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Comment on Larry Kudlow is a moron by Carey Blecher

Carey Blecher — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:45:37 +0000

You said it. I can’t stand that all his cronies come on his show and laud him and “free market capitalism” way of thinking. Moron is being to kind

Comment on Larry Kudlow is a moron by Gregory Sherwood

Gregory Sherwood — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:50:11 +0000

Kudlow is the top down buffoon, Cramer is the bottom up buffoon.

Comment on Concurrent Skip List issues by Concurrent Skip List woes « Handwaving

Concurrent Skip List woes « Handwaving — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:54:54 +0000

[...] Skip List woes By Pinku [ed: I've removed the code. Look here for an explanation and the updated [...]

Comment on Concurrent Skip List woes by Concurrent Skip List issues « Handwaving

Concurrent Skip List issues « Handwaving — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:52:05 +0000

[...] Skip List issues By Pinku A commenter on my code sample for a concurrent skiplist correctly pointed out two errors in the program. I [...]

Comment on Concurrent Skip List woes by Pinku

Pinku — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:53:42 +0000

You are right about both bugs. On the first, I changed it so it doesn’t ask for a MaxHeight anymore. On the second, I failed to copy the code from the paper correctly. Your fix is correct.

Comment on Fluent Interfaces with ‘with’ by Grant Rettke

Grant Rettke — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:40:39 +0000

It certainly is more elegant.

Comment on Fluent Interfaces with ‘with’ by Pinku

Pinku — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:24:17 +0000

Yes, and in VB.NET. But it’s a statement block, not an expression that returns an object. This last feature makes it more useful, IMO.

Comment on Fluent Interfaces with ‘with’ by Grant Rettke

Grant Rettke — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:56:22 +0000

Wasn’t ‘with’ part of VB6?

Comment on DSLs and extension methods by Fluent Interfaces with ‘with’ « Handwaving

Fluent Interfaces with ‘with’ « Handwaving — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:01:48 +0000

[...] Interfaces with ‘with’ By Pinku An ad-hoc embedded domain specific language, aka Fluent Interface, is an API that reads like an English sentence. LINQ does an excellent job of [...]

Comment on Puzzling Python by Pinku

Pinku — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:20:58 +0000

As I said in the second paragraph, I know I can raise the limit with setrecursionlimit, but that doesn’t help when I write a general purpose library and don’t know when people might blow the stack. If I set the stack limit to 1500, what happens when someone uses my library for an even bigger problem size? Python should use all the stack available and fail when the OS raises an error.