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by read_wharf 15y ago
"At this point, we're stuck with all of git's quirks, until something new comes along that's significantly better in enough fundamental ways to displace it." A better git than git? git done right?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Medical tourism, from the States to elsewhere, has been a "thing" for some time, maybe a decade(?). I'm sure it's been done individually by out of the box thinkers well before that. It's great that businesses like in the article are making
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Well, first of all, I wouldn't, because Congress would insist on using Microsoft Source Safe, backed up to Zip drives. Talk about a corrupt Congress ...
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by read_wharf 15y ago
No, that sort of says something about why they differentiate, but it doesn't say anything at all about why they fear.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
All the attempts focused on syntax and mechanics. How logarithms are used might be a better introduction.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Is that because most people can "see" the solution in most programming languages, but most people can't see solutions in XSLT except by experimenting?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
The headline claims to explain why the TSA "fears" 13 in laptops, but does not do that.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Opinion, and somewhat OT: I think a lot of people who would/are naturally against these sorts of agreements and laws are also Obama supporters. The Obama administration doesn't just support these laws, it soaks in them. This is among the wo
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by read_wharf 15y ago
var foo_raw = raw_input("Enter") What language is that? I don't find 'var' as a listed Python keyword: http://docs.python.org/reference/lexical_analysis.html#ident...
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"Exclusive?" You rent a plane and fly over it.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I drive. On good days I sing with the radio. On bad days I will myself to keep the car pointed toward work.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Sometimes it's just because you can.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"Coming to asking people forcefully shorten their code blocks. It's none of language's business to dictate its style on me and steal my freedom. A language is supposed to behave the way I want. That's its very purpose." if True:
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I drive a 22 year old nothing special, original owner. That's four cars that I didn't buy, at 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and 20 years. Four expenses avoided, four consumptions of steel and other resources avoided. I get 36 MPG, plus or min
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"No equivalent of CPAN." Not exactly the same, but the standard library is extensive: http://docs.python.org/library/index.html There is pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi whose packages can either be installed directly or with pip.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
What a great book. I'm skimming the ebook now, and it makes me want to pick up Perl again. Anyone aware of a similar book for Python? For when I, you know, come back to Python after straying into Perl for a few years?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Although Python is taking more of these roles over time, Perl is still the thing that holds much of the internet's infrastructure and tools together, as well as internal servers, so it's a good thing to know if you're interested in all that
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Meanwhile there's the disruption to your life while you're being collaterally investigated, until/if you finally get a judge to say "Oh, right, we weren't supposed to be investigating you. Our bad."
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Instead of a long list of tweets, an actual story with an interview or response would have been ... informative.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Notwithstanding a possible Colorado appeal, what has been Amazon's habit with similar rulings? Are they likely to reinstate Colorado affiliates?
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Federal court tosses Colorado's Amazon tax(denverpost.com)
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Me too, exactly, and I'm only contributing a me too because a) it really bugs me too, and b) I think it's important for blog and site owners to understand this and fix it. I want to find your site; help me.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I have a great big hammer in the *nix text tools, and I try very hard to buy nothing but text nails.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
pair.com has very generous limits on how many addresses you can have per account.
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by read_wharf 15y ago
Cool. I just tested that on my fastmail address and it works. read_wharf+hey@fastmail.fm Even cooler, I don't use my fastmail address, I use my own domain and point it at fastmail, and that still works. real_name+hey@mydomain.com Edit: none
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by read_wharf 15y ago
How long is Yahoo going to be in business?
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I migrated from fastmail.fm, very happy with it. I don't know what plus addressing is. I have also used pair.com for my email in the past, they do a very good job of that. I'm not aware of an email provider, other than google, that also doe
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by read_wharf 15y ago
I work at a large technical corporation. It manifests every corporate stereotype you can imagine (and somewhere in there it makes devices that save lives). As I read this article I couldn't help thinking of a young, very bright new hire in
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by read_wharf 15y ago
"H.B. 2549 would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate using obscene, lewd or profane language or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act if done with intent to “annoy,” “offend,” “harass” or “terrify.” Dear Ari

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