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by pak 15y ago
So because a spammer could use a data field as a method of communication, we should screen every possible entry in that data field? Perhaps G+ should substitute all comment boxes with dropdown menus... Seriously, this has nothing to do w
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by pak 15y ago
I've had this happen to me on Chrome. It was definitely a browser bug, because restarting the browser resolved it. I first noticed it when I was working on a web page with complicated CSS rules for 'cursor'. If I had to guess, it has to
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by pak 15y ago
It's not a simple thing to detect. Short of broad-scale wiretapping, if I bridge two calls on my office phone nobody will know except my in-house PBX. The telco sees two simultaneous calls into my PBX, but unless they are actively listeni
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by pak 15y ago
There are many ways for a corporation to provide value to a candidate besides a cash donation. Some of these ways can translate readily into cash. For example, insider trading by congresspeople, which apparently is legal. http://www.cbs
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by pak 15y ago
I do wonder what form Google's "online petition" will take. Speaking optimistically, they do have both credibility and the power to publicize, so if they say e.g. "1 million Google users are against SOPA" perhaps it will be hard for the MSM
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by pak 15y ago
I'm with you on secondhand sales being a poor correlate for actual ownership. It's completely reasonable that more for-sale listings indicate cities or places where people don't want their fixie anymore. Additionally, Priceonomics only
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by pak 15y ago
Isn't it ironic that the owner of hundreds of newspapers, magazines and TV channels decides to express his frustration over the "Silicon Valley paymasters" by posting his thoughts on... Twitter? This guy can't recognize the value of freedom
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by pak 15y ago
There are other Google Apps that don't work as great on a mobile device. Try Docs on an iPhone, for example. Also, imagine you need to print out a 30 MB PDF that somebody just emailed to you. Not enamored with QR codes as a solution, thou
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by pak 15y ago
I'll agree that it's about the right contrast for keyboard navigation, but a compromise is straightforward: show it only after pressing j/k (as with the current behavior), and use a much subtler effect for mouse hover.
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by pak 15y ago
I have to say, why such loud mouseover effects? It's distracting to have all these boxes popping in and out as I scroll through the results. I get that you're trying to show that the click area is that big, but it impairs readability--m
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by pak 15y ago
Of course there are scenarios that are difficult in either language. And lobbying to replace JavaScript with Ruby (I assume you mean in web browsers?) is simply madness for a host of reasons that aren't worth repeating. Lobbying for block
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by pak 15y ago
Well, now you're dodging the spirit of the problem, which was to work through a single generalization of "map" (or, as tweaked in the second try, "map_unless_test") that is responsible for executing the callback and collecting the results i
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by pak 15y ago
If you are looking for a standalone Linux box just to turn on a lamp I think you are over-thinking things. Check out X10 automation kits: here's one for ~$24. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=x10+pc+in... You should be
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by pak 15y ago
Let's modify the GP's example--instead of checking if an array contains something, he wants to return a copy where a callback is applied to each element. Kind of like "map". However, if the array contains other arrays, he wants to return
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by pak 15y ago
If you think Apple has something against selling dongles because they are ugly, have I got a page to show you. I think every Mac owner (including myself) winds up having 2 or 3 of these alternately sticking out of their computer or slowly
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by pak 15y ago
If this device can stream 1080p content, the hardware is powerful enough to do anything you said. The rest is just software. If you're implying that Android cannot get behind the iron curtain of iOS APIs, then you are missing the gist of G
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by pak 15y ago
The article mentions "low 100s of ppi to 300 ppi," which is about the range for smartphone screens these days. Most desktops and notebooks still have displays at around 96 dpi.
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by pak 15y ago
Very cool, I did not know that somebody had already gone and made a programming language like this. In watching the first ~10 minutes of the demo video [1] my thoughts were "Yes, this is a perfect example of where a table could be better t
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by pak 15y ago
For a while I thought the OP was building up into a great argument about the loss of expression imposed by WSB, what with all the great rhetoric about patronizing the programmer (a smell that I will agree occasionally lingers around Pytho
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by pak 15y ago
Hmm, I believe I've seen shades of this idea in Selenium's most basic test script format [1]. It isn't a decision table, per se, but it was designed to be as easy as possible for non-programmers to adjust. That said, I don't think table-
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by pak 15y ago
I'm with you; I've already experienced various spooky things with desktop applications on top of Dropbox (like the excellent Papers2 by mekentosj) because of file conflicts and latency. And that's not Papers2's fault, since it would have t
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by pak 15y ago
Because Bethesda has deadlines and P&L statements, and modders don't. It's as simple as that. E.g., the Macintosh launched with a hard-crash bug in the Clipboard code in ROM [1]. When you're struggling to meet a tough date for a huge
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Problems and Non-problems in Concurrency (Leslie Lamport, 1983)(research.microsoft.com)
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by pak 15y ago
Is it just me, or did the 5 use cases proposed in the article immediately give you the reaction "Yuck, I'm kind of glad that none of those things actually broadcast that crap (yet)."
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by pak 15y ago
Eh, I would say (sadly) that the mainstream news media practically depends on Wikipedia to fill in background info for half of their stories. Gaffes by TV reporters have occasionally been traced back to Wikipedia vandalism. Sometimes Wiki
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by pak 15y ago
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), none of them can vote.
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by pak 15y ago
This is a great idea, I just set it up on a spare box using Matt Cutts' instructions for getmail and POP3. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/backup-gmail-in-linux-with-get... If anybody else tries this, I'd recommend sticking with POP3 as get
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by pak 15y ago
> Functions implement the descriptor protocol so that when you access them as an attribute of a class they basically return a partially applied function. Exactly . You just spoke like a true Pythonista: you used an implementation deta
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by pak 15y ago
So, the namespacing is completely consistent, but the number of arguments between method definition and method calling is not? That breaks consistency both internally (because regular functions do have the same number of arguments) and wit
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by pak 15y ago
The problem is, people have been told for so long not to care about Python 3 that it's hard to imagine what could make people actually start caring about it. Practically the only people that have even tried it are Python fanatics or compil

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