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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Thanks! Some ( http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/near-duplic... ) looks useful for a project I'm on. And, no, we're not trying to index the Internet or do a Google Desktop search.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> I wonder how they would be able to afford 300 staff for 600 programmers? No minimum wage laws, and if the staff can't leave the ship, say hello to slavery.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Get thrown in the slammer for 4 years for eating a poppy seed roll. Ouch.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Hmm, no. You have to add __copy__ and/or __deepcopy__ to every class.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
That's a module in the standard library. What I'm saying is, there's no copy or clone or dup method built into Python's base object, as there is in Ruby. And Python programmers are not instructed to define a clone method for a class, as in
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> "Compared to what?" Shopping! Creating a useful software product is harder than buying one off the shelf. Creating great literature is harder than buying something at Barnes & Noble.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
> Clearly the answer is a .clone() or .copy() method... if you want Python to smell like Java or Ruby. :->
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I've noticed it's pretty typical for the engineering and science guys I've gone to school with or worked with to marry nurses, physical therapists, religious educators, or HR gals. Think fem careers that are in demand wherever the two of yo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Nope, sorry, but thanks for the links. At the moment, I'm chuckling to myself about the hyper gal who knits sweaters for everyone at night because she never sleeps. Oh, and the ice covered hallway. And here I am awake all night...
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Ah, yes, Lazlo was the name. Thanks for the Caltech scoop. (I was RPI ages ago.)
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I can't help picturing one of the characters from an old Val Kilmer movie called Real Genius . This computer geek character had graduated--finished grad school, too--years earlier. He had ensconced himself in a secret hallway behind a clos
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Reminds me of how I felt reading Kim Stanley Robinson last year. Robinson creates a homeless-by-choice scientist (Frank) in his Washington DC climate trilogy: Forty Days of Rain , Fifty... , Sixty... Frank lives in a little tent high up
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
A bigger font is better for your upper back, too. Take a look around you and notice how many of your fellow developers--or anyone working with text at a computer--slouch forward every few seconds to peer at the monitor. Then notice yourself
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Wasn't the Long Tail debunked a few months ago? ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/07/long_tail_debunked/ )
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Auto update is horrid for disabled people and those with other usability issues. There you are happily using a product, and the next day you cannot. I'm going to be a crabby old snot and say, perhaps Google would see things differently if 9
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
The thought of unusual Unix times brings back memories... or nightmares... For several years, the company I had been working for used a multi-platform GUI library called C++/Views. We had the code for the library itself and compiled it as n
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I wonder whether the researchers took into account how the sound in the space bounces around. A higher ceiling often means more bounce. Me, I lose all concentration where treble sounds are bouncing.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Remember CSS Zen Garden ( http://www.csszengarden.com/ ) and The Zen of CSS Design book? And Zeldman ( http://www.zeldman.com/ )? Way cool when cutting edge designers were figuring out what CSS 2.1 is capable of. But such low contrast! An
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I encourage every architect in the world to design custom light switches for every building and position them in locations unique to each building. That way, everyone who enters any building has to first figure out how to identify and opera
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Legitimate question. From http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html : "Your 'use case' should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" Ah, but if he's prone to computer addiction, the
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
A few random thoughts about Ruby's traditional unordered Hash: The Hash#keys method should have returned a Set, not an Array. That way no one would have been baffled by the lack of predictable order. But, unfortunately, Set is not a built
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
HTML head: <meta name="description" content="Interactive spoof of corporate personality tests">
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
I've filled out this test a few times in the past few years. Result: ICUE (Mad Scientist) or ICUG (Inventor) depending on what mood I'm in when I take it.
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Hmmm. I'm not seeing this new "feature" when I search Google. I've turned on Javascript, I'm accepting Google cookies, I've even logged in. And I still see the usual http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax+crap results URL. I'm running Firefo
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
A Google referrer doesn't do the trick. It's a cookie thing. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460294
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Pedant here. The fact that a Python lambda cannot be multi-line is not directly related to the whitespace thing. After all, it's easy to put several statements on one line by separating them with semicolons. No, the issue is, a Python lambd
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Addendum: (5) Different apps want to open files in different places. One app's Open dialog wants to look in the directory you finished off your last Open. Another app wants Open to look in the directory of the file you most recently opened
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
You want Mac OS 9 or earlier. :-) Well, maybe not quite. You could attach text comments to a file, but I can't remember if the comments were searchable. And before OS 8 or so, the comments disappeared whenever you decided to "rebuild the De
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Overall agree with the article: use individual apps that do well what they're designed to do, and use the file system to organize your stuff. Unfortunately, a tremendous number of users cannot make heads or tales out of the file system. I b
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by ewiethoff 18y ago
Name of author: Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. Name of work: al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa'l-muqabala ("A Handbook of Calculation by Completion and Reduction"). John Derbyshire examines al-Khwarizmi's work in chapt

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