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There is something really wrong with modern programmers. Very wrong indeed. Mailinator creator Paul Tyma has a great blog post on how he compresses our email by 90%. He has a simple LRU cache of lines and consecutive lines from emails, so emails become a list of line string pointers where most are shared. He also has a background thread doing rather stronger LZMA compression on large emails. He’s winning.
Cogs Bad - William Edwards, Coder
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When developers shift from PHP, Ruby or any other platform to Python, the very first road block they face (most often) is a lack of an overall understanding of the Python ecosystem. Developers often yearn for a tutorial or resource that explains how to accomplish most tasks in a more or less standard way. Convore.com is latest entry in the realm of web based chat systems. While there are many others(Campfire, StackOverflow Chat, TinyChat etc.), Convore really is the first chat service that hits the sweet spot between IRC and web based chat service. February 07, 2011 09:54 PM I have been using vim since I started using Linux, yet I never really used it until I took the dive about 6 months ago.
James Tauber
I have been developing open source software and working with web technologies since 1993 and have been using Python since 1998. For the last five years, I have been working with Django . I am the creator and lead developer of Pinax . When not working with software startups, websites and open source software, I’m an aspiring filmmaker , composer and music theorist , mathematician and linguist . I am currently on leave from a PhD in linguistics at the University of Essex where I was researching the inflectional morphology of Ancient Greek .
My previous post asked this question: Start a knight at a corner square of an otherwise-empty chessboard. Move the knight at random by choosing uniformly from the legal knight-moves at each step. What is the mean number of moves until the knight returns to the starting square? There is a mathematical solution that is a little arcane, but short and exact.
The Endeavour
Built from an old laptop, sk7ca ‘s portable electronics lab is quite impressive. It contains a generous breadboard area, an LCD display, a keypad, various inputs, outputs, sensors , gizmos and the now ubiquitous Arduino . What the video for a guided tour.
Digital Fanatics
C'est bien beau d'en parler à plusieurs reprises, mais tant qu'on n'a pas testé, il est difficile de critiquer. Depuis 3 10 jours (dur de trouver du temps pour bloguer en ce moment...), je travaille avec ... Je comptais faire un premier billet listant les différentes étapes de la refonte mais je me suis finalement ravisé, je n'aime pas spoiler les bonnes séries ;-). Tout ce que je peux vous dire c'est qu'il y aura ... L'une des galère tâche quotidienne d'un bio-informaticien s'intéressant un tant soit peu à la biologie structurale et à la position d'une protéine dans l'espace est de parser des fichiers PDB. C'est fichiers, issus de ...
Biologeek
For this first post in a long, long time, why not explain another weird problem I had with the iMac ? Yay, let’s. During the past two weeks or so, the iMac began behaving strangely. The problems were mostly with the graphics, but after a while the system would slow down to a crawl and a reboot was needed. The problem manifested itself through the appearance of visual artefacts: mostly bits and pieces of the interface trailing behind actual windows or menus, but also horizontal lines in Safari or the Finder, or in the worst case entire parts of windows obscured by colored blocks. Once, I exited Firefox but its window stayed on-screen like nothing happened – I had to “erase” the window myself by using a Finder window as some kind of screen wiper.
Bloody Fingers
Bonjour ami lecteur. Je vais te conter mon histoire, en me disant que tu es peut-être toi aussi passé par là, et que cette expérience t'enrichira. pip et PyPI . Si tu ne connais pas pip , l'outil à utiliser pour installer des paquets python, honte à toi, arrête de lire immédiatement et documente toi à ce sujet. Oui, maintenant.