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10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.
https://jjg.gitlab.io/en/
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For an in-depth treatment, see Hardy's scandalous "Divergent Series"
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Just clear your cookies and reload
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TL;DNR smug liberal smug smug smug smug liberal smug smug smug.
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So why you create temporary accounts to comment?
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Um, I get an entirely blank page (even with js enabled), this on Firefox 45/Linux
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Broken site: never-ending reload "checking your browser ..."
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In this way commences typographical wisdom.
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If you're thinking of doing this, have a look at https://github.com/sufleR/sql_query
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I went with this decorator in the end, works a treat! https://github.com/jjgreen/mvpoly/blob/master/src/python/mvp... …
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Ah, nice, thanks
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I've previously used hasattr() to check for the existence of an attribute qua instance variable to lazy-load and cache that attribute def kdtree(self):
if not hasattr(self, '_kdt…
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Depends on whether you think one should follow Mr Strunk and Mr White (plural) or their book (singular). It always irked me that PEP8 insisted that you become a stalker.
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Finally, it is fixed https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b93d501ba313
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Zinoviev letter
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American rather than Anglo-Saxon I think, and the US has preferred "rooster" over "cock" since the 18th century, have those horrid liberals been oppressing you with political corre…
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It is pronounced "cock" which is (British) English for a male chicken, what an American might call a rooster. Not surprising, as cock is derived from the French _coq_.
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Deeply embarassing for the BBC.
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A life without butter is a life unlived.
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IIRC his friends asked him to stop for a month, and then to see how he felt. "You have put back mathematics by a month" he said at the end, and promptly went back on the pills.
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Fantastic product, well deserved.
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Nice idea, but implementators beware: there are lots of "points" around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28typography%29 …
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Typeset material does not have "spaces", it has space, and there is more of it after a full-stop than there is between unpunctuated words. Using two spaces in non-typeset material is no-mor…
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It is long lines which damage readability, and that is the fault of the gonk who wrote the code. If anything, GH's fixed-width design encourages shorter lines and so improves readability.
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Trackerama ( http://www.trackerama.com/ ) uses TMDB ( https://www.themoviedb.org/ ), may be worth considering ...…
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The criminals responsible for this treasonous leak should be hunted down and imprisoned :-)
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You should never have given him/her the root password.
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Rossellini fans may also be interested to know that the BFI have restored and re-released the War trilogy and 3 of the Ingrid Bergman films. Fantastic stuff.
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They hope you will publish the URLs (which you have) :-(