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Re: SIGUSR2 > Python Worlds

apgwoz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:45:20 -0000

I think deep down I want Python to be as flexible as my favorite language Scheme, and unfortunately it isn't. However, the with-statement actually has some interesting, DSL-like properties with it, which is the reason it gets exploited the way it does. It's definitely the reason *I* try to exploit it.

Unfortunately for with-hackers, the sad reality is that Guido and the Gang probably aren't ever going to give us more bendability in the language, which means that with-hacking maybe our only chance to create it.

Of course I'd welcome any sort of new constructs that can be bent, but I'd rather have TCO, or multi-line lambdas instead.

Re: SIGUSR2 > Python Worlds

apgwoz — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:23:39 -0000

I certainly thought about using deepcopy for this, but ultimately went for simplicity. I think I'll explore your solution a bit, since I think there are some valid usability things in it. Thanks for the ideas!

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Case of the Unusable Reusable

apgwoz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:06:50 -0000

Interesting! If I had known about this I may never have built my own. What you have is much more complete, but I've gotta be honest, I'm not a fan of the template tag approach in this case. Creative solution though for sure!

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:15:53 -0000

You might wanna take a look at Python. It's a great language for beginners and professionals alike! Easy to learn, and fun to use! As for editors, you don't need anything complex to learn, so just choose what's right for you for now. Eventually, you might wanna try out emacs since there are lots of features that make it great for programmers, some of which I've outlined above. Good luck!

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Hacker Utility Belt: SSH

apgwoz — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:19:17 -0000

This is the route I prefer. In general, the protection I'm looking for is protection against common session hijacking over HTTP, and POSTs over HTTP which might contain some information. When checking my email, it's over SSL, so I'm not concerned there. @johnw I will have a look at openVPN though, thanks.

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:14:38 -0000

I would mark this as spam, but it's the way many people feel, so I won't. The purpose of this post was to not be a flame war, and give the reason that I myself, choose Emacs. If you feel so strongly about VIM, write your own post about why you choose VIM, but do everyone on the Internet a favor and don't start another flame war. We're tired of this battle that can never be won (by either side) of "emacs" v. "vi(m)." The editor war is over, we've all won!

I propose a new law of Internet conversation: "Any conversation about text editors eventually diverges into a flame war between emacs and vi(m)."

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:28:53 -0000

I haven't used jEdit. I will point out that elisp is major factor for most people. There are two projects that I'm familiar with that are an attempt to rectify this:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PyMacs, for extending emacs through Python. This works, but I haven't tried it.

http://code.google.com/p/ejacs/, which Steve Yegge originally wrote for extending emacs through Javascript. I'm not sure the status of this.

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:40:00 -0000

Yup, I did mean that. I'll make the fix.

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:59:25 -0000

Thanks steve! I knew there must have been a good explanation for it.

Re: SIGUSR2 > The Power That is GNU Emacs

apgwoz — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:58:34 -0000

hmm.. i'll have to investigate this further. Not really sure what this gets except for the ability to zip up everything in .emacs.d when I need to move it. That's not a deal breaker for me though.

Re: Twitter: Please Charge me for Biz Tweets instead of Suspending my Account!

apgwoz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:11:13 -0000

So @replies are now spam? I hope you don't reply to this message, or I'll report it as such.

Re: The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers

apgwoz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:49:39 -0000

But, Twitter still doesnt' have a business model, so providing major players with another media outlet might not be such a bad idea....

Re: The Newest Way To Game Twitter - Fake Followers

apgwoz — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:45:12 -0000

But, on the other hand, Twitter needs a business model, and if they can build a business by giving major players another media outlet, why wouldn't they take advantage of it?

Re: Emacs and Jabber: Happy Together

apgwoz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:04:04 -0000

Hmm.. I'll have to take a look.

Re: Emacs and Jabber: Happy Together

apgwoz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:41:41 -0000

While I love the idea of using network services in Emacs, it's non-multithreaded behavior sometimes makes it's extremely painful to do so. Just using modes that do GET's (say, twit.el) locks me up for periods of time. I guess if Twitter was more stable, it might be less an issue, but Twitter is more stable than it used to be, and it's still an issue.

Re: 24.5 Reasons to Spend $8000 | Photub

apgwoz — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:21:07 -0000

Oh, I didn't mean it wasn't worth it. I think maybe I'm jealous that I don't have $8,000 to spend. But, then again, it's way too much camera for me anyway. Let the Pros have it.

Re: NYC Marathon from a Runner's Point of View | Photub

apgwoz — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:48:02 -0000

The link to the images is in the post.

Re: Game Changing? | Photub

apgwoz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:04:02 -0000

Actually, the D700 doesn't support any sort of video capture. To my knowledge, the D90 is the only camera in Nikon's line that does, which was really the point of this post (video capture on SLRs). Yes, the Canon 5d Mk II is a much higher end camera, and should not be compared to the D90 in a general case, but I compared only for the reason of motion capture--not stills.

Re: Game Changing? | Photub

apgwoz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:58:23 -0000

What he meant is for some people, shooting stills won't make sense. Many newspapers for instance will certainly fall into this. High speed shooters definitely will...

Re: No longer posting all-time highs/lows to the blog

apgwoz — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:43:40 -0000

A new iPhone interface for uglychart? Amazing!

Re: Charting for the iPhone?

apgwoz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:23:07 -0000

Sounds like uncharted (yes, pun intended) territory for potential appstore income. Maybe you should buy a mac mini and spend the little extra time you have learning to write iPhone apps.

Re: The Phase Concept

apgwoz — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:57:35 -0000

How are you representing environments? I would think you could do closures easily enough with "anonymous" classes (by "anonymous" I mean, classes with funky names instantiated once), which have access to callers environment. This would be simple if you used nested arrays.

It may not be the cleanest method, but hey, you're abstracting the low-level junk anyway. It's a compiler after all.

Re: The ATS and I going out to get lunch

apgwoz — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:41:20 -0000

Umm... I know that robot, and it's not your ATS! Congrats anyway though

Re: Strobist DVDs | Photub

apgwoz — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:25:15 -0000

He just posted about it today, so it is definitely recent. Hope you enjoy them!

Re: Stuff

apgwoz — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:05:42 -0000

I can't help but wonder if this is an abstract way of asking people to look at what their startup is making and ask, "Am I going to wear this all the time?"

Of course it could go the other way too. You could be asking companies to ask the same thing. Perhaps it'll save things like Dodgeball in the future.