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Is it hashable? Fun and games with hashing in Python(blog.lerner.co.il)
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I used Mailman for more than 10 years, to run a fairly large (3,000-person) list. Before that, I had used a number of other mailing list managers. It's true that Mailman was rock solid. But it had a number of features that made it di
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American universities aren't just about education. Or even research, for that matter. They're often about providing a "life experience" for undergraduates. So you have a huge investment in sports, entertainment, and li
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Is it hashable? Fun and games with hashing in Python(blog.lerner.co.il)
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Evan Osnos, who wrote the piece, lived in China for many years, speaks fluent Chinese, and wrote a great book ("Age of Ambition") about the country. Maybe his narrative is in line with others, but I don't think that he'
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English wasn't the main language of commerce or science until about 100 years ago. Before then, French and German were pretty dominant, if I'm not mistaken.
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No one got up one morning and said, "You know what? We really should be conducting all of our business in English." It was the result of many years, and many different accidents of history that led to English having its current
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I think that the difference is in the eye of the beholder. Case in point: When the Conservative movement announced a few years ago that homosexuality is OK, and that it's even fine to have same-sex weddings, they needed to confront the
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I receive, at absolute most, 2-3 US checks in the mail each month. It's not worth paying for such a mail-forwarding service, when I can just tell people, "Go to the post office, ask for a stamp to Israel, and hand it to the posta
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Jeff: They might be effectively leavened, but that's the whole point of a legal system, and of scholars to interpret it. What looks to you (or me) as a layperson like the same thing might not be the same at all. In this case, the t
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That's a very reasonable point to make. That said, I think the fundamental question here is whether such rule-breaking is endorsed by centuries of priests, or if it's just something people do. In Judaism, the rabbis have codified
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I got a US phone number via Skype, simply because so many of my American clients had no idea how to call internationally. Similarly, for many of my US clients, I provide them with their first-ever opportunity to send a letter (i.e., my chec
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Um, I really know (or at least I think that I know). I don't use a computer on the Sabbath. But I live in Israel, where it ended on Saturday evening, Israel time. And I was foolish/addicted enough to check HN after Shabbat ende
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Yes. Kosher-for-Passover cakes don't fall under the rules of leavening (chametz) in Jewish law. Sometimes they're made with potato flour. (Yuck.) Sometimes they're made with matza meal, which means very finely ground pieces
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Ya know, we were always taught about Karaites in school, but I didn't realize that they still existed until about 20 years ago, when a friend mentioned that he knew one. There is a Karaite community in Israel, and I've read some f
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How about this: The Egyptians invented yeast and leavened bread, and worshipped sheep. So how did Jews celebrate Passover, and the exodus from Egypt? By sacrificing a sheep, and refraining from eating anything made with yeast. When the Temp
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by reuven 12y ago
First and foremost: I'm glad that you enjoyed your time in Israel. Look me up on your next trip! Again, I think that the easiest way to think about Judaism is as a mix of nation and religion. You can't have one without the other
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The term "work" is a very inaccurate (but popular) translation of the Jewish legal term, "melacha." There are certain categories of said "work," and rabbis throughout the ages have tried to figure out how to a
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Actually, there's a famous story in the Talmud of a rabbinical debate in which the rabbis argue about whether a certain oven is kosher or not. At the end of the story, one of the rabbis is told that God's reaction to this debate
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Judaism is a throwback to ancient times, in which there was no distinction between your nation and your religion. Joining a nation meant joining the religion; moving elsewhere meant (often) adopting another religion. Jews, after the destru
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My take on eruv is that it's one of several elements in Jewish law designed to create and foster communities. Community is crucial to Jewish survival. So among other things: - You need 10 adults to have many important prayer services
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Welcome to the world of Jewish law, in which it's considered acceptable to find ways around rules. For example: Jews aren't allowed to eat leavened food, known as "chamets," (e.g., bread) on Passover. We're also no
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I went to MIT, and graduated in 1992. A well-known saying at MIT is "work hard, play hard" -- meaning that you're going to work like crazy to do well in class, and then when it comes to extracurriculars and sports, you'
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by reuven 12y ago
GitHub's success is due, in no small part, to their excellent interface. Google Code was, by contrast, always ugly, hard to navigate, and hard to understand. (This, of course, ignores the many features that GitHub offers, which Googl
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I have been running my own SMTP server for about 25 years. I finally decided, in the last month or so, that it just wasn't worth the effort involved in handling spam and anti-spam stuff -- not only from Google, but from other provider
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Hmm, I'll take a look... it would be fun to return to Emacs as a mail client, although I must admit that without working HTML, it might be a bit annoying. That said, I so so so miss having all of my favorite Emacs commands at my finge
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I have had two clients over the years who run their own domains, and wanted me to use an e-mail address within that domain. They also insisted that all of my outgoing e-mail be under their domains, rather than the lerner.co.il domain I&#x2
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I have been using Thunderbird for many years now. Previously, I was using Emacs for e-mail, but realized that I needed something that supported HTML. Also, I was switching from Linux to the Mac, and I wasn't sure if I would ever swit
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Looking forward: Intel to move away from silicon chips at 7nm(androidauthority.com)
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Chinese have their own Internet censorship song(marketplace.org)
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