motley_fool

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   by motley_fool 18y ago

   Nice! I didn't know about the optparse module -- I'd been using getopt. After the last tool I wrote, I thought "man, it would be pretty easy to auto-generate the usage info from the getopt config." This seems to be what optparse does.
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   > There is something wrong with killing civilians and unnecessarily invading foreign countries; but there is nothing wrong with using better weapons to do the same job. You're assuming that these two issues are independent. I'm proposin
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   Ask N.YC: Is there a public, high SNR robotics list?

   1 points by motley_fool 19y ago|0 comments
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   It's still a shock to me to see otherwise egalitarian and meritocracy-minded hackers engage in such blatant and naive sexism. That's in response to your first paragraph. I can agree with the second.
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   Think Centaur.
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   I want my Chevaline, dangit!
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   Nonsense. People don't sit down and talk when they have less to lose. They negotiate when they have more to lose. So what will actually happen is that these ultra-tech tools will just further shield voters from the nastiness of war, and
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   by motley_fool 19y ago

   This is an overly simplistic and dangerous view of warfare. Increasingly, warfare is not about soldiers being sent to fight each other in some empty battlefield. The pattern of U.S. wars since WWII has been expeditionary warfare where the U