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   by randlet 14y ago

   I love the e-ink on the Kindle with the only downside being that reading in the dark requires a lamp. Battery life is another huge plus in favour of e-ink.
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   by randlet 14y ago

   Exactly. We have the same couch as well (in a small guest room)and it's fantastic in theory (lots of internal storage space, incredibly easy to convert between bed & couch) but in practice it makes for an uncomfortable bed as well as a
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   by randlet 14y ago

   Not sure about NZ & Oz but you would never see it written "tyre" in Canada and I bet most Canadian's would have no idea "tyre" was an alternative spelling for tire.
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   by randlet 14y ago

   This is a really great (well written, entertaining, informative, inspiring) series of articles about a guy programming just for the joy of it! Thanks for posting.
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   by randlet 14y ago

   Agreed. I found the contrived chained filters at the beginning of the article off putting but the rest of the article was quite interesting.
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   by randlet 14y ago

   It is pretty amazing how far down the rabbit hole you can go in "5 why's". Louis C.K. does a very funny bit on the topic of the OP (NSFW I think) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlV49RDlLE&feature=playe...
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   by randlet 15y ago

   In the pricing page of My Account it says: Select a plan: 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) 80 GB ($20.00 USD per year) 200 GB ($50.00 USD per year) 400 GB ($100.00 USD per year) 1 TB ($256.00 USD per year But in the blogpost it says:"You can ch
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   by randlet 15y ago

   "More than 6 billion consecutive safe arrivals of airline passengers since the attacks on America on September 11th 2001 mean that whatever the annoying and seemingly obtuse airport-security measures may have been, they have been ultimately
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   by randlet 15y ago

   "They cost more to produce than they are worth, nobody likes them, they have no commercial value." My very first (very primitive) public facing webpage was dedicated to abolishing the Canadian penny. Good riddance!
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Yes, non ferromagnetic materials are still subject to some inductive heating due to eddy currents* but I have no feeling for how much. *I've had the pleasure of being MRI'd a few times in a 4 Tesla research MRI (normal MRI's operate around
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    by randlet 15y ago

    That's correct. Titanium is widely used for implants and is non-ferromagnetic so you can safely be MRI'ed with a titanium implant.
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    by randlet 15y ago

    matplotlib is the defacto standard for plotting data in Python and could definitely be considered a hurdle. I haven't followed to closely but it looks like support for 3.x is coming along nicely[1]. GUI toolkits like wxPython and PyQT/PySi
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Great news. The two biggest hurdles for Python3 adoption were/are Numpy/Scipy and Django. Now that Numpy/Scipy both officially support Python 3.x[1] and with Django coming soon, I expect a lot of people will make the transition to Python
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Fair enough but my point is that these vehicles are not "environmentally invisible". There is still significant environmental impact in the manufacturing, materials, transportation, supporting infrastructure and disposal of the car.
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    by randlet 15y ago

    As Stephen mentions, this is easy to work around using virtualenv and pip. The venv/pip combo make it very easy to work around using whatever outdated packages your distro uses.
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Congrats on the 1.0 release! This looks very polished and a strong contender for the king of the django cms's title. I've been evaluating Django cms's over the last couple days and have narrowed it down to Mezzanine or django-cms. Would l
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Only tangentially related, but it really bugs me how these vehicles are being marketed as "zero-emissions" and being "invisible to the environment". Clearly the energy is being generated, and hence negatively impacting the environment, som
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    by randlet 15y ago

    If you want an excellent program for beginning weight training, look into Starting Strength developed my Mark Rippetoe.
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    by randlet 15y ago

    WingIDE (my Python editor of choice) has fantastic support for this, as well as an excellent integrated debugger.
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    by randlet 15y ago

    I've been using this with great results on an intranet project. It's allowed me to have a professional looking site without having to put much thought into design & layout. Thanks so much!
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Lucky you! I work at a large hospital with (likely) 10k+ computers running XP and we're still stuck on IE6. I'm not sure what the plan to migrate away from IE6 is but my guess is that it will be a massive pain for our IT department. I have
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3501561
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Very neat. I work at a cancer center and I've noticed a very similar effect on the CCTV at the operator console of the linear accelerators (the camera is inside the bunker).
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    by randlet 15y ago

    A minor nit pick: a 10Sv whole body dose is very likely fatal. Routine cancer treatments are in the 20-80Sv range delivered in fractions of 2Sv. During stereotactic radiosurgery (e.g. for a brain tumour) a patient can receive in the neigh
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Totally agree with this. By the time I'd graduated I'd spent 4 months at a large communications company, 4 months tutoring college-level math, 4 months coding in an astronomy/astrophysics lab and 4 months writing medical physics code at a
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    by randlet 15y ago

    I like to use dicts for memoization...This runs about 8% faster on my machine than OP's solution: memo5 = {0:0,1:1} def fib_mem5(n): try: return memo5[n] except KeyError: memo5[n] = fib_
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    by randlet 15y ago

    I transferred a .com from GD to Namecheap and whois is now showing: Registration Service Provided By: Namecheap.com Contact: support@namecheap.com Visit: http://namecheap.com Domain name: simplehuckel.com Registrant Contact: WhoisGuard
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    by randlet 15y ago

    While GoDaddy should not become the sole focus, moving your domains away from them is very easy and produces tangible results. Even better, it gives those of us who don't live in the United States a meaningful way to contribute to fighting
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    by randlet 15y ago

    Original story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...
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    by randlet 15y ago

    You can use the Counter class from the collections module[1] for that as well. >>> from collections import Counter >>> c = Counter() >>> c['foo'] 0 >>> c['bar'] +=1 >>&#6