Do you mean how to verify a solution for TSP in polynomial time? If that's the case, you better look at the TSP as a decision problem: "A variant of the...
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Omer Zak
w1@...
Jun 3, 2009 10:58 pm
... Yes. ... Is the procedure of reduction executable in polynomial time? ... Why? My question is simple. Given a purported solution to the Travelling Salesman...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jun 17, 2009 6:01 pm
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club invites everyone to a talk by Yaron Meiry (Sawyer) about "Programming Red Flags" - on Sunday, 28-June-2009. (Notice the ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jun 27, 2009 10:37 am
Hi all! This is a last day reminder that we will have a meeting at Telux tomorrow (Sunday, 28-June-2009) at 18:30 about "Programming Red Flags". More ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 1, 2009 5:44 pm
Firefox 3.5 is out: * http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&rss=1&sid=6422 *...
5051
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 4, 2009 5:24 pm
Hi all! The "Programming Red Flags" meeting had a high attendance, and was generally very successful. Thanks to all the people who came and special thanks to...
5052
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 6, 2009 10:05 am
... Subject: August Penguin 2009 Keysigning party Date: Monday 06 July 2009 From: Shay Ohayon <shay@...> To: "linux-il" <linux-il@...> ...
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Gabor Szabo
gabor529
Jul 6, 2009 2:00 pm
... I am sorry I missed it. Nice slides. Everyone, please upvote it: http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/8ymaa/red_flags_in_programming/ Gabor...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 6, 2009 2:34 pm
... I would be interested in a separate presentation about SCons. Don't know about the other club attendees, but if you have the will and the time, then I say ...
5055
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 7, 2009 10:47 am
... Well, Offer was also referring to some threads on the KDE mailing lists (which I haven't read either). ... CMake supports all of those except perhaps...
5056
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 11, 2009 2:13 pm
Hi all! Today I wrote and published a feature in my homepage blog about the termination of my AdSense account, after my April's Fools Day feature got featured...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 12, 2009 9:24 am
In accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and Open Source Software will hold the August Penguin conference ( http://august.penguin.org.il/ )...
5058
Gabor Szabo
gabor529
Jul 13, 2009 9:57 am
I don't understand you Shlomi. By now you should know that any comparison between Perl and Python just leads to some Python fan pulling out the "Perl is not...
5059
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 13, 2009 10:50 am
... Yes, I guess I know that. It still doesn't prevent the rest of the discussion from being high-quality and interesting. It's sad that many Pythoneers need...
5060
Gabor Szabo
gabor529
Jul 13, 2009 11:08 am
... I am sure companies are worried about someone using their code without paying the license fee but I think they are a lot more worried about someone taking...
5061
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 13, 2009 11:38 am
... Yes. ... I assume the licensing terms that the material was made available under did not allow commercial use. In that case, you have the right to press...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 13, 2009 12:52 pm
... I see. Well, you can tell what a reference is by how it is used. ->[], ->{}, - ... one can pass non-scalar variables (@array, %hash, etc.) to functions by ...
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Beni Cherniavsky
s30763378
Jul 13, 2009 4:53 pm
... If sigils just conveyed variable types, you could achieve the same effect with Hungarian notation: listS.add(scalarH) No, sigils have a deeper function -...
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Beni Cherniavsky
s30763378
Jul 13, 2009 8:16 pm
... I do want to address that meme productively. If you catch me degenerating to a troll, feel free to apply sunlight and I'll to freeze to stone ;-) First,...
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Gabor Szabo
gabor529
Jul 14, 2009 2:37 pm
Hi Beni, ... There is a difference when you say: "For me Python is more readable than Perl" "Python is more readable than Perl" "Perl is NOT readable" or "Perl...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 15, 2009 6:40 am
... I guess you're right. I still find that using sigils help me understand what the code does. ... Well, I haven't found deep comparison very useful so far,...
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Beni Cherniavsky
s30763378
Jul 15, 2009 4:07 pm
... If you are satisfied with this outcome, more power to you ;-) If want ammunition in favor of Perl: 1. Python bytecode is really easy to decompile, waaay...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 22, 2009 9:59 am
... Hi Beni! Just wanted to thank you for this great post of yours. You've confirmed my intuition. Regards, Shlomi Fish ... -- ... Shlomi Fish...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Jul 27, 2009 8:25 am
Hi all! This is a reminder that in accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and Open Source Software community will hold the August Penguin ...
5070
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 21, 2009 5:02 pm
Hi all! I have published a new essay about free software licences: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/foss-licences-wars/ Any comments...
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Dotan Cohen
dotancohen
Aug 25, 2009 5:25 pm
... Tens of comments here already: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1356213/Getting-Through-the-FOSS-License-Minefield -- Dotan Cohen ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 25, 2009 7:56 pm
... Hi Dotan! Thanks for submitting this story to Slashdot, (which got it accepted eventually). I submitted it too, but I didn't see it published. I'm not sure...
5073
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen
Aug 26, 2009 2:12 pm
... I meant that licensing issues would be the main challenge in writing and distributing the software, as opposed to a programming challenge. ... Don't browse...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Aug 28, 2009 6:41 pm
Hi Mikhael! Thanks for your comments and sorry for the late response. I'm also De-CCing Perl-IL . See below for my comments. ... I didn't say that the licence...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Sep 1, 2009 6:14 pm
... Replying to myself (while de-CCing Perl-IL) I'd like to note that in my coverage of the reasons of why I prefer public domain licences instead of weak ...
