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by maw 13y ago
Why would anybody want to use CFL? Is it more for the migraines or for how they make everything look sickly?
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by maw 13y ago
Let's not say that the look "oh so hipster." Instead, let's say they look "oh so not in a bad dystopian movie."
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by maw 13y ago
Yeah, kinda weird. Why didn't they port rails to ycp instead?
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by maw 13y ago
Why should you be proud of being part of a community that makes good, rational decisions? That's also coincidence. (You should be happy and thankful, perhaps. But not proud, because, to any reasonable approximation, you have had noth
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by maw 13y ago
I guess Spaceball One wouldn't fit.
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by maw 13y ago
Using cat with pipes typically linearizes $x operation in our minds, it makes it easier to come up with solutions, and makes it easier to change them as modification is needed. Yes, definitely. Also it's easier to build up from simp
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by maw 13y ago
I smell a conspiracy!!!!!!!!!
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by maw 13y ago
I think you'd have a very difficult time convincing a serious linguist that English is less expressive than the Romance languages.
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by maw 13y ago
For some reason that guy has a writing style that makes it extremely hard to figure out what he's trying to say. Sure does, but maybe you should just say "he's incoherent." :) And thanks to hga for explaining.
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by maw 13y ago
She also did away with the standing rule that you could take any written standing offer - NO MATTER WHAT (unless you were actually fired for cause) - which was Bill's way of ensuring that great engineers couldn't be tossed out by
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by maw 13y ago
It's a Commonwealthism. (I mean the British one, not Massachusetts.)
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by maw 13y ago
Well laid out. My only quarrel is this: is point 10 really anything new?
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by maw 13y ago
Different standards use different abbreviations. Here, Tom is using FIPS: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes . If it were my site, I'd probably also use AU (and AT), though.
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by maw 13y ago
Nod. I use it and appreciate it, but I'm not entirely satisfied with it either for just this reason. It certainly isn't the last word in its space.
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by maw 13y ago
If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can't conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNS4t5UCBfI . That&#x27
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by maw 13y ago
Those are in an independent division.
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by maw 13y ago
I think being able to pay 200$ for a taxi is not the same as needing it the most. That is true. On the other hand, it is, so far as I'm aware, the closest anybody's managed to come to reliably, consistently figuring out who doe
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by maw 13y ago
* I only ride my bike on dedicated bike lanes (by "dedicated" I mean those blocked from the main road) and bike paths.* Where I live, Mexico City, there are lots of idiots who ride in the wrong direction in those lanes. I confron
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How was the starting point for the Julian Date system chosen?(curious.astro.cornell.edu)
2 points by maw 13y ago|0 comments
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by maw 13y ago
Wow, you're right. It does come with some data out of the box after all. Its UI isn't all that it could be, though.
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by maw 13y ago
I have downloaded and tried to play with Diogenes several times. I can never seem to get it to do anything. As best as I can tell, you need to provide it with data sets as well. Do you know where you can get these?
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by maw 13y ago
I wouldn't want anyone to get the idea that I buy into this, for any number of reasons, but one definition of a neocon is "a liberal who has been mugged by reality." (For what it's worth, I primarily take issue with the
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by maw 13y ago
Some people are naïve. All people make mistakes. And many people are naïve about whether they make mistakes.
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Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security: Podcast episode(econtalk.org)
10 points by maw 13y ago|0 comments
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by maw 13y ago
What I mean is that you can't tell your editor to indent an arbitrary block of code.
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by maw 13y ago
Spaces before parens doesn't matter too much, but with respect to spaces before commas all relativism goes straight out the window: putting a space before a comma is objectively better practice.
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by maw 13y ago
True, but the flip side is that in Python automatic indentation cannot possibly work.
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by maw 13y ago
Add american prudence (is that the right word?) The word you're looking for is "prudishness."
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by maw 13y ago
In Mexico people try to trick you by asking something for something innocuous, like the time, and then ask you for money. Also a supposedly common scam is to get personal info such as names and phone numbers in surveys and, later, to use th
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by maw 13y ago
How do you figure? Whom is a real word (albeit, sadly, one that's dying out). The rule about not ending sentences with prepositions, on the other hand, is and always has been bunk.

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