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by vram22 7y ago
>Actually, most plans are way cheaper than that. Most people I know are on a $9 or $10 prepaid plan for three months of unlimited calls, messages and 2GB/day. Which providers?
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by vram22 7y ago
>BLISS links from Wikipedia are still working > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS Interesting. I remember Jon Bentley [1] mentions BLISS multiple times in his book Writing Efficient Programs. The book is a gold
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by vram22 7y ago
>I just wish it treated functions as first class citizens. So you cannot store a function in a variable (scalar, list, dict)? And does it have dicts (Python term) or equivalent (associative arrays)? If not, a lot of things would be more
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La Central de Abasto, the world's largest wholesale market (2017)(culinarybackstreets.com)
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by vram22 7y ago
The links are probably part of the PDF specification, but I guess will require support in every PDF reader in which you want to to use them.
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by vram22 7y ago
Thanks for the answer. I had not heard of the cake pattern, will check it out.
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by vram22 7y ago
>Contrary to popular belief, Scala is actually quite a simple language. Interesting. Then why do some people say it is not? Anecdotal, mind you, and don't have links right now.
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by vram22 7y ago
Here is one: The scene between (actors) Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise in which Tom tells Jack "I'm not your son, and you're under arrest, you $#%#%@^!" is a good one. I forget the name of the film though. Another one is
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by vram22 7y ago
What do you mean by "everywhere"? Business domains, or generally mean amount of usage?
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by vram22 7y ago
Ha ha, nice. I also have a few personal favorite scenes like that. If I think of some soon, will post them here. Thanks for those tips.
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by vram22 7y ago
Didn't know about it, thank you. Will check it out if I can. IIRC, Quinn is the same actor who plays the Greek, Andrea, in the movie The Guns of Navarone, based on the book of the same name by Alistair MacLean. I just googled about Qui
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by vram22 7y ago
Googled for this term - Japanese words of Portuguese origin - results are also a bit interesting, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_Japanese_words_of_...
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by vram22 7y ago
Haven't tried it myself, but have read about nimgrep in previous HN nim threads. Just checked: https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html Excerpt: Nimgrep is a command line tool for search&replace tasks. It can se
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by vram22 7y ago
Right. For anyone who wants to get a feel for D: https://dlang.org/ is the main site. https://tour.dlang.org/ is the D tour site, similar to the one for Go and some other languages nowadays; you can run som
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by vram22 7y ago
>In particular Go bears very striking resemblance to Pike's two earlier languages, Limbo and Newsqueak. From the GoPL (The Go Programming Language book, by Donovan and Kernighan), page xii, part of the genealogy is: CSP (Hoare, 1978
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by vram22 7y ago
>Nuitka (nuitka.net) does that for python, and is very robust and compatible. It works way better than py2exe, cx_freeze, etx, and is cross platform. However, the result, even for small scripts, is not what I would qualify as "small
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by vram22 7y ago
When I was a kid, at one time, I had access to a lending library which had a series of books with titles of the form "X Fairy Tales", where X had values like Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, etc. Many of them were very entertainin
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by vram22 7y ago
>Note that the Catholic Church is the oldest still existing organisation, and was at some point in history arguably the most powerful organisation in the world. The book "The Shoes of the Fisherman" by Morris West is a good fic
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by vram22 7y ago
Yes (re. your edit), saw that (after seeing your link). The 4 / quatre stuff.
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by vram22 7y ago
Oh yes, good ones, thanks. I knew about both of those, but had forgotten. Knew about vindaloo from both reading [1] about it and eating it, and about tempura just from reading. Tempura sounds like our Indian bhajji [2], but with many other
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by vram22 7y ago
I knew or could guess about influences from the other three, but didn't really know about influences from Portuguese - interesting. Got any examples? Only one I can think of right now is kaju in Hindi for cashew, which I think may be f
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by vram22 7y ago
>The number of languages is stunning. True. From the article: >According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. However, figures from other sources vary, primarily due to differences in
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by vram22 7y ago
>in heavily accented English instead of The Indian language. Also called "Indian" by some non-Indians, as in: "sorry, I don't speak Indian" :) A bit like saying "chai tea", mentioned in the recent threa
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by vram22 7y ago
Welcome.
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by vram22 7y ago
>It is just anecdotal as opinions in India change every few kilometres. And every ten meters, when asking for directions, ha ha :) And the best part is that some of them, if asked "where is so-and-so place" (hotel / restau
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by vram22 7y ago
Why impressed by that, though?
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by vram22 7y ago
>(Even though the one-liner turned out to be a bit more difficult to write than I thought at first due to '\r' characters in the input file) Although you solved it, another way is that one can always pipe the input through a fi
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by vram22 7y ago
You probably know it, but in case not, and for others who might not know: Ruby was influenced by Perl, and Perl was influenced by awk. (Both Ruby and Perl were influenced by other languages too.) And (relevant to this thread) Perl was influ
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by vram22 7y ago
>But the thing I like the most is the ability to write some code in the text editor, highlight it, and use the "do it" menu command to immediately execute it. I vaguely remember reading (in an old BYTE issue, ha ha) that the Ob
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by vram22 7y ago
Welcome.

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