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  1. Re:ramsex.eu reserved on .eu Opens for Registration · · Score: 1

    In Swedish, titta means to look and bra means good, big deal. In Turkish penis means placenta, who cares?

  2. Re:The solution on A Solution for the Ten Letter Acrostic Puzzle? · · Score: 1

    here, I've got it started for you, it's sorted alphabetically and contains all 10 letter words yarbo@hydrogen temp$ cat 10letter.py dic = open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines() dic10 = filter(lambda x:len(x)==10,dic) print len(dic10) yarbo@hydrogen temp$ python2.3 10letter.py 6093

  3. Re:...we haven't succeeded in eliminating a single on Wireless Sensor Networks for Killing Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    I think your parent poster was saying that we haven't caused a single insect species to become extinct, despite our best efforts.

  4. Re:Ok, I did RTFA. on Game Provides Language Development Insights · · Score: 1

    The players didn't know the board would be expanded. I'd imagine you'd set up a more impromptu language system if you thought it was a simple game on a 2x2 grid.

  5. Re:GCC experimental results on Arrays vs Pointers in C? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:GCC experimental results on Arrays vs Pointers in C? · · Score: 1

    gcc, icc, or tcc. The majority of people probably use gcc, but tcc and icc are definitely possibilities.

  7. Re:All of these "rights"... on Massachusetts Plans a Cell Phone Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    call someone who is right next to you, talk to him/her and then you'll hear the delay between when you hear them in person and when you hear them over the phone.

  8. Re:Tell me about the death of Computing on The Decline Of The Desktop · · Score: 1

    ImageMagick!
    You can do all sorts of transforms, scaling, filters, and conversions from the command line.

  9. Re:And probably not even that on 24 Mb Consumer Broadband Launched · · Score: 2, Insightful

    pornography

  10. Re:Next... on RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    Other shells have tab completion, and at least in Bash, you can rebind the key to whatever you want. For example, I had a friend who used tab completion in the Python shell, but used the ` key.

  11. Re:Woman calls FEMA and gets runaround on FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims · · Score: 1

    Sweden has double the population of Louisiana (4.5 million vs ~9 million)

  12. Re:Well of COURSE it was for the money! on Accused Zotob Worm Author Says Money Was Motive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I met a Finnish girl who moved to Austria but visited her family every Winter.

    I know many Indian immigrants (6+ years in the US) who go to India every Summer.

  13. Re:Sports=Death? on Violence in Video Games Debate Continues to Rage · · Score: 1
  14. Re:No replacement for Nutria on New Rodent Species Found · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ratcatching? Think bigger, ratfarming!

  15. Re:contact info link on Federal Grant Applications to Require Windows · · Score: 1

    I sent them an email yesterday, and this was their response:

    Dear Mr. Lesniak,

    Thank you for your recent inquiry to Grants.gov concerning the Pure Edge viewer.
    Grants.gov has been working with Pure Edge to offer a viewer that is compatible with as many operating systems as possible. We feel that we are not too far from achieving that goal, and when we do, be sure that information will be posted on our website. In the meantime, we apologize if the viewer options we offer for your operating system are not acceptable. Our goal is to ensure the widest possible acceptance of Grants.gov and certainly not to exclude anyone from the electronic grants submission process. To that end, as a first step, we ensured that the Pure Edge viewer will work with a Windows emulator program, as described on our website.
    Grants.gov employs the PureEdge Viewer 6.0 for viewing and completing application forms. The PureEdge viewer's 508 compliance is described at http://www.pureedge.com/products/products/PureEdge AccessibilityGuide.pdf. Grants.gov sponsored testing of the PureEdge Viewer demonstrated the viewer's compatibility with the widely used Jaws screen reader. An enhanced version of the PureEdge Viewer that will include compatibility with a broader range of screen reader products through support for industry standard interfaces for accessibility is in the process of being tested and upon successful completion of testing will be posted to the site.

    Feel free to contact us should you have further inquiries.

    Your case number is 55982. Please reference this number when contacting us in the future for further assistance.

    Thank you,

    Charity
    Grants.gov Customer Support
    www.grants.gov

  16. Re:Content on Doubleclick? on Report on Last Decade of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    It's in my adblock, so I just wgetted the pdf...

  17. Re:WI-FI woes on Survey Shows Admins Avoiding SP2 · · Score: 1

    My ibook doesn't.

  18. Re:Who didn't see it coming? on RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing · · Score: 1

    actually, apparently we do have it (link)...

  19. Re:Who didn't see it coming? on RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I'm going to be sharing a one bedroom, it'd probably be too crowded for three...

  20. Re:Who didn't see it coming? on RIAA Cracks Down on Internet2 File Sharing · · Score: 1

    We don't have Internet2 either...

  21. Re:Think Irfanview on Lessons Proprietary Software Can Teach Open Source · · Score: 1

    Imagemagick for simple (or complicated) image manipulations. gqview or kuickshow for image viewing.

  22. Re:perl6 is a mistake on Run Perl 6 Today: Pugs 6.0.11 released · · Score: 1

    But in Python, you CAN put a statement on the same line as a conditional, but you're limited to one liners (which can be more than one statement).
    you can write 'if y:x'
    or you can write 'if y:x;x;x;x;x;x;'

  23. Re:perl6 is a mistake on Run Perl 6 Today: Pugs 6.0.11 released · · Score: 1
    I've worked with people, and found that trying to force indent on them is very hard, for some reason. Forcing splint on a partner I had for a project was impossible (hell, he even started disabling some of the warnings, but that's another story).

    Indent will fix the indentation, but who is going to compare the before and after to see if something visibly changed scope?

    Besides, Python will let you write complicated things on a single line, provided that you don't use nested loops or assignments in conditionals. You can separate single statements on a single line with semicolons.

    If you're worried about mixing tabs and spaces, you can run python -tt and it'll throw an exception if tabs and spaces are mixed at any point.

    Btw, I think that picking unit tests that cover every line of code in all circumstances can be hard, and not everyone can be expected to write code that'll detect scope errors like the ones I listed. Sometimes those bugs will slip, and I think languages that enforce indentation are doing the right thing. There may be wonderful optional programs and unit testing packages, but many users can't be bothered, and it's nice if a language can force certain people to do things the right way.

    Maybe I'm just bitter because no one I work with will bother incrementally testing, unit testing, running lint, or following indentation standards if not forced. Maybe most people don't need it, I just know people around me need it...

  24. Re:perl6 is a mistake on Run Perl 6 Today: Pugs 6.0.11 released · · Score: 1

    That would mean it has a shallow learning curve. If it was steep, you would learn everything in a short period of time.

  25. Re:perl6 is a mistake on Run Perl 6 Today: Pugs 6.0.11 released · · Score: 1

    you've never made this mistake in C/C++?

    while (condition);
    {
    do_stuff();
    }

    or this one

    for (...)
    statement1;
    statement2;

    those mistakes can't happen in Python. A whole class of bugs eliminated, and all you have to do is indent your code (you don't do that anyway?!)