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alixander
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Comment #25309063
And wider hips
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Comment #24705978
The scenarios you’ve posed doesn’t make candidate 2 any less replaceable. Maybe candidate 1 is needed for whatever advanced AI the dating app uses, but there’s many non-foreign opt…
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Comment #16338488
That point hasn’t been hit yet. Discouraging people from learning programming because you anticipate that point to come soon is unfortunate coming from a manager of programmers. Re…
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Comment #14966920
If your only reason to hate a language is that it's making improvements (that you can't/won't keep up with), it would seem that language is doing something right
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Comment #9323307
Normally I wouldn't be picky about a web design flaw, but seeing as this is a project aimed at helping web design: http://imgur.com/qqwqiA8
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Comment #9212217
Passion implies things other than working longer than everyone else. For example, people passionate about programming often are better at debugging in those 8 hours than someone wh…
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Comment #9205239
Yeah this alone is enough for me to refuse to use something.
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Comment #9201789
"To me a phone is a poor man's computer that you have to use when you are on the road, but if you are in front of your desk, there is no reason you should be forced to use an infer…
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Ask HN: Has anyone tried to get all the functions of a phone onto their laptop?
I don't use my phone much and have been thinking about trying to port tasks I do on my phone to my laptop. Has anyone ever tried this? Maybe use Twilio to set up a number that can …
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Comment #9189463
These are some amazing visualizations.
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Comment #8833124
You think you misunderstood; I didn't try it and not like it, I just never tried it. I'm most productive on Vim/Terminal right now. From a quick google search, it doesn't seem like…
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Comment #8833079
Ah, I'll have to fix that.
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Comment #8833073
Negative or not, I really appreciate the constructive criticism. In response to your comments on watch: Indeed, right now it only identifies AST nodes of type "asgn". I imagine oth…
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Comment #8832104
Ah, you're right. Totally forgot about that. Thanks for pointing it out!
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Comment #8832101
I wish I could give you pros and cons, but I've never touched pdb or used a python IDE before myself. In my 3 years of programming, I've only used print statements to debug (for Py…
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Comment #8830337
I'm not exactly sure if it doesn't work on Python3, I had only tested it on 2.7 so it mightt (there aren't any external dependencies). I'll probably test it on Python3 and safely i…
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Comment #8830332
Excellent suggestions, will be adding format configurations next!
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Comment #8795796
I'm working on my first open source project: a Python library to make debugging with print statements easier and more efficient. http://www.github.com/alixander/pyscribe