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by robbles 15y ago
this error is because of assumptions about the life expectancy, right?
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by robbles 15y ago
Why does the 30 yr old spend more on gas (in the initial estimate)?
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by robbles 15y ago
great description of the development process for a small web app. I think there should be more stories like this - too many developers seem to compress their work into "tutorial form", which doesn't give any insight into the difficulty inv
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by robbles 15y ago
IPython has some really handy features for quick development, like adding ? after any object to get its docstring, and opening any line in the history in a text editor. I also found it useful to add a newline after the prompt so you can cop
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by robbles 16y ago
This makes no sense to me at all. Barring some pretty nasty hacks, theres no other way to implement a lot of the features users expect in modern web apps without sessions. Unless you're totally fine with a HTTP authentication popup every ti
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by robbles 16y ago
doesn't seem to work for a Canadian address. Is this america-specific? If so, weak. Otherwise, it seems like a great idea.
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by robbles 16y ago
I'm not sure that a "lingua franca" is even possible. Even if one language was so far ahead of the others that discussions like this thread were pointless, there would always be resistance from other developers. People just seem to get too
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by robbles 16y ago
what's the algorithm used in "difference"? delta-E? subtractive blending?
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by robbles 16y ago
The author gives WebDAV as an example of a good standardized REST API. Is adding new HTTP methods (like PROPFIND, MOVE, COPY, etc.) considered to be RESTful? I always thought you were supposed to structure all actions around the main 6, and
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by robbles 16y ago
Do you have an example of this? I've always seen it as the other way round - Rubyists dismissing Python along with PHP and Java as old/irrelevant/less powerful. But the whole thing is pointless anyway. Everyone should learn at least a littl
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by robbles 16y ago
sounds like a good application for Fluidinfo: http://www.fluidinfo.com/about/ if they made it a bit more accessible, scientists could potentially share some of their data, and new research could associate their related findings with the o