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Project Aon has all the Lone Wolf books in a variety of formats, including a machine readable format, which they have used to produce similar diagrams of the books' structures. Joe…

TBH, I think the main difficulty is caused by people claiming there's some huge difference between prototype based and class based OO. There isn't, really (at least, not if you're …

"The second blank ""is the empty space where the field value goes." I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here, but I don't think this is right. cleaned_data is a dictionary…

"You know, I studied 3 separate modules on formal logic.... I learnt more about logic from a single 1 hour high school electronics lesson than I ever did from all that." Can you sa…

"Python has an "invisible close brace" character, the newline, which closes a varying number of braces" The idea that the end of a block is invisible isn't really right, though. Th…

RSS 2.0 does actually allow HTTPS URLs[1]. The author of the blog post appears to be misreading a StackOverflow comment which is specifically about elements, which are the only URL…

Protocol-less URLs are usually a bad idea. They mean "use http or https depending on whatever the current page is", but there are very few situations where that is a useful way of …

If the model is being updated based on results as they come in, and the results coming in are not randomly distributed, then the updates will be of questionable value. In particula…

Pointer arithmetic isn't "something that I will surely never want to do"; it's something you want to do all the time in C (and therefore in C++ written in a more C-like style). Ill…

"I want to write Python code that spits out the HTML and JavaScript required for these interfaces and I still want to handle all the logic in Python." This sounds a lot like PyJS: …

Aren't Medium posts repeating cliched arguments contrasting the author with the supposed superficiality of the masses a pretty clear example of "a tool to elevate your perceived so…

There's one pretty clear difference: the bubblegum seller isn't offering the bubblegum at no cost, so they're saying "I made something, I think you're willing to pay for it, so I d…

Reminded me of this, from Douglas Adams's Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency : "An Electric Monk is a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers…

Ah yes, the "flipped classroom." Or, as it's been called for 30 years or more "the classroom."

"Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it." Currently, if your followers scroll through all their tweets , they are guaranteed to …

"there is a HUGE financial incentive on the part of sellers" At least up until now, there have been ad sales, which you can think of as an incredibly heath-robinson micropayment sy…

Well, this I suppose this is a "Silicon Valley style solution," in that it's handwaving bullshit written by someone with absolutely no knowledge of what they're talking about.

I'm not sure what you mean about Gandi charging $20 to move the DNS to Cloudflare? I'm using Cloudflare to add HTTPS to a website on a domain registered with Gandi, and it hasn't c…