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by limmeau 14y ago
What language is that? I usually fail at glass doors when PUSH and PULL labels are transparent so that I read "PUSH" and (reverse) "PULL" simultaneously.
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by limmeau 14y ago
I was referring to Python doctests (documentation narrative with interspersed Python statements and embedded reference output). The text looked to me like one could extract all the commands, run them and check their output against the embed
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by limmeau 14y ago
Is that an executable doctest?
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by limmeau 14y ago
If the sexual funniness stems from the library the team is using, then the awkwardness can be addressed in a team meeting well in advance. Perhaps resulting in a only-one-joke-a-day policy or changed pronunciation (e.g. AnAl like "analgesic
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by limmeau 14y ago
When I was 8, I insisted on buying a little book containing a collection of toilet stall graffiti sayings. I didn't get half of them, yet merrily recited them. And look where I am now, happily employed software developer with >=1000 kar
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by limmeau 14y ago
What makes it your favorite?
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by limmeau 14y ago
They describe they had to get several concrete walls and a metal cabinet between themselves and the Raspi before reception stopped, so I'd say too high.
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by limmeau 14y ago
Cool. How does this differ from Terminal IDE?
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by limmeau 14y ago
According to http://apc.io/specifications/ , the third product is called "8750", which somewhat damages the pun. But seeing that the Paper has an accessible JTAG port, they could really sell a JTAG adapter under the "Scissors" name.
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by limmeau 14y ago
Obligatory Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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by limmeau 14y ago
Can't you just dd the ISO image to the USB stick? http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installat...
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by limmeau 14y ago
Particularly fond of, no. Actually, unless your topic is web design, I appreciate it if you're being unoriginal about your blog's appearance. Trying to remember a few blogs where the content has distracted me from the appearance to the poin
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by limmeau 14y ago
Actually, if you're switching themes anyway, could you choose one in which the archive is more prominent? I couldn't find one, and usually the archive is where I go to find out whether the blog is relevant to me.
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by limmeau 14y ago
Apparently, you can build yourself a netbook with PixelQi's transmissive-reflective display of the OLPC. Not quite paper, but at least black&white without backlight. http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/how-to-install-pixel-qis-...
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by limmeau 14y ago
I think there's a saturated solution of sodium acetate inside. The metal clickie causes the solution to crystallize, which happens to happen exothermically. (IANAchemist)
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China: Crowdsourced tax enforcement(bunniestudios.com)
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by limmeau 15y ago
If the epaper display involves white and black pigments travelling physically through an oil droplet, then I doubt that the lifetime of a pixel is infinite. Can't find lifetime specs on eink.com, though, only a claim that 90% of the display
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by limmeau 15y ago
Won't the epaper pixels wear out after a finite number of transitions? After all, a year has millions of seconds to display...
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by limmeau 15y ago
Plus it claims to have the Lua GC perform automatic ObjC refcounting.
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by limmeau 15y ago
I had completely missed that the Samwer brothers were in the web copying business. Last time I heard of them, they were busy selling teenagers ringtone subscriptions ("Jamba").
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by limmeau 15y ago
The author notified the rude little kid's dad, who may have sent the kid to bed without dessert.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Why?
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by limmeau 15y ago
Another Python blog engine: https://github.com/ametaireau/pelican I'm using it for a new-baby-picture-proud-parents blog (which I won't link to due to its private nature). It's not very feature-rich, but it gets the job done.
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by limmeau 15y ago
If you're not committed to using precisely the curses library for the text UI, there is also Newt[1], a front-end to Slang. It was used in the text-based installer of Red Hat Linux. I once used it for a one-off Python script and it was OK.
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by limmeau 15y ago
When I read the title, I hoped they had built a replacement for the tedious XML declaration of plug-ins, with Commands and Workbench Core Expressions and all that. (Example: http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclips...
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by limmeau 15y ago
Android has been ported to the BeagleBoard, so half of that is already available. However, I don't know whether Android's GUI can run over X11/VNC or similar.
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by limmeau 15y ago
Another reason to use xor: in the old days, ALU reg-reg commands were generally faster than reg-mem moves. The 8086 assembly tutorial book I used then recommended to use "sub ax, ax" instead because it was less surprising.
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by limmeau 15y ago
I'm from a country where checks are mostly dead since the 90s, so I'm puzzled about the business this spam is for: isn't it your bank's job to issue you checks, printed on security paper? How does this work?
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by limmeau 15y ago
Please don't use HN for job search ads. There are thousands of people in the world looking for a dev job, and if everyone posts an Ask HN, HN becomes unusable. There are monthly "Who is hiring" postings; perhaps you find something there. Or
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by limmeau 15y ago
The monkey effect is unlikely to be true because a) it is paranormal, which lowers its prior probability a bit, and b) it has not even been observed, just interpreted into other peoples' papers. Also, the habit of washing potatos is more so

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