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by kaens 18y ago
Really, the only thing you need to wrap your head around to understand decorators is the concept of first-class functions (functions that can take functions as parameters and return functions). If you understand those, and how they can be u
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by kaens 18y ago
Yes, I do. Because I know these people, and I know that they do these things because I have watched them do them, repeatedly. Edit: It may be bullshit in the general case (applying to people who make the claim of "try before I buy"),
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by kaens 18y ago
Meh, in the case of music and games, I know a lot of people who pirate as a "try before you buy" type of thing, and then shell out the cash for the product if they think it's worth it. I do this with music (I recently dropped illegal art a
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by kaens 18y ago
The point is that the direct link to 'C-h b' is mentioned in the tutorial. That section of the tutorial also has sections on a few of the options in C-h. That is how pivo found it. By going "oh, I wonder what else is there" and hitting
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by kaens 18y ago
C-h and a bit of a pause gives you: C-h (Type ? for further options) Type ? and you get a list. From the tut: To use the Help features, type the C-h character, and then a character saying what kind of help you want. If you are REALLY lost
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by kaens 18y ago
I could have sworn that most "programming" editors support macros, just not to the extent that emacs does.
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by kaens 18y ago
My handwriting basically looks like a five-year-old's. Doesn't help that I'm left-handed either.
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by kaens 18y ago
Don't you have to change a user preference to do it in firefox?
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by kaens 18y ago
Git gets talked about a lot because it's a good tool, and was written by Linus Torvalds - which basically ensures that a whole lot of people will try it out. Since it's pretty damn good at what it does, most of those people kept on using
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by kaens 18y ago
This is exactly what you should do. I've got quite a few friends in the swinger crowds, and if you're going to find a good, mature, financially responsible investor for a really good adult-oriented idea, your best bet is in the upscale swin
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by kaens 18y ago
I've been thinking about checking out Mechanize, but I've been using BeautifulSoup and a small library of helper functions for a while and haven't found time to familiarize myself with Mechanize. BeautifulSoup is lacking easy form-filling f
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by kaens 18y ago
I have a friend who is a lawyer who does "ethically sound" work - he primarily works with people who get treated horribly during peaceful protests. He lives fine. He definitely doesn't make "lawyer money", but he doesn't live like a pauper
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by kaens 18y ago
If this is new to anyone here, I strongly recommend reading the BASH man page. There's a whole lot of time saving features there.
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by kaens 18y ago
VLC doesn't need hype. It's recommended to people by word-of-mouth incredibly fast.
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by kaens 18y ago
Ahh, yeah it does require a good bit of familiarity with both python and *nix environments. I'm a lone guy, managing my own servers, with complete control over their environments. That's quite a bit different than a business environment, co
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by kaens 18y ago
More than just his last book.
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by kaens 18y ago
I just received a collection of Vonnegut books, so I've been reading them. From the prologue to Jailbird: John Figler is a law-abiding high-school student. He says in his letter that he has read almost everything of mine and is now prepare
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by kaens 18y ago
It does in major versions of programming languages that are largely against having "dirty" code, at least in my book.
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by kaens 18y ago
Because hardware vendors work directly with windows to make suspend / hibernate work correctly. Because for a long time, apple only had one architecture to worry about. Because linux has only gotten "big enough to pay attention to" in the l
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by kaens 18y ago
I am currently working for what could be considered a startup based in the UK (I am in the US). It's a fairly interesting problem, but not normal "startupish" stuff. I have no formal education, no credentials (other than code). I landed thi
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by kaens 18y ago
Check View -> Page Style if you're using Firefox.
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by kaens 18y ago
I lived in a communal house with about 15 other people for about a year, and this is more or less exactly what we did. The process works very well for keeping multiple people with possibly different eating schedules fed, and minimizes the
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by kaens 18y ago
In this particular case, I think it's because all ints are now longs. Or rather, there's one int type and it behaves like a long. I'm not a python dev either, but that's what I've gathered by lurking the python-dev and python-3000 mailing l
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by kaens 18y ago
Most likely the biggest cause is the removal of special-casing for small integers. http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#performance I'm anticipating a more thorough discussion of this on python-list or python-dev in the near
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by kaens 18y ago
I run a stable CherryPy app on 2.6 . It was a bit painful for about a week after 2.6 came out, but became stable pretty fast. There are a whole lot of possibilities for a "webapp stack" in python. What are you running your sites on top of?
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by kaens 18y ago
I certainly can, in fact I've found it to be rather good coding music. Then again, I also find Lighning Bolt, Slayer, and Merzbow to be good stuff to listen to while coding. Merzbow especially helps me get in "the zone". Also: Shpongle, Squ
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by kaens 18y ago
#2 is exactly what is happening, IMO. There has been a pretty huge influx of employers that just really don't care what their employees act like on their own time. Granted, a lot of this influx has been in the software development industr
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by kaens 18y ago
This is a great question, and something I've been thinking about lately. I assume it's pretty much exactly what you're doing combined with hopefully having people around that already know some reliable methods (that were probably learned th
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by kaens 18y ago
I used the python tutorial and library reference in addition to "Python in a Nutshell" ( http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596001889/ ) With a healthy amount of coding, I've gotten very comfortable with python, although I still feel like I'm
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by kaens 18y ago
I'm so glad I found rtorrent. I had just started learning my way around (n)curses to implement basically the same client interface, in python. Instead, I'm looking at rtorrent's implementation, in my free time, and working on other things

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