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> Another thing troubling me is whether to reply yes or no on questions like "didn't you agree?" Native English speakers often get confused by this one too. You can respond either …

They should have killed the Snowden interview anyway because of all the stuff going on with Russia and Ukraine right now. Snowden's voluntary exile to Russia looks even worse to th…

Didn't Ford cancel the Crown Victoria line?

The southeastern part of the United States has a larger African-American population. http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html

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Microsoft thinks it's worth $20 for an Ad-free Outlook.com. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ad-free-outlook

Obfuscated code is surely harder to understand and work with than original code with descriptive variable names, comments, formatting, etc. Wouldn't this make it more difficult to …

My favorite experience with it was trying to deal with a zip file of "C:\Documents and Settings\" from an old computer that happened to contain multiple files whose paths were 255 …

My favorite part is that the form assumes you need only a single line for the "Justification" field.

> What threat to national security could or would the CIA curtail by bugging Ecuador's embassy in London? Possible communications to/from Julian Assange?

Perhaps the Russians planted the device and intentionally made it easy to find in order to incriminate the US.

So restricting yourself to a common subset of Python 2/3 and adding compatibility helpers in your code is the preferred approach now a days? I'm still not convinced about the whole…

> I can't think of any major project which decided not to port to python 3 Most major projects have not actually switched to Python 3, that just support it using 2to3.

It's a normal variable, not one set by `setopt`. The following should make commands that take longer than 1 second be reported: export REPORTTIME=1

If you learned about JSON without really knowing Javascript first, there might be confusement about what values are acceptable in object literals but not JSON.

My uncle switched to a party line in the early 1980s because it was cheaper and since everyone had private lines by that point, he didn't have to share it with anyone.

setuptools/distribute didn't implement `python setup.py uninstall`. Unix fragmentation of where the bin and lib directories should reside, i.e. /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, ~/bi…

Most widely-used libraries have not actually switched to Python 3, they just support it using 2to3. Someone who only knows Python 3 would have a hard time hacking on the source cod…