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by stdbrouw 12y ago
I think the author's correct here, there's really nothing uniquely wonderful about blocks, but he's railing against people that don't exist. Pythonistas would like some sort of way to do inline functions, beyond one-line
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
Doesn't make it any less annoying to not have them.
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
Writing a template in one go, all in one file, is still vastly easier to wrap your head around than writing all sorts of different components in JavaScript and then gluing them together. There's great JS templating frameworks, but I do
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
That's a fairly ungenerous interpretation. It's very much possible to know, on an intellectual level, that it's useful to split up a problem into its component parts so as to get a grip on it, but that doesn't mean you&#
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
Bangor Daily News does all of their editing in Google Docs. They then feed things into WordPress and InDesign, but I imagine you could feed it into pretty much anywhere. http://dev.bangordailynews.com/2011/06/16&#x
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
Here's that aesthetically pleasing web front-end for SSGs, though it's tied into GitHub: http://prose.io/
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
I was once involved in developing a system like the one you describe, and it turns out it's a really hard problem, because for most non-trivial articles you want to do more than just skip a paragraph: you cut an explanation here, which
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
Actually, yes. Most doctors would call it fringe science, but I've been able to improve my eyesight with what's called Plus Lens Therapy. It has you wear glasses that are the opposite of those you've been subscribed, or that
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
The argument is that you shouldn't unthinkingly assume they don't have a good reason for it.
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
FWIW, the Macbook Pros from a couple years back can also develop this problem, where the battery would swell ever-so-slightly and cause the trackpad to stop functioning.
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
You're basing your assessment of reasonableness on the aesthetically pleasing properties of symmetry? :-)
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
And interestingly, even for non-dubbed films they'll still translate the title. So the original Star Wars with subtitles will still be announced as "La Guerre des étoiles"
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
A policy on maximum title length, most likely. On a side note, Belgium has a higher population than Austria, and Austria a higher population than Switzerland, so the only reason for specifically mentioning Switzerland in the title seems to
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by stdbrouw 12y ago
It actually does look pretty good, until you realize he doesn't list any real previous job experience anywhere.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
This is not how Belgian income tax works. Your pay gets divided up into tax brackets, and you pay a certain tax rate per tax bracket. You will pay a low rate for the first ~8.5k you earn, a higher rate for the next ~5k, higher still for the
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Hoops to jump through: set up a business bank account, fill out some forms, about 30 minutes tops. Pay taxes once a year for federal, provincial and city and VAT four times a year through a free online system. Sounds like a lot but it takes
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
There's a huge gap between things that are forbidden and things that are simply discouraged through extra taxation. The result is that employers have to think long and hard before they have people come in on weekends or do tons of over
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Hm, it'd be pointless to argue this point (if you think it's slow then it's slow) but I've created many a Python CLI and have never noticed them being slow to start. Perhaps it's a case of importing certain modules
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
But that's a game everybody rigs to their own advantage: ignorance is defined as not knowing something that I know. You always win, everybody else always loses. That person who doesn't know what Lisp is, might be an expert on fini
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
I'm willing to grant you that outlawing payday loans and similar predatory practices without consequently causing all sorts of nasty side effects is hard. But what you're saying amounts to "it's hard so let's just n
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Love it. I've been making my presentations in InDesign for a while now, and exporting to PDF, and while the end result always looks great, I end up spending an inordinate amount of time choosing the typeface and the look and feel. Turn
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
But would people really like it? There's a 20-year history of people trying to make the web look pretty (splash pages, flash, fancy-schmancy javascript transitions etc.) and people hating them for it. There's something to be said
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Nope. You would just need to show that they're an effective and convenient means of avoiding certain consumer- and citizen-unfriendly situations, and that the benefit outweighs any negative side effects. Whether or not there are theore
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
South has existed and has been in wide use for a very long time, so whether or not it's built into Django doesn't really matter that much. As for Node and Go, I don't see how they could have One System To Rule Them All – this
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Reducing error by 25% from a 96.5% baseline gives you their stated 97.25% accuracy. About 0.75% fewer errors. Still amazing, but less impressive than the abstract makes it sound.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
First sentence of the linked piece: > “People who eat diets rich in animal protein carry similar cancer risk to those who smoke 20 cigarettes each day,” reports The Daily Telegraph.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
People keep yapping on about the health benefits of alcohol, red wine in particular, but I'd be impressed if you could find me a single drinker who only ever drinks that one unit of alcohol a day. At that point it very quickly stops be
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
As an everyday language, it seems too different to get used to. As a language you learn to expand your horizons, it's not weird/different enough when compared to e.g. Haskell and Lisp. Also, Erlang has long had an excellent reputa
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
You won't be there to enjoy your legacy. Prioritizing things you can and will enjoy is not a bad thing.
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by stdbrouw 13y ago
Do you really care about the interest rate on your checkings account?

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