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by brass9 14y ago
Did this news precede the allegation that both Pepsi and Coca-cola (at least in India) contained pesticide in their drink? I remember there was a huge uproar when that news broke and both companies had to invest heavily into PR campaign (in
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by brass9 14y ago
> wondering why Java wasn't considered and 70% of the internet's backbone not risked to vulnerabilities...
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by brass9 14y ago
And incidents like these have contributed to the sad, long decline of Delphi/FP. Ever since the large exodus of talented former Borland engineers, Borland, Inprise, CG and Embarcadero management had been exploiting Delphi as a cash cow and
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by brass9 14y ago
Some of the other articles from the "God Issue" can be found here: http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1199197&#3...
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by brass9 14y ago
Speaking of speed reading, the current layout of HN is not optimal for reading. Main content width is way too long which makes of long sentences. Font size is too small - so you're forced to zoom in. Perhaps PG could think about improving r
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by brass9 14y ago
I'd started using Foxit for the same reason. But the speed advantage is no longer an issue. Adobe had closed the gap and Acrobat reader now loads just as fast as Foxit. Besides, Acrobat's rendering is far superior to Foxit's (not to mention
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by brass9 14y ago
I use nanoc ( http://nanoc.ws/ ). It's written in Ruby - but it's quite powerful yet so very simple to use. I've split hair over jekyll/octopress configuration until I stumbled upon this nimble beauty... haven't looked back since. Give nano
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by brass9 14y ago
GoDaddy? No sympathy. You deserved this...
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by brass9 14y ago
JVM ecosystem may be ahead of .net, but on the language front Java doesn't hold a candle against C#.
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by brass9 14y ago
What's stopping you from using VS with PTVS? http://pytools.codeplex.com/ I am a heavy-duty user of both PyCharm/PhpStorm and VS myself.
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by brass9 14y ago
Ninja IDE for Python is trying to match up to ST2 (and it feels more IDE-like than ST). Until it succeeds, SublimeText remains a very attractive option.
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by brass9 14y ago
>any side project like Mono can be shut down any time. RMS had been trying to spread that particular flavor of FUD for over a decade - albeit C#'s popularity has extended beyond Linux into mobile space. I am no friend of Microsoft, and
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by brass9 14y ago
That's a good list of little-known but useful python projects!
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by brass9 14y ago
A limited capacity lite version is there
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by brass9 14y ago
also, .bd domains cannot be purchased exclusively. You need to prefix com/net/org before the bd TLD
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by brass9 14y ago
My thought exactly.
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by brass9 14y ago
I guess learning that there's a feature called "hibernation" would give OP the rapture...
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The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction(newscientist.com)
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Study Finds One in 6 Follows No Religion(nytimes.com)
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by brass9 14y ago
That's because twig was originally created by Armin - the creator of jinja. It was part of a (now abandoned) blogging engine called chyrp. Later, twig was salvaged by Fabien and incorporated into symfony.
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by brass9 14y ago
2 of the advantages you've mentioned (zfs,dtrace) are actually gifts from Sun Solaris. IIRC, linux had lost out on these gems due to licensing issues. Oracle seemed quite keen on developing the zfs-clone btrfs - but after they had gobbled u
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by brass9 14y ago
That's the first thing that popped into my mind while skimming through the article.
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by brass9 14y ago
Flask fan here. Flask is not a "micro" microframework per se. It provides a thin facade over werkzeug - which is anything but lightweight or micro.
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by brass9 14y ago
One of my companies is incorporated in Singapore. IIRC, it cost us between US$ 5-6,000 to register the company. Yearly maintenance cost is US$ 2,000+ (that includes a local business address, the services of a local director, bookkeeping sta
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by brass9 14y ago
How do you pronounce yandex? Is it ee-an-deks? or jandeks?
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by brass9 14y ago
The actual ebook is here: http://hpmor.com/
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by brass9 14y ago
Same here. Had been using 2.95 till a few months ago. Upgraded to 5.6. 5.x is not so bad.
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by brass9 14y ago
>> Supposedly we are related to monkeys in 98% genetically wise, but yet monkeys still have their children. They don't give birth to human. Wow! If your understanding of evolution boils down to "great monkeys of old begat humans", w
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by brass9 14y ago
Quoting from the article: >>In South Korea 26 percent of the population belong to a Christian denomination... >> Creationism in South Korea gained more attention following the 1980 World Evangelisation Crusade, which was hel
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by brass9 14y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Very funny... Dumb indian script kiddies... sigh

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