Would love to see a screen at the back also -- dual screens, if you will. That way I can have one app running on the "front" screen and another on the "back" screen.
Its equivalent in Chrome seems to be chrome.tabs.create. But when I tried that, I get this error: "chrome.tabs is not supported in content scripts". It seems that these "content scripts" aren't as powerful as extensions (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.htm...). Am I missing something here?
ruby uses < (less than) for inheritance; also regular expressions start & end with / (slash). you have %W, %w for arrays and %q, %Q for string. things like "class << self ..." looks weird to those new to ruby. also stuff like "a ||= ...". and of course pre-pending '@' for instance variables and '@@' for class variables.
also when i use regexps in ruby i then say "/re(g)ex/ =~ 'string' && $1". in python that would be multiple statements: "m = re.match('re(g)ex', 'string'); m.group(1)"
in python existing syntax (or more familiar syntax) is used to accomplish all the above.
Try something totally different. It could be a totally different technology: say Ruby on Rails or maybe Flex/Flash & Actionscript. How about becoming a designer? Something you have never considered before or never thought of as worthwhile. Something that brings back the "lightness" feeling you seem to be missing.
IIRC, this was a Stanford class, where they had invited a bunch of people to talk about software. The main site seems to be offline (http://cs343-spr0607.stanford.edu)
there is lots of content (mit open courseware, lectures from many universities in iTunes, free books being released online) available for self-learners.
is there a "virtual university/classroom" website that helps different people to study together?
very inspiring, pmarca!
with your blog -- you have given a lot
to the startup geeks!
and with this, you have given something
amazing to your local community.
Thank you.
and looking forward to your "fondest hope"!!!
oops, accidentally clicked the down bar (making your comment 0 points) while scanning thru the newcomments section. sorry, can't seem to undo it :-(
apologies!!
"ls" is a simple command -- invokes the Unix command "ls -l". A more complicated one: "h os" -- run help on the os module (just like "help(os)"). This is kinda tricky because "h os" is actually a syntax error in Python. When interactive, I catch syntax errors and see if they are user defined commands, in which case I execute the desired command. This works for Python 2.5, but shouldn't be too hard to port to Python 3.0.
I briefly looked at IPython, but that seemed to complicated for my needs.