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I found it in a used bookstore for $5 once, totally by accident. It's probably the best nonfiction book I've ever started (I unfortunately never bothered to finish, which isn't so good. It's still in my backpack in case I ever get stuck anywhere...).

And of course, there's one thing about employing sophisticated motion blur-- you're not going to do it just to lower FPS. Real motion blur is quite expensive. There's really no point except for the visual coolness.

Maybe it doesn't match up to the book, but if I ever read the book it would only be because of the miniseries and comments that the book is even better.

If I open up a law firm and then the decorator puts a gigantic mural of H.R. Giger's work on the walls, I'd probably be less than happy, and not because of emotional reasons (although it would be pretty creepy). It'd be bad for business.

Similarly, if Google's new change increases load time or distracts me...

( http://www.jennifersdreams.com/inspirations/footprints.html )

Questions aren't that much better than statements.

More significantly, one of the projects I've been working on really requires a new language, and while I could implement using, say, PyParsing and so on, having free JIT is really nice.

It might not be ready for prime-time in some very critical systems (like a web browser for example) but it's honestly probably good enough for this, especially in combination with process jailing as you suggest. I might consider trying to patch Cells up to use PyPy's sandbox instead of the non-solution currently implemented (I cried (okay, groaned) when I heard about it-- yeagh), when I have time, and if nobody else does it first. I'm a bit worried anything I write now would get lost or broken in the incoming tide of patches/changes anyway.

The main problems with using PyPy's sandboxing is probably with communication to/out of the sandbox, which is apparently problematic. I also anticipate some complaints about relying on PyPy in the first place, which is rather abnormal compared to using CPython-- using and relying on PyPy-specific features is pretty much unheard of.

I don't know C++ and thus don't know all the different ways to break constructors and destructors, but this particular way will be banned-- exceptions are off-limits.

I kind of think that the worst part of all of this will not be the C++ code that is added to gcc, but the massive bikeshedding that looks to be inevitable at the start.

Maybe you wanted to ask, "does it run Twisted and/or Zope", which use frame introspection (sadly, so very sadly), but otherwise, yuck.

As for ants:perhaps so. The thing is, ants are really different and interesting. As I said, perhaps some animals don't feel pain, but they'd have to be pretty weird. I would suppose ants qualify, being essentially borg, which is pretty out there. Lobsters, not so much.

Anyway, I'm not convinced. Usability matters to everyone, not just people that can't make heads or tails of the interface. The point is not only to make it usable at all, but also to make it easier to use, and at times, faster to use. So, sure, maybe a ferrari isn't usable by those that are somehow physically handicapped and unable to walk. But you know what? That doesn't have to be the case, and indisputably the ferrari would be better if it was usable by everyone without sacrificing anything (except the "freedom" of the engineer to make it hard to use for some people). And that's what usability, and accessibility, is about, isn't it?

I'm not at all experienced in the realm of animal activism as it relates to lobsters and crabs, but did people really think that animals didn't feel something akin to pain if you ripped their limbs off? Pain is a vital mechanism/motivation for survival and thus evolutionarily advantageous. Maybe some complex animals don't have it, but they'd have to be pretty weird (although I admit, lobsters and crabs would be in the right category-- it's not going to be a vertebrate that feels no pain-- they aren't particularly unique in terms of how they grow and die).

It sounds to me like the sensible choice is not to stick with a company that doesn't care about you, but to switch to one that does. Which is exactly what he did.