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But you don't even need branches for conditional swap - you just do: a, b = max(a,b), min(a,b) max and min can be trivially implemented without branching

> but when you have multiple applications writing to the same relations ... then you're doing it wrong.

This doesn't usually work since their tracking API may use domain different than www.facebook.com. (like fbcdn.com or whatever) Websites are on too many domains these days.

This doesn't usually work since their tracking API may use domain different than www.facebook.com. (like fbcdn.com or whatever) Websites are on too many domains these days.

Python the language is not much more conservative than Ruby the language. On the other hand Python culture is ridiculously more conservative than Ruby culture.

> You spend $100,000,000 of your investors' money on Nullsoft because you think with you on their side, they'll be worth more than $100,000,000. Or to eliminate potential competito…

My experience with multiple subreddits is that subreddits which disabled downvote button (by custom CSS style, it's still there if you really need it) tend to have much more friend…

!wa, !imdb, !yt, !mtg etc. are extremely useful !bangs. Even !gi and !gm are much faster than going through Google. This is the real reason why I strongly prefer DDG to Google. If …

You are entirely wrong. If everyone earns 10x more and everything costs 10x more (compared with let's say previous year), everybody's standards of living is exactly unchanged, whil…

First, you want this one (inflation-adjusted): http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=real+gdp+per+capita+uni... Second, women's participation in work force increased (data the artic…

correcthorsebatterystaple1 works.

Close but not quite. Even just in CV there's ton more relevant data than in job ad.

Don't use any "Sign up with ..." ever, except maybe OpenID which is fairly safe.

If deleting cookies is all that's required to break their paywall, it will take minutes to repurpose Financial Times paywall breaker greasemonkey script to work with NYTimes.

mailinator emails work with NYT just fine.

Thank you for repeating the party line, but it doesn't address the issue at all. The most similar language in most similar situation - that is Ruby - took exactly the opposite road…

53% of electricity is way below 53% of energy. And that's just peak, wind gets average utilization of 30%.

Your argument doesn't work, as they're subsidized by taxpayers in many ways (it was true long before the bailouts). They can be as inefficient as they want without making their com…

It's not like you cannot run PostgreSQL on EC2 if you want.

Stories of natives performing spectacular feats well beyond those of modern athletes have been told for ages. Every single one of them turned out to be false. These are most likely…

DNS addresses are not computers. IP addresses are not computers. Forwarding traffic to different machines by port is trivial.

One really big one works better than two small ones.