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I enjoy crossfit, but I try to remember what it actually is: a fad-y name for the concept of "functional fitness." I managed to find a crossfit gym that is _not_ ridiculously expen…

If by "bottom of the stack" you mean "the code that the top of the stack depends on in order to run at all," then I would say that he is correct in what "important" means.

This is probably the second or third time I have come across this language in an HN comment. Every time I see it, I click the link, and try to click the links on bondi.it.uts.edu.a…

You mean like this one? > PHP is the core web language because PHP devs (for the most part) are cheap, replaceable parts.

I don't have a source for this, but it is my understanding that, even though the python interpreter doesn't special-case the "_" variable name, it is a convention to use the unders…

Oh, I agree, it was just surprising to me to see them there.

I always thought CS was a "kinda-python-y" version of Javascript, though I never actually used it. It surprised me, therefore, to see that the OP considers these two items to be pr…

This is what linting tools like pyflakes are for. Running it as a prerequisite to running the test suite means that I don't have to run all my tests just to find out that I misspel…

Yes, but the plan9 text editor/shell/IDE is called Acme: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/

Looks like the design is actually from 2008, so it's actually the past

Pendantic and off-topic, but it irks me when ZMQ gets lumped in with i.e. RabbitMQ and AMQ. ZMQ is more like an improved socket library and tools for building distributed message q…

You should make ialmosthave50dollars.com

That strikes me as very Pythonic attitude. If you're going to fail, fail early. But, I know Python way better than Ruby, so it might very well be a Ruby thing too.

I am going to be a father in about 2 months. A friend of mine, who is a father of 3, has responded with this some line when confronted with the "babysitting" comment, and I am alre…

Definitely this. I switched to Fish for a while and was very happy, but the lack of Bash compatibility got a very old after a while. You never think about how much out there assume…

You would be surprised, I was.

I purchased a QIDO[1] just for this reason. It obviously doesn't work for all situations in which you are on someone else's computer, but it has served me well so far. I mainly use…

=== is a syntax error in python

That makes sense. I suppose I just think of something different than I should when I hear "weight loss." When someone says "weight loss," I hear "body composition change," which is…

The "calories in/calories out" argument is based on the assumption that the human body is a closed system. This is simply not the case, and touting it as a diet strategy is irrespo…

Definitely. However, that doesn't mean he is wrong. For more actual evidence of this stuff, The Eades' book `Protein Power'[1] and Robb Wolf's book `The Paleo Solution'[2] offer so…