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by tragic 13y ago
Apparently, Hy is the favoured Python-targeting Lisp dialect of the Great Adversary. (Which piques my interest.)
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by tragic 13y ago
Decision 1 brings back memories ... As I recall, that was the 'easy' module that everyone would do well at (precisely because it was rote-learning basic algorithms, possibly without even the use of the word 'algorithm'),
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by tragic 13y ago
Very interesting article. The problem I have with the particular form the tech-feminist crusades have taken is that it seems to me to be diversionary at a fundamental level. Women are not just under-represented in tech, but in the majority
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by tragic 13y ago
> Out of curiosity, what are the favored money laundering methods of modern day? HSBC. EDIT: see here for example: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/dec/11/hsbc-bank-us... That's a 'r
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by tragic 13y ago
As I understand it, the new migrations module is more fully featured than south: eg, it intelligently squashes/flattens migrations together to avoid redundancy when you run the migrations (say you create a model in migration 1, and rem
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by tragic 13y ago
>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people... > Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter. ...Nor does
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by tragic 13y ago
Well, I'm glad about that. I guess I was the 'lost generation' - sure, it was BBC Micros and Acorns at primary, but we basically used them for Chuckie Egg and Lander respectively - no code. By the time I got to secondary, it
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by tragic 13y ago
It's kind of hard not to be cynical when 95%+ of job adverts in all industries have the same 5 buzzwords in them. I mean, if the guy/girl in Subway is supposed to be 'passionate about great customer service', when it&#x2
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by tragic 13y ago
I suppose you could use this: https://plus.google.com/authorship
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by tragic 13y ago
Just as well, probably. If they had Indian, you'd get a Punjabi first name, an Urdu surname, and a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird in your New Delhi driveway.
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by tragic 13y ago
As a Ruby/RoR noob and Python/JS slightly-better-than-noob, I felt a flicker of recognition reading this. One of my bigger WTF? moments going through that Hartl book recently (which I enjoyed and found very helpful) was, to adapt