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by herge 13y ago
The first amendment of the US constitution is curtailed in schools in specific instances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_amendment_to_the_united_s...
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by herge 13y ago
I wonder if it was meant to be pronounced 'meame' or 'me-me'.
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by herge 13y ago
Your ideal coffee shop does not sound like a very profitable enterprise as opposed to catering to people ordering takeout and large groups who drink alcohol. Have you considered co-working spaces?
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by herge 13y ago
Fun fact: Even if Mr. Emrani has put a copyright notice in the README.md, it doesn't apply in the United States! I wonder if the warranty notice is also also moot?
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by herge 13y ago
Gvim on windows is an easy way to get a tool that will do search, regex replacement, quick text editing macros, etc. All you need is to run executable (gvim.exe), there is no need to install, so from a copy of gvim.exe on a usb drive, dropb
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by herge 13y ago
If the bitcoins are given in exchange for work, he is taxed as if it was income, and at income tax rates, much like if he was given a stock grant in a public company. Also, these taxes are calculated when he is paid, not when he sells the b
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by herge 13y ago
Could you not use mock.sentinel values as an enum? Also, you can create a poor man's enum from 2.7+ with: from collections import namedtuple myenum = namedtuple('myenum', ['a', 'b', 'c'])(range(3)) myenum.a == myenum.a
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by herge 13y ago
I had a very good mix of science in CEGEP that, say, a software engineer from ETS completely missed. I think that a lot of what you learn in the SE curriculum can be learnt (and probably is better learnt) on the job, as opposed to the very
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by herge 13y ago
That is what my friends in Software Engineering reported. What do they actually learn?
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by herge 13y ago
> There is currently no widespread recognition of the profession in the IT community. We almost never see any job posting requiring the title, or any company giving additional compensation/responsabilities because of the title. The main
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by herge 13y ago
Not from the get-go. You usually have to click on the unsubscribe link in the first piece of spam they send you.
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by herge 13y ago
I use the original Montreal based version of this program, and they caution a limit of 265lbs[1] for the bicycles. It is also really popular, and amazingly handy. 260 is probably the limit the bikes can handle while lasting a whole season.
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by herge 13y ago
Remember the hubbub two years ago when Apple was collecting GPS data? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/iphone-customers-laws...
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by herge 14y ago
Nobody has mentioned mensch! ( http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html ) Mostly like Menlo except with really big angled brackets and a more conventional l.
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by herge 14y ago
I am surprised that Twitter has not used features for bigger customers like this as a monitizing strategy. When they used to have a user cap, they could have just charged companies or people to go over that cap. Same thing here, charge for
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by herge 14y ago
Perhaps they encrypt your unique personal files, but share duplicates among all the users? In one tb, there must be a lot of common mp3s, movie files, etc.
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by herge 14y ago
The login string looks like an email, but it is only for convenience. Any thing that looks like an email address, and for which the domain will authenticate it using the persona protocol, can be used. Or even an address at mockmyid.com
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by herge 14y ago
Man, having this as a context manager (maybe with the help of contextlib) would be great, because context managers are great.
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by herge 14y ago
Most 'fiat currencies' can be gotten in exchange for services rendered to their respective governments, and also used to pay taxes.
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by herge 14y ago
If you serve your static resources through S3, you can share the same static resources among multiple app servers. Also, a proper CDN will serve them a lot faster than your app server through nginx can.
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by herge 14y ago
Professional culture, that's the one with the dress code and long meetings?
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by herge 14y ago
Not much of my time but a lot of my value.
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by herge 14y ago
As somebody who uses hosted kiln, finding and reading code on github is so much faster it's not even funny. Every time I go to kiln to look at the blame for a page, I despise it. The code review tool on kiln is also sub-par compared to the
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by herge 14y ago
I think he was talking about threads that run on multiple processors. Also, packaging is a whole different can of worms (but hopefully will be sorted by distutils2!).
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by herge 14y ago
Man, who could imagine such skullduggery in such a boring place as Conscordia's Reggies. Secret agents and illegal break ins oh my! Although, I did have a palestinian friend swear that the Tim Horton's on Guy was a hotbead for the Jordanian
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by herge 14y ago
Does google allow you to pick any keyword you want? Words like slavery, Holocaust, KKK?
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by herge 14y ago
Link for the lazy: http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/
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by herge 14y ago
The classic "Replace Conditional with Polymorphism" design pattern, which took me way to long to realize that it also applies to Python.
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by herge 14y ago
> 1. Something's broken. What part of the code is broken? (perhaps 5 minutes tops?) Ah, if I could only be so lucky.
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by herge 14y ago
Man, I wish vectorize was part of the stdlib.

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