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Acorn

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    Comment #3127831

    I think Mazzo is referring to a lack of Django's ORM.

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    Comment #3117207

    Isn't that the problem that version control has solved? Once the first commit is done you're just uploading deltas/changesets, so the size of the project doesn't really matter.

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    Comment #3056691

    Would it be possible to implement user input via the REPL instead of the current javascript prompts? Would be much less clunky. Also, at the moment something like this doesn't work…

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    Comment #2986326

    Specifically this page: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/2/7/maze-generation-algorit...

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    Comment #2882064

    The idea of Open Street Maps is not to make tools for map viewing or journey planning, it's to collect user contributed mapping data for the world. That data can then be used by an…

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    Comment #2882028

    It's a shame that people contribute data to Google Maps when something like Open Street Maps exists. If I'm going to spend the time it takes to map something, I'd much rather it go…

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    Comment #2767409

    Your website comes up as the 4th results for "slang dictionary". Where was it before panda?

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    Comment #2723561

    Seems like browser extensions would be the way to go. Here's the SJCL demo: http://bitwiseshiftleft.github.com/sjcl/demo/

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    Comment #2722529

    I always remember it as "night night".. "ni' night"

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    Comment #2720528

    Button background still isn't appearing for me.

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    Comment #2701841

    Someone please make this!

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    Comment #2699292

    Personally I use an online password manager. (Passpack) This allows you to randomly generate strong unique passwords for each website, and have them accessible from anywhere. You a…

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    Comment #2698195

    If someone managed to compromise LastPass' servers, they would be able to modify the content that was sent to your browser, and thereby do anything they wanted with your master pas…

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    Comment #2658614

    Back.. back.. back.. back..

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    Comment #2590969

    Ditto ditto!

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    Comment #2559748

    This could actually be quite useful when you have a large number of tabs open, and want to be able to go back to a blank slate, without losing track of what websites you were on. C…

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    Comment #2554674

    Hmm, looking at python's base64.urlsafe_b64encode(s), padding is still used. So it sounds like it doesn't fully implement the "modified Base64 for URL" spec. Base64 encoding also s…

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    Comment #2554615

    If you don't mind using - and _ then the implementation is very simple. I posted an example in Python and CoffeeScript to SO recently for doing this exact thing. http://stackoverfl…

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    Comment #2553293

    Do not use regular expressions for parsing HTML. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...

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    Comment #2504492

    Didn't work for me.

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    Comment #2504377

    You can also use CONNECT-WITH-SUPPORT for another 1GB.

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    Comment #2453965

    I've found webfaction.com to be a great host.

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    Comment #2404949

    Wow, this is a fantastic link, thanks for sharing!