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by jotaass 3y ago
I don't think it's clever, it's quite unintuitive and ugly. To me anyway. If the author really wanted to cram everything into a list comprehension, the logical way to think about it is: ( (int(tsc, 16), int(pc,
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by jotaass 5y ago
Yeah, that's true, that day will come. Just like there will come a day you will go outside for the last time, have your favorite meal a last time, listen to a song for the last time or breathe for the last time. It's a sobering th
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by jotaass 5y ago
I never used this feature personally. Do you think it’s better than a separate profile which you can launch with -p flag or a profile switcher extension?
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by jotaass 5y ago
Location: Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (inc. common Data & ML tools), Node, SQL, Spark, Docker, Linux, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kafka, Cassandra Résumé/CV: https://www.jgsousa.com&#x2F
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by jotaass 12y ago
Yeah, I'm having the same problem. It might be related to the fact that Ctrl + ] is also the keyboard shortcut to nagivate back in firefox [1], so when I try it I end up going back to the previous page. Ctrl + [ does nothing. Or it mig
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Portugal plans digital device tax to pay artists’ copyright(euronews.com)
3 points by jotaass 12y ago|0 comments
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by jotaass 13y ago
This reminds me of the excellent tv.js. The same, but running in your browser (plus node.js) https://github.com/SamyPesse/tv.js
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by jotaass 13y ago
There's a torrent of the video available here http://pirateproxy.net/torrent/9395395/Channel_4_Alternative...
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Edward Snowden's Channel 4 Christmas Message(youtube.com)
8 points by jotaass 13y ago|0 comments
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by jotaass 13y ago
This reminds of a story that ran in the news last year. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... It is not ok for a retail company to profile your underage daughter, find out
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by jotaass 13y ago
I think the point is that those jihadists in Yemen are the direct result of this sort of thing happening in their home towns. It's very easy to recruit someone when they just saw a whole bus of their friends and family being blown off
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French law allows warrantless access to live user data(pcworld.com)
5 points by jotaass 13y ago|0 comments
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by jotaass 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Glad to see it's not so bad afterall.
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by jotaass 13y ago
This is interesting. It has been almost a year since the deadline for the implementation. I have no indication that anything changed at all. Take the following google search experiment site:gov.pt filetype:doc (90k results) site:gov.p
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by jotaass 13y ago
How about a Bitcoin ATM machine? https://lamassu.is/
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by jotaass 13y ago
I think most of us are probably behind several layers of concrete, glass, wood, etc.
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by jotaass 13y ago
It's quite usual to have two family names, one from your mother's side and another from your father's. Usually the father's family name comes last, but it's by no means a rule, more of a social norm (and somewhat fa
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by jotaass 13y ago
In which case I'm sure Google will provide an unsubscribe option.
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by jotaass 13y ago
I too found the replies to be somewhat dismissive. You would think this sort of report would be dealt with much more urgency or, in the very least, some concern. It's an important problem, and the feeling I get from that thread is that
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by jotaass 13y ago
That's a very insightful post. Thank you.
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by jotaass 13y ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5897682
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by jotaass 13y ago
As an european this disgusts me to no end. It can really hurt your patriotism and sense of pride in your country when you realize it's not actually a country at all, just a subservient state, willing to do anything to avoid drawing the
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by jotaass 13y ago
Nevermind the fact that in order to qualify for unemployment benefits you must have worked and contributed in the last few years. As it turns out, most unemployment in Spain, and countries in the same situation, is from fresh out of college
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by jotaass 13y ago
That's exactly the environment in my country in the 40's to mid 70's. You were obliged to inform the state of suspicious activities of your fellow citizens (things like reading the wrong sort of books or indulging in private
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by jotaass 13y ago
Yes, but now is on the front page of Hacker News. They may just have ruined this guy's life, even if they didn't mean it. And based on what? The pictures prove nothing. In fact, they're not even suspicious! "Backpack seems to be missing"? T
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by jotaass 13y ago
Well, he did put a space there. I'd give him a pass.
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by jotaass 13y ago
Submitter here. I did search for it first, but I clearly did a poor job. Apologies for that.
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My divorce from Google - One year later(itworld.com)
17 points by jotaass 13y ago|20 comments
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by jotaass 13y ago
I wish all the best to the team at Watsi. They have an amazing concept. It's captivating how straightforward it really is. They offer the possibility for anyone to make a difference to the lives of real people, and watch that happen, in alm
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by jotaass 13y ago
f2py is a remarkable tool. And it's much easier than the documentation would lead you to believe. It's literally as simple as doing f2py foo.f -c -m foo Which creates a foo python module with easy access to whatever functions you put in foo

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