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by yyyt 14y ago
In America, the TV watches YOU. It's another absurd attempt of the publishers to control everything and everyone. Unfortunately, this is technically cheap now. But as I talked to a publisher recently, it's increasingly more difficult to reg
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by yyyt 14y ago
I see it took some good ideas from Stackexchange. Good. Since there's no contact email, I'm writing questions here: 1. Is it configurable, to get rid of "likes" and other cluttering elements? 2. I'd like to pay for not tracking my users. Is
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by yyyt 14y ago
I see the situation regularly from both sides. I know exactly why I get rejected: for having Masters in Economics (read: Applied Maths), not CS, for not knowing by heart all normal forms till the 6th, for using but not knowing the formal de
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by yyyt 14y ago
Good point. Every piece of information is remembered a lot better and fits into your brain if you have a problem for it to solve.
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by yyyt 14y ago
I got a decent programming job only at 28. Though I coded a few programs since I was 17, only at 26 I was assumed at a "developer" position, as PHP junior dev. Then learned Python and used it wherever possible, and at 28 got full-time Pytho
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by yyyt 14y ago
I'm curious, where and how do you watch the Russian media to say that?
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by yyyt 14y ago
This makes me wonder why Brits prefer to courageously make jokes at Putin's regime (with which I'm fine, they're deserved), instead of just going to the Big Ben palace and giving a boot to the same kind of governors sitting there.
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by yyyt 14y ago
When I wrote in PHP (and it lasted 10 years just to let you know), I would say exactly the same. PHP tasted better than, say, C++ Builder. As we use to say in my country, "never tried things sweeter than carrot". I mean that was about me: I
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by yyyt 14y ago
They'll have to invent something really new or have an uphill battle, because GitHub now relies a lot on network externality. In simple words, it is the effect that you chose a popular network for the number of projects on it. I do submit b
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by yyyt 14y ago
I can see that as I comprehend English more, tend to start being more offencive in it. 8 years ago I started Italian and now I know a deal of swear words, but not sure if I can produce them when, say, an Italian drops a thing on my foot. By
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by yyyt 14y ago
Can someene of the team or early adaptors explain to me: WHY USE "END" statement?
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by yyyt 14y ago
I can't see how this is different from mock.py. Mock can also do temporary patching: with patch('path.to.object') as my_mock: my_mock.method.return_value = ... also you can patch a module/class with a function.
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by yyyt 14y ago
Sass has a spaced syntax and SCSS, curly-braced.