Ethan Furman wrote:
On 01/10/2015 06:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If you treat your readers as idiots, only idiots will read your writing.
Or the morbidly curious, which I presume covers your case (along with a
handful of others ;) .
Reading Rick is like taking bad drugs. Every time
On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 10:56:11 AM UTC+5:30, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
At the point you are demonstrating reduce(), if the reader doesn't
understand or can't guess the meaning of n = 4, n+1 or range(), they
won't understand
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 06:20:34 -0800, Rustom Mody wrote:
A favorite example of mine is automata-acceptance:
If
δ : Q × Σ → Q is a transition function
F is the set of final states
q₀ is the start state
and s is a string
then
reduce(δ,q₀,s) ∈ F
expresses automaton accepts string s
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2015-01-10, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
1) Why are you focusing on the /2/ docs, rather than /3/?
2) Why are you ranting, rather than submitting docs patches?
3) There are still people who read RR
On 01/11/2015 09:04 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
3) There are still people who read RR posts?
The last post by RR helping someone with a tk problem was very helpful,
and rather elucidating, as are most of his post on tk. It was rather
refreshing to see several posts like this. I thought perhaps
On 2015-01-10, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote:
The last post by RR helping someone with a tk problem was very helpful,
and rather elucidating, as are most of his post on tk. ...
Now perhaps there are two RRs, in some sort of conflict in
the same person. Sad to see
On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 10:49:11 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
The last post by RR helping someone with a tk problem was very helpful,
and rather elucidating, as are most of his post on tk. ...
Now perhaps there are two
On 11/01/2015 16:04, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2015-01-10, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
On 11/01/2015 7:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If that isn't a form of stupidity, I don't know what is.
Maybe you're just eternally optimistic that people can change for the
better.
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries
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On 10/01/2015 18:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries
Rick Johnson wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
At the point you are demonstrating reduce(), if the reader doesn't
understand or can't guess the meaning of n = 4, n+1 or range(), they
won't understand anything you say.
Teachers need to understand
On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 8:02:50 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Rick Johnson wrote:
EXAMPLE 1: Reducing Comprehension
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html#using-the-batteries
On 01/10/2015 06:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
If you treat your readers as idiots, only idiots will read your writing.
Or the morbidly curious, which I presume covers your case (along with a handful
of others ;) .
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