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by dded 13y ago
Lesson learned for me: if I ever discover a trove of old documents, I'll contact the historical society, but I'll also contact a couple of newspapers.
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by dded 13y ago
Who was the last unattractive US president?
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by dded 13y ago
Another, of course speculative, motivation may have been that the destroyed records could have thrown existing land ownership into legal doubt. EDIT: The article speculates a cover-up. I'm speculating a make-this-messy-problem-go-away
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Massachusetts launches open cloud to spur big data R&D(gcn.com)
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by dded 13y ago
My take is that they simply want independence from Android. Maybe no longer possible in phones, but they could make a go in TV. There were reports of bad behavior from LG w.r.t smart TVs [1]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/secu
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LG Unveils Internet-Connected TV Running WebOS Acquired From HP(businessweek.com)
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by dded 13y ago
I didn't say that I stop if I find a book difficult. I stop if I decide that I don't like the book. But you're right, some times skipping some pages can get you going again with a dry spot in a novel. (And I wasn't com
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by dded 13y ago
> Some of this I'm saving for my "cargo freighter around the world" trip. Do they still have tramp steamers?
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by dded 13y ago
It's a great book to pick up "every now and then". Most of the chapters can be read as independent essays, and even the ones that continue ideas from before stand on their own pretty well. It's also a good book to brin
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by dded 13y ago
> If I don’t find Black Swan interesting I should probably just donate it instead of suffering through it, for example. I'm not only willing, I'm eager to give up on a book I don't either enjoy or find interesting. But I
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by dded 13y ago
Did you actually find the redesigned site? When I go to nytimes.com, it doesn't look any different than it has for quite a while. The nytimes.com/redesign link itself vaguely reminds me of the Mavericks announcement page that Ap
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by dded 13y ago
Maybe more will be announced at CES, as hinted here: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-06/google-teams...
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Introducing the Open Automotive Alliance(openautoalliance.net)
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by dded 13y ago
> May I ask why? Independence. When you upgrade to RH7, you don't need to worry if all your scripts will run with Python 2.7, they'll still point to your own 2.6. You can decide to upgrade to 2.7 (or not) on your own time. Y
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by dded 13y ago
Points 3 and 4 are reasons why I should stop using antibacterial soap. But the others are reasons why all the rest of you should stop using it. There might still be some benefit to me if I use it. This is why it's important for
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by dded 13y ago
That is about the most awful casual analogy I've ever heard. I doubt hurt was intended, but do be aware that many people have lost children and would find this hurtful.
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by dded 13y ago
A lot on washers and driers in here. I firmly believe that the three types of devices that have saved the most labor in history are clothes washers, power excavators, and powered field equipment for farming. Also interesting that so many o
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by dded 13y ago
Not everyone's needs are the same. I'll not say that my concerns are better than anyone else's (of course), but they're certainly different than yours. If Python were 10x slower than it is, I'd use Perl. When I st
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by dded 13y ago
Please relocate "delete" in new submission. I just submitted a question. Under the entry in new is this text: 1 point by dded 0 minutes ago | discuss | edit | delete This puts "delete" where "discuss&quot
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Any legal motivation for copyright notice with future date?
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by dded 13y ago
I came here to basically enter the same reply. Though I am perhaps not as bad as you make yourself sound. It's easier to control myself these days, because I like buying books in book stores and those are disappearing. With the excep
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by dded 13y ago
I thought about this, as someone with reasons to prefer Python2. But then I quit worrying. Python2 isn't going anywhere, for starters. But more to the point, if lots of people move to Python3, some of them will share my issues. The
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by dded 13y ago
Many modern processors hash some of the address bits before using them as a cache index to avoid these problems. To avoid them in code, it's often sufficient to round to convenient decimal numbers when allocating arrays, instead of pow
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by dded 13y ago
> This is unnecessarily pessimistic Remember, he's looking at using Python for the first time. I work in Perl-heavy environments, and I can assure you that the 2/3 split in Python is a reason that many will give for not using
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by dded 13y ago
A very smart move by Fossil--it makes it safe to try. There's a path out.
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by dded 13y ago
One of the reasons I chose GNU Emacs over XEmacs was a feeling that GNU Emacs will be maintained, even advanced, for as long as RMS has the strength to type. It's his baby. (There were other reasons, the big one being momentum. XEmac
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by dded 13y ago
I'm entirely ignorant of bzr, but I've got to say that this surprises me. We use svn, which certainly works well with patch.
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by dded 13y ago
> a compiled binary can often be a good choice Uh, well, sure. From the context, I thought little ad hoc utilities were meant. The kind that are changed frequently. We keep many right in our svn repository, so you make a check-out a
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by dded 13y ago
And in my world, underscore is more common as a word separator than mixed case. That is, people use 'foo_bar' instead of 'FooBar' or 'fooBar'. (This is more often true in C or Verilog than Python, however.)
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by dded 13y ago
There are over 300 replies in the discussion here ( About Python 3 ): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6985207 From what I've gleaned from that discussion, here are reasons why people aren't moving from Pytho

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