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The Axis of Food (the Central de Abasto in México DF)(ediblegeography.com)
1 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
It doesn't work if flash is blocked (Chromium 6.0.451.0 (51013), FlashBlock - Version: 0.9.30). I think because there's not enough room for the override button to show. Nice music so far, though. And I like the minimalist interface too.
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by maw 16y ago
Once I've placed my closing braces, I'll never need to think about it again, unless and until I restructure that piece of code. It's got nothing about saving keystrokes. And now, back to working on pass-infested Python code.
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by maw 16y ago
You know what they say: the hojillionth time's the charm.
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by maw 16y ago
If you write code like this: if x: # do stuff # do other stuff Your indenter will not know where to put the third line. In languages whose blocks are closed using nonwhitespace the problem doesn't exist. Your indenter just h
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by maw 16y ago
You don't, because auto indent for python doesn't and can't exist.
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by maw 16y ago
I bet this guy thinks using tabs in source code is a bright idea too.
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by maw 16y ago
It sounds like http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/false-dilemma/ to me. And I agree that that's what the argument sounds like.
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by maw 16y ago
It varies from country to country. And from style guide to style guide. Also, just for what it's worth, affect and effect can both be both nouns and verbs.
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by maw 16y ago
In some countries it costs about five times that, with a contract.
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by maw 16y ago
True. It doesn't. But as far as I know, there is no deep technical reason why it can't. The dots in domain names are '\0', and a few characters ('@', in particular) need to remain reserved, but other than that, what stops UTF-8 from bein
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by maw 16y ago
He'd been on that quixotic quest for three years ? For some reason, I have a hard time believing it. When the first sentence is not credible, what does that say about the rest?
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by maw 16y ago
It's not specific to bind: RFC 1035 says the following: 2.3.4. Size limits Various objects and parameters in the DNS have size limits. They are listed below. Some could be easily changed, others are more fundamental. lab
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by maw 16y ago
Many people hated flash years before the iPhone came out. Our reasons still hold.
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by maw 16y ago
I'm surprised that greylisting still works, to be honest. But the blacklist services never did, at least if your goal is not to reduce spam per se but to make or keep email useful.
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by maw 16y ago
Not that I've ever managed or ever will manage to get more than about 20 minutes of contiguous sleep on a plane (I'm tall, and have a hard time falling asleep in ideal conditions, which planes are not) but having a hoodie with a very large
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by maw 16y ago
Thanks. For OSX users, those files are in ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/.
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by maw 16y ago
Forget the bit about brain size. It's a distraction from what I was trying to get at. Sorry. To rephrase my question: are you smarter than most (and in all likelihood all) non-human animals? The answer is yes, and in the case of humans vs
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by maw 16y ago
Are you smarter than animals with brains a fraction of the size of yours? Why or why not? If the answer to the first question is "yes", it shouldn't take much to extrapolate from there. Now, how to divvy up that quality which we call intel
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by maw 16y ago
At the risk of sounding flip, not supporting punycode sounds like a feature. Getting internationalization right is clearly important, but punycode as a means of doing so? It's one of the many things that make me weep for my industry. In f
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by maw 16y ago
"24/7 internet connectivity will be a certainty in the future. We'll have complete global coverage. You'll be diving and able to tweet. You'll be checking facebook on that space shuttle." I question that, or, at least, I question that the q
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by maw 16y ago
How much work would it be, maybe through an extension and maybe not, to arrange for individual tabs to suspend and resume after being idle for a period of time? On Linux and OSX, at least, this might be done via SIGSTOP and SIGCONT, or per
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by maw 16y ago
If you frequently travel to places where connectivity is spotty or expensive, or if you're under heavy time constraints, doing that sort of thing is far from unreasonable. In fact, if you're travelling often, regardless of what the connect
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Tracking the Ancestry of Corn [Maize] Back 9,000 Years(nytimes.com)
2 points by maw 16y ago|0 comments
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by maw 16y ago
But is it true? You should see some of the crazy fluff used in Spanish in even moderately formal documents or occasions.
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by maw 16y ago
Broadband in the US may not be as awesome as it is elsewhere, but to call it third-world quality? It's a big stretch.
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by maw 16y ago
Charging for incoming calls seemed annoying at first, but it does have the advantage of making you more callable. No problems with cheapskate businesses who insist on having your number but won't accept the one you want to give. I agree wi
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by maw 16y ago
True. It still sounds uncomfortably like trivia, but maybe that's because nobody's figured out how to measure it properly yet. It sounds a lot like evaluating fielding, in both cricket and baseball, because in addition to keeping track of
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by maw 16y ago
"I upvoted you, but there's something I'm not clear about - are you saying that the Model M causes more repetitive stress-related pain than other keyboards? Because I beg to differ. Switching from a Microsoft intellisomething keyboard to a
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by maw 16y ago
Agreed, except on the partnership bit, which I don't understand. Keeping track of partnerships always seemed like trivia to me. Can you explain a bit further?

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