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Noam_Samuel
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RE: "Could You Explain Programming Please"
@skippy said:
Reminded me of the worst hollywood quote I ever heard. From "The Lone Gunmen":
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/lonegunmen/season1/thelonegunmen-107.htm
Search for "Linux"
I don't see why that's that bad. Aside from the fact that GTA can't run on Linux, most of the stuff there is in the plausibility range. After all, downloading programs in Linux is done with one command through the command line, and while "apt-get install festival" is not quite gibberishy, "urpmi festival" is. In fact, ignoring computer-using monkeys, that scene was entirely plausible.
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RE: Search Engine Optimization and it's Follies
Actually, as much as I hate SEO (Should be renamed Search Engine Manipulation), I must say that you are in the wrong on one thing: Google (and other engines, I suppose) completely ignores metadata due to frequent abuse by website authors.
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RE: HTML Encryption Software
That, my friends, is the ultimate essence of DRM.
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RE: "Technical" Project Managers
It's lossy compression, the next level of compression technology!
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RE: A look back at Y2K - Share your WTF stories here
Actually, I think it is a dud. Unless you didn't use the actual no. of second since the Unix epoch (also known as the actual way time is stored on the machine), you were completely safe.
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It's iPod Compatible!
I was looking over a story I just submitted to Digg about MiniNova being momentarily down when I noticed that the advert on the side invited me to "download mininova". Being curious as to how exactly I would download all of mininova at once (I don't think I even have enough hard disk space to hold all the trackers), I clicked on it. It brought me to this page.
Ignoring the absurdity of having to sign up to download something I could just as easily get from the official site, I noticed something even stranger:
Yep, that's right, folks, Bittorrent is now 100% iPod-compatible. -
RE: Make Your Own Software!!
This whole thing sounds freighteningly like Visual Basic.
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RE: File I/O self-WTF
Pickle creates persistant objects by serializing them and writing them to a file (and, obviously, by retrieving it).
The
WTF was that since I put a dupe_file.read() statement in the if (to
check if the file has contents), the position I was in the file was the
end of the file. Thus, any request that would have involved reading from the file would have returned an EOFError. -
RE: File I/O self-WTF
I don't believe this!
<font face="Lucida Console" size="2">
if dupe_file.read():
</font><font face="Lucida Console" size="2">dupes = pickle.load(dupe_file)</font><font face="Lucida Console" size="2">else:
</font><font face="Lucida Console" size="2">dupes = {}</font>