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  1. Re:LAMP is the visual basic of the 21st century on WordPress 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Or, in Bush-talk: "You forgot Python!" Except that Python is important. ;)

  2. Re:Leap Ahead? on Intel's New Slogan Clarified · · Score: 1

    You forgot one: "Operation CPU Freedom"

  3. Re:My complaint against Slashdot on Trojan Horse targets Google Adsense · · Score: 2, Funny

    And yet it's indistinguishable from most real complaints against Slashdot.

  4. Re:... and the reason is: on Europe Building Their Own GPS · · Score: 1

    As an Ameri-I mean, US citizen, I'd prefer "Lower Canadian" myself.

  5. Re:at fist glance on Indiana Tries to Pass Game Law Again · · Score: 1
    WHITE OUT DOESN'T WORK ON YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN.
    Didn't Strong Bad prove that in one of his emails?
  6. Re:Isn't Duke Nukem Forever coded in Perl 6? on Larry Wall on Perl 6 · · Score: 1
    What does that even mean?
    That Larry called it the "community's rewrite of Perl".
  7. Re:What about ruby? on Larry Wall on Perl 6 · · Score: 1

    I can get rid of the first and third by replacing e[i]=e[i]+1 with e[i]+=1 and range(len(e)) with xrange(len(e)), respectively. The function call can be removed by using a for loop:
    for i in range(len(e)): e[i]+=1
    (don't forget to type Enter in twice if using the REPL--something I haven't seen in Perl, at least not Perl proper)
    Although that's a contrived example. And most of the stuff you need references for in Perl(making lists and hashes into scalars so you can put them into lists and hashes--at least that's what I saw as a use for them in some "Debunking Perl Myths" site) you don't need them for in Python.

  8. Re:What about ruby? on Larry Wall on Perl 6 · · Score: 1

    Unlike in Haskell, in Python you can use expressions with side-effects in list comprehensions.(unforunately, you have to encapsulate them in a function, but the need to do this is rare)

    Code:

    def incr(e,i): e[i] = e[i] + 1

    [incr(e, i) for i in range(len(e))]

    (note that you'll have to put an extra line after the def statement if you're in the REPL, because of the way it does the whitespace blocks)

    It works! Now if you need reference semantics(i.e. make an immutable object like a mutable one), you can use a singleton list--not the best, but the need for reference semantics in Python are rare, since the only immutables that could possibly take up much memory are strings and tuples containing such.

  9. Re:But I do see. on Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio · · Score: 1

    You miss three points.

    1. This still mentions Sanger.
    2. You can see the edits. You obviously haven't actually read 1984, because in that book, the whole point of the memory hole is that the original article was completely lost, and there was no dissent.
    3. Scroll down, and find that Wales regrets having edited his own page.

    So yeah.

  10. Re:Write vs Edit on Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio · · Score: 1

    I don't think I saw the word "bridge" in his post at all...

  11. Re:Write vs Edit on Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio · · Score: 1

    So it's impossible to trust the judgement of Jill on XYZ, but not on jumping off a bridge? You're probably one of those people who consider consistency ueber alles...a bad path to go on.

  12. Re:Co-equal on Federal Judge Rules Against Intelligent Design · · Score: 2, Interesting
    you can see gravity's effect every second.

    And I can't exactly "see" evolution's effect, but one thing I can "see" is the bacteria that have grown resistant to antibiotics.
  13. Re:code on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 1

    s/Indymedia and al-Jazeera/Fox News and Newsmax/

  14. Re:Morons on Google Zeitgeist '05 · · Score: 1

    The #9 top gainer is protesting against the unconstitutional powergrab by the President...

  15. Re:Write vs Edit on Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it's different people. But that's just me.

  16. Re:Me Oh My on Creating an IS Department? · · Score: 1

    I thought he was referring to the fact that the President uses AOL...

  17. Re:Who The Hell Use .NET These Days? on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    Actually Google prefers Python, I think

  18. Re:There's no such thing.... on Building Intelligent .NET Applications · · Score: 1

    What's a "natzi"?

  19. Re:Just do it the easy way on Warner Chappell Apology For PearLyrics · · Score: 1

    I don't really care where Slashdot's stories are duped from, since I read Slashdot for the comments.

  20. Re:Is it just me? on Marfa Lights Explained · · Score: 1

    No, you're not. I misread it as "Mafia lights" at first too.

  21. Re:missing the obvious ... on After Brief Respite Music Industry Slump Deepens · · Score: 1
    I can only thing of one band which is a counterexample to the average pop music thing: Green Day. Of course, they're almost 17 years old and got popular around 1994. You can hear/watch their live performance of "St. Jimmy" on most of the music video channels, and they do do different things in most of their live performances(They at least doubled, possibly even tripled, the length of the "Minority" solo, for example), but this is an example of the exception proving the rule.
    There's a song on The Killers' album, for instance, that they used their basement-produced tracks of because they couldn't do it as good anymore.
    Which track is it? That's an interesting little tidbit to know, but it would be a little more interesting with the song name :P
  22. Re:Quality Control on After Brief Respite Music Industry Slump Deepens · · Score: 1

    Sixteen and a half years, according to Billie Joe at the concerts, on August 24, 2005, so 17 years is close.

  23. Re:GOD DAMN SHE'S UGLY on The Economist on Mitchell Baker · · Score: 1

    The term "Feminazi" was invented by Rush Limbaugh. That's reason enough not to use it.

  24. Re:Well, that's a big shocker. on Bush Backed Spying On Americans · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the Patriot act is against several parts of the Constitution, hence it is an illegal act IMHO ;).

  25. Re:they will research quantum superposition... on Google, Microsoft, Sun to Fund New Internet Lab · · Score: 1

    Actually, under the many-worlds interpretation, they will be evil in one universe and not evil in the other.