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randuser
11y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
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randuser
12y ago
I have problems using myfreecams.com for live adult video chat because of the high rate of packets being dropped.
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12y ago
> Another thing troubling me is whether to reply yes or no on questions like "didn't you agree?" Native English speakers often get confused by this one too. You can respond either yes or no in those situations as long as y
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13y ago
They should have killed the Snowden interview anyway because of all the stuff going on with Russia and Ukraine right now. Snowden's voluntary exile to Russia looks even worse to the general public and will overshadow anything he actual
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13y ago
Didn't Ford cancel the Crown Victoria line?
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13y ago
The southeastern part of the United States has a larger African-American population. http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html
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13y ago
rm -rf ~
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13y ago
Microsoft thinks it's worth $20 for an Ad-free Outlook.com. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ad-free-outlook
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randuser
13y ago
Obfuscated code is surely harder to understand and work with than original code with descriptive variable names, comments, formatting, etc. Wouldn't this make it more difficult to find vulnerabilities?
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13y ago
My favorite experience with it was trying to deal with a zip file of "C:\Documents and Settings\" from an old computer that happened to contain multiple files whose paths were 255 characters long or so. You couldn't unzip it
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13y ago
My favorite part is that the form assumes you need only a single line for the "Justification" field.
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13y ago
> What threat to national security could or would the CIA curtail by bugging Ecuador's embassy in London? Possible communications to/from Julian Assange?
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13y ago
Perhaps the Russians planted the device and intentionally made it easy to find in order to incriminate the US.
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13y ago
So restricting yourself to a common subset of Python 2/3 and adding compatibility helpers in your code is the preferred approach now a days? I'm still not convinced about the whole Python 2 to 3 conversion being worth it (asides from the fa
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13y ago
> I can't think of any major project which decided not to port to python 3 Most major projects have not actually switched to Python 3, that just support it using 2to3.
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13y ago
It's a normal variable, not one set by `setopt`. The following should make commands that take longer than 1 second be reported: export REPORTTIME=1
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13y ago
If you learned about JSON without really knowing Javascript first, there might be confusement about what values are acceptable in object literals but not JSON.
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13y ago
My uncle switched to a party line in the early 1980s because it was cheaper and since everyone had private lines by that point, he didn't have to share it with anyone.
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13y ago
setuptools/distribute didn't implement `python setup.py uninstall`. Unix fragmentation of where the bin and lib directories should reside, i.e. /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, ~/bin, ... Windows doesn't have symlinks and the different p
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13y ago
Most widely-used libraries have not actually switched to Python 3, they just support it using 2to3. Someone who only knows Python 3 would have a hard time hacking on the source code of most libraries.