bobbyi

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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   phish grateful dead john coltrane
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   Youporn is a top 50 site and was started in 2006.
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   If they don't already understand object-oriented programming, you make sure they understand that first. If they understand objects, you explain that closures are the same as objects. They are bundles of state that carry around functions tha
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   Why would someone who is not a Java guy in the trenches need to track Java-related names?
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   You are paying extra for having them handle backups for you.
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   Chromium is the 100% open source version of Chrome. The branding (including logo) and license is the distinction.
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   I don't see mention of them in the changelog: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.7.html
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   Do you know whether those Q1 changes have actually been merged into CPython? Will they be coming in 2.7?
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   by bobbyi 17y ago

   I have a cat and it works very well except that he does chew cables.
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    If you only have three sentences of stuff to say, I'd rather you make a three sentence self post than pad the thing out to a five paragraph blog entry.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    It's so that every script in the world doesn't have to duplicate the logic for how to interpret globs. They inevitably won't end up doing it exactly the same way.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    There were zero weekend newspapers in 1989? That first graph is pretty confusing.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Slate had an article earlier this year about the idea of Apple going into banking: http://www.thebigmoney.com/print/1094
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    30-40% is not hyperinflation.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    You changed the equation. You started with (x-3)/(x-1) = (x-4)/(x-5) which is not the same as x - 3/x - 1 = x - 4/x - 5 , the equation in the submission.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Similarly, Microsoft's competitor to salesforce.com (Dynamics) lets customers host their own servers while salesforce does not.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    So they deserve what they got for wanting to see pictures posted by their friends?
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Linus on C++: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/5791...
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Version .6 of SqlAlchemy will support Python 3.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    So is enterprise software. You make one mistake and you're stuck supporting it for the next 18 years.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Unicode is history repeated as tragedy.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    How would his taxes have reflected the percentage of this company he owned? You pay taxes on your income, which wouldn't be affected here. You pay capital gains tax on stock when you sell which he didn't do at any point.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    What "features" is vim missing that you use for php?
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Really? I thought the idea of Han Unification was that the duplicated characters between the CJK languages all map to the same unicode codepoints.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    John Resig works at Mozilla.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    How are you having the other system expire the cache?
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    If you have a better proposal on how to save journalism, I'd love to hear it. I like the idea of helping news organizations convert into nonprofits much better than Eric Schmidt's suggestion that they abandon the journalism "product" and fi
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Is this just taking the total expenses of the company and dividing by employees? It doesn't seem right to count server costs and bandwidth (for example) as part of how expensive employees are.
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    I didn't want to mention it by name, but I was actually talking about perl. What originally attracted me to python was that I wanted a non-magical perl. That may not be such a big factor anymore, but it shaped the language and culture. "In
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    by bobbyi 17y ago

    Magic often means a minor increase in convenience now in exchange for an increased risk of a confusing debugging nightmare at an indeterminate point down the road. Once you've been burned by it a couple of times, you become very wary. I thi