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Re:Ubuntu low-memory install for VMs on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @10:47AM (#5518405)
There is also Ubuntu Core [0] (my install uses 140MB on disk, 25MB RAM). It has no installer, so you have to do everything yourself — from partitioning to boot loader installation.

[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Core

Re:Sweden axes new word after Google intervenes on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @05:53AM (#5442142)
Google has been taking action against this genericization since 2003.[1] They also got the German dictionary Duden to change their "to google" Definition to refer to Google only.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_%28verb%29 [2] http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/startseite/newzzEQXM1K6L-12-1.5328... (German language)

Re:Free Online MongoDB Training by 10gen on Friday September 21, 2012 @06:17AM (#4553114)
Trying to view the Terms of Service leads me to an error page. http://education.10gen.com/tos
Re:Python iteration on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @04:23PM (#3890872)
You can use map with several iterables:

  sum(map(operator.mul, [1,2,3], [3,2,1]))
Re:Python idioms on Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:53PM (#2647773)
There is functools.partial:

  from functools import partial
  def add(x,y): return x+y
  add3 = partial(add, 3)
  add3(2) # returns 5
Some article was temporarily the top Google hit when searching "facebook login". This caused some confusion among URL-unaware facebook users.

http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/some-people-cant-...