IDLE crashes (dual install 2.7 3.2 on Mac OS X)

bibimbapper · 11 days

I have sworn off IDLE for ever and ever after a few similar problems in my first couple years of python programming. If it keeps giving you trouble, I recommend IPython as a (much better) replacement.

Minimalist · 29 days

If you'll step down from your high horse for just one moment, I would point out that that line was not present in the article when it was submitted. In face, I just woke up my computer, confirmed that the line was not present in the loaded version of the page, re-loaded, and saw that the line had been added.

DontGetEliminated · 1 month

Yup. When you're shooting RAW, the WB setting is only for your own convenience. I generally just leave it on auto and adjust as necessary in Lightroom.

Prizum · 1 month

I would say "1996 is closer to today than to 1950" and leave the second verb tense as a subconscious exercise to the reader.

Chrispy52x2006 · 1 month

New BSG Cylons were made by humans, in contrast to old BSG Cylons, which were made by aliens.

Aaaaand here I am, arguing about Cylons on the internet.

alexkitsune · 1 month

Drawing holograms with Moe from The Simpsons.

donteatgrandma · 2 months

I learned most of it from my Psycholinguistics class. All the materials are online: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/9-59j-psycholinguistics-spring-2005/

The syntax lectures have some pretty good examples of complex sentence trees, and I find analyzing the examples to be a good way to learn.

rjlanph · 5 months

Maybe a bit, but I've never really noticed or been bothered.

rjlanph · 5 months

I have these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006B486K They're cheap, they sound pretty good, they don't fall off my head while running, and I've had them for years without any obvious wear.

Living4all · 6 months

Okay, this is based on no actual information at all, and IANAW. But, I strongly suspect that your SO, like most people, wouldn't actually want to actually be surprised by a marriage proposal. It's an incredibly big deal and not the kind of thing I would want to answer on the spot without a chance to think it over beforehand. That doesn't, however, mean that she doesn't want to be "surprised". She's not stupid; she knows what's coming, but if you keep up a pretense anyway, then you can totally rock that surprise proposal fantasy.

zeroair · 7 months

Happy to help!

zeroair · 7 months

Seems reasonable to me.

zeroair · 7 months

Nope. There's more stuff at the tip of the diamond, but less at the edges (even when you take into account that it's the square of the distance from the centerline that matters). See my earlier post for the math.

zeroair · 7 months

Well, I just graduated two weeks ago, so I haven't quite had time to forget everything yet.

zeroair · 7 months

Yup, your intuition is right -- the two values are exactly the same. See my post for the math.

zeroair · 7 months

Oddly enough, the bending stiffnesses of the two beams are exactly the same. The bending stiffness comes from this quantity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_moment_of_inertia and the calculations of that quantity for the two shapes are here: diamond and square. Basically, the diamond shape has more stuff out at the tip, while the square shape has more stuff away from the center at the left and right edges. Hooray math!

As for your project, I suspect you're going to find it much easier to drill holes into the flat side than the point. In fact, I suspect that's exactly why you've never seen the diamond config. Good luck with your hammock!

mistawobin · 7 months

People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines.

This is so true. I was a physics major working in a MechEng lab, but the fact that I could put together some control, analysis, and optimization code in Labview, Matlab, and Python made me a hero and brought our project out of a total stall. I feel weird about that fact sometimes, because I know that I'm not a star programmer, despite all the respect I've gotten. Ultimately, though, I think the fact that I took the skills and the tools I had and really made a difference on my project is something to be proud of.

Samarang · 7 months

I try to use Python as often as possible, but I do a lot of work in Matlab. Generally, I use Python because it's clean and consistent and beautiful, and NumPy and Matplotlib do almost everything I want. I use Matlab because it's the standard for engineering, but I always find it clunky and painful to actually program in.

A while back, I was using LabView for data acquisition and control, and then compiling that to Matlab code to hook up to an optimizer. It was a nightmare, and I ended up rewriting the entire system in Python, which made my life so much better.

joebert72 · 8 months

You, sir or madam, have a true understanding of the childhood psyche.

Might I also suggest some sort of steering wheel or levers -- you never know when a tree fort will need to become a rocket or a pirate ship.

eagle810 · 8 months

I built myself a nice desk/workbench out of an 8'x2' sheet of 3/4" plywood and a bunch of 2x4s. It only took a day and it's held up incredibly well over the last few years. I used some nice 1/4" ply to cover the top and sides to make a nice writing surface.

soul3n · 8 months

Bespin became Cloud9, which is probably worth checking out. Overall, given that all the programming I ever do just involves vim and a python shell, a cloud IDE is overkill and there's really nothing appropriate for me to use on a chromebook. That said, I do like taking my CR-48 around from time to time, as long as I know I won't need anything other than gmail and google docs. I don't think I'd buy one, though.

materialsmann0 · 8 months

I will forever be a hero to a random drunk German man on the Berlin subway because I opened his beer for him with my Rat. You must now master this skill as well.

Arve · 9 months

To make it harder for bots to game the system, reddit often displays inaccurate up/downvote counts. Also, people are dicks. Anyway, congratulations -- that's an amazing accomplishment!

twincitiesrunner · 9 months

GPS, GPS, GPS. In my case, an Android phone with Runkeeper, but the point is that it gives me some tangible record of how far and how fast I went, and that's been critical in terms of getting up the motivation to start running and keep running.

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