alan_p

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by alan_p 17y ago
I started with PHP and I wouldn't recommend it. It teaches you horrible habits and its type system is equally confusing if you get started or if you come from another language. Plus, you have that heavily polluted global namespace, a half-a
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by alan_p 17y ago
Python comes with a turtle module, which means you can do all the neat drawing stuff you could do in Logo back in the days. Also Python's interactive console provides two helpful functions: help and dir, which let you stay in the console ev
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by alan_p 17y ago
I think the book would definitely become a lot more interesting that way. Chapter 1: Stacks Chapter 2: Reverse Polish Notation Chapter 3: Australia Chapter 4: Penal transportation Chapter 5: Slavery Chapter 6: Prostitution Chapter 7: Pornog
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by alan_p 17y ago
Eh. It's the good old escalation argument all over again. Sure, you can fix some problems by cutting the broken solutions and letting it escalate until it solves itself. Sure, the end result will be better than the status quo, but why would
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by alan_p 17y ago
I hope you do take the time to read up on the background of such stories before commenting on them. The reason they wanted to homeschool their children is because they are religious fundamentalists and consider the mostly laizist school cur
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by alan_p 17y ago
Gravedigging a bit here, but WTF dude? I've started authoring websites in 1996 with just Notepad and I still hand-write my HTML on a daily basis. The problem with HTML has been (and will be, for a long time) that there is no WYSIWYG editor
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by alan_p 17y ago
Nay. I agree that recording private individuals in public places is dodgy (forbidden where I live, even -- and I am thankful for that), but police officers on duty do not fall in this category, especially when they are actively using force.
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by alan_p 17y ago
Having an AltGr (third-level chooser) key on my native language keyboard, I was quite surprised to see Ubuntu (Linux in general? It's all in xkb's symbols layout anyway) have not only third level glyphs on way more keys than I was used to f
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by alan_p 17y ago
I've actually never used the Compose feature in Linux. I prefer dead keys for accents for ease of typing (though it does tend to get hard to remember where you put dead_ogonek when you're not using it on a daily basis) so I naturally just s
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by alan_p 17y ago
It's perfectly legitimate. It's fine to speak to your child in a language that is not the official language in the country you live in. It's obviously more helpful if SOMEONE also speaks to the child in the official language, but that's bes
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by alan_p 17y ago
I've got a green colour impairment. I'm not colour blind. I'm not even green blind. And I'm definitely not red/green blind. If you're thinking about colour impairments, please keep this in mind: just because some people have a colour impair
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by alan_p 17y ago
Bullshit. Copyright has a lot of problems and the lawsuits aren't doing anything, no matter HOW you decide who to sue. Professional copyright infringement (e.g. companies using pirated software) is easy to spot and easy to persecute. It's a