Saturday, Sep 5th, 2009 by
admin
Category:
Uncategorized Tags:
Python
You’ve tried dozens of Python IDEs and were annoyed that each one had weaknesses that the others didn’t have.
Now you don’t have to worry anymore.
Pydev is an Eclipse plugin that has really good auto-complete and code analysis: something that is lacking in the other Python IDEs. Most of the goodies were locked away for pay in premium mode, but now it is open source.
This is good news, but how do we solve the bloat problem of Eclipse? If you look at their download page, you will have to download a bloated version with that range from 80 to a whopping 370 mb. These packages come with plugins you will probably never use and will fill even more memory as if Java wasn’t enough of a memory hog.
Fortunately for you, here is the extremely well hidden link to the minimal Eclipse installation package here. You will want to scroll down and download one of the 47mb Platform Runtime Binary packages.
Once you’ve installed or unzipped Eclipse, run it, click Help, and click Install New Software. Add this URL: http://pydev.org/updates
One more thing that may help performance is to edit eclipse.ini and paste these lines below “-vmargs”:
-Xms128m
-Xmx384m
-XX:PermSize=128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-XX:CompileThreshold=5
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=10
-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=70
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseG1GC
Now you have the best Python IDE at your fingertips.
Tuesday, Sep 1st, 2009 by
admin
Category:
Programming,
Python Tags:
Python
People have wanted to know the size of Python objects for a long time, but before they had to dig into the source code. With the new function sys.getsizeof, you don’t have to.
Here are a list of sizes in bytes of common Python 2.6 datatypes. (containers are empty).
|
Type |
32-bit |
64-bit |
| int |
12 |
24 |
| long (1L) |
16 |
32 |
| float |
16 |
24 |
| tuple |
28 |
56 |
| list |
36 |
72 |
| dict |
140 |
280 |
| old class |
48 |
96 |
| old instance |
36 |
72 |
| new class |
452 |
904 |
| new instance |
32 |
64 |
| function |
60 |
120 |
| lambda |
60 |
120 |
| module |
28 |
56 |
| ascii 'a' |
25 |
41 |
| unicode 'a' |
28 |
56 |
| ascii 'ab' |
26 |
42 |
| unicode 'ab' |
30 |
60 |
If you want to see a neat application of getsizeof, take a look at this hack.
Friday, Aug 28th, 2009 by
admin
Category:
Codexon,
Funny Tags:
analytics,
complaints,
google
I’ve heard that its against the TOS to mention AdSense earnings, but I don’t think $0.00 qualifies as earnings (never mind, I can disclose “gross payments”).
The varying levels of $0.00. During this time around 5000visits were received.
I was hoping that I could use this to sustain the hosting, but at these rates, it could be 100 years before I see payment. I am now wondering if I should remove them but it might not matter anyway since about 40% of visitors use ad block.
At least my account hasn’t been suspended like Hizook. Or maybe the $0.00 is another way of showing it.
Wednesday, Aug 26th, 2009 by
admin
Category:
Internet Tags:
censorship,
Reddit
I had always thought that Reddit would be more resistant to the censorship that plagues Digg (such as the AACS ban and white-listing a select few sites that control 46% of Digg).
Unfortunately this was proved wrong today.
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Tuesday, Aug 25th, 2009 by
admin
Category:
Internet,
Rant Tags:
complaints,
tips,
trick
I recently posted 6 Stackoverflow reputation tips here. I knew there would be some criticism, but the amount of hate was beyond my expectations. There were people threatening to have me banned including one admin.
You would think that I was the Antichrist by some of the comments I had received.
I thank Jeff for diffusing some of the negative reactions here, but I think he must have received flack for it since he came out with this statement on Twitter and did not respond to my comment on SO meta:
the gaming stack overflow user has been discussed. But at 7 months, 68 questions, and 325 answers, who is gaming who, again? 
- Jeff Atwood on Twitter.
This same sentiment of Stackoverflow being the winner and me being the loser was also repeated here. It made me realize that I had not gotten the point clearly enough to them, so here I will try to re-explain my position.
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