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by olifante 17y ago
Frederick Bodmer's "The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages", an oldie but goodie from 1944. Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid". Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate
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I love GitX and use the commit view all the time. The visual diff makes it so simple to see what you have changed. I don't bother teaching coworkers that much about command-line git now, I just point them to GitX, which suffises for 90% of
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by olifante 17y ago
That piece Carr wrote about Le Web was a hack job -- yet another manifestation of the undying British national habit of badmouthing the French on every possible occasion. Done by professional comedians once in a while it's fun. Done by an e
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by olifante 17y ago
What the hell are you talking about? This is ONE article written by ONE person and suddenly it's the Python community's fault for allowing it to exist? Spare me. This victimization technique should added to the list of Logical Fallacies, if
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by olifante 17y ago
As a pythonista who likes ruby, I think your "Perl's ugly sister" comments were a shot in the foot and detracted from the rest of your argument, which concentrates on rails and has little to do with Ruby itself.
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by olifante 18y ago
Very interesting presentation on Dejavu, an ORM similar to SQLAlchemy and Django Models. It has a lovely pythonic syntax for doing queries with lambda expressions, e.g.: box.recall(Comic, lambda c: 'Hob' in c.Title or '#' in c.Title) Instea
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Dejavu, a pythonic ORM (PyCon presentation)(pycon.blip.tv)
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Pain?
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by olifante 18y ago
Domains are becoming less relevant as more and more users just google the name instead of typing in the address. Choose any non-obscure domain name with one of the common TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .me, .eu) and you should be fine.
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by olifante 18y ago
Currently using TextMate and enjoying it. Used many editors, but the ones I used the most were vi, vim, jEdit and emacs (ordered chronologically)
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those pesky chinese! The economy didn't tank because we didn't save enough, it's their fault for saving too much and ramming their money down our throats. </sarcasm>
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by olifante 18y ago
This may be the laziest question yet on HN. Opening the main page of the Apple Store ( http://store.apple.com/us ) immediately tells you what is the cheapest mac: Mac Mini at $599 -- and from your question, it seems you already knew the Mac
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by olifante 18y ago
I used an older edition of O'Reilly's Learning Python and found it to be very accessible and well written -- I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565924642/ O'Reilly's Programming Python is not bad
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Why the web standards world appears to be choosing Django(morethanseven.net)
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Probably the best non-fiction book I read in the last 10 years. It puts forward many reasoned arguments for the Eurasian historical supremacy (the Guns, Germs and Steel of the title), but as you say, the crux of it is that Eurasia is the co
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by olifante 18y ago
If you want to skip the humorous intro, the juicy stuff starts after 20 minutes or so.
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by olifante 18y ago
I have to second that recommendation. I've been studying Pimsleur's excellent Mandarin Chinese I, II and III in my daily commute and road trips for some time, and I highly recommend it. It requires reasonably active listening and sentence p
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by olifante 19y ago
普通话
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by olifante 19y ago
Wikipedia to the rescue: "The butter is melted and the flour stirred into it (slowly but surely), until it is has blended with the butter." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:S.Örvarr.S )
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Physics degree, University of Lisbon.
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That's easy: Learning Python 3rd Ed. by Mark Lutz.
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Nokia Siemens Networks, in Portugal