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by Luyt 14y ago
> The engine can arrange and combine > its numerical quantities exactly as if > they were letters or any other general symbols print "".join(chr(c) for c in (83, 111, 117, 110, 100, 115, 32, 116, 111, 32, 109, 101, 3
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by Luyt 14y ago
I myself was thinking 'parasitical'. Parasites (in any form) might be successful, but they're repulsive.
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The video shows people interacting with a vertical touch-screen. For short amounts of time, like getting money from an ATM, this works OK, but for prolonged usage like working on office documents, it leads to Gorilla Arm [1]. I'm afraid pe
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I also use proportional fonts when programming, since reasonably looking proportional and antialiased fonts appeared on Windows and X. Recent example: http://www.michielovertoom.com/pictures/kwrite-textanalyse.p...
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Reliability is more important than speed, and if you’re reduced to using those hacks for speed-gains your program needs help. Remember Y2K bugs! I think the reason for dropping centuries from dates was not to gain speed, but to save two b
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Password resets, airgapped devices, and data over video(rachelbythebay.com)
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Ah, args should be a tuple: p = Process(target=f, args=(num,))
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> Why would anyone want to have an executable txt file? A shell script.
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What about their husbands? Don't they care about their father-in-law?
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Also, seed the network card with a fresh random MAC on eevery reboot, or more often.
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> What happened at Apple was—for all intents and > purposes—a reverse takeover. In theory, they bought > NeXT. In practice, NeXT’s management took over > managing Apple and its OS became Apple’s OS. Something
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...and got enough funding for it.
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Member Function Pointers and the Fastest Possible C++ Delegates, by Don Clugston(codeproject.com)
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When your "rank" is NaN(rachelbythebay.com)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder ;-)
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> Edited because I couldn't get monospace text working If you start each line with a few spaces, HN will format it as source code: b PyEval_EvalFrameEx if strcmp(PyString_AsString(f->f_code->co_name), "handle_uncaught_ex
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The users are switched to Google services. They'll probably be privately emailed about it.
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Python version [(10,5,9,6,20,17,1)[i] for i in (6,1,3,2,0,5,4)]
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Except on the homepage itself ;-)
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Didn't Microsoft see the elephant in the room? The Metro interface will never work with desktop PCs equipped with (vertical) touchscreens: it's very fatiguing. From WikiPedia: "the human arm held in an unsupported horizontal position rapidl
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Refuse to be mediocre(rachelbythebay.com)
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Somewhat more general and with a humorous undertone: http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ Not only the video, but a transcript too.
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" one of my coworkers asked me to stop because 'we are all going to be out of work'." This is the argument of the anti-technologist, sometimes called the "Luddite fallacy" [1]. Somehow these people think that the time freed by automating m
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That site not only does science education, but its founder Deborah Byrd also replies to comments from her website visitors, with a skeptical view. The commenters generally see the End Of The World in solar flares: Comment: "I believe that
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The government closes down after 13:00 for the whole afternoon? Or only for a siesta?
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Don't forget that the majority of people see computers as tools or vehicles, and just like you have to fill your gas tank from time to time with expensive gas, they think it's perfectly normal to pay for software regularly, even when it doe
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"Now, I'm hearing people talk about being concerned about the number of quote-unquote 'idea people' flooding the field." I'm not concerned at all. Ideas are just that: vapor. Show me a concrete implementation. Someone has to actually buil
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Python3 isn't much different from Python2. It's not like you have to re-learn Python when you switch from 2 to 3. In a nutshell: print() has become a function instead of a statement. The standard library has been made more consistent. Built
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The secret guild of Silicon Valley(medriscoll.com)
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This is more about HTML/CSS/jQuery coding than about Rails. Nevertheless, insightful video in a typical development process.

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