llimllib

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1. 721.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   But the intriguing part of the story is that they banned x-ray scanners, not that they approved millimeter-wave scanners. The headline is accurate. This has always been the sensible course of action; millimeter-wave machines are far safer t
2. 722.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   Armin Ronacher's article explains why they couldn't use either: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/11/15/modern-web-applications-a... (He's the author/maintainer/we_need_a_new_word_for_this of jinja2, btw)
3. 723.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   > What are the chances of catching a disease from previous donor during this procedure? Effectively zero, as onemoreact says. The chance of becoming infected due to unsterile conditions or opportunistic infections is higher than zero, h
4. 724.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   The simple answer is, go look at @partial's __call__: https://github.com/markshroyer/pointfree/blob/master/pointfr... All that code is executing on every partial call. So, a very brief list of reasons not to use this in production: 1. ove
5. 725.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   It's a super neat hack; but if you use it in production you're completely crazy. I think it's intended that way.
6. 726.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   I actually got the snowman as the 8th result when trying (and failing) to draw the unicode character "pile of poo" U+1F44D: http://i.imgur.com/VBvK6.jpg
7. 727.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   I got pi on the first try: http://i.imgur.com/IPyn7.jpg
8. 728.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   I tried really to get the thumbs up character, but no luck: http://i.imgur.com/YoWFh.jpg Handy tool anyway :)
9. 729.▲
   by llimllib 15y ago

   Go to conferences and meet people! Make a network in your city/closest metro area and use it. Having a github is a great start, that's one thing I want to see before I bring you in for an interview. andrew_k has good advice as well.
10. 730.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    Stupid lack of internet /sarcasm tags :/
11. 731.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    The only thing I liked about PL/SQL back in the day was its use of := for assignment and = for equivalence.
12. 732.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    > 9 times out of 8 many STEMs <X> So, 112% of the time 60% of STEMS <X>? What a strange way of phrasing it.
13. 733.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    Strangely, he has a video that describes just that, but it's on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/28743348
14. 734.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    When I read it in my head, I read it as "let". As in "x = 5" -> "let x be 5".
15. 735.▲
    A beautiful webgl+kinect hack(mrdoob.com)

    2 points by llimllib 15y ago|0 comments
16. 736.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    Here's our ruby campfire chatbot, developed for our office. Many more plugins! Ruby! https://github.com/markolson/linkbot edit: for comparison, our google image plugin: https://github.com/markolson/linkbot/blob/master/plugins/ima... vs.
17. 737.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    Thanks... I really did mean that as a question, I should have been clearer.
18. 738.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    So... what's going to happen when lamernews runs out of RAM?
19. 739.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    I'm reading the laws now... It seems that "unauthorized access" itself, may be a crime which he has committed? Also, the laws vary by state and I'm having trouble figuring out what the federal laws are. Obviously, he didn't commit any fraud
20. 740.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    So, this guy is bragging about committing a felony, right? (I think it's a very neat hack and that he shouldn't have to be worried, but... am I right? Is this in fact a felony? Less?)
21. 741.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    Maybe Hyew-ston is more phonetically clear for how people say the city in Texas?
22. 742.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    I'd appreciate an explanation of why it's nonsensical. (I don't doubt you, I'm honestly curious)
23. 743.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    What is the best book(s) to read if you want to understand a bit about QED? (I understand a bit about quantum physics; the book that helped me the most was Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert) edited to add: I want to emphasize that I understan
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    by llimllib 15y ago

    It makes me nervous that it hasn't been updated since July. I switched to adblock plus with the fb rules above, and "disable all third-party cookies" in about:flags.
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    by llimllib 15y ago

    > There has been NOTHING as fundamentaly important as Knuth's work in the last couple of decades. What work of Knuth's? TOACP? TeX? I'm a huge Knuth fan, but I don't see his work as fundamental to computer science, rather mostly as an a
26. 746.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    I used to write that software. Low supply, low demand == high prices
27. 747.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    For such a new module, the API for subprocess is remarkably bad. I have to look it up absolutely every time.
28. 748.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    > If a legal remedy is uninviting because of problems with the legal system this does not mean that "software patents are not fixable" it means that the legal system in general is poor. Rather, he assumes that the legal system is poor
29. 749.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    What used to drive me especially nuts about MSDN documentation (when I used to write C#) is that they seem to change the URL scheme every year or so, just so that every reference to anything breaks every single time you try to look at it. I
30. 750.▲
    by llimllib 15y ago

    And: In [1]: import json In [2]: json.dumps?? Type: function Base Class: <type 'function'> String Form:<function dumps at 0x101f0bc08> Namespace: Interactive File: /usr/local/C