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by kingkilr 15y ago
Not that I disagree with a word of this article, but he's accepting the premise of those two articles: that the distribution mechanisms are a worse UX than pirating. My response: Are you high? Once upon a time I pirated content, he's an a
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by kingkilr 15y ago
"This title will be auto-delivered to your Kindle on February 1, 2013." Well, props to Amazon for ensuring at least I don't forget this exists.
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I took a calculus course at a local community college, and my dad recommended a bunch of economics resources to me, but for programming (which was really the brunt of what I taught myself) I basically went it alone. I also spent considerabl
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I unschooled (was unschooled?) from my sophomore year of high school through college. That's, without a doubt, hugely different from doing it through elementary school I think, but I'm happy to answer any questions.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
None of what you just said is particularly true. Python has closures. Lambdas are anonymous functions which support only expressions, like all functions they can form closures. Named functions also form closures and can contain any number
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I believe it says that the poster believes the only solution to be the complete destruction of the entertainment industry.
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I had the opportunity to visit the Watson Research labs a few weeks ago and meet with several researchers working on dynamic languages there. IBM is not like any Silicon Valley company, researchers have individual offices, there isn't trem
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by kingkilr 15y ago
No, you're still talking about fundamentally broken mechanisms and rules. If SOPA would decrease your business income by 10 times, would you accept it then? I can make up numbers too.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Stay classy...
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by kingkilr 15y ago
For people using bootstrap, someone's been working on some nice looking progress bars there: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/699
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Actually, std::list does have a sort() method, std::vector doesn't though. std::vector makes you use the other algorithms one, since it's made up of contiguous memory, while std::list isn't.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul...
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Excuse me, what? He supported both the Defense of Marriage Act as well co-sponsoring the Marriage Protection Act, "which would have barred federal judges from hearing cases pertaining to the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act
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by kingkilr 15y ago
I wrote an article where I tried to lay out the definitions of these terms: http://alexgaynor.net/2010/nov/19/programming-languages-term...
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Django 1.4 alpha 1 released(djangoproject.com)
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The supreme court has in past found that punishments which are capriciously applied are inherently cruel and unusual (Furman v. Georgia).
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Fuck the first amendment, how about the constitutional definition of treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
.defer() and .only(), they're right in the list of methods on Querysets: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/querysets/#... . Sorry, but it's a bit hard to take this critique seriously, given how trivial it is. I have a list
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by kingkilr 15y ago
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide
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A little over 40GB on S3.
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Well, it's harder to understand all of rails, because it has more features. That's a fair claim I think. However, the question is: Is it harder to understand the subset of rails that does what sinatra does, than it is to understand sinat
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by kingkilr 15y ago
What does the number of lines of code have to do with whether it's appropriate for beginners?
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Not even close, while all the sites it said I visited, I had, it missed tons of other sites I'd visited.
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Yes, it was Greg's class.
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FWIW, Armin was playing with implementing a concurrent GC, to help with the pause times. Not sure what the status of it is though.
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How does a private email accidentally end up on the internet?
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Major thanks to Justin Peel for finding the memory leak! That was a fun one, memory allocated external to the GC (so e.g. something allocated by OpenSSL) wasn't factored into calculating when to run the GC, which meant that the destructors
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by kingkilr 15y ago
Data source: DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking Well there's your problem. What a terrible metric. That's a good way of finding out what one type of linux user is using, but not a good way to sample the population of computer users,
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What's the constant factor look like? I know the previous asymptotically best matrix multiplication algorithm had such a high one as to render it useless in real world computations.
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Reminds me of garbage and academia: "Garbage is garbage, but the history of garbage is scholarship"

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