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Developer's Corner / Python newbie question

« Last post by kartal on April 13, 2009, 10:53 PM »

Hi Guys

I am working on my own alarm, countdown application. I do not have a gui setup now( will use wxpython). However I need a way to be able to print current time in a window(or command line) without printing every second in a new line. I can query time module to get the current time but I want to be able to print in a simple seperate window and terminate the window or time counting when the time is up. I have figured out the rest except printing time. This is for only testing the application not for final version. Currently I am using rudimentarty print command which prints the time on ever new line which is unpleasant.

thanks

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Developer's Corner / Re: Amazing looking forum software -- AJAX/Web 2.0 at its best

« Last post by kartal on April 13, 2009, 01:18 PM »

I tried browsing their forums to see how it works. It ddid not feel like I was living in future or I was supposed to mesmerized? I did not feel any real presence of ajax implementation at all. 

Am I too negative?

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Living Room / Re: Cell Phone recommendations?

« Last post by kartal on April 12, 2009, 12:53 AM »

I own a palm treo 680(palmos) and I am very happy with it.  The main reason I got this one because it has a builtin keyboard. You might also try blackberry series.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by kartal on April 11, 2009, 11:58 PM »

I am not a programmer, maybe a scripter at best so I do not have huge needs. That is why I thought Komodo edit was neat(also free:)) The only thing I miss is an integrated debugger for Python. For that I just set external python debugger which works ok but  definetely I would have preferred an internal debugger .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows editors - do they have to be so bad?

« Last post by kartal on April 11, 2009, 08:17 PM »

Has anyone tried free Komodo Edit from Activestate?

http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/

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Living Room / Re: crisis of credit visualized by Jonathan Jarvis

« Last post by kartal on April 10, 2009, 11:16 PM »

I think that the people who borrowed money from those institutions to buy houses bare responsibility  for the mess we are in. It is not just those greedy bankers, decent people got greedy as well.

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Living Room / Re: BumpTop

« Last post by kartal on April 08, 2009, 10:09 PM »

When I press on my lcd screen hard enough, it makes similar color patterns as well

Very good, an interesting way of interaction, as mentioned in the link, it somewhat resembles the Multi-touch screen interface demonstration.
Still, in my opinion, the latter one it better conceibed.
Truth is, BumpTop might be quite close, it's not as "irealistic" as multi-touch screen interface.

[edit]I've just seen the "hip-hop version"  [/edit]

-jgpaiva (June 22, 2006, 01:47 PM)

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Living Room / Re: BumpTop

« Last post by kartal on April 08, 2009, 10:05 PM »

I think it would be very very usefull if they can pull that memory usage down. I think it uses upto 120 mb. Once it feels like it is not there I am sure people will find it useful. I personally wont use it now because I run alot of opengl applications and would not want this to interfere but later I might use it.

very cool - and completely useless as a real gui in my opinion.

-mouser (June 24, 2006, 01:15 AM)

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Living Room / Cheap wireless calling plans in the States?

« Last post by kartal on April 08, 2009, 07:26 PM »

Hi guys I am thinking to change my wireless calling-data plan, I definetely want a cheaper economy plan. At the moment I am using Att-palm data plan which cost me 67$ a month which is becoming too expensive for me. Does anyone know of any cheaper plan (from different carrier maybe)? I do not need to have a full data plan though, a simple email checking, 10-20 mb monthly would be more than enough from now on. I do not care about unlimited calling. I guess I do not even use my phone more than an hour a month.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Finding developer projects and other work in this economy

« Last post by kartal on April 07, 2009, 12:31 PM »

Well the reason you will probably never get one from those kind of sites is that everyone there is trying to promote themselves. Same for myspace or facebook. I never use any of them because they are waste of time, unless you have joined them in the beginning. Then probably there were some opportunities.

 Those sites are all sellers market , no buyers there.

I'm on linked in and have a profile, but it hasn't really generated any job leads.

-wraith808 (April 07, 2009, 11:44 AM)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 06:56 PM »

Hey this works!  Thanks again and sorry for the hassle!

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Living Room / Re: TED Videos etc..

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 04:56 PM »

I personally do not feel inspired. I guess to me inspiration comes through straight unwaxed knowledge and demonstration.

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Living Room / Re: TED Videos etc..

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 04:39 PM »

I generally find TED videos to be sensational and less informative. It does not keep up to the premise.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Finding developer projects and other work in this economy

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 04:29 PM »

Also just keep in mind that most of those people who are posting at those sites are looking for cheap labor. So keep the money to yourself and look for other means to find job unless you live in India or China etc. In that case  the prices and the opportunities might sound fair and exciting.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Finding developer projects and other work in this economy

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 04:21 PM »

I do not think it is just time-price issue. I cannot live on the money that I might earn from that web site. First of all most of those projects will require some real time work without real pay. You might die of hunger and fatigue at the end of first year working with those clients from guru.com while you are trying to cover your monhtly needs.

Guru.com or similar places might be fun for those who are starting and have nothing to loose but if you are an establishes professional, none of those places would work for you. You generally get the short end of the stick.


Also as far as I remember there was some fee for every 3 months(75$) or annual for every category.

I would not suggest guru.com to the people who are looking for work. You would be severly underbid by others and the person who is putting the contract.

-kartal (April 06, 2009, 03:59 PM)

Good point, kartal. I wondered about that. But then you just wouldn't take the job if it was not worth the time, right?

-zridling (April 06, 2009, 04:06 PM)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Finding developer projects and other work in this economy

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 03:59 PM »

I would not suggest guru.com to the people who are looking for work. You would be severly underbid by others and the person who is putting the contract.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 02:58 PM »

Yes I changed to somethingelse and it is not working for me. When I type"tak" I get nothing

here is a screenshot

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by kartal on April 06, 2009, 10:22 AM »

Well I am not sure but when I type "cal" nothing else comes up that is why I am trying to change the default regex name.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by kartal on April 05, 2009, 11:58 PM »

Hi
I am not having any success at all.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Boot Linux From USB Flash Drive

« Last post by kartal on April 05, 2009, 10:33 PM »

I use puppylinux and works great. I did the tut from penlinux website as well

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General Software Discussion / Re: Should I get my new laptop with hard drive partitioned?

« Last post by kartal on April 05, 2009, 02:49 PM »

I had partitioned my laptop`s(Macbook pro) drive to 3 partitions. I have Macos, Winxp and Linux on it and I am very happy about it. Having multiple partitions and multiple Os is a good idea in my opinion.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Simidude Network Clipboard for $9.95 on BitsduJour 04/05/2009

« Last post by kartal on April 05, 2009, 12:38 PM »

How does it work? Do you need an online account to make it work?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Farr and Rainlendar?

« Last post by kartal on April 04, 2009, 12:33 PM »

mouser?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Name The Best UNZIPPER!

« Last post by kartal on April 04, 2009, 11:40 AM »

7zip does not corrupt anything. The main issue I have here and there is when I drag and drop content inisde a zip file to explorer(or alike). I tend to think that it has something to do with temp folder access issue. Becuase it happenswhen it is supposed to drop the files into the intended folder, not when it is extracting.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Name The Best UNZIPPER!

« Last post by kartal on April 04, 2009, 01:06 AM »

SKA, based on my usage patterns winrar was the one that never shown any ill effects . It performs well.

7zip performs very good as well. But it gave me headaches here and there when decompressing. But I never had any issues with 7zip compressing files.