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by voyou 11y ago
Universities shouldn't be safe spaces, I quite agree. That's why I'm so glad my alma mater had packs of lions roaming the campus. Obviously there are all kinds of things we do to ensure that universities are safe in different
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by voyou 11y ago
Not, you're not the only person who uses it the same way. Indeed, it's incomprehensible to me that people would intentionally change how they use something that they know is functionally identical just because it has a different
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by voyou 11y ago
If you're looking for a static site generator that's as easy to use as Wordpress, you could consider using Wordpress. Wordpress caching plugins can generate static HTML which then gets served to visitors directly by Apache or Ngin
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by voyou 11y ago
It's not just that most people are bad writers; people generally get worse at basic writing skills (grammar, sentence structure) when they are writing about unfamiliar or complex topics. When academics are reporting on their ongoing re
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by voyou 11y ago
Yeah, the article just drops that paragraph in without explaining what's supposed to be so bad about it. Indeed, the article says almost nothing about what criteria we could use to judge if writing is needlessly complex or opaque.
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by voyou 11y ago
You can delete them (or at least, request that Google delete them); either by selecting the checkbox next to each recording, or by choosing "Delete options" from the vertical-line-of-three-dots icon in the top right. What it looks
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Lecture Me. Really(nytimes.com)
13 points by voyou 11y ago|0 comments
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by voyou 11y ago
I don't remember where I read this, so I can't really vouch for its reliability, but supposedly the articles were the magazine's original reason for existing. The story I read was that Hefner pitched a lifestyle magazine to
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by voyou 11y ago
Although it turns out that the "return" of Page 3 was itself the advertising ploy, inasmuch it was only a one-off. Since then, The Sun has apparently not carried pictures of topless models on page 3: http://www.theguard
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by voyou 11y ago
"their user experience has always been terrible." What's so terrible about the user experience? I put in an SD card, my phone has more storage space, and I don't think about it any more. Seems like a pretty perfect user
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by voyou 11y ago
Where's the pretence, though? I don't see anything in that article about anyone pretending anything; just some details about pop music production which the author - presumably because he isn't very interested in pop music - d
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by voyou 11y ago
Bernie Sanders is a socialist,[1] and social democracy is a type of socialism.[2] That blog you linked to is, at best, advocating a very idiosyncratic use of terminology. 1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content&
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by voyou 11y ago
There's an interesting competing PEP which allows for the way in which the expressions are interpolated into the string to be customized: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0501/
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by voyou 11y ago
I don't think this is actually a security concern. The only place f-strings are evaluated is where they're directly included in the source; they can't be supplied by a user (unless you're using "eval," in which
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by voyou 11y ago
"It would also render the previous ways obsolete." I don't think it would. If I understand this PEP correctly, the "format" method is significantly more dynamic. For instance, I don't think this new PEP would a
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Philosophy, Science and the Value of Understanding [pdf](timcrane.com)
5 points by voyou 11y ago|0 comments
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by voyou 11y ago
7000 years later and we're still communicating with glorified cuneiform. Maybe the reason we're using text for programming is because text is a really, really, good way of communicating abstract thought? I think it's great fo
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by voyou 11y ago
I think the "untrusted system" in question is the system you're logging on from , because that's the only place where the private key could be compromised. I guess the idea is something like, you have a desperate need t
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by voyou 11y ago
From that link: "Lazy loading is a technique that defers image loading until it becomes visible on the screen." Isn't this exactly the "pointless lazy-loading" that you and the OP are complaining about? If what you
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by voyou 11y ago
Funnily, as it turned out, VMS became the new MS-DOS (well, kind of: http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re... )
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by voyou 11y ago
"It's because the URL is supposed to identify the project, not the user. If the URL included the user's own username, that URL wouldn't work for anyone else." Couldn't the URL just not include a username, thoug
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by voyou 11y ago
"Building something cool in minecraft is pretty different from watching spongebob on netflix." Is it? Why is watching and thinking about something less valuable than "building" something?
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by voyou 11y ago
"It's not a compelling product they can get people to pay for, unlike all previous versions of Windows." I don't think Windows has been a compelling product people pay for since Windows 95 (or just maybe XP). How many ho
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by voyou 11y ago
Python supports closures even when the variable isn't a container. For instance: def add_double(n): x = n * 2 def add(y): return x + y return add f = add_double(1) f(2) # -> 4
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by voyou 11y ago
"The 'cloning' is abstract: it doesn't refer to an actual duplication." But it's not just abstract, it has real implications, because JavaScript objects share implementation of the delegated methods; that is, t
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by voyou 11y ago
I think Crockford is wrong in that linked article. What he presents as unique features of prototype-based OO seem to really be features of highly dynamic OO. All of the things he implements in that article could be implemented just as easil
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by voyou 11y ago
Is JavaScript really a prototype-based language? In prototype-based programming, you create an object which has shared functionality (the prototype), and then create new objects by cloning that object. That's not how you implement shar
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by voyou 11y ago
The odd thing is that, on the evidence of those blog posts, Jeffries, doesn't appear to understand TDD. If you're using TDD to write a sudoku solver, surely the first thing you should write is a test for your "solve_sudoku&qu
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by voyou 11y ago
Seems rather unconvincing to frame your article on "small fish" eating "big fish" with a story about big fish IBM vs the small fish of DEC and Sun. IBM currently has (according to Google) a market capitalisation of 160 b
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by voyou 11y ago
I wonder how important readability is in this case, though. How likely is it that this language will be written (or read) directly by people, rather than generated and consumed by programs? The potential bugs in generators and parsers (thin

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