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by falsedan 9y ago
That it's easy to have an idea, and I wouldn't count it as when I started a project.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Talk is cheap, executing is valuable/hard/scary.
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by falsedan 9y ago
From that link: > There's no way without knowing what the decorator does whether to endow the method being defined with an implicit 'self' argument or not. How about letting the code object decide if it's a method o
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by falsedan 9y ago
So does every worthless project. Valuable projects always have some initial action taken to make the idea a reality.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Most other OO languages can pass self implicitly, and don't distinguish between initialization & construction. > There is something of a culture in Python of not being overly clever This is the part I disagree with. So much py
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by falsedan 9y ago
> There is something of a culture in Python of not being overly clever, which keeps this stuff in check. (Contrast Ruby, which offers equally powerful language facilities without the cultural norm of not using them for crazy things.) H
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by falsedan 9y ago
I mentioned it 5 comments up…
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by falsedan 9y ago
I have heard of this show, and speaking of gritty late-Cold-War-era series that still hold up, I think Edge of Darkness should be up there. It was remade into a terrible action film in 2010, but the original TV series from 1985 is a mas
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Maybe there are just as many good tv shows these days. Check out Top of the Lake , it's well-written, well-acted, & doesn't overstay its welcome. Season two just came out! I think modern shows are dominated by 'mu
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by falsedan 9y ago
> and you're not doing anything illegal Did you mean to post this in the comments for a different submission? Because I'm pretty sure that laundering money from fraudulent lottery entries… is extremely not legal.
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by falsedan 9y ago
that's pure braw pal
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by falsedan 9y ago
Money-laundering is cheap and easy.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Might as well have walked up to his boss every other week with a spot of feigned surprise and a new jackpot winning ticket to cash out, figuring they could direct deposit it along with his paycheck. Now this is a prestige TV series I
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Same with all the unemployment in Spain, people could move to e.g. Germany in masses but they don't. Did you know? It costs money to move somewhere, and unemployed people have very limited incomes. Stumping up the apartment depo
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by falsedan 9y ago
No one's questioning the liquidity of the BC market; getting the money to and from the exchange would be a gigantic hassle. Banks generally have reporting requirements for transactions of a certain size, many countries are more uptight
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by falsedan 9y ago
> after having just dismembered a body and sinking a submarine Allegedly doing those things. Although I'm pretty sure his right to a fair trial won't be affected by HN comments…
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I have a hard time believing anyone would commit a murder on a submarine in Denmark. I feel like it's almost impossible to cover that up. The 'perfect crime' doesn't have to leave you above suspicion; but it has t
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by falsedan 9y ago
Thanks, great explanation!
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by falsedan 9y ago
Could you please show the polynomial forms for these, and an example of your technique? 3*(8*(3/3)) = 24 3+((3*8)-3) = 24
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by falsedan 9y ago
I said: > if I have to spend 5 minutes to work out if this is […] an untargeted waste of marketing budget, then I'm going to [write a comment about how I wish people would stop doing it]* I'll try being clear next time.
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by falsedan 9y ago
FUD
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by falsedan 9y ago
I love this idea but I feel that some engineers may interpret it as a message that you think they are childish/immature.
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by falsedan 9y ago
Counterpoint: Tokyo.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> new housing wouldn't be needed Bay Area housing supply has been growing less than demand for the last 30 years. New housing is needed, regardless of who is employing whom.
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by falsedan 9y ago
> The underlying expectation here seems to be that HN readers shouldn't have to work a little That's not my point at all: I work in software, so I love to stare at some cryptic message and mutter and make notes. But when I un
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by falsedan 9y ago
It's SoCal surfer/skater slang, which sounds unprofessional in a formal business environment. So, stuffiness.
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by falsedan 9y ago
no
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by falsedan 9y ago
> Why have interaction as part of an image format? What about as part of a text format? Would anyone find that useful?
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by falsedan 9y ago
> The company pushing the legislation has a major agenda that is not safety - patent licensing. I'm not convinced this is reason enough to argue against it; rather, it's reason to demand that whatever regulation is proposed d
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by falsedan 9y ago
> I would pay more for a technology that saves my finger Same, and I'm horrified to consider that professional tradesmen whose livelihood depends on their fine muscle control would choose not to pay more for a tool like this. Pa

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