l0nwlf

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Bug erases 150k Gmail accounts; Google promises complete restoration(thinkdigit.com)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Could you link to those Project Euler problems, where you have been using this code ?
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
But he misjudged that something else (America) with his original destination (India). Quoting from wiki ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus ): "Amerigo Vespucci's travel journals, published 1502-4, convinced Martin Waldseemü
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I wonder why Valve didn't offered him a job. He was naive but talented and passionate about gaming.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
The odd thing is I haven't seen this "irritating pink ad" in any of my colleague/friends Gmail's inbox. Wonder what may be the reason ?
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Is Google A/B testing with Gmail ads?(twitpic.com)
3 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|1 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Silly me. I almost always do the same, but never thought of creating a function. Thanks anyways. :D
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Unrelated but a nice alias "tree". alias tree="find . -name .svn -prune -o -name .DS_Store -prune -o -name .git -prune -o -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|___;g;s;___|; |;g'" It shows your directory listing in the form of a tree. Easier to visua
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> According to Twitter, UberMedia infused twitter streams in their apps with ads. But what problem should twitter be having ? If public dislike the ads they won't use it probably. If they are doing so, they are probably OK with it. T
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I thought Gotham was a fictional city.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> But the real problem is that Batman exists to solve a problem; Gotham has a massive crime problem, way beyond what we see in any major city in the world. And it is a city where number of crime bosses, criminal geniuses and psychopaths
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
And why should developer bother to know how to deal with pointers ? And since when does writing "Hello World" in C teaches you how to use pointer and how to deal with it.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Reminds me of fizzbuzz test : http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/dont-overthink-fizzbuzz....
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Yes. It was raised to 500, 3.5 months back. [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529 ]
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Great that you are learning Python 3. :) The issue is if you need to write something you may need 3rd party library and few great ones are not available for Python3. It kind of cripples you.
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Geo Spatial Search Engine(nsshutdown.com)
5 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Google should have launched one for Firefox too. Anyway the likes of experts-exchange etc will take a hit now.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
> Of course Sam cannot live on technical stimulation and my gratitude alone Alas. If only we could live on technical stimulation alone :(
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Python3 core has a better design: strict separation between bytes and characters, no more short integer type, no more old style class, etc. The stdlib is there. The rocky bits are being fixed all the time. The other important modules all
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Because the quality of answers are good.
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Google Map Javascript API - An year in retrospect(googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com)
2 points by l0nwlf 16y ago|0 comments
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
No way this is Google sanctioned. It is registered by some "Mark Oakley <d237447q@gmail.com>".
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Because : "He will not reply to senseless accusations any longer. Don't bother nominating him for conflict of interest or vandalism or whatnot, it's already been tried and didn't work."
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Even though I like your answer I disagree with "This is why I’m nervous when strongly antisocial people say they want to go into software". Strongly anti-social people are some of the best software engineers around. They devote insane amou
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Nice. This is the second best doodle after Google Pacman doodle : http://www.google.com/pacman/
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
``One of the biggest issues in AI is determining what the question is really asking i.e. translating a “natural language” query into something machine can understand and find the appropriate answer.'' - so True.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
At my workplace I need to code in Java. After programming in Python for 2 years I am simply hating the experience. Nothing to do with OO, but the language is a lot more verbose and I personally find it a bit irksome.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
I will go with a real-life example. A person that I know of. Ishaan Chattopadhyaya IMO, not many outsiders know of him but he single-handedly rewrote MapQuest Search.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
Alas, the better of the OS was rejected.
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by l0nwlf 16y ago
1 > Wide Coverage. 2 > Accuracy.

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