Getting a bunch of dot underscore cruft in your tarballs?
export COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true
see comment by David Olinsky here
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Python First
"But there is emerging consensus in the scripting community that Python is the right choice for freshman programming. Ruby would also be a defensible choice. Python and Ruby have the enviable properties that almost no one dislikes them, and almost everyone respects them. Both languages support a wide variety of programming styles and paradigms and satisfy practitioners and theoreticians equally. Both languages are carefully enough designed that 'correct' programming practices can be demonstrated and high standards of code quality can be enforced. The fact that Google stands by Python is an added motivation for undergraduate majors." -Ronald Loui
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Reproducibility blog
John Cook has started a blog on reproducibility in science. H/T Greg Wilson.
Salient comment: "Your result is not reproducible if you can reproduce it. Your result is reproducible if someone else can reproduce it."
Salient comment: "Your result is not reproducible if you can reproduce it. Your result is reproducible if someone else can reproduce it."
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
J Wants a Mac (Vista flame)
MUD transcript:
J wants another Mac.
J bought a cheap laptop to last while he's living in corporate storage, it's VISTA! Holy crap, I have the absolute lowest expectations possible about Windows, well desrved from experience, and somehow Vista blows away every shred of quality or clear thinking. It's truly a self-caricature. Every time you run a program it asks you if you want to run it. Later it'll ask about getting more permissions to contniue to run! Programs will die, and then another program runs to "try to figure out why" the first crashed. It's truly the most pathetic computing experience I've ever had. OH! And the network on the Vista box already hung once. I was appalled. I was restoring a backup from a PII-233MHz to this brand-new box and the best it could do was about 140KB/sec and then it hung.... My G4 Mac had no problem doing 4-6MB/sec to/from the Pentium2.
J says, "And here's another absurdity: Vista is 32bit so it can't see all the memory I bought. M$ spent millions crippling a 64 bit OS."
J says, "However, the laptop is great: 17", dual 2Gz Opteron, 4 USB, 1 FW, crappy graphics card, but here was the deal cincher: Two internal drive bays! This box will become the new R***.com server. I'm sure Linux will run 1000x better on this box than Vista."
mt says, "Yes but Microsoft got the license fee anyway"
J wants another Mac.
J bought a cheap laptop to last while he's living in corporate storage, it's VISTA! Holy crap, I have the absolute lowest expectations possible about Windows, well desrved from experience, and somehow Vista blows away every shred of quality or clear thinking. It's truly a self-caricature. Every time you run a program it asks you if you want to run it. Later it'll ask about getting more permissions to contniue to run! Programs will die, and then another program runs to "try to figure out why" the first crashed. It's truly the most pathetic computing experience I've ever had. OH! And the network on the Vista box already hung once. I was appalled. I was restoring a backup from a PII-233MHz to this brand-new box and the best it could do was about 140KB/sec and then it hung.... My G4 Mac had no problem doing 4-6MB/sec to/from the Pentium2.
J says, "And here's another absurdity: Vista is 32bit so it can't see all the memory I bought. M$ spent millions crippling a 64 bit OS."
J says, "However, the laptop is great: 17", dual 2Gz Opteron, 4 USB, 1 FW, crappy graphics card, but here was the deal cincher: Two internal drive bays! This box will become the new R***.com server. I'm sure Linux will run 1000x better on this box than Vista."
mt says, "Yes but Microsoft got the license fee anyway"
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