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Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:43PM (#26083473)

  greet = lambda x: f"hello {x}"
Re:Pattern matching accepted for Python on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:40PM (#26083431)

  greet = lambda x: f"hello {x}"
Re:My Family’s Slave on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @03:30PM (#14361992)
It doesn't seem particularly damning (relative to the Atlantic article). It's pretty much what you'd expect out of someone who was hiding the truth.
Re:Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months on Friday January 15, 2016 @05:20PM (#10912658)
Twitter's able to monetize; it's just not able to sustain user growth.
Re:Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:19AM (#10412388)
What are some of your favorite workflows?
Re:Refactored PHP engine makes Wordpress 20% faster on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:20AM (#7704985)
You can't write production Python and be unfamiliar with list comprehensions. They're a fundamental part of the language.
I've heard this is a relatively new phenomenon at Amazon; it's great that they're moving in this direction.
>I don't spend anywhere CLOSE to $2000/mo on rent, and I live in a pretty nice place in the middle of SF.

More details, please? I've been trying to look for places recently and everything seems to be exorbitantly priced.

I unexpectedly stumbled upon Mercè this year, and it was a magical experience (I even have a burn from the correfoc to show for it). Barcelona was definitely my favorite of the several European cities I visited during a trip across Europe this past month.
Re:Is Connectivity A Human Right? on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:03AM (#6248292)
I'm kind of surprised at the amount of hostility in this thread. Sure, Internet access isn't on the same level of need as food or water or shelter or medical care, but it's still one of the most empowering things in our society. There are many different levels of and aspects to aid; it's not a negative if an organization decides to focus its efforts in an area it knows best.
Re:Programming languages to watch: LiveScript, Julia, Elixir on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @06:25PM (#6176102)
>Eventually, I hit a point with R where I was trivially doing pretty complicated things that would have been... ugly in Python.

I'm curious; can you give any examples?

According to Snowden it was co-written by Israel and the US.
The link doesn't seem to work (error: "Unable to connect to database server"); do you have an alternate link?
Re:What happened to innovation? on Thursday June 20, 2013 @05:27PM (#5915084)
What did you end up going with?
Re:Java Puzzle: Square Root on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @09:54PM (#5405081)
That won't work. The point here is that you don't have the number available.
Re:Show HN: Facebook Unlike on Friday February 22, 2013 @05:50PM (#5267446)
It's pretty easy to do with Graph Search, for what it's worth (yes, I realize most people don't have it yet). Just search for "Pages I have liked".
Re:An Entrepreneur Who Took a Chance on Herself on Sunday July 11, 2010 @02:46AM (#1505110)
It sounds like the language I used to end essays with when I wasn't sure how to write an appropriate conclusion. In other words, mostly BS.