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codefisher

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    Comment #23016439

    But we expect this don't we from YouTube? Just as an example of how broken it is I have been live streaming at our local church, our parish priest decided to sing "Tantum ergo" whi…

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    Comment #9512261

    I will also have to write normal views for it. I just would like some easy system for pluging those views all together nicely for, without having to do it myself. Also some extra s…

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    Comment #9511440

    I mentioned the admin interface as well. I wish it was easier to customise when you need something more user friendly, and not something that is just a GUI for accessing the databa…

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    Comment #9448598

    I would like more accountability from professors somehow. Maybe not from student reviews, but at least someone unknown to the professor randomly attend a few classes to check the q…

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    Comment #9448560

    This was what we taught to say when I was a tutor for a university. The point was the student could not come and just point out that something was wrong with the marking and they d…

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    Comment #9243214

    This looks like it could help make it much easier to profile my django web apps during development.

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    Comment #8995953

    The equivalent code with out the context manager is actually this: f = open('foo.txt') try: contents = f.read() finally: f.close() So yes, extra reason to prefer the context manage…

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    Comment #8977041

    I am in Europe (Italy) right now and before it was taken down thepiratebay.se was blocked. But now I can access it directly. Interesting.

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    Comment #8946347

    Users should be able to access all your content without JavaScript. I think the old rule of progressive enhancement still applies, JavaScirpt can add extra things, but everything s…

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    Comment #8891793

    I saw most of this coming. I have studied a little Ancient Greek which has the same problem of the Arabic, and Polish which is similar to the Russian, and now I am living in Italy.…

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    Comment #8779631

    Besides all the jokes - which are funny - this is something I posted a bug about before, when working on slow unreliable networks this can happen. You end up reading half the page,…

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    Comment #8777084

    What I came here to say. If the screen is wider, it just means I can position two things side by side, what ever that be: email + webpage, word document + webpage, code + webpage, …

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    Comment #8740084

    I pirate tv and movies because for me that is the only reliable way. If I got to Amazon/iTunes and try and buy a download it rejects my visa card for not being from the country in …

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    Comment #8551070

    That is not really very relevant when building a Firefox add-on. Firefox add-ons get incredible access privileges to the browser internals. That is part of what makes it hard, but …

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    Comment #2284023

    I would guess it is in part because a lot of them carry around far too much baggage that adding this in afterwards is too much work. I am having a shot at it with django. Rather ea…

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    Comment #2261360

    It looks like I have got higher up the ranks for some of my keywords, so the change must be good ;)

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    Comment #1939519

    I guess they mean they made everything that the user is aware of. Uses don't see, or even need to know about WebKit or SQLite. But since when was advertising honest?

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    Comment #1925929

    It would be nice if they made it easier to disable all alerts (it is possible, but takes a bit of reading to work out). In general I hate their use. 10 years is too long though for…

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