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mattbot5000 | 11 years ago | on: Retiring the Netflix Public API

I don't think that's the case as they are allowing Can I Stream It? to stay up which is specifically for seeing what streaming services (including Amazon) offer particular titles.

mattbot5000 | 12 years ago | on: Python Idioms [pdf]

He's referring to the special methods available to classes that allow implementation of the truth value of an object. In version 2.x of Python, this method is __nonzero__[1] and in version 3.x it's called __bool__[2]

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#object.__n...

[2] http://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__b...

mattbot5000 | 12 years ago | on: Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply

This could be accomplished by applying a label to the conversation and modifying the script to look for that.

mattbot5000 | 13 years ago | on: Georgify: Make Hacker News More Readable

I use http://ihackernews.com/ on my phone. I saw it posted on here a while ago and found it useful.

mattbot5000 | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: UrbanDesk - Combination Full Size Bed and Desk

Are you going to implement any safety features such as a locking mechanism to prevent the bed from falling on someone sitting at the desk?

mattbot5000 | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Word Lens, for Android

Really? It's compatible with my Droid X.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education

grok

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: Drinking from an open container in microgravity (video)

That's an interesting question. I wonder if it's not also social habit as it would be somewhat awkward to try to talk to someone's feet or if they were sideways to you.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: Handwriting to LaTeX maths

Was anyone able to get fractional exponents to work? I tried several different ways of writing it and had no success.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: "What I Miss About Counterstrike" - Blog authored by CSS legend JonMumm

If you enjoyed the time, did you really waste it?

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

Facebook also limits the number of times you can change your DOB, though I'm not sure what that limit is.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

Double clicking the vertical resizer also maximizes vertically.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: Why don't we have password standards?

You don't want your product to be the one with hundreds of people having their accounts compromised. This warrants a bare minimum of password requirements.

mattbot5000 | 14 years ago | on: Defcon Lockpickers Open Card-And-Code Government Locks In Seconds

The article says that certain other techniques weren't demonstrated because they were "too sensitive to show to the Defcon audience before giving Kaba a chance to fix the problems." What is worse than a whack on the top opening it?