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by anthonyb 15y ago
It works the way that most open source third party libraries do: There'll initially be some hacked together stuff, then a couple of contenders will emerge, copying each other's features. After the dust has settled there'll be a few decent l
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Language features and third party libraries are different things though.
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Virtualenv isn't a hack. How else would you run multiple different versions of Python or a library?
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Yeah, I goggled a bit at that one too. Particularly when it's immediately followed by a complaint about things being modified unexpectedly. Some of the complaints are not really issues, eg. you can comment out loops by adding an "if 0:" aft
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Sometimes your problem space is really just that complex, in which case there's not much you can do, short of writing some sort of business rules engine.
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I find that it's a problem with most languages. Beyond a certain point a project will start to need infrastructure, documentation, code style guidelines and tests - especially when there's more than one developer. My personal preference is
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I find that the best way to fix this is to write your program as a library, then the part that you're supposed to run as a script which imports and runs it. No __underscore__magic__ required.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
The way I would do it is to push the processing out to functions, too. Something like: verdict = get_verdict(the_thing) if verdict not in blessedsolutions: return I'd advise against running returns onto the same line - I find
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Except that rolling high vs. low vs. a balance of both all have equal probabilities.
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I find that it's not so much a balanced distribution of numbers, but that you don't have to cash in 4 for 1 for a resource that you need. Also, you don't need a deck of dice - just draw on an old pack of cards with a permanent marker :)
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by anthonyb 15y ago
plug: my Settlers of Catan strategy guide: http://blog.oarsum.com/post/263227690/the-weasel-guide-to-se... Might come in handy for some...
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by anthonyb 15y ago
If the luck element bothers you, just use a deck of 36 cards, numbered from 2-12: 1x2, 2x3, 3x4, etc. (Either draw your own on a deck of cards or use two decks of playing cards). Shuffle, and deal from the top instead of a dice roll. When t
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Encrypted video/voice data looks like encrypted Bittorrent data.
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How does that apparent belief square with their actions though? If they really believed that you should have control over your personal information, and that your trust mattered, they would never have uploaded it without user consent. It's
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by anthonyb 15y ago
There are plenty of cases where immigration can be negative, particularly in the short term, so controlling the amount of immigration makes sense. In the case of corn subsidies you can argue that the political process has been derailed in f
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Your analogy doesn't hold. San Jose is not a country, and it has no legal right to prevent US citizens from entering its borders. If (eg.) more people enter than its hospitals or roads can comfortably handle, then it can appeal to the Feder
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by anthonyb 15y ago
I think the idea was to spend a little bit of time/effort on each of the causes responsible for your issue. Over time, causes which need more fixing will crop up again and again and on average you'll spend the right amount of time on each o
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by anthonyb 15y ago
250,000 photos downloaded in 2 hours, according to http://www.flickraft.com/ . 100x the API limit!
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Well, whether they will be successful is a matter for the courts, but they are on pretty shaky legal ground. It's not clearly a parody, they are clearly a competitor and the colours and font, if not identical, are similar enough to evoke th
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I fear you are confusing counties with countries.
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Colours would be under trademark, not copyright, but in this case they're also ripping off the Flickr logo. Same colours, same font.
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Heh. I guess chess has been scripted, but it took long enough that I'd probably consider it to still be an interesting game.
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Reminds me of Sikuli: http://sikuli.csail.mit.edu/ If you check out their blog, they have a script which plays Angry Birds. I've done similar things myself, with boring online/Facebook games. If you can script it, it's not a very interest
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Interesting; This comment has been voted up and down since I posted it, but nobody's yet answered with something that makes vim more annoying than emacs (or vice versa).
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Maybe you shouldn't assume that people are morons? --- Clarification, since I'm getting downvoted for that: Go look at the guy's profile, and his blog. He's an experienced dev, using vim for "6 years", and he's been on HN for three, has rac
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by anthonyb 15y ago
Bonus points if you find angry rants from the previous developer in PHP comments :)
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If you buy it through manning.com's online store (through the link above), you can use the code hpython37 , which will give you a 37% discount for print or e-books. Thinking about it, I possibly should have organised that ahead of time, bu
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by anthonyb 15y ago
A response for timdot (he's been hellbanned, so I can't respond directly[1]): It took about three years, which is a fair while, but then I've been juggling work, 2 kids and helping with the IT side of my wife's business. I also did things t
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Not that I know of, but a very good question, and they do promotions fairly frequently. I'll check with the marketing people and see what I can do.
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There are two sample chapters, so you don't have to jump in completely cold. The print version is available on February 13th I think, so perhaps a few days or a week after that? It's had several reviewers go through it with a fine toothed c

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