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by mekoka 15y ago
It must have been the 3 first chapters then. At the time, they were enough for me to understand and "get going" with regex. Various other online resources have filled little gaps here and there over time. This thread makes me want to revisi
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by mekoka 15y ago
People generally go in, not really believing that they will match. They think it only happens to others. Their attitude usually changes when this abstract possibility becomes a tangible reality. Before taking the test: "Ah! I probably won't
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by mekoka 15y ago
The point is not to have the best or most efficient regex expression, but rather to do the exercises and to highlight by this process misconceptions you may have about how the regex engine operates. You enter what is given, you run it, see
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by mekoka 15y ago
I'm not a CS graduate. I first learned of state machine from an article posted here on HN a few months ago. I learned regular expression from the regular-expression.info site and from the first 4 chapters of Jeffrey Friedl's book over 5 yea
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by mekoka 15y ago
Also, every time I buy something at a store, I have to give them my addresses. At which point you can simply say "no, I don't want to" and they'll still settle for your money.
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by mekoka 15y ago
Don't beat down on someone helping to make things smoother.
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by mekoka 15y ago
I would strongly suggest that they have the courtesy of stating their intention when asking for all that information. It's not difficult. People are showing up to help and are then subjected to what seems like an interrogation. Even the mos
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by mekoka 15y ago
There's a comprehensive choice of browsers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers ). I picked one that I knew I wouldn't need and dedicated it to my facebook usage.
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by mekoka 15y ago
Fights over. The guy with the knife killed you while you were putting the treads on[...] This could go both ways actually. I'm sure even you could come up with some concrete examples of behemoths that came into an industry and just annihi
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by mekoka 15y ago
It's not rational either to only necessarily netting his contribution in the positive. Just ask yourself these two questions and you'll see what I mean. Did Microsoft contribute in advancing certain areas of computing and speed up the adopt
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by mekoka 15y ago
Can people maintain the system you wrote? Is the system appropriate for what was required? Did you do work that saved the company 50% of their operating costs? Or are you just having a great time farting around being useless and causing da
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by mekoka 15y ago
This post just listed traits very prominent in hackers - deep fascination for technology, perfectionism, need for deep focus and few distractions, concern for efficiency - and wrapped this package under the label of "lack of judgment". The
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by mekoka 15y ago
I just realized that such popular memes, contribute in eating away at Internet Explorer's market when they don't work on it. People who for months could not be bothered to even just upgrade to IE7 or 8, are now more than willing to download
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by mekoka 15y ago
It's worth noting that Steve Jobs was one of the few lucky ones to work doing something that they love . Working hard in this context still qualifies as hard work, but believing that it's all what entrepreneurship is about is a rather naiv
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by mekoka 15y ago
...so we can call it "GNU slash Linux" I never knew he pronounced the slash in GNU/Linux. Not very brandable IMO.
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by mekoka 15y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/idiom An idiom is rather a preferred practice. If you take some time to read through some Python source, you'll notice that, although the code uses the exact same constructs that you are used to in
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by mekoka 15y ago
Sending your own widget up and having it bring back snapshots of other continents and a round Earth, only seconds later. What an amazing feeling it must be. Makes me wanna go dig up my old mechanics book. Can someone give a ballpark figure
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by mekoka 15y ago
It's been observed that the anophele does prefer cattle. I just dug this though http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/100
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by mekoka 15y ago
I'd say the smart bet is in learning technologies that are relevant and to be comfortable with your tools. I don't recall the last time a client asked/cared what technology stack we're using. They usually just need stuff built.
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by mekoka 15y ago
It's not a matter of attitude , it's about having tools, evaluating them for what they're doing for you and making a choice. There's always a conscious trade-off. You can't focus on what's good about Django, as if someone picking SQLAlchem
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by mekoka 15y ago
Where have you been indeed? It's been posted on HN at least twice and made page 1 both times: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2882301 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094695
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by mekoka 15y ago
Very nice article and thanks for the intro to Requests. Though, I'm not sure we would agree about Django being the best thing to learn in the long run . I undertook to move to Python for web development about 8 months ago and embarked on a
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by mekoka 15y ago
It's during situations like these that I wish the votes could be displayed in HN, just so that you would get a feel of how opinions weigh. There are many answers that I'd vote up in here, but that doesn't convey to you the strength of the
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by mekoka 15y ago
Actually, you never stop needing a middleman. The problem in most industries is that positions become traditional. People fill them out of habits, because that's always how it's been. Since most organizations just usually adopt the status q
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by mekoka 15y ago
I wouldn't go as far as saying it's wrong , but rather that it's not complete. The article simply focused on osmosis to explain the process of dehydration at a cellular level (blood). In that, I'd say it was rather accurate. Now, if you ab
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by mekoka 15y ago
You don't need to pay google to be able to access websites that you created yourself, whether for personal, community or commercial use. You don't need to jailbreak your Internet to do it either. When was the last time you hacked somethin
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by mekoka 15y ago
As a Linux end-user installing most of my software through apt-get, I think it is your opinion and there is nothing fair about it. Apple didn't invent this model, they put stricter control, nicely marketed and then monetized on something th
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by mekoka 15y ago
The code works, the problem is that it's not very obvious why it's going about it the way it does. You look at it and right away ask yourself "wtf, did I miss something?" simply because it's so unusual. You might look at it for 2 minutes
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by mekoka 15y ago
A vote for Moniker from me as well, having settled for them 3 years ago, after a few years with 1and1 and some with Godaddy and having tried various other registrars. I use their control panel once every couple of months and although it doe
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by mekoka 15y ago
Where do you get 10% from? Most programmers are fast on a keyboard, but being fast != touch-typing. Admittedly, not all touch-typists train their fingers to properly remember the numbers row or the set of accompanying punctuations and symbo

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