jerryszczerry

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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
I don't know if you can do it in Norwegian, but in colloquial Polish it's possible to specify how much time will pass until the next full hour without specifying what hour it is. So, it's possible to say, for instance: „J
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> […] In an Asian country the Sallies could set up fried rice or noodle stalls selling cheap meals to the Joes, for the equivalent of a dollar or two. They've set up a mutual trade for mutual advantage, and they're both better
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> I consider PDF viewers to be superior to the experience offered by ebook viewers. For example, Having to tap the left and right side of the screen to move between pages is a pain compared to swiping up or down in a fluid motion. > [
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
If/when that becomes feasible, I assume moving the fetus to the artificial womb would become a more humanitarian (if more expensive) equivalent to getting an abortion.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
Wow, finally a good orthography for English!
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
How many uses can you find for Fortran 77 besides legacy systems?
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
Not using a feature X yourself means you might still need to deal with code written by somebody who uses the feature.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> Because Python 3.X is not backwards compatible and we have millions of lines of production code in Python 2.X. I believe the common subset of Python 2 and 3 was created to ease that transition.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> Python 2 is like FORTRAN. It might not be sexy anymore but it's not going anywhere. Except Fortran is, and is going to be, further developed. (So, if a new useful programming concept appears, or a major design mistake is discovere
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
I think 1000 is a more realistic estimate of how much words you need in a language, than 100. Toki pona is nice in concept, but too restrictive in practice.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> I've seen very prominent NN-course, suggesting Python 2.7 for all assignments and code samples, and quite useful library (also NN-related), supporting 2.7 only. Oh, that's plain silly. Isn't the whole point of Python 2.7
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
And this is making Java look good how exactly?
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
It was already fixed back when domain names had to be plain ASCII. It was West-centric, yes, but it allowed for a unique and legible ASCII identifiers. And encouraged non-ASCII languages to create a unique (or, mostly-unique) Latin represen
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> I could go in and set up a dot/non dot email address to people I know and just wait until I receive an email that was supposed to be for them but now goes to my email account. Err, you can't do that? The fact that somebody&#x
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
Depends on the human.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
Is it similar to getting heavily drunk and then keeping asking the same question because you can't remember having asked it?
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> The idea that all of sudden there is going to be a rush to push compiled/closed sites after so many very successful years of using free-and-open stacks seems rather non-logical to me. Well, then we have minified JS that isn't
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> Take, for example, the awesome 404 page over at Disqus. They use a random animated GIF from popular TV and film, An excellent idea! As if we didn't have other ways of wasting bandwidth…
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
How did they destroy Snapchat? By adding a couple of frames and overlays? My mobile phone had that “feature” ten years ago already.
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> It’s a minimalist or geometric black design, like mine, popularized by Buzzfeed listicles like this one. So, a ‘list article’ is a ‘listicle’ nowadays. Wonder how'd they call a ‘test article’…
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
This link is being blocked by Facebook. Huh?
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> Laura had been interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on more than forty occasions when traveling internationally. Sometimes they temporarily confiscated her notebooks. Once, they took away her computer. […] As always, f
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
> PHP ~6 Ah, you mean good old PHP 4294967289?
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by jerryszczerry 9y ago
I guess if learning 90% of something takes 90 minutes, the remaining 10% will take 10 years.
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by jerryszczerry 10y ago
Yet another attack vector yay!
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by jerryszczerry 10y ago
Nice. I'd change it, though, so it would disallow both Windows and OSX.