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by piqufoh 11y ago
Exactly. To quote the Police spokesman; "He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation" and "The concern was, what was this thing built for?" Why shouldn't he make his own clock?! Why does
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by piqufoh 11y ago
.. but then you lose the 'renew' discount and have to cough up full price when the update eventually arrives.
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by piqufoh 11y ago
I think that's actually the activation energy. Entropy is a measure of disorder - it's a count of the number of different ways something can be arranged.
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by piqufoh 11y ago
I'm presenting a 101 python course tomorrow, I've just spotted this and I'm going to give it a go! Looks like it would be pretty cool (tmux!)
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by piqufoh 11y ago
That's an interesting point about the tablets - I don't think that would bother me so much. Maybe my laptop paranoia is related to the screen being hidden... Not that I would (or probably could) look at someone else's screen
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by piqufoh 11y ago
Meetings! I always make sure I have a pen/pencil and notebook/piece of paper when I show up for an in-person meeting. Maybe it's just me, but if I'm trying to explain an idea to someone and they're busy tapping away
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by piqufoh 11y ago
Everything 404s for me now. I'm surprised how many sites I frequently visit are hosted on SF - with all the recent controversy I thought it was a dead duck...
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by piqufoh 11y ago
This looks excellent - bookmarked :-) One feature on my wishlist would be a 'location' tag - maybe even if it's US / non-US ...
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by piqufoh 11y ago
When you design and write your own typesetting system in order to publish seven volumes on "The Art of Computer Programming", you get to choose whatever format you want.
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by piqufoh 11y ago
Also NSA redacts, but not GCHQ ?
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by piqufoh 11y ago
I guess he must have missed this prior art whilst submitting his patent application ...
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by piqufoh 11y ago
Next time, please use [ONSITE] rather than [not hiring REMOTE] thanks.
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by piqufoh 11y ago
Great read and good take-away message "if your not enjoying your job, try something else" - it's a medicine that is sometimes very difficult to take. Speaking of medicine - you were given a twice daily injection for six weeks
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by piqufoh 11y ago
There's a good few lines about that here http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/#... of note (to me) is the replacement of significant mono modules with the MS equivalents; Decim
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by piqufoh 11y ago
My wife is wondering why I'm laughing so hard that tears are rolling down my cheek. Excellent parodies, very well done :-)
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Developing a RESTful microservice in python(skybert.net)
1 points by piqufoh 12y ago|0 comments
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by piqufoh 12y ago
HN has a ranking system which differs to reddit etc. You'll be seeing what's "hot" as ranked by the algorithm http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574 If you're looking for what's popular, chec
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by piqufoh 12y ago
Did you read the whole intro? > Sometimes people who already know a programming language will read this book and feel I'm insulting them.
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Tinder user falls for 'robot' woman at SXSW festival(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by piqufoh 12y ago|0 comments
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by piqufoh 12y ago
Jeez, what idiots. I think the biggest turn-offs (for me, in no particular order) would be * video intro * scrapy framework * under 30s only * passport copy required Because: Video? No chance. Emphasis on easy to use framework? Ha. Under 30
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by piqufoh 12y ago
What a great idea, and how very well done (the anonymous post-it note booking system). Kudos to the organisers for their prescience and understanding of their attendees, more of this please!
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by piqufoh 12y ago
1password on iOS/OSX + on windows at work. It's got a great feature here you can have different 'vaults' for different sets of passwords - I have one personal, one for work and one for home utilities that I can share wit
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by piqufoh 12y ago
A police office would be more likely to overreact to a situation if he/she believed a suspect carried a firearm (in fairness, for the sake of the officers own defence). In a state where guns aren't common, the police officer would
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by piqufoh 12y ago
Really? Is this a genuine comment? That a medieval world population of (optimistically) 500 million would produce more hazardous materials and waste than an industrialised world population of 6 billion?
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by piqufoh 12y ago
It's a scam because the author didn't believe there was any 'acqui' part of the 'acqui-hire'. He believed the proposition of an acquisition was a fabrication intended to lure him in for an interview.
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by piqufoh 12y ago
== $4,207.89 / month (to save anyone the google)
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by piqufoh 12y ago
Looks good, have been wanting something like this for a while. Bookmarked! Also, love the use of .ninja domain - definitely most appropriate usage I've seen to date!
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by piqufoh 12y ago
Why? It's being run inside the docker container, it should be ok.
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by piqufoh 12y ago
I'm currently choosing whether to go with an existing MC library, or roll-my-own. Has anyone used this library? How is it working out? Reading the source sets a couple of alarm bells ringing - entirely separate and independent py2k py3
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by piqufoh 12y ago
This post is the fourth reason why I wouldn't ask Atomic Object to sign my NDA.

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