Re: how to write a tutorial

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Xah Lee wrote:
> 
> i've started to read python tutorial recently.
> http://python.org/doc/2.3.4/tut/tut.html
> 
> Here are some quick critique:

This has absolutely nothing to do with c.l.c, nor most of the
cross-posted groups.  F'ups set.  Why did you do such a foul
cross-posting in the first place.

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Re: how to write a tutorial

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Xah Lee wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> the first paragraph of 9.1 "A Word About Terminology" is epitome
> of masturbation. The entire 9.1 is not necessary.
> 
> Large part of 9.2 "Python Scopes and Name Spaces" is again
> masturbatory.

PLONK for excessive OT crossposting and trolling.

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Re: what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

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jacob navia wrote:
> 
> Good post.
> 
> First article that demistifies this OO centered approach
> in quite a long time.
> 
> This approach has its strength, but also has it weakness,
> it is not the solution for every problem appearing in
> data processing.

Xah Lee is a known troll, who likes to crosspost to many OT groups
and stir up the ants.  F'ups set.

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Re: What is Expresiveness in a Computer Language?

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Paul Bilnoski wrote:
> 
>> The barbar generals will just grunt while the French generals
>> will inspire with some poetic invocation.
> 
> For auction:
> One authentic French army-issued rifle.  Only dropped once.

What has that got to do with the king of the elephants?

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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In comp.lang.perl.misc Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The other class of jargon stupidity is from computing practitioners,
>> of which the Unix/Perl community is exemplary. For example, the name
>> Unix & Perl themselves are good examples of buzzing jargons. Unix is
>> supposed to be opposed of Multics and hints on the offensive and
>> tasteless term eunuchs.
> 
> Now that connexion is a product of a truely warped mind.

If you really must feed the troll, please at least set follow-ups
to cut things back.

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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

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Mike Schilling wrote:
> "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> "Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> "l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
 Xah Lee wrote:

> (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995),

 I think e-mail should be text only.  I have both my email and
 news readers set to display in plain text only.  It prevents
 the marketeers and spammers from obtaining feedback that my
 email address is valid.  A surprising amount of information
 can be obtained from your computer by allowing HTML and all
 of it's baggage when executing on your computer. Phishing
 comes to my mind first and it works because people click the
 link without looking to see where the link really takes them.
>>>
>>> A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail
>>> and Usenet posts.
>>
>> Used to be people who wanted to send formatted text via email
>> would use rich text. It never really caught on. But given that
>> most of the people sending around formatted text are using
>> point-n-click GUIs to create the stuff, the main advantage of
>> HTML - that it's easy to write by hand - isn't needed.
> 
> But the other advantage, that it's an existing and popular
> standard, remains.

However, for both e-mail and news, it is totally useless.  It also
interferes with the use of AsciiArt, while opening the recipient to
the dangers above.

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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

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Chris Head wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> Why can't we use the Web for what it was meant for: viewing
> hypertext pages? Why must we turn it into a wrapper around every
> application imaginable?

Because the Lord High PoohBah (Bill) has so decreed.  He has
replaced General bullMoose.

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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

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Gordon Burditt wrote:
> 
>> HTML is designed to degrade gracefully (never mind that most web
>> authors and many browser developers don't seem to comprehend this),
>> so you don't really need a "subset" html to get the safety features
>> you want. All you need to do is disable the appropriate features in
>> the HTML renderer in your news and mail readers. JavaScript, Java,
>> and any form of object embedding. Oh yeah, and frames.
> 
> And links.  And cookies.  And any kind of external site or local
> file access.  And browser history.

What is the risk with browser history?

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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
... snip ...
>
> Same applies to most newsfeeds, depending on retention.  If you
> want to look a long way back in a thread, use Google Groups.

Except for those anti-social zealots who use an X-noarchive header.

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Re: Python docs [was: function with a state]

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Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
>> The Python doc is relatively lousy, from content organization to
>> the tech writing quality.
>>
>> I think i'll just post snippets of my comments as i find them.
>> (and feel like exposing)
> 
> The cross-posting idiot is back.  Next he'll be posting his
> readings from Richard Burton's _Arabian Nights_.
> 
> Xah, for you to think that Python is topical in the newsgroups to
> which you posted, you must be sharing Karl Malbrain's cell at the
> loony bin.
> 
> Apologies to these various newsgroups, but I have no idea which
> one Xah Lee actually reads or posts from.  F'ups set.

Unfortunately once the imbecile has done such a crosspost the only
cure it to immediately PLONK the thread.

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Re: Earthquake and Tornado Forecasting Programs June 13, 2006

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Frank Silvermann wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> I look forward to a day when meteorology has more to do with precise
> models than models, although I'm all for Russian-style delivery of such
> data.  I forecast that a lot of people will be surprised by the weather
> today, as they are categorical idiots, as is the OP.  frank

Oh for a newsreader that can eliminate all such ugly excessively
cross-posted articles lacking follow-ups.  PLONK thread is the only
remaining answer.

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Re: Internet Survey

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I represent Octabox, an Internet Start-up developing a wide-scale
> platform for Internet services.  We are very interested to know
> your thoughts on Internet productivity and how it might be
> improved, and to that end we have set up a short survey at our
> website - http://www.octabox.com/productivity_poll.php
> We would very much appreciate if you would take a couple of
> minutes to fill it up and influence our direction and empahsis.

Failure to set follow-ups on excessively cross-posted article.

Failure to give any incentive for response.

Failure to give any assurance of privacy.

Failure to monitor the various news-groups for suitability.

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Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

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Roedy Green wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2007 18:46:25 -0700, Paul Rubin
>
... snip ...
> 
>> TAI really does seem like the most absolute--if you are a user
>> in orbit or on Mars, then UTC timestamps will seem pretty
>> meaningless and artificial.
> 
> According to Einstein all time is local time, so perhaps our wish
> for a clean UT is a pipedream.
> 
> To add to the confusion you have GPS, Loran and Julian day also
> used as scientific times.

In summary, time is now defined as a non-continuous function, and
is thus proof against manipulation by most standard algebraic
techniques.  Take that :-)  In fact, it is not even quanticized.

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Re: Portable general timestamp format, not 2038-limited

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"Peter J. Holzer" wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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... snip ...
>
>> In that case, the obvious choice is Greenwich Mean Time.  :-)
> 
> Hardly. That hasn't been in use for over 35 years (according to
> Wikipedia).

I am glad to see you depend on absolutely reliable sources.

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Re: Important Research Project

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"E.D.G." wrote:
> 
> This report is being posted to a number of Internet Newsgroups to
> see if there are any experienced computer programmers who would
> like to provide some assistance with an effort to develop a Perl
> language computer program.

Where is Perl described in the C standard?  This seems rather OT.

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