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by hartror 15y ago
List comprehension is one of those things I miss every I use another language. I am not sure what you mean with: it looks like a kludge around the lack of multi line code blocks could you provide and example?
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by hartror 15y ago
It is a well established work horse so it has lost the mystic that attracts discussion and excitement. Never the less for getting shit done Python is a winner for me.
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by hartror 15y ago
My words do. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I prefer many things about Python over Perl not just the syntax. I wasn't claiming that I think others are stupid for liking or using it, just my personal preference of what I like in a lan
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by hartror 15y ago
Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty
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by hartror 15y ago
Well normally the press or the PR people representing the scientists blow things all out of proportion. In this case it seems everyone is being pretty reserved and the claims, while extraordinary are already heavily couched in caveats. I am
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by hartror 15y ago
Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer goes into some of the technical challenges the scientists have to overcome in this experiment in laymen's terms. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/fa...
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by hartror 15y ago
It is so annoying xkcd did a comic on it: http://xkcd.com/869/
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by hartror 15y ago
The speculation is obvious unlike the OP and couched in the science.
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by hartror 15y ago
Correct given the characteristics of the star and the planets distance from the sun we can deduce the amount of energy reaching the planet. Whether the planet like Earth, Mars or even the moon is however beyond current measurements.
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by hartror 15y ago
Yes, IF there is water on the planet. So far we're not sure how Earth came to have so much water and it is thought that our water was a relatively recent addition in our planetary formation. The method HARPS uses, which discovered this plan
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by hartror 15y ago
Seven studies were found which did report an association, while 24 could not find any association with electromagnetic fields. However, of the seven positive studies, two could not be replicated even by the original authors, three had seri
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by hartror 15y ago
John Cook is my hero I've referenced his site in so many arguments with people on friend's facebook statuses[1]. [1] This is a hobby of mine, many friends of friends seem to work in the coal mining industry and therefore need the cognitive
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by hartror 15y ago
I've had friend doing his biology PHD say effectively the same thing as this to me. It is frustrating that science communication is such a PR game to the detriment of the general public's understanding of what science is in reality.
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by hartror 15y ago
The saying is 20 years not 30 and they're saying it without tongue in cheek now.
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by hartror 15y ago
Gah you are quite right maths on a hangover obviously isn't my strong suite.
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by hartror 15y ago
As someone else noted many of these ideas won't work in countries where large chunks of payed holidays are enshrined in law. In Australia most of us have 40 days per year that roll into the next year if you don't take them. There are option
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by hartror 15y ago
The title annoys me, it suggests a mass extinction of server side code and the article describes an evolution to a more complex beast where existing traits are maintained and added to.
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by hartror 15y ago
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script> Given this is the code you paste on the page I think it is pretty obvious to anyone who bothers to look. The CSRF information is gr
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by hartror 15y ago
I have been a 3D developer for business applications for over 5 years on various platforms and this problem crops up often. Most often it is the developer's fault so in this case the WebGL implementations. But surprisingly often it is a lib
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by hartror 15y ago
Also advisable if you steal a laptop.
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by hartror 15y ago
For training speech recognition? Songs strikes me as poor training data. I wasn't arguing against movies, just that subtitles rather than a final script isn't the best data source.
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by hartror 15y ago
Well I am sure they would do, though subtitles aren't the most reliable source for movie dialog. Often the dialog is altered subtly to fit the space and timing requirements.
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by hartror 15y ago
Sure, that would be the case if we hadn't all played the game 20 years ago. But we have, so instead it looks like a fun trip down memory lane.
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by hartror 15y ago
It is at times like this I think "Wow I live in the future!".
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by hartror 15y ago
Worked great on Chrome[1] for a couple of minutes with a few players then crashed with the broken tab icon. [1] Chrome 11.0.696.57 running on Ubuntu 11.04 32bit.
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by hartror 15y ago
Did you RTFA? The end result is a minor software change has to be deployed by Samsung, software which is already in Android 3.0.
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by hartror 15y ago
One of the best Space Opera books ever. A direct sequel The Children of the Sky is due to be released October 21st. To say I am super excited for its release is an understatement!
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by hartror 15y ago
That was my reaction. Syntax highlighting makes syntax errors a breeze to notice.
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by hartror 15y ago
As the OP points out this shouldn't be an issue on production systems as display_errors shouldn't be turned on. From the PHP docs [1]: This is a feature to support your development and should never be used on production systems (e.g.
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by hartror 15y ago
A lot of IT people I have known over the years have had Meth habits of one sort or another. A few have had it turn into a full blown problem while others just stopped without it becoming an issue. All of them have talked to me about what a

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