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by dghf 10y ago
> You'd be surprised how many of those paper ballots don't get recognized when they are counted. Because the checkmarks don't fill up the box enough or because of optical/scantron error. In the UK's 2014 election
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by dghf 10y ago
Viz. Peter Capaldi, current Dr Who. Something like 1.5% of the Scottish population has Italian ancestry.
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by dghf 10y ago
Simplifying somewhat, most Britons believe it's a genuine Italian dish, and most Italians believe it's a horrible British parody of their cuisine.
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by dghf 10y ago
> I highly recommend to read Godel Escher Bach(if you dont have time - just read the introduction to get the general idea). I don't think you'll get any real sense of what GEB is about just by reading the introduction.
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by dghf 10y ago
Herodotus is called the "Father of History" because he is believed to be the first to have systematically collected and critically evaluated various sources to produce his narrative. The OP argues that Sima Qian deserves the same
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by dghf 10y ago
I prefer Macleod's near-future stuff to his space opera: e.g. The Execution Channel, The Night Sessions, The Restoration Game, Intrusion. Given he's an avowed socialist, the political battering he deals out to left-wingers
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by dghf 10y ago
In half of OECD countries, including the UK, the employment rate is higher among migrant men than among native-born men: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/13/male-employment-r...
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by dghf 10y ago
They should not just be testable, but should have tests. Under ATDD (which I accept is not necessarily what she's describing here), a requirement without a test is not a requirement. If you've got a project with a lot of complex b
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by dghf 10y ago
That's certainly how the film The Dambusters depicts it.
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by dghf 10y ago
According my father, my grandfather (a telecoms engineer) helped lay the cabling in this complex. Somehow he became privy to some of the details of the invasion, and late on the night of June 5 or very early in the morning of June 6 1944 to
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by dghf 10y ago
You're updating the corners twice. Not really a problem with a simple assignment, but as no_protocol pointed out elsewhere [0], it could be if you ever wanted to change that to, say, an increment. Replace your second for statement with
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by dghf 10y ago
There is the theory (mentioned in this paper [0], for example) that the critical event that pushed Old English on to the path of becoming modern English was not the Norman Conquest but the Danish invasions about two hundred years before. As
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by dghf 10y ago
Similar here, but with dwm r/than i3 (which I've not tried). Looks basic in the extreme, but I can get far more done far more quickly than in a Windows or OS X desktop.
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by dghf 10y ago
> most collapsed due to internal problems not being crushed by the nation state Weren't the Spanish anarchists betrayed by their Republican and Stalinist allies?
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by dghf 10y ago
The English regional press is brilliant for this sort of thing. 'Sudden appearance of white line in Evesham explained' [0] 'Evesham football club Chairman's says they would have been hit financial [ sic ] if stolen tract
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by dghf 10y ago
The value of EOF is platform-specific, but is commonly -1. I'm fairly sure it's never 0. But I was referring more to the fact that c is set exactly once in line 4 (`int c = getc(fd)`), outside of the nested loops, and never touche
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by dghf 10y ago
> Well that's good seeing as though I wrote the guide in the first place. Apologies, I didn't realise. That was crass of me. But could you explain what you mean by unique in some degree? Surely in the example you give the key
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by dghf 10y ago
If the first character in file "foo" isn't a null, a newline or a carriage return, your program will enter an infinite loop at line 9 :)
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by dghf 10y ago
Yes, but it's in the 'Constraints and keys' section. It even says 'Constraints, and their subset, keys'. As far as I'm aware, an index is not a constraint, except for a unique index, which implies a unique cons
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by dghf 10y ago
> Technically, a key is any column (or a set of columns) that you use to find records. Isn't that an index rather than a key? I thought 'key' meant: - a superkey (any set of columns the values of which must be unique in an
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by dghf 10y ago
Can anyone explain what this means? > 1. The key should be unique to some degree. If it's talking about primary keys (which it seems to be), it should be unique, full stop. If it's not, where does uniqueness come in? Is it actu
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by dghf 10y ago
Kuala Lumpur was pretty nice, if I remember correctly.
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by dghf 10y ago
E.g. Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy, set in the imaginary, soon-to-be-sunken Elder Isles, the largest of which is called Hybras.
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by dghf 10y ago
This kind of speculation is hardly the preserve of philosophy students, either. It has to be one of the top 10 topics of drunken (and stoned) conversations among undergraduates of all disciplines.
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by dghf 10y ago
> More GBH than LARP, it substitutes foam weaponry for real steel and scripted acting for unpredictable scuffling This sentence confused me deeply, given it contradicts the rest of the article, until I realised they meant to say "it
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by dghf 10y ago
You're right, it works under 1.7. But not under 1.8: I get an "Unsupported binding form" exception. A bit of digging suggests it was an unwanted side effect of allowing destructuring of name-spaced keywords in maps, introduce
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by dghf 10y ago
> The article is trying to address a legal situation No, it's addressing a letter, which makes moral and ethical (as well as legal) arguments: e.g., one of the reasons why the EU's judgement is unfair is that Apple already pa
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by dghf 10y ago
Off topic, but could you explain the destructuring form you've used in your Clojure function? I've not seen destructuring with keywords in first position (in vectors, no less) before: is this something new for 1.9? I can't ge
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by dghf 10y ago
A vim user who prefers spaces to tabs but doesn't know about 'set expandtab'?
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by dghf 10y ago
While I'm not disputing the importance of terroir, your example is not the best: - Far from being "literally across the river", the two regions are ~200km apart by road (Pouilly-Fumé is from the Loire valley, Pouilly-Fuissé f

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