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by BrandonM 16y ago
qq3jYpJDq@q@@ 13 Edit: I can trim one more off, to make it 12: qq3jYpJDq2@q
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by BrandonM 16y ago
An interesting note about Kick-Ass is that it's pretty widely known* that director Matthew Vaughn is planning to release an extended cut which has over 18 minutes of deleted material. I loved the movie and would definitely purchase an ext
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> LaTeX conversion usually requires three different tools That's what shell scripts are for. It is trivial to write a script that will accept a LaTeX filename and run the necessary commands on it. It is only a little bit more work to ad
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Ugh. Just learn LaTeX and write once.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
You can't get much better than Norvig. Here's one possible starting place: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/python/readme.html
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by BrandonM 16y ago
To help keep everyone out of a "What is that freaking word? I know it but can't think of it!" loop, the word he meant to use was verbose . Also, to save you the work: ver·bo·ten forbidden, as by law; prohibited. http://dictionary
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by BrandonM 16y ago
That story is messed up for sure, but I really doubt Long Beach is the kind local small-town law enforcement the grandparent post is talking about.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I would tend to write that: bool is_foo_possible() { return test_first_condition() && test_second_contition() && test_third_condition() } I prefer to put my infix operators at the beginning of contin
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by BrandonM 16y ago
The web was much different back then. People now would just post Twitter updates or blog posts describing what was going on. In this case, he posted the story and got some readers, people checking back regularly to follow what was happening
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> eminent domain, however, requires paying fair market value for any land taken (it's basically just an offer to buy your land that you can't refuse) If it's "fair market value," then why do they need to exercise eminent domain in order
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This is modern business mantra in a nutshell. It's sad. When it comes to implementation, business interactions involve people. If those people want to be dicks and say, "It's business," that's their prerogative. We're all sharing an existen
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Why not create a DNS webhop?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
* is a wildcard in general. Its behavior is identical to the .* in a regular expression.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> (C-w works in Vim(insert mode) and Emacs, but kills me when I try to type it in a browser window to delete a word... Good-bye window and/or tab) Control-Shift-T usually solves that problem for me in Firefox.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> BTW, when using screen, ctrl-a is its default action key This ends up annoying me on a regular basis. Let's say I want to make a directory and then go to it. I would type: mkdir foo<Ctrl-p><Ctrl-a><Alt-d>cd
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by BrandonM 16y ago
whoosh The article is claiming that it looks like the site that is using Paypal (as opposed to Paypal itself) is the one that is calling Paypal "The safer, easier way to pay." To build on your analogy, if there was an independent site tha
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Python covers all of that with the exception of multi-threading, and according to an internal memo at Sun linked at the bottom of the article ( http://www.archub.org/javamemo.txt ), it (at least initially) had comparable performance to Java
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Is there any reason these beekeepers can't sue Bayer and the EPA for the side effects of the pesticides? Couldn't such a suit call for an injunction preventing its use pending the results of the lawsuit?
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Tell HN: Advice from my fortune cookie
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> The point of finally is that it's always, always, always executed. Except when it's not. If you design a large system with the assumption that finally blocks always execute, you could end up with some data integrity issues when you
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by BrandonM 16y ago
But you can also do cp [args] -t [destination folder] [list of things] The same is true of mv. This is useful if you are piping filenames to xargs.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Why manually specify a key as a string instead of using an int auto_increment?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Downvoted because of throwaway account, not that you care. But I think that points out a silly game that you're playing: 1. Karma is almost meaningless. No one cares what your karma is, and there's effectively no reason that you should care
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by BrandonM 16y ago
This is pretty much a perfect example of a comment so bad, even its creator should have realized it and dropped it before it got anywhere near the reply stage. Seriously, what idea have you implemented lately?
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Considering that it says "(nytimes.com)" right next to the article title, football = American football should probably be assumed.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I think it's actually pretty brilliant on NYT's part. They're forcing Google to fix the problem instead of working around it like Google has asked everyone else to do. This isn't Google's Internet; they don't get to tell us how to use it.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
In the course of participating in a community or in an activity, it can be hard to avoid defining yourself in terms of that participation. "I am a Hacker News member," or "I am a poker player," become not only descriptions of what you do, b
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by BrandonM 16y ago
Quitting loudly helps to burn the bridge. Presumably he is removing any temptation to return.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
I'm glad to hear that, thanks for clearing it up. Of course, I also intended my comment as a warning to others that the origination of hacking might not necessarily be the culprit.
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by BrandonM 16y ago
> Two less idiots to deal with. That's an interesting attitude. Do you often find yourself having to "deal with" benign-but-ignorant FTP admins? Keep in mind that many people running FTP sites are not technical by trade, and you're usin

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