee wrote:
> • Switching from Mac/Unix To PC/Windows
> http://xahlee.org/mswin/switch_to_windows.html
Kenneth Tilton wrote:
> You just discovered PCs are cheaper?
>
> The funny thing is that that is Microsoft's answer to the Apple Mac-PC
> ads, they show people sho
a fried showed me this today:
http://xahlee.org/funny/Microsoft_eula.html
not sure which site originally reported it.
Xah
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PHP is popular because it is geared for the server-side web scripting
lang, and simpler and easy to use, than popular free alternatives at
the time (such as Perl and Java's JSP).
Python became popular primarily because its ease-to-read syntax.
Btween the two, PHP is much easier to use, and much a
google used to have a sitemap generator written in python, at:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html
but the url is gone. It seems the current version is moved here:
http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/
and is written in JavaScript.
is the old python
The prob with python docs is with the python priests.
there are frequent posts about python doc's poor quality, and some
efforts to improve the doc (such as wiki or seggestions), about few
times a year (in so much as i've seen), the typical response is
pissing fight, with python priests to tell th
• A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_whitespace-mode_problems.html
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A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
Xah
Fresh out of the oven:
• How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode
http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html
Xah
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On Aug 13, 6:36 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResour
Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.
http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/mathml/mathml_abstract.html
this article should teach the coding sophomorons and computer
“science” idiotic authors who harbor the notion that syntax is not
important, picked up by all the el
now valid
html. Good riddence of the fucking TeX. Also, code examples have
syntax coloring on.
Xah
â http://xahlee.org/
â
On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Xah Lee]
>
> > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this
> > is prob
e_dir/writ/lang_purity_cult_deception.html
Xah
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On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
> > in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup
> > the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility
> > when c
gh. I was expecting he'd go
into some details about the science of math notations, or, as he put
it aptly: “linguistics of math notations”. However, he didn't touch
the subject, except saying that it haven't been studied.
Xah
On Aug 15, 10:54 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Xah's E
On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Xah Lee]
>
> > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this
> > is probably more than 2 months full-time work. See:
>
> > ⢠Python Documentation Problems
> > http://xahlee.org/p
info format for Xah Lee writes:
> in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup
> the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility
> when coding in perl, python, php?
On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote:
> Yes, try C-h S (or similarly S):
2009-08-17
On Aug 16, 10:32 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> Personally, particular interesting info i've learned is that, for all
> my trouble in the past decade expressing problems of traditional math
> notation, i learned from his article this single-phrase summary:
> “traditional math
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