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The Worlds concept, as far as I can tell, is actually more general than STM and what you described Where in my comment did I describe Worlds in a limited way? I just gave one small…

You're missing the point. Here's the basic transaction paradigm for remote resources: try: remote_resource.start_transaction() #dostuff remote_resource.commit() except e: remote_re…

Dumping the current state with deepcopy is probably prohibitively expensive for real world use. Toss in some copy-on-write, and I think you've got something simple and usable...

Don't worry, my comment was intended to be fun. Apologies if that didn't come across.

Standard British usage is punctuation inside only if part of the quotation itself The period is a part of the quotation itself.

Ignoring that it's not actually a sentence: 3. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the …

While we're being pedantic assholes: I was with him until he said, "I could care less." Couldn't , dammit, COULD NOT . This irks me to no end. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/res…

He would probably love nothing more than to get sued by Apple, honestly.

s/ice cream/samsara/g

I have developer sandbox access, but I haven't seen anything about this rollout, nor have I gotten any invites to hand out. If/when I do, I'd be happy to share a few here.

So you're saying your mind isn't blown? Hmm, might have to start shaving my head...

as far as I know they already are for some categories. The fact that CL is already doing the thing that Godin just descended from the sky to tell us CL should do is, to you, eviden…

Gosh, all that sounds amazing. Let me blow your minds, though: what if CL cost two dollars? This is unbelievably weak. Godin's not exactly on a hot streak right now, is he?

I guess my point in saying he's not a people person is to reiterate that folks should just kind of ignore him when he says something like this. Getting personally offended by a Ric…

Have you met Richard Stallman? Not exactly a people person, anyways :) To be clear, I have nothing but mad respect for Stallman, even though my personal beliefs differ from his. He…

After looking at the actual site, the worst thing about it turns out to be the logo. Seriously, the two squids holding tentacles is one of the most disturbing SFW images I've seen …

Do MS have history of vaporous hardware announcements? No, they have a history of promising breakthrough innovation and then woefully underdelivering.

You're right, I misread it as "The prisoners get the Warden to label the boxes randomly", with the same implicit assumption as anigbrowl, that the prisoners don't have enough infor…

It was a funny reference to Federer blowing it against his final opponent at this year's US Open, despite dominating the whole tournament.

I'm all for thinking outside the box, but the whole point of a puzzle is to set up a set of constraints and work your way from there. The solution to #1 seems to contradict that sp…

That's not what they're saying, though, at least not since they started posting these essays after the Mint sale. They've been talking as though taking a giant payday is somehow mo…

I know what you're alluding to, I'm just saying it's an arbitrary distinction. There's absolutely no reason taking a giant payday from a single source is somehow inferior to taking…