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by aconbere 16y ago
2) plants protect themselves with bioactive substances directly aimed at animals, substances which may have untoward effects on long-term human health. Does anyone have a reputable journal article that supports this theory? The authors own
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by aconbere 16y ago
page 4 of the pdf: "This book is Copyright (C) 2010 by Zed A. Shaw. You are free to distribute this book to anyone you want, so long as you do not charge anything for it, and it is not altered. You must give away the book in its entirety, o
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by aconbere 16y ago
I can buy that this is a serious drawback for some users. Personally even at 1280x800 the pixel density is so high that I end up with my text size so large that having the extra pixels afforded by the x201s (1400x900) wouldn't buy me anythi
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by aconbere 16y ago
I would feel a lot happier with a display port and a cable for vga than the other way around. :)
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by aconbere 16y ago
The 301 is pretty far out of date now, and with the X201 and X201s options doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.
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by aconbere 16y ago
I can not rave enough about the Lenovo X201 small, fast, usable. I switched to the lenovo machine after using a MBP for the previous 4 years. But it really depends on what you need and want. I commute with my laptop, travel with my laptop,
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by aconbere 17y ago
You might be able to get away with removing most of the explanation if you had a simple animation of the game play looping on the page. All I needed was to start the first level to understand how the game worked (having played drop 7)
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by aconbere 17y ago
While not explicitly mentioned in the introduction I think it's safe to say that the books title is a play off of the popular title "Linear algebra done right" http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Sheldon-Axler/dp/... Which is a pre
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by aconbere 17y ago
I don't know if I'm the only one who finds this pattern of acting on the string representation of the function as being a bit distressing. One the one hand it's a bit like using macros, on the other, there's clearly no first class support f
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by aconbere 17y ago
I saw them clearing some blackberries near uw last year. And it was quite a spectacle. Since the area they were clearing was along side the burke-gillman trail everyone walking/running/biking stopped to take a look. Entertaining /AND/ envir
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by aconbere 17y ago
Now I want to know who else is living in UTC-10 (who else is living in Hawaii!)
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by aconbere 17y ago
It's not just the books, it's the web resources as well (possibly more importantly). One thing to think about is that if MS is serious about reaching devs like this. Then they need to start understanding the appeal of frameworks that we're
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by aconbere 17y ago
I suspect that a floating object increase the range over which you have to search. If you object sinks to the bottom, at least you know about where it ended up.
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by aconbere 18y ago
Our stuff in python is all on top of werkzeug :)
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by aconbere 18y ago
This is a bit of a misconception about how memory works. Erlang's strength of processes memory encapsulation and share nothing semantics are not compromised by alloying multiple assignment. In fact you can very easily model Multiple assignm
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by aconbere 18y ago
I'm a bit confused about where you're coming from here. They could certainly have attempted to license v8 but since the bulk of what they have going on are extension of the already open sourced WebKit rendering engine that would have been d
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by aconbere 18y ago
This really isn't fair. Since we also consist of the demographic least likely to actually click on ads. Since impressions bring in such small amounts of revenue compared to clicks we're really not shitting the scales very much. In the end a
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by aconbere 18y ago
I don't have any good ruby examples, but I've been bitten by namespace trampling behaviors in perl and php long enough to know that any code importing in languages I use need to make it explicit when that's occurring.
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by aconbere 18y ago
I don't think you read my comment, while I did take a stab at gems, the point was to simple to provide a counter point to his statement that he commonly forgets to import the right namespaces in python. The counter is of course, that I forg
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by aconbere 18y ago
Good sir I do say... that was quite the pun :-D takes his hat off
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by aconbere 18y ago
yeah... cause you know... I never forget to include 'gems' because gems has to monkey patch the include function so that it can get at my installed libraries :P
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by aconbere 18y ago
sigh yeah... you could do that, but you often times you have to deal with methods that aren't invoked that way. http://blog.sidu.in/2007/11/ruby-blocks-gotchas.html is a good run down of some of the problems here
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by aconbere 18y ago
Right, it just doesn't seem to be Ruby style, and it would be nice to be able to use the "pretty" block syntax to accomplish that.
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by aconbere 18y ago
I'm 100% with you on simplicity, elegance and beauty. I just demand that as much from the design of the languages I use as from my own code. I've tried to explain it like this. To me ruby feels Turtles all the way down with respect to Objec
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by aconbere 18y ago
from module import * tada! it's just considered bad python style to do that... because it tromples your global namespace!!
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by aconbere 18y ago
I've somehow forgotten to rant about ruby's totally hackish broken tools for importing code. require and include are just heinous crimes against nice programming. (I /love/ it when I clobber my global namespace with an include in ruby).
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by aconbere 18y ago
True python's lambda's suck. And Ruby's lambda's for the most part don't suck. But ruby's methods really do suck, and so do the complex construction of Blocks. While I recognize that blocks allow you to do weird things (like use return on t
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by aconbere 18y ago
It's cool that it changed the way you approach writing code, but it's more than a little presumptuous to go and apply that experience beyond yourself. I'm sorry if I didn't see much in ruby that I hadn't already seen, it's not as though rub
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by aconbere 18y ago
(though my intention was not to derail the conversation. This is a niggling difference between ruby and python that irks me :-D) Right I would be arguing as the latter. My problem is that these small niggling differences between all the dif
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by aconbere 18y ago
Yeah... sobs it's a nice band-aid, but an inelegant solution. I would much rather that they all just be Proc or all some other mythical procedure class of the future. I figure that would break the whole ruby method call chain, though I do

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