okwa | 12 years ago | on: Unpythonic Python
join on '\n' instead of ''. Problem solved.
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okwa | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft is Dead (2007)
In XP, when connecting to a wireless network, you are required to type the network's password twice. How the UI team came to that decision I'll never know.
okwa | 12 years ago | on: Python Idioms [pdf]
Or was it really a mistake?
okwa | 12 years ago | on: 'Walkie-Talkie' skyscraper melts Jaguar car
By adding "parts" to the submission title, at least we're still talking about a subset of the car.
Can't say the same for "rumor."
okwa | 12 years ago | on: The Road to Luna
From Wikipedia[1]:
> a distribution is most simply described as a particular assortment of applications installed on top of a set of libraries married with a version of the kernel, such that its "out-of-the-box" capabilities meet most of the needs of its particular end-user base.
It seems you're just making up random criteria that elementary OS doesn't meet so you can dismiss it for what it is: an operating system.
okwa | 12 years ago | on: Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website
The HTML source says FrontPage 4.0, but Wikipedia says there was no version 4 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage#Versions
okwa | 12 years ago | on: Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)
okwa | 12 years ago | on: How ASCII lost and unicode won
> These mappings of numbers to characters are just a convention that someone decided on when ASCII was developed in the 1960s. There’s nothing fundamental that dictates that a capital A has to be character number 65, that’s just the number they chose back in the day.
I don't think it's mere coincidence that the capital letters start at 65 and the lower case at 97 and the decimal digits at 48.
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