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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Atorgr...
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
I enjoy crossfit, but I try to remember what it actually is: a fad-y name for the concept of "functional fitness." I managed to find a crossfit gym that is _not_ ridiculously expensive, and a coach who was teaching functional fitness long b
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Monads are a Class of Hard Drugs (2008)(lambda-diode.com)
43 points by paul-woolcock 14y ago|36 comments
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
If by "bottom of the stack" you mean "the code that the top of the stack depends on in order to run at all," then I would say that he is correct in what "important" means.
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Offenseless(exilelifestyle.com)
1 points by paul-woolcock 14y ago|0 comments
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
This is probably the second or third time I have come across this language in an HN comment. Every time I see it, I click the link, and try to click the links on bondi.it.uts.edu.au, only to get 403 FORBIDDEN responses from any link whose
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
You mean like this one? > PHP is the core web language because PHP devs (for the most part) are cheap, replaceable parts.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
I don't have a source for this, but it is my understanding that, even though the python interpreter doesn't special-case the "_" variable name, it is a convention to use the underscore in the same situations in python as are described in ru
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
Oh, I agree, it was just surprising to me to see them there.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
I always thought CS was a "kinda-python-y" version of Javascript, though I never actually used it. It surprised me, therefore, to see that the OP considers these two items to be principles applied to the design of the language: - Impl
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
This is what linting tools like pyflakes are for. Running it as a prerequisite to running the test suite means that I don't have to run all my tests just to find out that I misspelled a variable name.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
Yes, but the plan9 text editor/shell/IDE is called Acme: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
Looks like the design is actually from 2008, so it's actually the past
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
Pendantic and off-topic, but it irks me when ZMQ gets lumped in with i.e. RabbitMQ and AMQ. ZMQ is more like an improved socket library and tools for building distributed message queues (among many other things), while RMQ and AMQ are ac
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
You should make ialmosthave50dollars.com
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
That strikes me as very Pythonic attitude. If you're going to fail, fail early. But, I know Python way better than Ruby, so it might very well be a Ruby thing too.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
I am going to be a father in about 2 months. A friend of mine, who is a father of 3, has responded with this some line when confronted with the "babysitting" comment, and I am already preparing myself for the same. The sad thing is that he
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
Definitely this. I switched to Fish for a while and was very happy, but the lack of Bash compatibility got a very old after a while. You never think about how much out there assumes you have a sh/bash-compatible shell running, and watch
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
You would be surprised, I was.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
I purchased a QIDO[1] just for this reason. It obviously doesn't work for all situations in which you are on someone else's computer, but it has served me well so far. I mainly use it for when I am on Windows (see next paragraph). In regar
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
=== is a syntax error in python
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
That makes sense. I suppose I just think of something different than I should when I hear "weight loss." When someone says "weight loss," I hear "body composition change," which is obviously different than weight loss.
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by paul-woolcock 14y ago
The "calories in/calories out" argument is based on the assumption that the human body is a closed system. This is simply not the case, and touting it as a diet strategy is irresponsible. You might lose weight if you lower your caloric in
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by paul-woolcock 15y ago
Definitely. However, that doesn't mean he is wrong. For more actual evidence of this stuff, The Eades' book `Protein Power'[1] and Robb Wolf's book `The Paleo Solution'[2] offer some pretty compelling evidence of how grains and related fo
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Work Ethic of an artist(mikealrogers.com)
3 points by paul-woolcock 15y ago|0 comments
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Mobile First Design: Why It's Great and Why It Sucks(designshack.net)
1 points by paul-woolcock 15y ago|0 comments
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by paul-woolcock 15y ago
Putting the standard key bindings for vi is one thing, but without being able to customize it like vim, it's almost worthless to me. The custom bindings I have set are there to do common operations, and they become an integral part of my v
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by paul-woolcock 15y ago
"Learnt"... shudder
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by paul-woolcock 15y ago
It's H.P. Lovecraft
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by paul-woolcock 15y ago
Like Toddward said, I saw it in the Matt Cutts article earlier. Sorry for cluttering up the front page, I had just never heard of it before.

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