silon4's comments

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Google's Python style guide

Personally, in my own code I also like to put pass at the end of all blocks. It's more consistent, and it also makes auto indent in the editors work properly. Anyone else?

silon4 | 14 years ago

Abusing javascript as a semicolonless language is a bad idea (Go also).

If you wish to have a langage without semicolons, design your grammar properly, not add kludges to the lexer.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: The Rust Programming Language

I'm waiting for python to fix "from __future__ import braces". Or at least make "pass" mandatory for end of block

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: RESTful thinking considered harmful

POST /orders/42?pay=1

POST was always about actions, not just resources.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Critical Google Chrome hole plugged in 24 hours

If it's a flash problem, I don't think Chromium has flash at all.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: How the Boehm Garbage Collector Works

If RAM is precious, you shouldn't use GC anyway. It typically has 2x memory use overhead to reduce GC performance cost.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option

I like the same model. (send password change token to email). BrowserID from Mozilla may help here too.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Google Kills Android Menu Button, Replaces It with Action Bar

Me too :(((

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Python-Dev: Adding braces to __future__

Agreed, but there's a solution. Emacs recognises the end of a block by using "pass" to end the block. This makes it reindent properly. It's not the official python style, but I prefer to write code that way. Try it, it's not bad.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days

Or the zeroth month.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” released

For me, broken Alt+Tab that switches applications instead of windows is a non-starter. And the top application menu bar.

The rest is OK and I can learn/adapt.

silon4 | 14 years ago | on: Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu?

>they're basically cloning OSX bad habits: instead of switching between windows on Alt+Tab they're now switching between apps (across virtual desktops!).

This is THE reason why I will not touch gnome-shell/unity. Too bad, because I could get used to most other stuff (except unity's menu bar on top) and I believe it has potential. Multiple displays and virtual deskops are a minor annoyance that can be improved.