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541.
by ralph 19y ago
I wasn't pushing Stackless, just saying that others have mentioned it and its ancestory has something in common with what I'm trying to sell; channels as a synchronisation method. See the references I gave for more details.
542.
by ralph 19y ago
I'm surprised the decent solution to this isn't more widely known. People have mentioned Occam and Stackless Python; both interesting. But their ancester is Hoare's CSP and other descendant have included Squeak (not the Smalltalk relatio
543.
by ralph 19y ago
Anyone who saw _Top Gear_ last week will know these things are hilarious, especially if you're Jeremy Clarkson's size.
544.
by ralph 19y ago
Perl wasn't the motivation behind creating Python.
545.
by ralph 19y ago
Isn't anyone old enough to recognise the csh prompt?
546.
by ralph 19y ago
A Yorkshireman says "Where there's much, there's brass, lad". http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/408900.html
547.
by ralph 19y ago
Do you suffer from brown tongue disease over there? We're currently suffering the first cases of it in the UK. Could be quite a problem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/7018205.stm
548.
by ralph 19y ago
Consider allowing imports of existing chains for other popular sites.
549.
by ralph 19y ago
Password Standify?
550.
by ralph 19y ago
No, I don't think they do. I think they use %HH encoding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29
551.
by ralph 19y ago
Pathetic drivel.
552.
by ralph 19y ago
Do you mean the bit about a user providing others' email addresses when putting them into a tree? Only, family tree making sites, including ones that spot possible "same people" between trees and tell both parties, have been around for yea
553.
by ralph 19y ago
Linus re-implemented an existing thing; Unix. He didn't go off and invent his own OS with its own concepts, e.g. Plan 9. I think he's a bad example for your point.
554.
by ralph 19y ago
It does point out which sites have made source available, which is useful if you're looking for how things have been implemented. I didn't think it was just about the visual design of the site.
555.
by ralph 19y ago
http://dpaste.com/ is a nice one. It would be useful next time we want code snippets on news.yc.
556.
by ralph 19y ago
I find working with people helps to motivate me (not that I am not motivated), but it helps with setting goals and verbalizing them to someone else. Having someone to talk to about technical issues specific to the problem you are solving a
557.
by ralph 19y ago
The content's worth reading, but the page's style means page up/down skip text because it's grayed out and unreadable near the screen's boundaries.
558.
by ralph 19y ago
A big quote from the NYT.
559.
by ralph 19y ago
Oz Clarke, wine expert, was put to the test by Top Gear presenter James May, and did appalingly on their recent French trip IIRC. I moved to caffeine-free Diet Coke when it was launched here from Diet Coke. I was happy to put up with the
560.
by ralph 19y ago
You could be right about the palette. Mine's pretty poor in terms of being a bon viveur but I was one of those annoyingly fussy eaters as a kid. However, perhaps more relevant is that I've lived in a household for some years where one m
561.
by ralph 19y ago
Maybe I'm one of the few, but I can instantly spot the difference between Diet Coke, Coca Cola, and caffeine-free Diet Coke and have done when mistakenly given one for another in a glass. The difference between Coke, Pepsi, and other colas
562.
by ralph 19y ago
I thought you meant that only applied to what came after the exclusion, and not to the first paragraph.
563.
by ralph 19y ago
http://www.linux.com/feature/114369 is the article. The link above takes you to the index which is ever changing.
564.
by ralph 19y ago
You have to be careful when saying "Europe". Yes, some countries do have bizarre rules. When I worked in France, we couldn't go into the office at the weekend because the whole site was shut down with only security present. We used to hir
565.
by ralph 19y ago
Erm, EU residents happily move between countries for work; it's one of the things they're allowed to do without visas. When I was in Paris there were many Irish au pairs there for example. I don't know what au pair is in Irish. ;-) Wit
566.
by ralph 19y ago
I was already dubious about travelling to the USA from the UK. That the US government is planning to increase their pointless measures just makes me more convinced. Am I alone in thinking that any benefits for running a start-up in the US
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US-VISIT to increase number of fingerprints on entry to USA(yro.slashdot.org)
1 points by ralph 19y ago|1 comments
568.
by ralph 19y ago
Also, it was a little jarring for the clues to be all lower-case. I think frequent crossword solvers may be used to each clue being a sentance with a full-stop, even if it's just "Begin." Unless that varies by nation.
569.
by ralph 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30919 points out that it is quite a bit behind in indexing news.yc posts.
570.
by ralph 19y ago
I'd like feedback in the list of clues as to what ones have been filled in so I can scan the list of clues looking for the next one to work on. Perhaps indicate which ones I have answered compared to everyone else.

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