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Staring Into The Singularity
STARING INTO THE SINGULARITY § From The Low Beyond. 1996, 1999 by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky The short version: If computing power doubles every two years, what happens when computers are doing the research? Computing power doubles every two years. Computing power doubles every two years of work. Computing power doubles every two subjective years of work. Two years after computers reach human…
why-python_listing1
Listing 1. fetchmail Configuration File set postmaster "esr" set daemon 300 poll imap.ccil.org with proto IMAP and options no dns aka snark.thyrsus.com locke.ccil.org ccil.org user esr there is esr here options fetchall dropstatus warnings 3600 poll imap.netaxs.com with proto IMAP user "esr" there is esr here options dropstatus warnings 3600 skip imap.21cn.com with proto IMAP user esr here is…
why-python_listing2
Listing 2. fetchmailrc fetchmailrc = { 'poll_interval':300, "logfile":None, "postmaster":"esr", 'bouncemail':TRUE, "properties":None, 'invisible':FALSE, 'syslog':FALSE, # List of server entries begins here 'servers': [ # Entry for site `imap.ccil.org' begins: { "pollname":"imap.ccil.org", 'active':TRUE, "via":None, "protocol":"IMAP", 'port':0, 'timeout':300, 'dns':FALSE,…
why-python_listing3
Listing 3. Metaclass Function def copy_instance(toclass, fromdict): # Initialize a class object of given type from a conformant dictionary. class_sig = toclass.__dict__.keys(); class_sig.sort() dict_keys = fromdict.keys(); dict_keys.sort() common = intersect(class_sig, dict_keys) if 'typemap' in class_sig: class_sig.remove('typemap') if tuple(class_sig) != tuple(dict_keys): print "Conformability…
why-python_listing4
Listing 4. Code that Calls Metaclass Function # The tricky part--initializing objects from the # configuration global # `Configuration' is the top level of the object # tree we're going to mung Configuration = Controls() copy_instance(Configuration, configuration) Configuration.servers = []; for server in configuration[`servers']: Newsite = Server() copy_instance(Newsite, server)…
Why Python?
Why Python? § Software § by Eric Raymond on April 30, 2000 My first look at Python was an accident, and I didn’t much like what I saw at the time. It was early 1997, and Mark Lutz’s book Programming Python from O’Reilly & Associates had recently come out. O’Reilly books occasionally land on my doorstep, selected from among the new releases by some mysterious benefactor inside the organization…