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by ambivalence 10y ago
Is there something wrong with how GitHub renders the Markdown you generate? The two examples given in the repo are not exactly human-readable and apart from bullet points I didn't notice any styling.
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by ambivalence 10y ago
PEP 442 describes the situation with good detail, including how it was in Python 2 and how Python 3 improves on it: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0442/
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by ambivalence 10y ago
In fact, this is now fixed in Python 3.6. When gc is disabled by the user, the final collection is not done. The effect is faster shutdown with less "copy on read" but some __del__ methods and finally: blocks in some generators mi
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by ambivalence 10y ago
> The streets of San Francisco—spiritually part of the Valley—feel less crowded. Coffee-shop conversations are hushed. Everything feels a little muted, an eerie quiet broken by chants of protesters. It even seems as if there are more par
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by ambivalence 10y ago
See, this is a good example because in Python 2 the string is just bytes. Ł is 0xC5 0x81. Reversing those bytes just corrupts the content. This isn't exclusive to this one operation. Let me give you another example: >>>
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by ambivalence 10y ago
Thank you!
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by ambivalence 10y ago
I use it as a primary search engine on all devices. Every now and then I'd fallback to !g or !gi if a particular search is particularly bad, typically to learn that Google isn't much better. But the fact those commands are there m
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by ambivalence 10y ago
__future__ imports are per file. A few posts up you were proposing an interpreter-wide switch. Did you change your mind?
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by ambivalence 10y ago
Well, we'd believe you if you said "Nobody has more respect for Hacker News than me. I know it, you know it, everybody knows it!"
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The most productive week ever in CPython development(blog.python.org)
14 points by ambivalence 10y ago|0 comments
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by ambivalence 10y ago
You ask for it, you got it! https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2016/08/pypy-gets-funding-from...
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by ambivalence 10y ago
Watch out. You laugh at this as if it's some Marvel Universe pop culture thing. In fact, some of the readers here have families that were sent to Siberia during or shortly after WW2. You wouldn't joke about concentration camps. I
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by ambivalence 10y ago
Do you think if you submitted an RTF or even a TXT they would turn you down?
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by ambivalence 10y ago
An European's perspective on tipping is nicely covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBTfj2lN6sQ Basically, "The bill came to $20 therefore you asked me for $20 and as per your exact request I gave you $20
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by ambivalence 10y ago
One more trick for you: use messenger.com if you need contact with people at work but don't want notifications or the news feed to distract you.
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My Brain, Apple and the Transfer of Fragility(lukasz.langa.pl)
2 points by ambivalence 11y ago|0 comments
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by ambivalence 11y ago
You can always just say: "Read the article FIRST and then come back to read the comments. . . . Spoiler alert. Post is fiction. Yadda yadda."
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by ambivalence 11y ago
You could make it usable as a "web clip", i.e. an bookmark that you can add to your home screen.
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by ambivalence 11y ago
A whole world of new search vectors would open if you scraped and mined the reviews.
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by ambivalence 11y ago
This is a nice alternative. Bookmarked! As I'm sure you know as a parent by now, the next nice-to-have feature would be to filter against apps that use ads. Worst offenders being full screen video ads you can't skip and banner ads
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by ambivalence 11y ago
Well, there's also type hints that so far we haven't added to "What's New" :) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
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by ambivalence 12y ago
Where's the bundle with the "Keep-My-5yo-Kid-Asleep-Until-My-Alarm-Goes-Off" option? Would pay for that.
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by ambivalence 12y ago
Derek Sivers is so wrong in his video. The Talking Heads were active until 1991!
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by ambivalence 12y ago
How do you mean "All your WhatsApp messages"? Isn't it by design that WhatsApp only ever stores undelivered messages? Once they reach the recipient, they're gone from the servers. This lets the infrastructure be really s
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by ambivalence 12y ago
The torus design really makes it so that it's uphill both ways. That would change the "Back in my day" jokes forever.
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by ambivalence 13y ago
You surely shared this so I can weigh in. No? Not really? Well, here's my opinion anyway. In this infographic Bret Victor claims that expecting college education to prepare you for a day job is an invalid idea. He also implies that an
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"Permission denied" - How I found and worked around an annoying quirk(lukasz.langa.pl)
1 points by ambivalence 14y ago|0 comments
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by ambivalence 17y ago
The Python community, being relatively small, seems to dig this aggressive way of making changes to libraries and the interpreter itself. It has many advantages and speaking of disdvantages, most of the ones you specify are really non-issue