Prosthetic Conscience

The futility of adding static typing to a dynamic language

Re: the threat of optional static type declarations being added to Python, a Smalltalk programmer chimes in. Basically, the argument is that type-checking, to actually be useful, needs the expressiveness that only exists at runtime. My take is that to do this properly in Python, you should use a function decorator to check that the arguments to your function are acceptable.

[ Posted: 09:32] | [ Category: /computing] | Permalink | Comments: 0 ]

People who drive with their brights on

When did this become acceptable? To drive with your brights on all the time, not just on dark country roads with no streetlights and when there’s no traffic either oncoming or ahead of you, but all the time?!? On busy city streets, or on the interstate. You don’t need them, and they are blinding other drivers! Gnaaaah!

This flame postponed from New Year’s Eve.

[ Posted: 08:57] | [ Category: /flame] | Permalink | Comments: 0 ]

We are living in a bad novel

[ Posted: 08:56] | [ Category: /politics] | Permalink | Comments: 0 ]