Aramgutang

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by Aramgutang 15y ago
We don't need to "imagine" not being able to divide up money past the 5 cent barrier. Here in Australia, pennies have been abolished and everything is either rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. New Zealand has already taken it one st
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
By genuine interest I mean interest in the course. They may have genuine interest in art history, but are taking the computing course because of pressure from parents.
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
I don't like to defend what smells of blatant racism, but it makes more sense if you divide the generalisation into the following: * Students who are taking a course due to societal pressure, rather than genuine interest, are more likely to
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
10:00 - go to daily status meeting 10:12 - everyone else arrives at daily status meeting 2:00 - go to Special Planning Session for Project #127 2:12 - others arrive at Special Planning Session for Project #127 4:00 - go to d
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
tl;dr: He likes to review his code and make notes on printouts in bed.
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
Looks like the author meant free as in freedom, not beer.
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by Aramgutang 15y ago
This would more accurately be described as a "cheat", rather than a "hack".
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
Tell that to Zynga and Blizzard. Social games (which Foursquare would fall under) have a very long-lasting grip on people.
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
Though I agree it's quite unpythonic, there's precedent for this practice in the history of Django. Simplejson has been bundled with Django for a long time (at least as far back as 1.0). Just like with unittest2, it would check for Python 2
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
My Firefox (3.6.13 on OS X) decided to overlay the video extending it outside the page bounds and covering the status bar, and it will not go away now that I closed the tab, remaining overlaid over all the other pages when I switch tabs. A-
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
Actually, the UK allows people of any nationality to enter the country for up to 24 hours for transit, including travel between airports, as long as you have evidence of your connecting flight and a visa for the country of your destination:
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
I'm having the unpleasant sensation of my neurons rearranging themselves to account for the realisation that my memory of the relevant events was so fundamentally incorrect. I do apologise. I'm fairly new to commenting on HN, is it bad form
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
The author severely overestimates how much of a risk the iPhone was for Apple, and how unexpectedly it changed the way we interact with mobile devices. He is forgetting the iPod Touch, which was Apple's "concept" model (that actually ship
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
Thankfully, he is not an admin.
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
"Cut the Rope" is a popular iOS game that reguires 4 or 5 finger movement on some levels to cut multiple ropes simultaneously. I can recall at least one level that would be near impossible to complete on 4.3, as it requires imitating the ne
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by Aramgutang 16y ago
In addition to that, GitHub counts JSON files as JavaScript. I have a Django project with a large JSON fixture checked in, and GitHub reports it as 90% JS, 10% Python.