I wanted to write a comment on timing unittests, but that blog does not allow anonymous comments and there is no obvious place to e-mail the author.
Bummer.
(The short version of my comment is that getting the basic data out with something like nose is trivial; see my pinocchio …
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There was another mildly amusing incident during the recent SoCal Piggies meeting.
Michael Carter was showing us his incredibly neat Web 3.0 / HTTP PUSH software, orbited, by demoing an interactive IRC client on the Web. He signed onto the ruby-on-rails IRC channel and (this being a Python meeting) asked …
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Chris Lee and I would like to set up a Birds-of-a-Feather gathering at SciPy '07. We'll probably have an initial meeting on Thursday, August 16th, and then maybe work into sprint mode for that Saturday.
Contact me if you're interested. No reservations needed, but we should probably all plan to …
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While I'm thinking about SciPy '07, here are a few other notes:
- Chris Lasher and I are thinking about doing a Software Carpentry sprint of some kind. Interested?
- I'd be up for doing a half-day tutorial on "Testing for Scientists" or "Idiomatic Python". Interested?
--titus
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It's nice to see Python come out on top for threading.
--titus
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Posted by Scott Lamb on 2007-06-28 at 12:32.
Hmm, I wouldn't call "better than Perl" validation. "Easier to read the Perl, better threading support than COBOL, more productive than TriMedia VLIW assembler, faster than MUMPS …read more
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Does anyone know if there are any faculty programming contests out there?
It'd be fun, and I can't imagine that the competition would be as tough as the student programming contests probably are ;).
--titus
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Posted by jt on 2007-06-22 at 19:56.
Um... faculty members... programming? You lost …read more
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