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by jemfinch 15y ago
`os.open` is a low-level interface whose semantics are platform-dependent. The Python analogue is the builtin `open`, which documents that it raises IOError on a failure to open a file: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#open
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by jemfinch 15y ago
And Doom, and Quake, and Quake3, and Unreal Tournament...
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by jemfinch 15y ago
There was an incident at a recent skeptics conference where Watson was accosted & hit on by an attendee in the small hours of the morning while riding an elevator. No, there was an instance where a man asked Watson to his room for cof
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Can someone summarize the controversy for me? As I understand it, Arrington wanted to head a new VC while at the same continuing to serve as head of TechCrunch, the major journalistic outlet in the startup field. AOL raised questions about
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I specifically paged through the read to make sure that link had been given, and then came to this comment page to do the same thing. Few people seem to know that we have real and valid reasons for indexing from 0 instead of 1.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
This really needs to take into account modifier keys (in particular, shift).
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Pillaging? There's absolutely nothing wrong with giving a new voice to stories that have become part of our cultural consciousness. That's precisely how cultures evolve. We build upon the creations of those who went before us, adding o
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Ah, you seem to be right: http://www.openmusicarchive.org/faq.php
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by jemfinch 15y ago
When copyright periods are described, they describe the amount of time after the author's death that the work remains copyrighted. Your music is your own while you live with no limitations; this is about your estate and your inheritors d
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Any game vaguely resembling Wolfenstein uses a uniform-cost grid.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
`Popen(["ls"], ...)`? Was `os.listdir` (or, if you must, `sorted(fn for fn in os.listdir('.') if not fn.startswith('.'))` too easy?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Why in the world would you voluntarily allow police or purported police to search your apartment?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You understand that he left his CEO position because he's dying , right?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Try powering up on caffeine and then immediately taking a nap. The caffeine takes a few minutes to kick in, and when you wake you'll feel the combined effect of a short nap and the caffeine. I recall reading about a study which showed that
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by jemfinch 15y ago
No, he's looking at causality, not logical entailment. He's not saying the judge is old, therefore he must be wrong on Internet matters; he's saying that the judge being old is likely an influential cause of his being wrong on Internet mat
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Ad Hominem is a logical fallacy. Unless the OP was saying "The judge is wrong because he's seventy years old" he was not committing ad hominem , just commenting on a (possibly irrelevant) quality of the judge.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Search for (several) "Lambda the ultimate" papers.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. I can see how the public good would be served by having doctors use electronic records; having them use this specific software (which is what I thought was being subsidized) seemed too specific to justify in term
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Why is my tax money subsidizing software that should have to fight in the free market like the software most other developers write?
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by jemfinch 15y ago
I wish I could have ignored you saying that John Carmack is not a real hacker, but I couldn't. Carmack has consistently pushed forward multiple industries on multiple fronts, and remains to this day a far better programmer than any I've
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by jemfinch 15y ago
You've really never seen a Dover book? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Books Publishing works that are in the public domain is their bread and butter.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
The less any one company controls the direction of the Internet, the better off Google is. Firefox fights Internet hegemony just as well as Chrome does.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Perhaps a more appropriate first step toward stopping being an "attention whore" is discerning your audience. I would be very surprised if your post is very useful advice for most of the people here.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
It sure does, that's why I said it did. Consider a sequence increasing by 1 each period. Now pick a random number between 1 and 10000. Generate the sequence between 1 and your random number. It will approximately conform to Benford's law
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by jemfinch 15y ago
This isn't true. Benford's law applies just as equally to ordinary, arithmetic growth as well. The reason Benford's law works is because a growing number spends as much time with "1" as its initial digit as it did traversing the entire pr
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Fifth amendment and encryption issues are already worked out. Just like you can be compelled to open a safe, you can be compelled to decrypt a volume. A self-destroying drive would likely get you a conviction for obstructing justice, just
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Because it's the only interpretation that makes sense, and charitable discussion demands that I assume my interlocutors are reasonable people who say things that make sense until I have evidence to the contrary.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
He means a flat file of JSON records. Your sarcasm is unnecessary and uncharitable.
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by jemfinch 15y ago
This sort of personalization is no different than using a user's click history to determine whether he means cycling or motorcycling when he searches for "biking". It's no different than using history to determine whether someone is lookin
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by jemfinch 15y ago
Humor is funny. That post was a sarcastic expression of an obvious truth. Neither the tone nor the obviousness was what I come to HN for.

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