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This isn't Scala. In python list comprehensions are single threaded and have a very specific meaning (i.e., their computation order is deterministic). The pattern for working with parallel maps etc are done with separate map functions (see concurrent.futures.Executor.map).

Oh, sorry I missed that!

Since ?= looks so familiar, any chance of an elvis or defined-or operator in coffeescript?

    if a? then a else 0

becomes either

    a ?: 0  (if you like groovy)

or

    a // 0 (if you like perl)

I guess the question is whether or not you're using a powerful window manager or not. Most window managers in linux support easy always-on-top and layers, so the multi-window UI really shines.

Of course, you're using a package from CPAN. This article mentioned envoy from pypi but refutes it as being "not part of the standard library". The two good solutions he mentions (communicate and envoy) he dismisses for what seem silly or non-reasons to me. (an ill-defined "clumsy" and "not part of the stdlib").

In flask, the app.route decorator mutates the app object. There are no globals necessary. Use of globals to maintain state is an orthogonal issue to use of decorators to update registries.

The decorator can do anything. In flask the decorator syntax is just shorthand for adding the route to a registry which is looked up every request.

The source code is pitifully small: https://bitbucket.org/mitsuhiko/flask/src/4d82231621fc/flask...

I believe perl fixed this issue years ago (and this recent wave of discovery was based on a paper which was sent to perl maintainers long ago). Ruby fixed this issue in 1.9 before it was a big deal. I am not aware if Ruby 1.8 has backported a fix yet.

1: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec...

> I mean, do we really think Google will be able to pull off a context-aware "hmmm" as a vocal trigger signifying desired interaction with a pop-up alert?

We have no idea what they have currently built, but from an article a few weeks ago it seems that they integrate with gestures, not audio cues. It's entirely reasponable that the head nodding you saw when he said "hmmm" was what caused the popup.

This looks cool! Any chance of releasing this under a license?

He's making a graph library, not a chart library...

I think you've just described cython. A higher-than-c level language that trivially binds to the higher target language.

Websockets is designed to work over all of the existing HTTP proxy systems that currently exist. Could you imagine a system that's backwards incompatible with the world wide web? In many institutions (schools, workplaces), internet access is filtered through a proxy server.

You can also use a real distributed queue or zeromq. The problem is that it's easy to do all of the websocket notification in on process, and a lot of examples people follow (e.g. node.js) seem to assume there's one process to manage everything.

What happens if I type:

    $("blah").wTooltip(new String("color"));

In my recent jquery plugin I considered doing a typeof check myself but decided against it since it was too brittle. I instead checked to see if the options was === what I expected it to be first.

My understanding is that go still provides a lot of tools to indicate when you want memory allocated and where the memory will go (which can optionally be left out). If these were used, wouldn't that make it easier for the go gc to perform better?

Huh? As long as you have XHR and JS, you can do file upload progress bars. Gmail has been doing it for years, and I've certainly had implementations going back to 2007.

Now, if the upload is failed for whatever reason (i.e. the file is rejected in-progress), then the upload failure mode is terrible unless you resort to the usual iframe hackery (Connection Reset screen).

HTML5 XHR file upload is certainly a cleaner solution and something everybody has wanted, but it's certainly not needed for progress and status reported in-page without flash.

Really? Most teachers I had would put WW (wrong word) or WC (word choice) to imply that the word is incorrect, which is considered grammatical.

When studying vocab, some words stick out as words you'll never see, and because of that you may fixate on that single word. For me it's eleemosynary. Still haven't seen it used. Once.

You can always fp.seek(0) and iterate again. Iteration and file openness are separate concepts, and any API worth its salt (e.g. the python file api) keeps it that way.

I have to indicate this in the docs, but the most prevalent use for this module would probably be rangesets on the space of dates. For this, python's datetime objects Just Work. And all operations returning the size/measure will just return a timedelta object.

http://nissan.com - http://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

This is with Nicad batteries. DO NOT attempt to zap a lithium ion battery unless you have a blast shield etc.

To be fair, there's a big difference in constraint between $200 and $25...

In my experience (I've opted-out 6 times now in the past 1.5 years), they let you take your baggage with you to the pat down area, and you never have to lose eye contact.

Actually, http://citi.com redirects to citibank.com for me.

What prevents you from using firefox or opera?

Can the title change APPL to either Apple or AAPL? I honestly didn't know what company the article was talking about until I clicked.

I don't know their official reason, but they seem to have a lot of in-house knowledge of mysql internals [1].

1: http://code.google.com/p/google-mysql-tools/

They claim that it's not what others are doing, but coffeescript is doing it, and it's quite possible that ECMAScript will get it in the future.