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by kgo 16y ago
There are no primitive variables in python. Even ints, strings, floats, etc point to a reference of an object. All nonlocal does is point the variables reference to a different object. As to the advantages... Well for one you can use the
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by kgo 16y ago
Some more advice for someone trying to learn vim or emacs... RTFM! ;-) O'Reilly has good intro books on both of them that you can work through in a weekend. Yes, I know it seems silly to have to read a book to use a text editor, but working
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by kgo 16y ago
Yes, of course, I guess I was just trying to say that rails is optional, not required, and that resque is a pretty nice general purpose job queue.
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by kgo 16y ago
1. It's optional. "rake environment resque:work" will give you access to the whole rails environment, so you can write normal rails code. But it of course uses a bunch of memory. If you're doing something quick and dirty and don't need the
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by kgo 16y ago
Eventually your hardware will fail. If you can't even safely reboot your machines under controlled circumstances, you've already lost the uptime battle.
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by kgo 16y ago
Aluminum has not been proven that aluminum causes Alzheimer's... Many other deodorants use aluminum as well, Old Spice is hardly unique in that regard.
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by kgo 16y ago
Well here's what they said about that when it happened: https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed Of course, like anything, they could have other unknown vulnerabilities. But like they say in the video on that link, they're a
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by kgo 16y ago
If you use full disk encryption, it'll encrypt/decrypt on the fly, no extra hard drive needed. Type in password when you boot and you're done. If you're talking about an encrypted file container on a USB stick, the same problems exist with