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by fmw 16y ago
The answer to your question is in the line you're already quoting: whether you like them or not shouldn't make a difference. My point is that its bad form to use strong words like shady, unethical, disgusting and "fucking disgrace" this lig
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by fmw 16y ago
Shady and unethical are strong words that, in my opinion, don't apply here. My girlfriend just booked a 10 week trip to Paris through AirBnb and there was no confusion about the processing fee. It is clearly listed under "More info" in the
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by fmw 16y ago
I use Scrapy: http://scrapy.org/ another Python option: http://twill.idyll.org/ for Rails: http://nokogiri.org/ and perl: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
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Aligning text with Tabular.vim(vimcasts.org)
1 points by fmw 16y ago|0 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
Inventory: a mix between bestsellers (e.g. Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter) and the long tail, with very specific titles tailored to smaller audiences. Amazon excels at the long tail and traditional stores can't compete with that, as they're re
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by fmw 16y ago
Thanks for the insightful refresher on how presidential campaigns are financed, because the last time I read up on it was back in '08 at the time of the last presidential election. I'm very much in favor of private financing, actually, but
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by fmw 16y ago
The article touches upon cultural differences in how publicly flaunting wealth by openly giving large sums to charity is perceived. In Europe, from my perspective as someone living in the Netherlands, we find it hard to imagine to attend a
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by fmw 16y ago
They might be relatively small, but http://www.grouplens.org/node/12 has some interesting datasets that can be used to experiment with recommendation systems, e.g. book and movie reviews.
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Vim: Refining search patterns with the command-line window(vimcasts.org)
2 points by fmw 16y ago|0 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
Sure, it is a trade off and you misunderstand me if you think I'm attacking Apple because of some "be free or die" mentality. I'm not attacking anyone. I'm typing this on a Mac and actually own an iPhone, even if I use a HTC Desire instead.
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by fmw 16y ago
We've seen products lacking certain "major" features win from more technically advanced competitors before. Because regular consumers don't care about the same things that geeks do. Look at the iPod. Not to mention other reasons that give a
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by fmw 16y ago
Dijkstra died in 2002, so this is probably older than the 2004 date listed as the transcription date below the article. Looking at the date of other EWD notes in the same number range it was probably written in 1978.
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by fmw 16y ago
It always leaves a foul taste in my mouth when people are promoting themselves by attacking their competitors instead of playing to their own strength. That being said, it made me laugh, even if PayPal is an easy target. So I suppose that m
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Synchronizing Vim plugins with Git submodules and Pathogen(vimcasts.org)
8 points by fmw 16y ago|0 comments
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Screencast about bubbling text in Vim(vimcasts.org)
7 points by fmw 16y ago|1 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
I agree that brands are overrated (not with their complete irrelevance), but the Google argument doesn't prove anything. There is a huge difference in people's willingness to try a new search engine, compared to many other applications. Par
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by fmw 16y ago
Pointing to Google is such a non-argument, in my opinion. What does it prove? That you can succeed with a mediocre name, not that picking a good brand doesn't matter. I don't like it when people say "Google does X, so it must be fine". Goog
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Creating colorschemes for Vim(vimcasts.org)
1 points by fmw 16y ago|0 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
As someone that is completely out of touch with the Microsoft ecosystem that is a very hard question. The main reason for that is I'm simply not the target audience for their flag ship products, but I also want to avoid getting locked into
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by fmw 16y ago
Well, the problem is that governments hire academics to do studies for them, which makes them their clients. That puts a scientist in a weird position. Here in the Netherlands, I know of a study that is jointly paid for by two government de
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Tightened muzzle on Canadian scientists is 'Orwellian'(vancouversun.com)
5 points by fmw 16y ago|2 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
The article lists BeautifulSoup as the Python choice for scraping, but that isn't necessarily true. I'm using http://scrapy.org/ , for example, which is a scraping framework that uses lxml and xpath by default.
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by fmw 16y ago
Another benefit to your diet is taking a glass of whisky as an alternative to your "evening snack". For me, it is a good way to avoid the urge to eat something. Especially when paired with a good cigar or tobacco pipe. Last night that was a
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by fmw 16y ago
Great. The problem with proprietary infrastructure is locking yourself in to a vendor and that isn't always a safe bet. For me, that is the problem with Google AppEngine and Amazon SimpleDB. As a happy CouchDB user this makes Cloudant a con
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by fmw 16y ago
In Dutch, "hose" is another meaning of slang as well.
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by fmw 16y ago
It has been a while ago since I last studied Latin, but from memory it should be something like Blogito (for 'I') or Blogimus (for 'we').
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by fmw 16y ago
Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO of Oracle. About matter at hand: I don't understand why everyone must chime in on this "Apple is evil" meme. Maybe I'm losing my sense of humor, but I must say that I didn't find this particularly funny. As
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by fmw 16y ago
In the last three years I've bought two pairs of headphones. Sennheiser PC 350 as a headset and Sennheiser HD 650 for regular use. I wouldn't go for budget headphones if you can avoid it. If you use them as much as I do getting a high quali
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by fmw 16y ago
No, I haven't because I don't like to pay a premium for something that should come with the product. In the EU, in my case the Netherlands, anyone who sells a product is responsible for its reliability during the time a customer can reasona
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by fmw 17y ago
What the article fails to report is if there is any extra investment or if it is just a public relations initiative presenting normal hiring and investment as a special effort to strengthen the industry. As far as I can read there is little

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