Every few days, a new hysterical screed against formal education, undergrad studies, or grad studies comes across my screen. As a result I've been mulling over the hot-button issue of academic study, both undergrad and grad, for the last few months. Why are there so many loud people decrying the …
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If you use sys.settrace to set a tracing function, and that function prints to sys.stdout`, then don't ever trash ``sys.stdout, even briefly. You will raise an invisible exception and your trace function will be removed.
(I don't know precisely what is supposed to happen when a trace …
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I haven't seen Kyle Wilson's article, Software is Hard, making the rounds yet... worth reading!
--titus
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Posted by Noah Gift on 2007-10-03 at 08:15.
Great article, at least it is a comfort that some people admit it is hard and that "software is hard" is becoming more …read more
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There's been lots of discussion recently about the global interpreter lock, and how evil it is. (I personally don't think it's evil. More on that some day when I write code again, if ever.)
Then I read this article, on parrot and Threading Building Blocks, and somethign clicked. I quote …
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I'm now listed on the Gene Expression in Disease and Development page, as well as on the CompSci faculty page, MicroMolecularGenetics faculty page, QuantBio page, and SysBio page.
It was quite a shock to log into the CompSci cluster at MSU and see my group set as "faculty". As a …
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So, a few people commented on my how to write Python code that doesn't suck post, and I thought I'd respond here rather than in the comments.
First, John Camara suggests adding the MIT license as an option. I chose the BSD because it's essentially equivalent to the MIT license …
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My last post on this subject got a number of good comments, both here and on the biology-in-python mailing list, so I've amended and updated it. (Note that Brandon King is now listed as a contributor.)
I would particularly appreciate comments on the licensing section and the conclusions. Also, I'll …
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