slurgfest

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by slurgfest 14y ago
Customizing your editor to do what you want doesn't miss the point. It is the point. If my editor does exactly what I want, I have no need of Coda or Sublime Text 2 or Eclipse or whatever. You can turn off colors. That's your customization
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by slurgfest 14y ago
It sounds like you want vim features. But vi compatibility mode is probably not consistent with these. Mapping f-keys should work fine in a GUI vim, but in a terminal F-keys may depend on configuring the terminal. You don't have to use synt
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Maybe it's a nod to how PyPI used to be called "the cheese shop" (after the Monty Python sketch)
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If you can get by just using pip then there is no need to worry about eggs
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Good, let's just kill eggs now
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If you want USPTO to very thoroughly vet all incoming patents, then you will have to fund them a great deal more to employ a lot of skilled people to handle all that footwork.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If something is labeled "do not drink this - poisonous" then whose fault is it that you drink it?
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by slurgfest 14y ago
There is absolutely no reason you cannot run these games on a distro other than Ubuntu.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I think this highlights the black market.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I don't see why people out in the country are any less likely to be part of a mob, or why their vote should be worth something around 10 times what an "urban" person's vote is.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
If success isn't a matter of luck, it also isn't a sign of natural superiority over those who are less successful, or the great universal ease of becoming successful. I don't say this to be bitter, but let's have a little empathy with the m
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by slurgfest 14y ago
It isn't even all that necessary to be good. Even if you are mediocre or somewhat bad, a combination of connections and hustle can get you really far. I think many of us have seen examples of this, particularly in the context of startup boo
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by slurgfest 14y ago
This somewhat undercuts your point. If I know someone I am not nearly as likely to ignore their email, evaluate their idea superficially or assume the worst. What is the use of having contact information when you can't actually get heard? I
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by slurgfest 14y ago
This would not happen if Rails were not such a Goliath due to its popularity and in many circles, status as the 'one true framework.'
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by slurgfest 14y ago
People also use the phrase "premature optimization" to make a perfectly accurate observation about eager, costly optimizations which may be obviated by changes or have no meaningful relationship to any business need. Is there really any goo
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Downvoting notwithstanding, the statement that 1 and 0 ARE True and False is flat false. It's not even kind of true: True is not 1 and False is not 0, the type of True and False is not int, and the established convention for comparing to t
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by slurgfest 14y ago
True and False are not 1 and 0 in Python. >>> (1 is True) or (True is 1) False >>> (0 is False) or (False is 0) False >>> isinstance(0, bool) or isinstance(1, bool) False &
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by slurgfest 14y ago
You say that everything but primer could be relatively easily made by an individual in a decentralized way. Do you mean a skilled machinist with excellent tools? I would have imagined that making a reliable reusable weapon required a number
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by slurgfest 14y ago
None of Knuth's extensive work on typography seems to be well respected among designers (I'd love to be proven wrong about that).
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I noticed the same thing. Since other people are disagreeing, this may depend on platform or device
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by slurgfest 14y ago
What's REALLY annoying is websites where lots of layout has loaded, and no text (or only some of the text) shows pending a font load which could take seconds. This doesn't look "fast," it looks janky.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Valve and Ubuntu have provided a platform. But the games aren't there at all.
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I'm not sure why this is especially more dangerous than ordinary Linux packages provided by distros, let alone games installed by means other than Steam. A game is an executable, running any executable with your privileges provides access t
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by slurgfest 14y ago
What I find is that if you like someone, you are liable to describe them as top 1%, and otherwise not. In other words, claimed capability substantially just indexes how well liked or respected someone is for reasons which don't necessarily
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by slurgfest 14y ago
When you put it that way, it sounds absolutely ridiculous. Almost 3 years of normal work every single day: do people really believe that??
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Good advice, since they already did pull the plug for a similar publication method in Google Docs
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by slurgfest 14y ago
The persistence of talk about top engineers (or 1%, A players, etc.) makes me wonder whether there are any uses for the bottom 90-99%. Is the 89th percentile unemployable? Is it always really that important to have the comparatively best pe
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by slurgfest 14y ago
How does this help you make a game? It seems to me that it would not be very helpful unless you could already make games. Anyway: Coursera classes often use premises like this to motivate teaching some specific set of technical skills whic
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by slurgfest 14y ago
Which means this is not available in PyPy? :(
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by slurgfest 14y ago
I'm not sure that's true, but even if it were, the change is not achieved by mere fiat.

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