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blossoms

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    Comment #14553757

    Dead link

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    Comment #8935459

    GitHub's is also not clean: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=github.c...

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    Comment #8786785

    My ISP is seemingly blocking that site. I can access it from my DO VPS, though.

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    Comment #8009666

    NB a tuple of one item only requires a trailing comma, and a tuple of zero items is represented as ()

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    Comment #8009660

    I don't mean to be pedantic, but a list (I am assuming df is a list) requires an int. (That sentence I wrote about using hashable types need not apply, sorry!) If you ran that code…

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    Comment #8009618

    alist = [foo(word) for word in words if word.startswith('a')] alist = map(foo, filter(lambda word: word.startswith('a'), words)) Which reads better?

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    Comment #8009116

    Afaik Apple's switching power supplies support the specifications you described (for example, see Mac Mini's tech specs https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs.html -- 50-60Hz 100-240…

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    Comment #8009046

    Anybody have a link to the document? It's behind a paywall?

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    Comment #8008989

    Any internet website can be attacked this same way.

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    Comment #7473046

    >Your Python code is just wrong. Could you elaborate? I want to understand how to fix it. EDIT: I really want to know what is wrong with my code. It works. Is it a stylistic concer…

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    Comment #7472963

    That mangles binary data. $ printf 'binarydata'|awk '{ print }'|hexdump -C 00000000 62 69 6e 61 72 79 64 61 74 61 0a |binarydata.| 0000000b

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    Comment #7472954

    There are some comments on the Gist claiming Python or Ruby is a one liner. My response: https://gist.github.com/kosta/9777932/#comment-1199293

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    Comment #7284993

    http://i.imgur.com/Jmjf3y2.png

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    Comment #7284876

    Unrelated but it looks like www.aol.com's robots.txt is served as text/html http://www.aol.com/robots.txt Is this a common mistake?

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    Comment #7222629

    I respect your work, but I must say this: "You are terrible." Why you might ask? Well ask any kid who has been forced off to Bible Camp or some other humiliating childhood summer a…

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    Comment #6783958

    http://clojurescriptkoans.com/#higher-order-functions/10 got me good. Why is it one needs to use `(count a) (count b)` instead of just `a b` like worked when comparing string lengt…

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    Comment #6619826

    After pondering this article, I think the only reason to run SSH on a different port is to prevent zero day ssh authentication bypasses, which I don't think is a decent reason -- I…

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    Comment #6467808

    This is a cool idea but I am skeptical of how effective it is long-term. If I am understanding the design correctly this method comparable to simply changing the name attributes on…