... If sigils just conveyed variable types, you could achieve the same effect with Hungarian notation: listS.add(scalarH) No, sigils have a deeper function -...
5064
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,...
5065
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...
5066
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,...
5067
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...
5068
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...
5069
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...
5071
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 ...
5072
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...
5074
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...
5075
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 ...
5076
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 3, 2009 2:52 pm
Hi Mikhael! ... I read parts of it and it does not answer them successfully. I also think that having such a long document (even longer than the licences which...
5077
Moshe Ben Abu
mtrancer@...
Oct 3, 2009 3:23 pm
Hello there, Digital Whisper is a new Israeli security\hacking\programming web magazine founded by Afik Castiel and Nir Adar, written in Hebrew. Their first...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 3, 2009 3:39 pm
Hi Moshe! Thanks for the initiative and your effort, and good luck. ... For some reason this URL passed through linkedin and yielded a 404. I used this URL,...
5079
Moshe Ben Abu
mtrancer@...
Oct 3, 2009 4:21 pm
Thanks for the feedback, I've sent it to the authors. What kind of format you suggest the magazine should be..? ... -- Trancer Recognize-Security ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 3, 2009 6:04 pm
... HTML or XHTML preferably. Possibly with some help from CSS, MathML, SVG, PNG, etc. Note that you can create the magazine in various formats (including...
5081
Omer Zak
w1@...
Oct 4, 2009 7:47 am
In my opinion, PDF format is a fine choice, and I'd advise it to be first choice for fully sighted people. For people with special needs, do provide also a...
5082
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 4, 2009 4:12 pm
... Why? Show me your reasons! In the previous message, I've given several reasons for its problematic nature: <<<<<<<<<<<<< 1. Why are the articles in PDF...
5083
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen
Oct 4, 2009 4:48 pm
... I actually think that PDF is great. It is freely available, preserves formatting across OS / applications, and is contained in a single file ([X]HTML is...
5084
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 5, 2009 4:29 pm
... The latter can be solved using solutions such as .zip or tar.gz or a CHM : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help Also, you can always...
5085
Budilovsky Evgeny
budevg@...
Oct 5, 2009 8:25 pm
Guys, I think we should take the phrack <http://www.phrack.org/> approach and publish our issues in plain text. Images can be replaced by ascii-art or in ...
5086
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 6, 2009 11:55 am
... Was that a joke? ASCII Art is very inaccessible too, and usually looks horrible. And plaintext is incredibly non-aesthetic. You can easily convert XHTML to...
5087
Micha Feigin
kamikaza_mic
Oct 6, 2009 10:58 pm
On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:47:06 +0200 ... With PDF you assure format and don't have math and font issues With a PDF version I can more easily archive the article...
5088
Micha Feigin
kamikaza_mic
Oct 6, 2009 10:58 pm
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:25:51 +0200 ... I find that to generally be seriously broken...
5089
avishaiweiss
Oct 7, 2009 11:37 am
Hi everyone, I'm trying to organize a session for a few people to get together and learn about iPhone development, sometime in the next 2 weeks. Is anyone on...
5090
Dotan Cohen
dotancohen
Oct 9, 2009 3:53 pm
... CHM is far from being a universally-available solution. No ebook reader can read it, and the choices for reading CHM files under Linux are slim....
5091
Shlomi Fish
shlomif3
Oct 11, 2009 1:34 pm
... Subject: [Telux] Next Meeting: "CMake" on 25-October-2009 Date: Saturday 10 Oct 2009 From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...> To: Telux...
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Moshe Ben Abu
mtrancer@...
Oct 16, 2009 10:36 pm
Hello list, I wrote a short article about Bezeq International SafeNet security service and why it sucks. It's even rather easy bypassing the only function that...
