anthonyb

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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well then - I guess there's not much point in arguing with you.
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Well then, I guess reality has a pro-Palestinian bias too. 38 Palestinians killed so far, 257 wounded, mostly civilians, vs. 3 Israeli civilians killed.
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It doesn't contain everything you need at all - that's why it's called a microframework. If you want to use an ORM, or have database backed sessions, or user logins, you need to write all that yourself. For example: http://flask.pocoo.org/
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Because the attitude of Israel hasn't changed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing#60th_a... The UN and the BBC disagree with you on the blockade: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5122404.stm
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How about the IPS? http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/11/israeli-firepower-threatens-t... Ooo! How about the BBC? Are they a pro-Palestinian propaganda site too? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20367005 The basic point, which you'r
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Sure, they let some through - but not enough to support the people there on anything more than a borderline subsistence level. http://www.ipsnews.net/2010/07/mideast-israel-chokes-gaza-de...
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> Still they are rather humane Er, what? Go and look up the history of Irgun and Lehi. Israel is just as bad as anyone else in the conflict. Back in the 30s and 40s they were blowing up buses and shooting civilians every day: http:/
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Except when it's, say, a car driving down a populated street.
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I think your analysis is pretty one sided there. Palestinians have to live with far worse danger - Hamas don't have helicopter gunships or laser guided bombs, for example. Israel is in a far more powerful position; they should be the ones s
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The rule of law is important. Tit-for-tat exchanges like the ones that Israel and Palestine are engaging in solve nothing. It descends into monkey hindbrain us-against-them. Another very similar scenario recently was Northern Ireland. That
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"natural" != "right"
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Yes, yes it was. Why not arrest him and try him for war crimes? Assuming that there's enough evidence to convict - and if not, why is that enough to go and kill him?
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That would be the one in the article: http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/enhanced-buzz...
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That still doesn't make it right to post tweets glorifying murder.
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> I think Western civilization as a whole has completely forgotten how to win wars. Two points here: 1. Guerilla warfare has become a lot more effective in the 20th century. You can't just drive in with tanks any more. 2. Winning wars
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This is modules, not core. Core was last year: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=36ab287e77e9df...
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Well, until you graduate and continue your old habits...
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Except that then your serialisation system has to handle arbitrary objects, which may not be what you want.
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Probably likely to be an attribute on the RouterMessage, or a dependency injection, or a configuration setting somewhere. I can only imagine the chaos if you start encoding a mixture of Latin-1 and UTF-8 headers :)
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Why do you have to call it anything? Why isn't it a method or attribute on a RouterMessage object? Then it'd be something like: RouterMessage.utf8_xml_header or shorter if you decided on utf8 across the board.
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Ah, naming things. One of the two hard problems left in Computer Science.
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That's essentially part of the legend now, much like Musashi and his alleged lack of personal hygiene :)
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I don't think it's an ad hominem at all. The event is billed as "Come build the future of music", but if all they're doing is building a bunch of web apps against some APIs, then they're really just doing the music API developers work for t
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Because it's usually the people who feel that they're entitled to a discount no matter what, who also feel that they're entitled to white glove service, support calls after hours even for trivial questions (with 10 minute turnaround), sim
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Yeah, the code you're working on is really treasure in disguise. Whatever gets you through the day...
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> To a project manager, the programmer who hits every deadline (regardless of quality) is a good programmer. > To a customer, the programmer who solves their problem quickest is a good programmer. Up until the codebase is such unb
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Carrier Pigeon remains found with coded wartime message(guardian.co.uk)
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You seem to be missing the most important question of all: what is it that you want to do? Just "learning programming" is like learning to hammer nails. Sure, it's a useful skill, but if you don't have a slightly higher goal you'll get bore
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The "problem" with remote mines was that you could throw a mine and press A+B at the same time while it was still in mid-air. BOOM! Instant detonation! So you'd be able to just insta-kill people who weren't expecting it. Eventually it balan
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Heh, you even have your HN account named after a 007 character :)

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