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by maw 18y ago
I'm assuming 'lo' is 'it', and 'vi' is 'saw'. Duh! Yes, you are of course correct. My excuse for forgetting: familiarity might not always breed contempt, but sometimes it breeds a real lack of observation! As an aside, archaic (and arch
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by maw 18y ago
Actually, French is S-O-V when you're using pronouns. Can you share an example? Admittedly, my French isn't too hot, but I'm curious. I'd be interested in an example Spanish (which I'm a lot better at than French) too.
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by maw 18y ago
Not sure what he means by culture. "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
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by maw 18y ago
Interesting. I always thought it had to do with the SubGenius.
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by maw 18y ago
You don't honestly believe that, do you? I'm quite sure that both axes exist (and maybe others too).
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by maw 18y ago
C style but where an error is thrown/compilation aborts/etc whenever inconsistent indentation is found. I like how easy python tends to be to read, but I dislike the fact that editors' autoindentation can not possibly work without adding ot
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by maw 18y ago
I used the same method but of course had different numbers to plug in: 4 gas stations (I am probably forgetting a few in parts of town I didn't frequent) in a town of roughly 10,000 people. Maybe you'd get a better figure going by number of
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by maw 18y ago
How significant would said arbitrage be, though? In terms of percentages of individual purchases, sure, but if there's a way to scale it up it isn't obvious to me. In Mexico, the same problem exists, although by the sound of things it isn'
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by maw 18y ago
'git diff' (also hopefully obvious) Except it's not, since it'll output different things depending on whether you have staged anything or not. This behavior is sometimes useful, but hardly obvious. Many aspects of git are like this, and
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by maw 18y ago
I get the same feeling of malaise after watching too much youtube as I do when watching too much traditional television.
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by maw 18y ago
Which versions of gcc and libc? Any special flags passed to gcc? I ask because I just tried it with a test program here (openSUSE Factory, gcc 4.3.3 and glibc 2.8.90) and it didn't print any warnings, but it would be nice if it did.
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by maw 18y ago
They're not free to make that sort of modification to Firefox. Patches for Firefox (and a number of other Mozilla products) need to be vetted by MoCo, and I doubt they'd be approved. They are, of course, allowed to rebrand and then make al
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by maw 18y ago
A bug in the polling software: I was able to report myself as part of each generation. Multifaceted I may be, but not multiaged. (Generation X, btw.)
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by maw 18y ago
Does anyone here seriously work like that? Sure, why not? I create a branch for nearly every series of edits (aside from tyop-fixing bugfixes) that I do, usually to fix a bigger bug or to create a new feature. If it works out, great: I
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by maw 18y ago
Could be. If you tell it to translate to Spanish, it says "Inglés" (which is incorrect, btw, since it shouldn't be capitalized) or "francés", depending on whether you leave the period. But, if you tell it to translate into German, it says
526.
by maw 18y ago
The whole article seems to be building towards that—along with the notion of smart lawmakers writing the necessary laws to make it happen just right—but ends rather abruptly. Talk about painting yourself into a corner.
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by maw 18y ago
Not quite true. If a word ends in an r and the speaker is thinking about what to say next, he may in fact roll the r. Think about this sentence: "Estuvimos allí por... un rato." Often it'd be punctuated with ellipses, but in some sense i
528.
by maw 18y ago
The article misses a lot. Swapping happens often even when there isn't directly pressure on memory. Because Linux very aggressively keeps recently touched files cached in memory (usually, although not always, a performance win), it will
529.
by maw 18y ago
Reading uneducated users opinions about signal meters ("phone A is better because it has one more bar than phone B") Come on! Who wouldn't want a phone that goes to eleven?
530.
by maw 18y ago
"Frequently typed characters should be on the home row for efficiency." Only if you miniscule hands and recordbreakingly narrow shoulders.
531.
by maw 18y ago
I have plenty of nonstandard keybindings (a bad idea, but I didn't know it it 10-11 years ago when I decided upon them, and now I'm too accustomed to them), but what I'd miss more is the various functions I've written that save so manual ef
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by maw 18y ago
My solution is to not stick pedantically to the home row but wherever and however my hands and wrists feel comfortable. When my hands are at rest but on top of the keyboard, that works out to about AEFV N[IK]L'. It's a position not dissim
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by maw 18y ago
Its success seemed foreordained to me from the beginning: a travel site that knows about international flights and whose UI isn't a complete disaster.
534.
by maw 18y ago
This is just a largely unfounded guess based on my feminine intuition -- and note that I'm a dude -- but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it was the Economist.
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by maw 18y ago
People used to say tonic, and some oldtimers surely still do.
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by maw 18y ago
People shooting off things like "The unix text utilities were written in the 60's and 70's when computers were 33mhz and had 5MB of ram." as though they were fact.
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by maw 18y ago
http://begthequestion.info/
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by maw 18y ago
So much misinformation indeed! One reason, out of many, of course, that I stopped reading Slashdot was the amount of misinformation propagated there. I was afraid that I would read something false while in an insufficiently wary frame of
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by maw 18y ago
No, it wasn't what he was saying. The Economist took an implementation detail to mean something entirely different.
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by maw 18y ago
Having an important piece of software that won't crash all the time is a big deal. Various people tell me that they never experience firefox crashes. Good for them. I do, frequently. And, due to its very design, many bugs in its c++ core

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