Terry Reedy writes:
> On 9/1/2010 8:11 PM, John Bokma wrote:
[...]
> Right. And if 'small values of n' include all possible values, then
> rejecting a particular O(log n) algorithm as 'unacceptable' relative
> to all O(1) algorithms is pretty absurd.
I have l
od book, and start over again would be quite
the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well?
I do speed read but not the books I read for pleasure.
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AK writes:
> On 09/19/2010 10:32 PM, John Bokma wrote:
>> AK writes:
>>
>>> On 09/19/2010 07:18 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>>>> AK wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Afaik the idea is that you can read a novel at the speed of half a page
>>&g
back to them.
As an additional note: tinyurl allows one to enter a postfix to use, so
instead of /xc4ax7 you can have /something-more-readable.
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Seebs writes:
> On 2010-09-20, John Bokma wrote:
>> I didn't mean that there are spoilers in the first 70 pages, just that
>> to me the excercise would spoil the book, so, I wouldn't do it. I
>> consider a book like a meal, I wouldn't gobble down food, regu
.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_total_number_of_pages_in_the_%27Harry_Potter%27_series
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading#Claims_of_speed_readers
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Terry Reedy writes:
>> On 09/19/2010 10:32 PM, John Bokma wrote:
>
>>> the spoiler. Do you fast forward movies as well?
>
> I sometimes watch movies (or parts thereof) on 1.5x, especially if it
> has a lot of 'filler' scenes. But only when my wife is not
hing. What happens
if I quote such a message? It's archived, right?
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Tim Chase writes:
> On 09/20/10 20:12, John Bokma wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:25:09 +, Tim Harig wrote:
>>>> Usernet users also have the right to use the X-No-Archive header field.
>>>
>>> They do? Is th
r more of the answers.
Yup, exactly. Or people who did a lot of searching but somehow were not
able to compile a good query.
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googled for. If I miss and
> you've done your homework already, well, at least you get the smug
> satisfaction of knowing that I was too stupid to understand your
> question.
It makes you a patronizing fuck in my book. And no, that's not a joke.
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ople are ashamed of telling that they have used
Google, and couldn't find it.
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to movie theaters all over the world by chaining themselves to the
entry. But, hey, then they have to get out of the couch and get out of
the house. And their moms might start to ask questions...
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Dennis Lee Bieber writes:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:12:01 -0500, John Bokma
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> I never saw the point of the whole X-No-Archive: Yes thing. What happens
>> if I quote such a message? It's archived, right
Lawrence D'Oliveiro writes:
> In message <87aanbx5lq@castleamber.com>, John Bokma wrote:
>
>> I never saw the point of the whole X-No-Archive: Yes thing. What happens
>> if I quote such a message? It's archived, right?
>
> Where did they com
amond teeth :-D.
Also, the RIAA has been breaking the law as well. They do it via hired
sneeky companies, but in my book they are still responsible. (dDOS of
torrent sites/clients)
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eady somewhat complex (or noisy) I
probably would use a "normal" if else.
What surprises me is that this is still discussed. It's like argueing
about significant whitespace. :-)
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Seebs writes:
> I dunno. I like the "next if /^$/" idiom,
I don't (as a Perl programmer), I prefer:
$line =~ /^$/ and next;
Or:
$line ne '' or next;
which I read as: line must not be empty
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report him with Google Groups and with his hosting
provider 1&1 like I do. Dreamhost kicked him out that way.
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oogle.com/search?q=site%3Axahlee.org%20bokma
[3] What's sad is that some of its stuff is actually good/not bad.
But tainted: Xah Lee is a spammer and a Usenet abuser.
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him money. See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Axahlee.org%20bokma
While I am named in that article be assured that I was not the only one
contacting dreamhost (+10 for doing this, btw). Quite some people
contacted me via email that they also talked with
Seebs writes:
fup set to poster
> On 2010-09-28, John Bokma wrote:
>> Seebs writes:
>>> On 2010-09-26, J?rgen Exner wrote:
>>>> It was livibetter who without any motivation or reasoning posted Python
>>>> code in CLPM.
>
>>> Not exactly
ld speak for themselves
2) Stop abusing Usenet. Instead focus on writing more good stuff on
your site.
1) & 2) will keep me from linking to your site, ever. And I am sure I am
not alone in this.
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Paul Rubin writes:
> John Bokma writes:
>> Xah Lee writes: ...
>> Can you stop crossposting?
>
> John, can you ALSO stop crossposting?
Since the issue is on-topic in all groups: no. I did set a follow-up
header, which you ignored and on top of that redirected the thin
es:
>>
>> >> >> But where is this saving the imported file and under what name?
>>
>> >> > Looks like samples.csv:
>>
>> >> >> f = open('samples.csv', 'w')
> How do change where output goes and what its c
. Nevermind is
so ekhm... nevermind...
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