April 2010
6 posts
Best sentence involving Paris Hilton ever
Thus, e.g. if Paris Hilton knows that Paris Hilton is Paris Hilton, then she must also know that every nontrivial zero of the zeta-function has real part 1/2, if that is indeed the case, or else she must know that this is not the case, if indeed it is not.
The abstract for Hyperintensional Questions, authored by Carl Pollard, a professor at my alma mater
RE: SEC proposal to require asset backed...
Ben Larrimer: i just don't know enough to assume that python doesn't have some amazingly important reason for using
Ted Han: your opinion would be interesting as a lawyer :)
Ted Han: it doesn't
Ted Han: i think what they're going for with Python
Ted Han: is that they want something that is Open Source (so anybody can download the tools needed to run the code)
Ted Han: and that is interpreted code, so that the code has to be transmitted across the wire, and inspected
Ted Han: as opposed to compiled code
Ted Han: which is in an opaque binary format, and not portable from platform to platform
Ted Han: python is a fairly human readable programming language.
Ted Han: there are problems and pitfalls which i need to see if this proposal addresses
Ted Han: things like what happens when programming langauges change/update
Ted Han: what about embedded code? You can write compiled C code and stick it inside of a python program
Ted Han: and it'll run on the python interpreter, but you won't be able to inspect the C code.
Ben Larrimer: honestly.... i think it depends upon the court
Ted Han: exactly :P
Ted Han: and i don't trust the courts on tech matters
Ted Han: i really really don't
Ted Han: they've screwed the tech community too many times
Ben Larrimer: you shouldn't. the way even liberal courts have shackled technology isn't shameful, its just stupid
Ted Han: yeah
Indexes and auto migration in DataMapper
< snusnu> JamesHarrison, knowtheory: you *can* specfiy indexes
yeah
you can go: property :name, String, :index => true
that'll create an index for just that property
you can also go: property :name, String, :index => :something
< snusnu> JamesHarrison: :index => true or :unique_index => true, or :unique_index => :some_index_name (for compound indices)
where :something is a label that multiple properties share
Formative Experiences: Intro to Chapter 5 of Larry...
Reading Larry Wall’s Programming Perl book was a formative experience for me in a variety of ways. Discovering that writing about programming could be funny was amazing. But more importantly, that writing about programming could be fundamentally insightful while being funny was the true delight. The introduction to Chapter 5 on “Packages, Modules and Object Classes” is the...
Datamapper paranoid delete quirks - Hez's Bloggity... →
I’d never bothered learning about how DataMapper does paranoid properties and how to work w/ paranoid models. Out of a discussion today in #datamapper on freenode, i learned how! I suggested to Hez, who was the impetus for the discussion, that he write up what we learned, and he did! Check it out at the link.