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Re:Koel: A personal music streaming server on Monday December 14, 2015 @07:40AM (#10730659)
It is fair to discuss the language of an open source project in a technical leaning forum.
Re:France looking at banning Tor, blocking public Wi-Fi on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:15AM (#10690318)
Is it still untrue if you do not drive drunk?
Re:Bruce Eckel announces he's going to write Atomic Python on Thursday September 03, 2015 @12:00AM (#10163278)
What is the problem with that? Number + Number = number list + list = list str + str = str
But, I cannot get a function pointer to it, right?
Re:It'll Never Work (1997) on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @12:09AM (#9261239)
Correct me if I am wrong, but we created more powerful fuel than he had when he made that statement.
Re:The $5000 Compression Challenge on Sunday March 08, 2015 @04:06AM (#9164976)
Can someone explain why this is not possible? I understand why sending a decompressor beforehand is not possible for all inputs. I don't understand this formulation of the problem, where it only needs to work for one input that you get before you need to create the decompressor.