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by mdg 16y ago
To my knowledge[1], Apple never pays for product placement. [1] read something online somewhere once.
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by mdg 16y ago
>Even simple things like setting up and tearing down the database is awkward. You have to actually make an outside call to a command-line script to do it. ... Because I want to be able to do that WITHIN my webapp? As a side note, I wish
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by mdg 16y ago
Here is an amendment I made to the flowchart in that post: http://i.imgur.com/FRGX0.jpg
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by mdg 16y ago
That is just how fossil rolls.
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by mdg 16y ago
You are lame
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by mdg 16y ago
Sounds just like the Death Star
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by mdg 16y ago
I cringe when I see a simple if-else, which does nothing but assign a value to a variable depending on the condition. That is the best use case for a ternary operator, in my opinion. However, I have noticed that I tend to use them liberall
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by mdg 16y ago
I have read through dmenu a few times the past couple days.
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by mdg 17y ago
Nice try, but I am not going to fall into that circular reference trap again.
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by mdg 17y ago
You can leave now, thanks.
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by mdg 17y ago
> To be fair, they come up with some good ones from time to time too. Bing is a good example. I cant stress enough how much I enjoy using that site, whether its the infinite scrolling image search, mouse over video preview, or even jus
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by mdg 17y ago
reads link Wait - what?!
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by mdg 17y ago
Who cares? The site is a site for ranting, and you are upset that he is ranting there? If you want to see "real valuable content", try to submit something yourself. I see you have 0 submissions.
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by mdg 17y ago
You and Lil' Wayne both are consistent and put out lots of material.
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by mdg 17y ago
Brian, I like the link you have at the end of the article: "Back to Hacker News". I assume it does the same when referred from Reddit? [ retracted comment ]
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by mdg 17y ago
... I had no idea! This is awesome (Its like discovering Firebug for the first time)! Thanks!
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by mdg 17y ago
click, click, click, mouseover, click. So tedious.
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by mdg 17y ago
pkrummins is the Lil' Wayne of blogging.
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by mdg 17y ago
You should buy the PS3 to play games or watch Blu-Ray.... See that old box sitting in the corner collecting dust? Yea use that to toy around with linux. EDIT: I had the same intention when I bought mine, but I soon realized anything of int
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by mdg 17y ago
You are 100% correct. This is a good example of Python making it harder for you to do the wrong thing. Sure.. you could access that "private" attribute, but you have to do it in a way that isn't obvious, and definitely more hard to read.
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by mdg 17y ago
Au contraire, double underscore does make it "private". Trying to access a double underscore attribute directly will throw an AttributeError. >>> class Foo(object): ... def __init__(self): ... self
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by mdg 17y ago
In my ~/.vimrc: set textwidth=80
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by mdg 17y ago
Just wondering, do you attend Cohpy?
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by mdg 17y ago
I did this morning when I was trying to read some funny FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU comics and drink some coffee.
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by mdg 17y ago
Yea, from the HTTP headers it looks like they are running Apache-Coyote server.
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by mdg 17y ago
Ok, I am going to create a Twitter clone
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by mdg 17y ago
1337
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by mdg 17y ago
Plan 9 versions of these tools are straight forward: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/
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by mdg 17y ago
looks at Heinz ketchup packet ingredient list Hey, why is there corn in my ketchup?!
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by mdg 17y ago
Yes. In fact, I'm not even sure what prompted it this time around. I am not sure why these posts even show up.

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