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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
As a one-day, one-time thing, I hardly think this is worthy of concern. With respect to the fading-in, in the blog post announcing it they said their studies showed that after users became accustomed to the change, they were using the new p
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Not useful to me, but I love seeing stuff built that's compatible with Git.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I'd guess that he feels that what the author is describing here is an example of self-control, even if it's a bit indirect.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I know that, but there already exists a syntax for strings. I thought he was implying something more.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
No it wouldn't. All else aside, if this were the case every browser for the past decade would have been sued for including "Mozillla" and/or "MSIE" in their user-agent strings.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
From his comment, I'd imagine he thinks that spreading lies and irrationality shouldn't qualify an entity as a charity.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
'cause your name makes it clear you're trolling? =V
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
He states that Python sort-of has a symbol type like Lisp, but that there isn't a syntax for it. Could someone help me understand what he's talking about?
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Maybe this is just semantics, but the others browsers wouldn't be evaluating them either, since they're comments and only IE looks for the conditionals, neh?
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
In case anyone else is confused, this is the same story we saw a little while ago; nothing new has happened.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I agree with most of your post, but the incident with the unit conversion deserved to have a stink made about it. There are so many things that can go wrong on a mission like that, and having the point of failure being something as simple a
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I'd give it two weeks until it's hacked. Anybody using Wordpress is asking for trouble.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Maybe someone should just stab him in the fucking gut and shut this bastard up for good.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I don't know why it exists, but it's CNAMEd to point to news.ycombinator.com, so they couldn't be stealing passwords now, at least.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
A problem with this idea is that the easiest ways to get around filters (secure tunnels) would generally result in the connection appearing to come from outside of the country.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
You're craaaaaaaaazy, sir.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
...but now I have no idea which is actually true.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Ah, I didn't realize that you could add payment info from your phone. I'm not sure how safe I'd feel about that.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I don't really think this post has much value. This item stood out as particularly pointless (see article for image): Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC. "From the press release two days ago, regarding the first (CERN)
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Like most services, you need to be registered and have payment methods set up before you can make payments.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Well, my anecdote's better than your anecdote and it says the opposite, so take that !
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I acknowledge that everything in your post is true (save myself being wrong ;) ) and was not arguing otherwise. I know that you can mutate mutable arguments passed to functions in Python, I was just saying that it isn't actually pass-by-ref
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
In Python you never deal with an object itself, just a reference to it, so you can change the value of any mutable object you pass to a function, lists and dictionaries are just a couple of examples of these. The problem (discussed by the a
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
Lists and dictionary aren't special, and they aren't pass-by-reference in the sense referred to in the article. def foo(my_list): my_list = [ "my", "new", "list" ] Executing this function will not change the value of the list
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
If you/anyone didn't notice, it's actually a link to view the PDF in a flash viewer on Scribd. Scribd is YC-funded, and they've been doing this for a while. There was some minor disagreement over the desirability and ethics of this, but not
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I think it's around 200 now, it increases over time to deal with karma inflation.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
The iTunes store is WebKit-based, which isn't exactly the same thing. A lot of what you can do easily in WebKit can't be done nearly as efficiently or easily in other browsers.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
19 to share here, if there's demand.
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
I find screencasts most useful for getting a feel for new software relatively quickly. Seeing how an experienced used does things can get you started a lot faster than reading through docs until things click. To me their utility begins to d
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by pwmanagerdied 17y ago
iTunes on Windows is pretty nasty compared with iTunes on OS X, I don't know if I'd look forward to a web version.

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