what possible programer idiot posts comment like this? I know! Majority of professional programers are like that. Professional programer means anyone who makes a living by coding. Unfortunately, to the tech geekers we see slaving in {Emacs, Perl, Python, Lisp, …} newsgroups and {hackernews, reddit/prog, slashdot, …} forums, they don't know this fact, and they sing their songs in their batcave about what emacs/software/language/interface should be. When you turn the mirror around, you can see that they, are just idiots of a different color.

2012-03-22

Computer Keyboard: Function Keys as Rubber Buttons

you know how some keyboard have button-style function keys? Look at this pic:

Imagine typing on this keyboard. Here's another one:

bad function keys-2 — Worst example of function keys. ① Continuous row, no group-gap. ② hard-to-press cheap buttons.

Moral: don't buy keyboard that has the {F1, …, F12} keys in non-standard shape or form. The worst offender here is the Kinesis Contoured Keyboard.

2012-03-21

Articles on Closure

Several articles on closure, updated:

2012-03-21

Why's Python a Anti Functional Programing Language?

Python is a anti-functional-programing language. If your coding habit is functional programing style, you'll encounter many problems that makes your life a pain. It is worse than Perl in this aspect. Here's some concrete examples:

2012-03-20

Discovered special Unicode chars for Centimeter. See: Semantics ＆ Symbols: Examples of Unicode Symbols Usage.

2012-03-20

F�� Python. Hello Ruby

2012-03-19

Keyboards with Numeric Keypad Sawed Off

2012-03-19

Tip for Parallel Programing: Always Use Map When Possible

always use “map” whenever possible. Use loops (⁖ “for”, “while”, “do”) only if absolutely necessary (i.e. when you actually need to work on the items one by one in order.)

See: Guy Steele on Parallel Programing: Get rid of cons!

2012-03-18

More keyboard porn: Keyboards without Number Pad.

2012-03-17

Update at bottom: Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl ＆ Python.

2012-03-16

Few days ago i wrote Python: a Technique to Append String in a Loop. Someone wrote a more extensive test. See:

Python Strings Accumulation Techniques 2012-03-14 By Magnun. @ www.mindbending.org…

2012-03-16

I'm a Idiot: How to Copy a Nested List in Python?

2012-03-14

What's true and false in Perl ＆ Python: Perl ＆ Python: True and False

2012-03-14

Python: a Technique to Append String in a Loop

2012-03-14

Python: What's the Difference Between Tuple and List?

2012-03-13

Tablet Computer Issues and Touch-Screen Interface Pros and Cons

2012-03-13

Update: Unicode Font Comparison: Arial Unicode MS vs DejaVu Sans

2012-03-12

Python Logo Latte Art

2012-03-11

Paul Graham Keynote at PyCon 📺

2012-03-09

Programing: Are int, float, long, double, Side-Effects of Computer Engineering?

2012-03-08

What is Closure in a Programing Language?

2012-03-06

Updated: Parallel Programing Problem: asciify-string

2012-03-02

Programing: What's a “Online Algorithm”?

In computer science, an online algorithm is one that can process its input piece-by-piece in a serial fashion, i.e., in the order that the input is fed to the algorithm, without having the entire input available from the start. In contrast, an offline algorithm is given the whole problem data from the beginning and is required to output an answer which solves the problem at hand. (For example, selection sort requires that the entire list be given before it can sort it, while insertion sort doesn't.)

Online algorithm

2012-03-04

Programing: LISP is Not Functional!

2012-03-02

Steve Yegge on Dynamic Languages

2012-03-02

Programing Language Design and Language Idioms: Why Idioms Are Bad