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by tomn 15y ago
I was lucky enough to see him in Manchester a few months ago, and the people who weren't expecting the stuttering were quite put off. Still, it was an incredible experience.
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by tomn 16y ago
Oddly, in Britain this kind of thing happens quite a lot -- most older men certainly aren't shy about showering naked in public after swimming, for example. Thinking rationally, being shy about our bodies doesn't really make sense -- are th
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by tomn 16y ago
This doesn't really work, because things with high points can be anywhere on the page after they've stopped getting votes -- if you look at the front page, the stories aren't in point order by any means. Although this would be bad for the c
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by tomn 16y ago
As I said, I'm sure that it's legitimate, but it's definitely not good code, and I'd rather not have it lurking in my codebase for years on end. If you don't know the original motivation behind writing something like that, you can't really
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by tomn 16y ago
This is what comments were made for! I'm sure it's legitimate, but you'd have to be insane to look at that code and not question why it exists.
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by tomn 16y ago
I hate to be the one to point this out, but the keyboard on Windows Mobile has had something like this for a long time (drag up to shift, left to delete, right for space and down for enter). It makes typing on iOS devices feel really slow
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by tomn 16y ago
For me, the biggest thing about AWS has been easy access to * ridiculously* powerful machines for not very much money -- a few of us decided that we wanted to build a markov chain from the entirety of Wikipedia, which is quite doable if you
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by tomn 16y ago
That looks really interesting, though it seems a bit dangerous -- greenlet feels like a bit of a hack. I wish I'd found diesel before twisted; it seems a lot more elegant if you don't need any of the built-in protocols. The twisted model is
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by tomn 16y ago
Twisted (a python asynchronous network programming framework) does something similar, but inverted. Twisted functions return a Deferred object without blocking. A Deferred is a promise of a value, so rather than passing the callback into th
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by tomn 16y ago
I live in a house with 4 other computer science students, which should answer your question pretty well. About a year ago we designed a system/protocol called 'SHET' ( https://github.com/18sg/SHET ) which consists of a central server that l