Archives Nov. 24, 2004
Linux rises from the grave of the dead tablet (Well, almost...)
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Decided to give another shot at fixing the wacom tablet in my Gentoo install. I've got a fix, but it's pretty ugly. The problem was that the tablet would, when the pen approached it, start running the cursor along either the left or right side of the screen up and down (very fast). From the ...
Hmm, last post sounded very negative... (Don't post before the first coffee of the morning)
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Looking at the problem again, it seems obvious that there is a story trying to get through the mess of the presentation;
"Descriptors: from functions to decorators".
That is, a sort of creation myth of the generalisation of the wart/exception in Python 2.1 into a generic, but somewhat difficult to use mechanism in Python 2.2 ...
Feedback on the presentation (Apparently far worse from the other side...)
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Got some feedback from John via email. In summary, needed to be designed more, have less information (always one of my problems), and use more anecdotes.
All good points. Doing it again, I'd probably have focused solely on descriptors. Don't know about his preference for story-centred organisation. I tend to come from the "theory first, ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.