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by herge 12y ago
> IBM has (as the author duly notes) huge financial reserves and can easily stay relevant for another decade IMHO. Could we not have said the same thing about RIM in 2009?
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by herge 12y ago
Is there a way to remove comments on your projects pull requests? I'm sure there are places to discuss the politics of this change that are better than posting meme images to a source code repository.
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by herge 12y ago
The Prime Minister of Canada is the head of the legislative (usually!) and executive branches. It's the combination of the speaker of both houses and the president, in one position. Individual provinces have more power than US states,
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by herge 12y ago
One version of python on a modern linux OS? How do you mesh the default version of python used by the os with the version of python required by your application code?
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by herge 12y ago
I wonder if instead of having 90 free days, he capped the free trial based on bandwidth. The more popular the podcast, the more bandwidth it would use, but the more likely the podcaster has revenu from ads which would scale (sub-linearly!)
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by herge 12y ago
In the book, he talks about the penal anti-minefield battalions, right before he explains that if the Nazi's had realized and used the hatred the average Russian soldier felt against their taskmasters, the Soviet Union would have redil
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by herge 12y ago
Not all the time. x = , causes a syntax error, while x = (,) creates an empty tuple.
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by herge 12y ago
You are technically correct, the best type of correct. The top level function is evaluated at module load time.
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by herge 12y ago
The default value is an expression which is executed when the module is instantiated, even if the expression results in an empty list. If I had: def f(now=datetime.datetime.now()): ... now would be the time when the module
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by herge 12y ago
My pet peeve with python is the classic: return x, I have never wanted to declare a tuple without surrounding it with (). Too bad it's not a syntax error in python 3. Also, as opposed to one of his examples, if you are using p
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by herge 13y ago
It's supposed to be read in a clockwise fashion. Also, in the theory, the archetypes have the hardest time working with the archetype that is directly across from it, so there is a reason for the graphical representation.
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by herge 13y ago
Did it start off as 1000€ every 2 years when the law first came into effect?
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by herge 13y ago
As per wikipedia: "In his last will, he left instructions that his music could not be used in advertising [...]".
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by herge 13y ago
How much data were you grepping for? How much time did it take? How did you transmit those results over the network? Or does your data fit in one csv file?
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by herge 13y ago
Really? Have you ever tried to search for specific content in structured documents on a filesystem?
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by herge 13y ago
This is the group that stole the Beastie Boy's song and broke Adam Yauch's dying wish, right?
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by herge 13y ago
It's the Daily Mail; we should be just happy they aren't claiming playing a Stradivarius causes cancer.
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by herge 13y ago
It's way lower, because the teachers are payed less, the campuses are smaller and easier to manage, the curriculums are more standardized across the MEQ, so they are cheaper, etc. If we really wanted to reduce the societal cost of fafi
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by herge 13y ago
In Quebec, between secondary school and university, you usually do a two year preparatory college called CÉGEP. For sciences, for example, you do all your general science classes (Chem 101, Math 101, etc) with professors with master degrees
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by herge 13y ago
Serving static files from nginx still has overhead on the server and also can be slower that s3. Also, you avoid a whole rake of problems with backups, running out of disk space, sharing static files among servers, etc, by storing files on
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by herge 13y ago
From what I gather, one of the things holding mercurial back is support for python 2.4, although the support of %-formatting for bytestrings will move the port of mercurial forward.
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by herge 13y ago
> Does the kernel compile with unlimited jobs keep the number of concurrently running jobs below the processor limit, or are additional jobs in any way blocked on cheap primitives, such as waiting for previous jobs with a mutex? How do y
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by herge 13y ago
How 'bout Joanne?
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by herge 13y ago
How can a license allow modification without redistribution?
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by herge 13y ago
It seems that the only reason why people would prefer BSD/MIT over the GPL is to say "I want people to give me their code for free but I may want to sell it in the future."
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by herge 13y ago
A lot of big adult companies (both straight and gay) have their technology centres in Montreal, Canada, and were renown for being horrible places to work, between the conditions themselves and the shady habits of management. You would think
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by herge 13y ago
I think that the two step code is a hash of a random number shared between Google and the app (when reading the QR code), and the current time.
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by herge 13y ago
I think you misunderstood what the OP was talking about. Have you ever looked at migration systems like South for django or the migrations in ruby on rails? He was saying how the reverse of a migration is night impossible, because what happ
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by herge 13y ago
Also catch and chase, both from chasse.
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by herge 13y ago
We are looking at updating our version of Django in the next year, and I am quite happy that we have a battery of unit tests that test how the features of the current version framework work against our code. I will be a lot more confident a

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