Edootjuh
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Comment · 8 years ago
I've heard 'piquant' (from French) being used for spicy in the red pepper sense. It sounds pretentious but maybe it'll be more mainstream some day.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think he means the APIs that allow you to simulate mouseclicks and keyboard input on arbitrary windows and controls
Comment · 13 years ago
You might be interested in GNU Unifont: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
Comment · 13 years ago
I was very surprised he said Basic.
Of course, he presume he doesn't do much hard core software engineering anymore, but I assumed that family was pretty much a thing of the past (and legacy code).
Comment · 13 years ago
Forgive my ignorance, but what is wrong with static class members?
Comment · 14 years ago
I recently followed a Computer Networking course, and the teachers actually went though pains to ensure those with older editions could follow the assigned exercises.
From what I could tell, the differences between the 6th, 5th and 4th editions were not discernible in the text, only the exercises had changed positions and had subtle variations in the numbers and wordings. That was my first experience with the textbook industry. The book, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross was very good, but the obvious abuse of their monopoly by forcing students to buy the newer editions gave me my first look into how the textbook industry operates.
Still, I have great respect for my University (Utrecht University in the Netherlands) for (until now) either using syllabi that can be freely downloaded or cheaply bought for a hardcopy or accommodating students with older editions of textbooks.
EDIT: Oh, and I recently found this link: http://www.textbooknova.com/.
It's probably not legal, but free textbooks!
Comment · 14 years ago
Or select the picture and copy it to the desktop.
Comment · 14 years ago
try:
f = float(someText)
catch ValueError:
# I just parsed you, this is crazy,
# here's an exception, throw it maybe?
Comment · 14 years ago
It's not invisible when you're actually looking for an invisible file.