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by gspetr 9y ago
Since not everyone regularly submits to HN, I think reposting the link from the footer is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good h
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It's at odds with HN's submission guidelines.
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People seem to disagree with your assessment. Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Ideological or political battl
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> it's pretty late in general to get rich at the industrializing your local handy-crafts. In general, yes. But now you can get rich when you deindustrialize: http://instapaint.com/
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https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/ How has Python 3 performed since then? "Ding: We did not have performance gain expectations for Python 3 right out of the box. So it was a pleasant surp
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What's the alternative?[0] Remember that burning desire to spend time with random elderly people when you were 14? Yeah, neither do I. [0]I actually know of one, since I'm Russian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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There's room for improvement. What about the "!"? Gotta catch those folks with poor eyesight.
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A crowdfunded open source platform? I don't think you can describe it as capitalist since it's neither privately owned, nor for profit.
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Sadly, this CamelCase style is too entrenched in the academia and is very often present in books that use Python but written by academics, not professional Python developers.
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I know nothing about Romanian tax system, but in Russia the tax is flat 13%. What that doesn't tell you is that employer also pays 30% on top of your gross salary in "social insurance", so maybe Romania has something like tha
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> Watching US situation from outside it's seems there's an urgent need for some kind of a bad guy. How else would you justify all that Defense budget spending? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomber_gap htt
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Always keep Law 38 in mind.
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No! Not only that, but you will also get updates up to version 2.0 It's on 1.6.x now, so you'll get 1.7, 1.8 and so on.
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Yes, but we can't have a meaningful discussion if we disregard Occam's razor (If the man calls himself a socialist and has done so for decades, then that's what he is) and go into the "No true Scotsman" territory in
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Surprised nobody posted this yet: https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/python-3-dot-3-trust-me-... It's a presentation by core developer Brett Cannon which explains what's better about Python 3. The list is qu
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> Is it likely that a leak would impact the Russian election? I'm russian and Russia is more unstable than many believe. This alone[0] is likely the reason P. postponed his equivalent of the State of the Union speech, which was unhe
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Don't hire asians, hire from Eastern Europe instead. It might be more expensive, but not by a lot and the quality is exponentially better.
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If he became president and succeeded at first he might have been widely celebrated, as comrade Chavez was. Then he would have likely won the re-election in a landslide that dwarfed Reagan's victory and implemented policies further to t
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https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-... "These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes a
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> If you already own that content, you will receive Heart of the Swarm at no additional cost. Close, but no cigar. Should have also made Legacy of the Void available to the owners of the first 2 games. Well, at least this should spark a
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Scrolled quickly through the comments and I want to ask one question: How good is this tool compared to commercial software?
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Their twitter has over 3000 tweets, and not all of them look like they were auto-generated or retweets. If it's not real then I don't know why someone would go through all that trouble, unless it's real in the sense of existi
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The man literally visits Soviet Union as his idea of honeymoon after his wedding. There's circumstantial evidence he was even a Stalinist at one point: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sanders+stalinist+kibbutz You do realize
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_... A literal socialist reaching 43.1% of votes not influential enough?
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How about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy EDIT: Twitter literally suppressed the leaks of DNC and Podesta emails hashtags and admitted to it: http://www.zerohedge.com/n
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Can you fit 200 000 subs of https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/ in a 200sqm hall? Can you fit all his voters there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_sanders His wiki mentions &q
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It's almost as if the people who want the job the most would study for it the hardest.
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> Ever tried to render an interactive cli gui as a website in a browser? It’s atrivial. Which part of it is interactive? The cli gui part is also suspect. For all we know it could be handcrafted, which would make GP correct, although in
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Agreed. This seems like a slam dunk for him and creates bad optics of David vs Goliath for the company. That said, he did come off as a bit of an unhinged person in his twitter tirade.
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> What got us wasn't anything on the top ten list. From my PoV nothing got to you. Yes, you may have got some bad publicity, but the fault lies with users who have poor (non-existent?) OPSEC. Just as there are 2 types of people: tho

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