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How Hy backported “yield from” to Python 2(dustycloud.org)
120 points by aroberge 12y ago|22 comments
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by aroberge 12y ago
Real bullshit is spewed when someone make comments about something they don't know anything about. This advice given about not using IDEs is on a site teaching programming in C to complete beginners. If you had spend just a few minute
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Court agrees that Google’s search results qualify as free speech(arstechnica.com)
11 points by aroberge 12y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 12y ago
If you take into account the indirect revenues to the economy that these investment generated, I would say that the US government overall is in a much better situation because of this investment.
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by aroberge 12y ago
If it had worked in Firefox and Chrome, but not on Internet Explorer, what should they have done? Think about that...
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by aroberge 12y ago
No, not really. During inflation, points separated by a finite distance quickly see the distance between increase at a rate faster than the speed of light in vacuum. (This is not a violation of special relativity that says that information
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by aroberge 12y ago
This suggestion glosses over a major point. In inflationary models, it is often concluded that our visible universe is a tiny fraction of the rest of the "universe", where by "universe" one means something like a
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by aroberge 12y ago
Probably too late to get noticed, but here it is: http://reeborg.ca/world.html is a "Karel the Robot clone" with advanced features. It's completely free (no login required) and I have no plans to monetize i
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by aroberge 12y ago
Have you tried emailing them and telling them that every time they contact you, you are going to donate some money to 1) Obama and 2) some organization that lobby for more gun control?
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by aroberge 12y ago
In this case yes: the child is in the US. However, I am not...
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by aroberge 12y ago
The practice of checking the validity of email addresses seems to be lost on many (most?) businesses. I've found in my mailbox, from at least 4 other "A Roberge" located in either the U.S. or Canada the following: Health in
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by aroberge 12y ago
For GPS, in addition to the time-dilation effect due to relative speed of the satellites with respect to observers on Earth, there is a second, smaller (iirc) effect to take into account: that of the different position in a gravitational we
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by aroberge 12y ago
No, it is not possible. Cosmological models are actually tightly constrained by data. Even in the late 80s, when we did not have such good data, I remember being amazed at the fact that primordial nucleosynthesis calculations together wit
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by aroberge 12y ago
Space is largely empty; this is a crucial point I will come back to. Assume a spherical distribution of (dark) matter, with density small enough that we can ignore relativistic effects (which is almost always the case). If you are inside t
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by aroberge 12y ago
The DMCA is a purely U.S. law. This article is in a Canadian Magazine about the situation in Canada.
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by aroberge 12y ago
As someone who has spent a fair bit of his life teaching, I find it "fascinating" to see the reactions of the users here, most of which appear to have at least some experience with programming and none (from what I can see) having
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by aroberge 12y ago
In Canada, people can put money into a tax-deferred retirement fund (RRSP); the income tax is paid only when the money is withdrawn (sometimes 30 or 40 years later). The US does not recognize the RRSP as deserving of a tax-deferred status,
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by aroberge 12y ago
I know, from news here in Canada, that they have introduce some delays that are preventing thousands of dual citizens to renounce their US citizenships until 2015 at the earliest. Furthermore, you can not renounce your US citizenship if do
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by aroberge 12y ago
So, you are arguing for K to 12 education to be private? And you are arguing for public health systems outside of the US to adopt the US model which is much more expensive with no demonstrated better outcome for the general population?
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by aroberge 12y ago
Physicist here. Imagine a fish swimming down a river. Down the river, there is a water fall, with water falling faster than the fish can swim. Past the point where the water is falling faster than the fish can swim, the fish can not turn
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by aroberge 12y ago
The following comment/observation could be about anything - not specific to drinking. You wrote "I was forced ... to resume drinking...". No you weren't. You chose to do so. You may feel that you were pressured by ot
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by aroberge 12y ago
The big bang hypothesis could be stated (in a simplified way) by stating that the universe was once a lot more hot and dense than it is today. Using General Relativity, we can model the expansion of the universe. When we do the math, we f
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by aroberge 12y ago
New Brunswick is officially a bilingual province. There are lots of opportunities for bilingual (French/English) speakers in Ontario as well.
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by aroberge 12y ago
You had all my sympathy until you wrote "fucking hosers".
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by aroberge 12y ago
Did you even look at the link? It is about a REPL for C#.
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by aroberge 12y ago
One of the things I like the most about HackerNews, and I suspect many (most?) others do too, are the comments. I clicked on the original link curious about why there was not any comments or up arrows ... but will know in the future that i
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Collaborate on Reeborg's World using Mozilla's TogetherJS(aroberge.blogspot.ca)
1 points by aroberge 12y ago|0 comments
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Long-life laptop battery the tech industry doesn’t want you to have(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by aroberge 13y ago|0 comments
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by aroberge 13y ago
The article is written by a Canadian in a Canadian newspaper. The situation in Canada is quite different from the one in the States. Defined benefit pension plans for public civil servants (including teachers) are quite safe in Canada.
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by aroberge 13y ago
Instead of saying "In our interview, which was explicitly introduced as an edited transcript, we made edits for clarity and length..... " and then talked about consulting with PG's PR person, a proper apology should have bee

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