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by SpiderX 14y ago
I'm fairly certain that someone somewhere at Google has given a thought to this. You aren't the "smartest person in the room".
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by SpiderX 14y ago
I think the fact is that we are in debt so far that we can barely afford to pay the interest payments. Now, there are two ways out of it. We can pay our debts, or we can dissolve the government, in which case, our debtors will hold the amer
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by SpiderX 14y ago
>arguably I dunno, some people could certainly argue that their source code is their most valued and secret intellectual property, if going by their insurance claims alone.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Yup. He said " the first mover dominates". Not true. Sixdegrees.com was the first social network, bet you've never heard of it until now. "First mover" means jack.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
"if in" is not the preferred way to check for the presence of a key in a dict. You should use setdefault. The thing is, you aren't searching for a key in a dict only. You're memoizing. And try/except is the most efficient way to do that. Th
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by SpiderX 14y ago
It's a stress test. When it goes on sale, millions will be able to buy it and sign up and create accounts, etc. This allows them to get statistics which will help them plan for a smooth launch.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
I know. I don't even drink alcohol or use facebook or github, looks like I'm screwed.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Yea, I use google code and sourceforge. Guess that means I'm unqualified. Not that I'd want the internship. I have been a programmer for 10 years and love my current job.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Rosetta Stone worked great for me. I learned Russian in about 6 months, my wife says my pronunciation is perfect. Well, she wasn't my wife when I met her, and she didn't speak any english, so it was motivation enough for me to learn to spea
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by SpiderX 14y ago
I'm pretty sure he was. Though it does sound like he is saying the new design is cool.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
For a memoize function, try/except is perfect. You gain a slight speed benefit from function calls that are memoized as compared to the "if x not in y", and since memoize is all about speeding up repetitive function calls, it's the most opt
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by SpiderX 14y ago
The try/except is the preferred python way of doing things. In Python, try/except is cheap, and in the case where the try actually succeeds, you can gain a slight performance benefit. In this case, since performance is the goal, it is perfe
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Nothing, I guess... except perhaps scalability.
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Nice. The Hunger Games is a rickroll? Is that something you did?
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by SpiderX 14y ago
Or give advertisers a huge audience and tell them 'just write it like you are an average joe'.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
I think that's more to do with "herd immunity" than anything else. There haven't been enough macs communicating with macs to have widespread damage from a mac virus.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Those are all treatments for cancer, not a cure.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Yes, except this is a browser plugin, and no web browsers support bittorrents, so the download is not going to happen unless the plugin user installs a bittorrent updater engine, which probably isn't going to happen.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
If you want to take a look at some software that uses Web2Py, here's a good search: http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:web2py
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by SpiderX 15y ago
I like it, I've used a few python frameworks, and I enjoy working with Web2py. It has quite a large community, though not as big as Django or rails. 3700+ members of the group on groups.google.com. Massimo (the guy who invented it, and teac
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Because it gives you absolutely no idea what the product actually does, and it's un-googleable. Try googling novocaine - guess what, you won't find this in the first page of results. Good luck with it. I'm sure it may be one awesome piece o
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Past two places I've worked, I was asked on a pre-employment form that I had to fill out, and I refused. I still got hired.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Right, and suppose like me, you don't actually have a facebook page. I have a pretty common name. There's at least 25 people with my same name living in the same city as me. Are they going to believe me when I say I don't have a facebook ac
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by SpiderX 15y ago
Absolutely hate the name.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
It was written by some dude who "sold two companies". Quite out of touch with the working man who needs references. Safe to ignore in that case.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
If you want a raw HTML file, what's stopping you from using CURL to get your raw HTML file and uploading it?
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by SpiderX 15y ago
It seems to me that it's pretty dumb to leave the affiliate ids attached. If anything, I think their initial idea of replacing affiliate links with their own affiliate smart. People don't like it, they can use another site.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
All they'd have to do is add a captcha to the submit. Trivial to implement and it would reduce the spammers.
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by SpiderX 15y ago
I don't see this as a trend, people who want to know how to program will learn. It's the same as if cars were just invented 30 years ago and people start learning how to work on cars. The auto mechanic didn't go out of business, in fact I t
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by SpiderX 15y ago
It is interesting, but I don't think as implemented, the Wilson system is the best. If an article has over 200 comments, you'll (by default) only see the "best" 200 (max 500), so those will be more likely to receive the most votes. It's the

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