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by rue 16y ago
I would say that "FaceTime" is the most convenient way to describe it given the hype factor even if it is pretty nondescriptive. The easiest way would be "{Etherpad,SubEthaEdit} for drawings" but I suppose you kids these days do not remembe
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by rue 16y ago
Inasmuch this conversation is subjective, I just do not think that statement is objectively true. It is a basic OO principle that the outside world is not privy to the inner workings of an object (or class if you prefer). Whether you like
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by rue 16y ago
Yes, I am not sure why one would "move". Learn Python, presto, you now know two handy languages and can use them at your discretion.
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by rue 16y ago
It cannot please everyone so if you are happy with a less "conversational" language, stick with it. "Unless", for example, is what I think to myself so "if not" is a suboptimal translation thereof. I would point out, however, that printf is
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by rue 16y ago
I think Classbox is the better way to go, but this is an improvement. The performance hit is currently very significant, but I suspect it can be optimised to a negligible level. As with the .append_features hack, I think it is only good tha
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by rue 16y ago
I think that is a poor argument since the same is not true of every function. Therefore, it feels inconsistent to me , which is the only basis I can make judgments on.
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by rue 16y ago
I have a strong dislike for the now-nearly-meaningless terms "beautiful", "eloquent", "elegant" &c. but for me the deciding factor between Ruby and Python for a project (assuming no constraints from libraries required and such) is Ruby'
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by rue 16y ago
Having to assume a timeframe, I do not think you have actually learned the languages. It usually takes years to be really good with one. That is not to say you have learned nothing (exposure to many paradigms is good), but that it takes a l
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by rue 16y ago
What is with the @-replies recently? On mailing lists, here… use the reply link.
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by rue 16y ago
Got 6 (e)books today for <$100, some ones that I probably would not have gone for without the sale but that will likely be helpful to me. A win-win, I think.
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by rue 16y ago
In the EU at least, it seems the offerings are likely to be with a leased battery precisely for that reason. The batteries can also be used for lower-requirement purposes after being retired from vehicle use.
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by rue 16y ago
That only works when you have more than 6 hours of sunlight a day (approximately 30 minutes of which is at an intensity that actually helps).
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by rue 16y ago
Evolution is not about optimization.
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by rue 16y ago
It would make sense if the amount in question was from a deduction from pay of some sort, tax, union fee deduction etc., rather than the pay itself.
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by rue 16y ago
I like Earl Grey with milk and honey. Does that make me a pragmatic…kettler?
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by rue 16y ago
China was (at that time) also a pretty backwards agrarian empire after its more glorious days. I do not want to delve too far off-topic, but then you are talking about two completely different things: A) An internal revolution (borne out of
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by rue 16y ago
> Take the whole "meat is murder" slogan. It's ridiculous from the outset and completely ignores our existence within the earth's ecosystem. It is almost as ridiculous to posit that humans should be held to the same standard as your a
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by rue 16y ago
> A lot of people say that "we should have made a revolution", what they mean is that the "free", externally imposed peaceful transition may not have been the best thing in the long run. I think you are concentrating on the wrong word
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by rue 16y ago
I wish the startupentrepreneurhackerpainter-scene used more precise terms. This kind of titling makes it all seem so damned naïve. An API, application programming interface, is an interface presented by some means into some kind of an appli
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by rue 16y ago
Gems has been significantly improved in the last year-two years both under the hood and in the frontend (not to mention since it first came about…I refused to use it until 2007). RAA has been obsolete since RubyForge (which was subsequently
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by rue 16y ago
No, but the 80-90% of situations they are suited for, they make safer and more efficient.
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by rue 16y ago
Pomodoro and variants thereof prescribe exactly a context switch in some intervals, quite successfully. 25-30 minutes of work followed by 5-30 minutes of not working. I personally tend toward a 30/10 split with a longer break halfway throug
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by rue 16y ago
I think there is sometimes a distinction missed in these "you should do what you love"-arguments: it should be formulated "you should try to do what you love"…and it has to be taken to account that many (if not most) will fail at the atte
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by rue 16y ago
OT, but you should really make that "when the weather is too bad to walk (seldomly) I can just take the car to work".
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by rue 16y ago
> Terrorism can in both small and very large ways effect entire nations. backscatter radiation? Not so much. Currently terrorism is effecting an entire nation with backscatter radiation.
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by rue 16y ago
No specific knowledge of this area yet, but in a similar situation elsewhere I/we just grabbed a hotel room in the city for a night or two.
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by rue 16y ago
Would you not arguably have more problems getting those same presumably older handsets to run your app?
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by rue 16y ago
I just found the apparent thought that he was going to be the sole decider of the name amusing.
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by rue 16y ago
Without JS the site puts up an obnoxious gray semi-transparent layer on top of the text, making it really hard to read. It is, apparently, required for the best "experience" even though it appears the articles are all there beyond the reada
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by rue 16y ago
(And Ruby Summer of Code, organised by the community, after Google declined to sponsor any Ruby-related projects this year.)

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