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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson To Siberia by Per Petterson The Millenium Series (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series) by Stieg Larrson

For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

> Harvest tomatoes from your back yard on ToteDay, drop them into Amazon mini-totes, and have them delivered, at market prices, to people in your area. Then you run the risk of peo…

The difference between this and true overloaded methods (which, correct me if I'm wrong, is the what he meant by "MultiMethod") is that an overloaded method is created at compile-t…

Being part of __future__, is print() slated for release in 2.7 or is it strictly a 3.x feature?

I just tried it on my Droid (Dolphin HD2 browser) it didn't work very well. The browser itself does a lot of touch/drag so I'm not really surprised.

An interesting way to keep people interested in the game (during a fight, that is) would be to allow players to update the AI on the fly. I'm thinking each player would submit an A…

Sounds like a good game to test out with Intel's new "Knights Corner" chip! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1395513 One cell per core? Ah, the future...

As interesting of a problem as this is, I don't quite understand how a) BP and other oil companies aren't required to have solved it prior to drilling and b) after more than a mont…

Portmanteau

A quick search revealed that this title ("...and used by reCAPTCHA") has been reused many times and is likely just a rumor at this point. I would definitely be interested in seeing…

I've used pairs off and on at work but never long-term. The part I find most useful about coding side-by-side with someone is that there is someone to question (or reassure) every …

I always enjoy seeing posts like this. Project leaders know more about the code than anyone -- it's like seeing a lecture on a PhD thesis: this person knows more about this topic t…

While I think you may be right that guilt can motivate, I prefer the idea of being able to finish a project because I want to (rather needing to). My advice, as others have mention…

"Don't be evil."

I remember my first UDP packet...

Tell me again why we're listening to this guy?

FTA: "...the gap between software engineers and birthday clowns is almost negligible." True.