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Re:Unpythonic Python on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @03:39PM (#7561789)
join on '\n' instead of ''. Problem solved.
Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:06AM (#7183255)
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.
Re:Python Idioms [pdf] on Friday January 31, 2014 @10:40AM (#7157183)
Or was it really a mistake?
Re:'Walkie-Talkie' skyscraper melts Jaguar car on Monday September 02, 2013 @01:16PM (#6316048)
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."

Re:The Road to Luna on Sunday August 18, 2013 @01:44PM (#6233445)
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.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

Re:Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website on Saturday July 20, 2013 @01:51AM (#6074448)
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

Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @11:13AM (#6013066)
> 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.