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    UUIDs are 120 Bit or less. Depending on the Version you use. But you lose 8 bit on any version because 1 byte is used to decode the UUID version.

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    Comment #9556134

    I know what you mean and the amusing thing is that it used to be the other way around. Back then in the older days of Gnome2 and KDE3 it was possible to use them with other window …

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    Comment #8346957

    All the whining and complaining makes me wondering how anyone was able to write something with OpenGL at all. This is fascinating because a great amount of people were actually abl…

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    Comment #8345182

    IIRC what was innovative about G+ was the circle thingy. Can't elaborate though because I never used any of the social networks intensively yet.

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    Comment #7233968

    try pycharm, it highlights occurrences of self.pieces with different colors where you are reading from and writing to it. It even makes it visible on the scrollbar.

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    Comment #7158278

    I'm always wondering why gevent never gets the same attention other concurrency frameworks do. From my point of view it looks like a very sweet library with useful tools and should…

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    Comment #7084413

    I'm not familiar with SQLAlchemy but my overall SQL sense is tingling here: purchase.downloads_left -= 1 Is this the preferred method to update a field? I'm asking because i'm wond…

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    Comment #7072086

    thanks for the tl;dr summary, I may give the full discussion a try.

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    Comment #7071993

    Why not webm?

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    Comment #7047342

    Another real time application issue that rarely gets any attention is WebRTC. I wish people would start tackling these issues for python/django, too. As of writing this I don't kno…

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    Comment #7013351

    that's the reason why win9x in emulators like qemu and vbox will cause those emulators to eat up the entire CPU.

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    Comment #6663039

    > Django Graceful is a set of commands for deployment > of django projects as fastcgi backends. Or just use uwsgi[1] and supervisord[2] if possible. [1] http://uwsgi-docs.readthedo…

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    Comment #6425592

    Oh Youtube, where did you go so wrong …

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    Comment #6272351

    Silly customers won't buy them, unfortunately. It has to be Windows7 or OSX, everything else seems to be a deal breaker. No offence here, i'm a linux user myself. Everywhere i go a…

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    Comment #6195942

    it looks quite nice but unfortunately I guess it's by far too power hungry. My GTX 560's fan went up.

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    Comment #6193281

    would you mind to state some of the so many ways of summing up all the numbers in a list of strings for python? And give a counter example for lua?

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    Comment #5848331

    This is prior art: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.... You're sending money to your mobile phone and it's stored there via the downloaded block chain.

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    Comment #5730228

    GNOME 3.x Shell