Xah Programing Blog Archive 2019-02
Microsoft ditched sha1. What's the git's situation?
answer:
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/technical/hash-function-transition.txt
confused by sha-1, cryptography hash function? see Public-Key Cryptography for Beginner
old article
Python 2 and Python 3 Difference
Python 3 Adoption added more articles.
fuck python. fuck easy_install pip mess. fuck python2 python3. fuck passive aggressive semi-formal i-know-comp-sci Guido. Fuck python comp sci Я us inflexible priests tower community fuck.
Here's collection rants i've written. They go way back to 2006. Why Python Sucks
Python: What's PyPi, pip, easy_install, setuptools?
djsumdog @djsumdog@hitchhiker.social 2019-02-18 wrote:
@xahlee Never use
sudo pip
orsudo easy_install
. I don't know why it's in all the manuals. Always use:pip install --user
← that USER is super important. You should never let pip or cargo or any other language manager ever touch your system packages. gem also has agem install --user
which you should use to. You can always wipe/reset your home directory. The system is much more difficult.this is a new python distro, suggested to me https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
old stuff. temp here.
Python Surpassed Perl In Popularity
- The X-Windows Disaster
- “Buffer Overflow” Security Problems
- On Unix File System's Case Sensitivity
- Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad
- UNIX Philosophy, Fast Food the UNIX way
- “Free” Software Morality, Richard Stallman, Paperwork Bureaucracy
- Mathematica 7 Released
- Richard Stallman's Abuse of the Word “Freedom”
- Death of Newsgroups
- comp.lang.lisp is 95% Spam
- Programer Celebrities; Styles and Tack
- Computer Languages
- The Unix Pestilence
- FSF Free Software, Open Source, and Communism
- Purpose of Logo and Principle of Logo Design
- Mac OS X Misc Command Line Tips
- Mac OS X “.dmg” File and Command Line Tutorial
- Programing: GNU Make (gmake) Tutorial
- Voodoos of Software Engineering
- Unicode Book, CJKV Info Processing, by Ken Lunde
- China Python Dragon Logo 蛇变龙
- rsync Windows to unix File Permissions
Linux: wget (Download Web Page) (updated)
Lisp Needs a Logo (old article. checked links.)
Python: Script to Find Replace Plain Text (No Regex) in a Directory
full featured find/replace code in python.
and much other update on unicode pages. Removed screenshot from each page, because that doesn't seem to be what people want.
Linux: diff, Compare Files (minor update)
updated.
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Unicode: Hand Gestures 👍 added screenshots
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Ugliness of Software Tech (repost)
URL Percent Encoding and Unicode (major update.)
new nav box.
Python: GET Webpage Content (minor update)
Computer Network Tutorial (new nav box)
Why Python Doc Sucks (new nav box)
new nav box.
File Sharing How To
new nav box. some are still pending review.
Python Syntax Problem: Comment and Backslash (repost)
Pretty Girl on AlphaZero Chess
watch this girl Anna Rudolf, explains chess of AlphaZero. There exist such amazing and beautiful people in this world.