Erwin

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by Erwin 18y ago
To be so CSS-styleable, CSS Zen Garden uses multiple layers of DIV in DIV in DIV all over the place. Hardly better than table. Also this gem: <div id="extraDiv1"><span></span></div><div id="extraD
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by Erwin 18y ago
There's a 'rename' script that comes with Perl that also does this, which may be useful if you want some really fancy renames. E.g. rename '$_=lc' *.MP3 to change case to lowercase.
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by Erwin 18y ago
Last year, reddit explored just how cool Obama could get: http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/entry/cool_cooler_coolest_and_bey...
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by Erwin 18y ago
I do have paid premium and a good amount of users, and support also was frustating when it came to a certain fairly technical problem to do with DKIM/DomainKeys signed emails being silently discarded. It went on and on in circles and even w
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by Erwin 18y ago
If you liked this, you might enjoy another religion what-if TV movie, starring the Ninth Doctor: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353104/
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by Erwin 18y ago
If the profit sharing income is significant that may pit ordinary workers against owners who want to expand the business. E.g. if you are on route for $100k profit this year it might be better to invest that profit in the company by hiring
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by Erwin 18y ago
Agreed, I do 99% of my work in Python and I only use perl -e '....', but I enjoyed Higher Order Perl more than most other Python books. Python books seem so boringly practical - Higher Oder Perl was fun!
728.
by Erwin 18y ago
My string/sequence related annoyince is ''.split() -vs- ''.split(';'). The first returns [], but the second returns [''].
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by Erwin 18y ago
"minicab rape" was a frequently enough occurance in London that there were frequent public service announcements before movies just last year, asking people not to take an unlicensed cab, showing how you risk getting raped otherwise. ("mini
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by Erwin 18y ago
2010: hardware version of these appears in glasses, adjusting what you see in real-time. alcohol consumption drops 40%, prolonging the lives of millions. Huge population boom occurs. 1-10 scale of attractiveness now goes to 11. 2020: global
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by Erwin 18y ago
Could someone who successfully uses an assistant like that outline concrete tasks they delegate to them? Both private and job related (software engineering here). 9 out of 10 restaurants here do online booking and I don't need to book at th
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by Erwin 18y ago
I wouldn't use a single regexp for complete username validation -- if it fails, all you can display is a generic "username is not valid, it must obey rules X, Y & Z" message. I'd check min and max length separately and display an approp
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by Erwin 18y ago
Rackspace does also have a datacenter in UK. We have a small server there to satisfy certain EU privacy laws.
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by Erwin 18y ago
The author is clueless about how SSL works. Barring the newer TLS extensions (RFC 3546), you can only have one virtual hostname per IP address when using SSL. So if the same host IP respondes to www.foo.com and www.bar.com, you'll only be a
735.
by Erwin 18y ago
The "catch" being: "Zeep Mobile supports this service by attaching 40-character teaser advertisements to each message sent to your users' mobile phones. Your users have the option to respond with the appropriate trigger word to receive more
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by Erwin 18y ago
VisiBone have some very nice quality laminated reference charts, booklets etc.: http://www.visibone.com/ -- their JS/CSS references have very high information density.
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by Erwin 18y ago
I suspend my desktop nightly (which saves about $100/year). I have SSH sessions to 6 machines: they just run while:; do ssh -t hostname screen -dR. After a resume, a "killall ssh" kills the broken connections and starts a new one which will
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by Erwin 18y ago
They might not own knol.com, but they're #3 in the results while knol.com is about #15. "Google" didn't mean any more when they started out. Top searches for knol include blog about the coming of Knol, Wikipedia (!) article about Knol, Knol
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by Erwin 18y ago
Blockbusters popular with the avid Internet users have always started at incredibly high ratings only to slowly fally to the right place. The LOTR movies were in top-10 once too. I suppose IMDB might try to account for the initial voting wa
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by Erwin 18y ago
I checked the article's claim for myself -- "Results 1 - 10 of about 12,700,000 for read russian." "How to read Russian in 75 minutes" knol at #5 -- but it was created yesterday. Google does not seem so objective now.
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by Erwin 18y ago
http://www.modsecurity.org/ can provide an additional layer of defense for your web apps.
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by Erwin 18y ago
I've tried Wing personally, but it was just too much pretty but superfluous GUI stuff all over the place. As a primary editor I use xemacs21 in full-screen mode with everything extra disabled; I typically have 2-3 instances running (due to
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by Erwin 18y ago
On To Do page: buy a SSL certificate or self-sign so key transfer is not in the clear Haha. I don't think the idea (if this is not a scam/joke) has merit because even if you forget your SSH passphrase, you have access to the server via a ro
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by Erwin 18y ago
More importantly property getters will silently do nothing in old-style classes and just let the attribute setting through without calling the setter, while getters work fine.
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by Erwin 18y ago
bool(x) may sometimes do more than x is None. If x is not None, then truth value is determined by calling __nonzero__ or __len__. For an ordinary sequence type that's fine, but some years ago I had code like this: if not self.db: self.db =
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by Erwin 18y ago
http://www.just-eat.co.uk/pages/frontpage.aspx -- this is a site that originally started in Denmark but they seem to have expanded to UK etc. pretty well. You order and pay online (which is nice for deliveries); they either phone in your
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by Erwin 18y ago
I've used toptable.co.uk for that which is pretty good (most of their restaurants are in London but I've booked places in Rome succesfully too). Key points are good description of the restaurant, accurate sample menus, pictures and reviews
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by Erwin 18y ago
It's not as extensible as Roundup, and is poorly integrated with email compared to Roundup and others. It has a far nicer user interface though and various features like release note, projects estimation.
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by Erwin 18y ago
It's an IDLE IDE problem as lilspikey mentioned rather than Python itself. From what I can tell, IDLE listens on a fixed port on localhost in order to communicate with the actual Python interpreter, so starting multiple IDLEs may not work.
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by Erwin 18y ago
What error message?

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