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by MattConfluence 7y ago
There was a fun similar thing for Reddit on https://www.reddit.com/r/TenYearsAgoOnReddit/ (and https://www.reddit.com/r/FiveYearsAgoOnReddit/ ), sadly it stopped posting ~9 months ago. Is
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
Frankly, USD3.50/month for API access is still an incredible bargain for a service of this quality. Normal users can still use the webpage form to look themselves up for free, API users pay a nominal fee that should cover the cost of t
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by MattConfluence 7y ago
A recent(-ish) addition to Python 3 I also think is worth mentioning is the statistics module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/statistics.html Every codebase eventually needs an averaging function, now you don&#
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by MattConfluence 8y ago
I have an anecdote about this book! I wrote my master's thesis about some cellular automata experiments. This was in 2016, so in the 50th anniversary year of the book. While doing background research I checked my university library&#x2
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by MattConfluence 8y ago
Interestingly, the article is available to me in Norway, where the GDPR is also in effect, just as in the EU. And the site does indeed load JS from a horrendous number of domains.
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by MattConfluence 8y ago
> The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B ark would hold everyo
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
Is it really odd that two people could reach the same conclusion when presented with the same video?
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
It's probably just that Google has published their internal document on the topic, which I don't think many other companies have done.
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
I've read a funny anecdote (no idea whether it is accurate) that von Neumann's loud gramophone music was a big source of frustration for his office neighbor, Albert Einstein.
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
What I did when I had a similar problem was to have a completely separate visualization program and pass data messages to it (using Celery and RabbitMQ). But that was in a setting where I was already using Celery for other tasks. Setting up
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
The article is from January.
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
Danish (and Swedish) used to have three grammatical genders, but the feminine and masculine merged at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
The taxation-lookup site doesn't offer any aggregated data, however you can find some statistics at the national statistics bureau's website: https://ssb.no/en/inntekt-og-forbruk (link to page in English)
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by MattConfluence 9y ago
I program a lot of Python using PyCharm, and one of my favorite features of this combination of language and IDE is how easy it is to hop into the source of your dependencies. Anything you have imported into your code you can bring up the c
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
I'm currently attending, and we're still on username@stud.ntnu.no emails. I haven't had any experience with anything bouncing in my 5 years though.
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
You might want to look into Django Rest Framework [1]. It is very well made and documented. Django's ORM + DRF is a great combination for API servers. [1] http://www.django-rest-framework.org/
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
For something less academic and more "look at cool stuff" there's also https://www.reddit.com/r/cellular_automata/
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
> Giving people more time to transition is going to benefit some projects. Python 3 was released in December 2008. Python 2.7 was released in July 2010, and was given 5 years of support which was then extended to 10. Those people who hav
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
It's a bit of a clunky sentence because of the name conflict between the concept of multiple bytes and the Python data type. A byte is a sequence of bits, and "bytes" is the name of a sequence of bytes in Python.
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
How about *.github.io? Edit: saw your other reply and looked it up myself, it's 23.235.33.133
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by MattConfluence 10y ago
I was puzzled by that sentence too, but I figured it could be interpreted as "going in the same direction, for a different reason".
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by MattConfluence 11y ago
Since Python 3 the interpreter will halt when detecting mixed whitespace, forcing the programmer to deal with it. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#tabs-or-spaces
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by MattConfluence 11y ago
> For many concepts there are four different roots: one Anglo-Saxon, one Norman French, one Latin, and one Greek. Funny how he left out Norse, since that is where English gets the word "root" from.
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by MattConfluence 11y ago
Sounds about right. Frank Drake created his famous equation [1] to try to quantify the probability of detecting ETI, but you do need to make guesses at some of the inputs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equatio
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by MattConfluence 12y ago
Kant's categorical imperative: > Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law. If everyone blocked ads the websites that rely on ad revenue would lose money and have
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by MattConfluence 12y ago
http://www.blarworld.net/hackernewsgen.html Ask HN: Does my startup need to code unicorn picture technology?
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by MattConfluence 12y ago
On branch prediction: It would be nice if we could just plug a crystal ball into a free PCI slot to help out with the prediction, but so far this approach has not borne fruit. Lacking such a peripheral, various ways have bee
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by MattConfluence 12y ago
How about >>> lyrics_list = ["her", "name", "is", "rio"] >>> words = ["is", "rio"] >>> print '\n'.join("{} is in the lyrics".