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18 hours ago
in Gemsta Viva crams a typical notebook into a Sony Vaio P-style case on Liliputing
*Sigh* at least Sony had the good sense to not try to put a touchpad on their machine. It makes no sense to put one on a laptop smaller than about 13". Why hasn't anybody else put a pointing stick on a netbook yet?
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1 month ago
in A short list of things I don’t like about Python on jessenoller.com comments
What I find funny is that Perl is supposed to be this crusty old arcane language with a sorta suboptimal markup format (POD), and yet the Perl docs are some of the best I've seen *anywhere*.
How can it be that Python -- a much simpler language, and with a more complete doc system (previously LaTeX, now reST) -- still cannot compete with Perl when it comes to docs?
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How can it be that Python -- a much simpler language, and with a more complete doc system (previously LaTeX, now reST) -- still cannot compete with Perl when it comes to docs?
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jnoller
I'd argue that it's partially age: Perl has been around forever, and additionally the complexity of Perl makes it a fundamental requirement that the docs be as vast as humanly possible. But I don't want to get in a language war; I'd rather focus on what the python community can improve.
See, there's an argument which actually stand up fairly well - because python is so simple, and clean, there's a low barrier to simply cracking open the source and learning how things work. I know that once I exhausted the documentation, and the books I learned it from, I immediately started pulling apart the source code to learn.
Even given that; the docs need to be improved: Trolling through source code is not something people who are learning are typically going to do until they hit a certain pain point or plateau, therefore we have to improve.
See, there's an argument which actually stand up fairly well - because python is so simple, and clean, there's a low barrier to simply cracking open the source and learning how things work. I know that once I exhausted the documentation, and the books I learned it from, I immediately started pulling apart the source code to learn.
Even given that; the docs need to be improved: Trolling through source code is not something people who are learning are typically going to do until they hit a certain pain point or plateau, therefore we have to improve.
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The answer is simple:
Perl's syntax was designed so that people forget it after some time not writing in it.
Thus, you must relearn from the beginning, and improve the documentation (because you must understand it again).
That is why they have good documentation.
PHP has good documentation too. Good documentation however is not a requirement to have a good LANGUAGE.
Perl's syntax was designed so that people forget it after some time not writing in it.
Thus, you must relearn from the beginning, and improve the documentation (because you must understand it again).
That is why they have good documentation.
PHP has good documentation too. Good documentation however is not a requirement to have a good LANGUAGE.
2 months ago
in NVIDIA ION powered netbooks with better graphics on their way? on Liliputing
I'm not entirely convinced that chipset upgrades will make a lot of difference without improving the CPU.
Ever since the introduction of the Pentium M Intel has been able to charge ridiculous prices for processors with SpeedStep and low voltage, rivaling the cost of the highest performance CPUs even when they were single-core and clocked extremely low; Atom has had success despite its lackluster performance largely because Intel and other manufacturers previously left the inexpensive low-voltage market niche untouched. I'd hoped that demand and competition from Via's Nano and from AMD would force Intel to provide something substantially better in this market, perhaps by unlocking Speedstep on its low-voltage Celerons (the Celerons are about a third the cost of the Core 2 processors and SpeedStep is the biggest difference for the netbook/ultraportable space). Perhaps the CULV will be a step forward; it remains to be seen what kinds of prices those will go for.
I wonder whether CULV+GF 9400M models will come out quickly and what kind of prices they'll go for. GMA 4500 in some form + CULV won't be bad anyway (except for opengl, the 4500 is almost half as good as the GF 9400).
Ever since the introduction of the Pentium M Intel has been able to charge ridiculous prices for processors with SpeedStep and low voltage, rivaling the cost of the highest performance CPUs even when they were single-core and clocked extremely low; Atom has had success despite its lackluster performance largely because Intel and other manufacturers previously left the inexpensive low-voltage market niche untouched. I'd hoped that demand and competition from Via's Nano and from AMD would force Intel to provide something substantially better in this market, perhaps by unlocking Speedstep on its low-voltage Celerons (the Celerons are about a third the cost of the Core 2 processors and SpeedStep is the biggest difference for the netbook/ultraportable space). Perhaps the CULV will be a step forward; it remains to be seen what kinds of prices those will go for.
I wonder whether CULV+GF 9400M models will come out quickly and what kind of prices they'll go for. GMA 4500 in some form + CULV won't be bad anyway (except for opengl, the 4500 is almost half as good as the GF 9400).
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oddone
I honestly think people are living in a dream world if they think they're suddenly going to become media mavens or megagamers with this one chipset improvement.
It helps you watch your HD content(hopefully on an HDMI out port), and do some *light* gaming. Anything more and I think people are missing the point of just what these little devices are.
It helps you watch your HD content(hopefully on an HDMI out port), and do some *light* gaming. Anything more and I think people are missing the point of just what these little devices are.
2 months ago
in http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/welcome.html on Ruby Best Practices Blog
You might want to fix the stylesheet for IE.
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sandal
If you know specifically what's wrong, please fork and submit a pull request:
http://github.com/sandal/rbp-blog
I don't have IE installed, and Lakshan did the styling so um... patches welcome :)
http://github.com/sandal/rbp-blog
I don't have IE installed, and Lakshan did the styling so um... patches welcome :)
11 months ago
in Not sat on our hands... on iPhone-dev blog
I wonder if you can get your comment count over 9000
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I know not all agree, but I too would like to see the suggested pointing stick, and at the top right of the keyboard (though I am biased, being right-handed) for best ergonomics. Thumb operated, with a second set of buttons underneath the unit where the index and second fingers would rest when comfortably hand-held. Apart from ambidextrous compatibility, the middle of unit (even towards the front) is about the worst place to have a trackpad or whatever. I don't keep my mouse there on my desktop, so why on a laptop or netbook?!
Otherwise, for all its ordinariness, this netbook actually ticks many of the right boxes that others ignore - SSD, small size, fair battery for its size, good connectivity (only 2 USBs doesn't matter when it's as well connected as it already is).