GrumpySimon

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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
No that's just programmer masochism. If a tool is easy to use, then I get whatever I needed it for done, and done quickly. I can then move on to doing more interesting things (e.g. programming) rather than wrestling with the tool.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
If you "hate" an inanimate chunk of aluminium, glass, and various other metals, you probably need to get out more. You may be disappointed by it, or less than thrilled by it, or even think that it's nothing special. But to hate it... that's
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
yes, otherwise someone unscrupulous could just file complaints against all their competitors and effectively lock them out of the App Store for a period of time.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Yes, saving 1% of a few million requests a day is not a trivial savings.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Hit the power button. It pops up a modal with restart, sleep, shut down and cancel.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Thank you for pointing that out, I've just changed some code :)
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
Thanks for posting this. I'd read it years ago but had lost it. It's excellent and sums up everything that's wrong with SW. I'd love to ask him to respond to that article. He won't.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
That'll be where nikunjk installed pinry. Pinry saves the files into <pinry>/pins/pin.
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
This is very cool. I'd love a command line replacement for grep that does this. Any suggestions?
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by GrumpySimon 14y ago
You're in the wrong place, kid.
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
I'm a pythonist - use it all the time. Except when I need to do some stats or graphing, and then it's R all the way. The R language is ugly, and warty, but it's awesomely powerful. Hell, the graphing library ggplot2 ( http://had.co.nz/ggplo
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
This is fantastic! I've got so many damn bookmarks that I don't know what to do with them. Have you got any plans for importing bookmarks from pinboard/delicious?
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
Yep: http://pyvideo.org/video/628/keynote-paul-graham-ycombinator
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
Allow me to rephrase that: "Well, it's a beginner-level PHP mistake; it is not precisely an obscure issue. Googling 'SQL Injection/register_globals/get_magic_quotes/etc' will show you discussion going back years, and it has been actively
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
It's not just now either, the porn industry was hugely influential in causing the adoption and spread of video (you know, on casette), movies and photography.
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
In most academic publications, the editing, typesetting, managing mail, etc is done by the volunteers or the papers authors. Pretty much all journals are going online only so there's no need to print anything. In short the publishing houses
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by GrumpySimon 15y ago
That, and screen is installed on pretty much everything I use. Tmux isn't.
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by GrumpySimon 18y ago
Yep, all wrong :) You want a custom filter: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/