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I use Sensodyne for the same reason — it's a widely available toothpaste that doesn't have SLS.

Thanks for that link, looks like that API was created after I started the project using BigQuery.

It's still labeled "experimental" though, which makes me a bit wary to use it just yet.

You're arguing that it's good to (intentionally) break with common code idioms for certain classes of libraries??

Also, have you actually seen the auto-generated APIs he's referring to?

Here are the Godocs for the BigQuery API: https://godoc.org/google.golang.org/api/bigquery/v2

Here's some example code demonstrating the API's bad habits -- such as deeply nested struct pointers, and Do() methods everywhere: https://github.com/google/google-api-go-client/blob/master/e...

A lot of people are not free to decide that. Go has become very popular in young, mid-size tech companies. Most of the alternatives you listed are too new/fringe/unproven to consider. And, well, they're not made by Google (corporate backing makes a big difference with new languages).

I'm sure most people outside that subgroup would jump at the chance to get a cheaper substitute.

Asacol HD is $600 - $700 for 90 pills: http://www.goodrx.com/asacol-hd

Clearly you haven't been apprised of the current rules. Hatred of white males is categorically not racism, because they have all the power.

Did that entail a lot of hand entry of product information? (considering that Amazon was, as you said, lacking specifications)

Did they say why?

It's an extremely useful feature in Python, and makes for more elegant APIs.

Can you elaborate on a monitor stand & arms that would work well for a setup like this?

Our Matchbox[0] library uses a copy of the ctrie in this repo

[0] https://github.com/Workiva/matchbox

Web library maturity aside, is the language inherently less suitable for webdev than Go?

I doubt that Misoft has sufficient resources to "lawyer up". That right is reserved to big companies with lots of money. Like Facebook.

Actually, it looks like this doc is out of date. The README on Github shows that method naming has been corrected, and CC numbers have been added: https://github.com/joke2k/faker

Awesome! I needed something just like this a couple of years ago. A couple of comments:

- I wanted fake CC numbers and SSNs/other national IDs at the time (don't remember why). I see that Faker is missing those, so they might be useful additions to the library.

- Method names should be snake_case rather than camelCase (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#method-names-and-in...).

I accidentally purchased a $5 app not too long ago (it was in the group of apps that were free for the 5th anniversary of the App Store). I selected the "Didn't mean to purchase this item" option in iTunes and got a refund immediately. No problem.

http://www.imore.com/how-request-refund-itunes-or-app-store-...

I'm curious about your objection to the internal homescreen approach. You're saying that showing disparate functions in a tiled layout is bad, but a linear list layout is good? I don't really follow why that's the case.

Has there been any discussion of downsides of the internal homescreen approach by professional designers that you know of?

Wait, what? Shutting down a service that has received an NSL is illegal? Source?

Anyone know where the images are coming from?

Most of them aren't pulled directly from the story. There are also copyright issues with images that make this legally tricky to pull off.

Food for thought: What is the flavor of "crushed red fruit" anyway? Cherries, strawberries, raspberries, cranberries, and tomatoes are all red. Oh, and watermelon (unless you count the outside). They don't taste very much alike.

Interesting... because I got a ThinkPad to run Ubuntu on a couple of years ago. And you know what? It was extremely unstable. It would freeze and crash maybe 20 - 25% of the time I disconnected an external display, and from time to time at random, for no good reason.

The multi-display support is also broken (the smaller display takes on same dimensions as the larger, with hidden areas of the desktop), but that's another matter.

Tried to watch this when I saw it in the Python newsletter. It seems like an interesting presentation, but the poor audio quality makes it hard to understand.

btw, why is this categorized under "podcast" and "Java"? It's not a podcast, and it's not about Java.

I think it's kind of sad that they mention "GOG.com" over and over without a hyperlink. The author links to two games on their site (Might & Magic and Night of the Rabbit), but not their home page. Why do old media companies avoid linking to sites they write about?

Yes, our summarization technology is now available as an API at the Mashape link in drakaal's post.

If you have further questions, feel free to email us: support at stremor dot com.

Well, technically we are now allowed a limit of 1GB per instance, as of a couple of months ago:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2013/02/app-engine-175-r...

One of the Stremor devs here. I'm helping to build Liquid Helium, and wrote the cited README. Never expected that it would make its way to a public blog post :-).

Yes, language processing is hard. There are two challenges here:

1) Understanding the ambiguities of language, when every word in the sentence can be 2+ parts of speech.

2) Making it fast, and making it fit within the relatively constrained RAM limits of App Engine instances.

We're wrestling with both while we greatly expand on what Liquid Helium can do. It's not easy, but some of the things we're able to do with it are pretty magical.

I use Sublime as my editor as well. Sublime's search functionality is pretty good too, and I can't there's anything bad about it, for my typical use cases... but I've become very used to reaching for ack, and I love the highlighting it uses. On the other hand Sublime does support double click to open on file names in search results.

ack has been an indispensable tool in my workflow for a few years now. I use it several times a day to search code bases... most of the time, not even taking advantage of regexes or all of its many abilities. Just a basic keyword search is usually enough; the output looks great.

The feature I've wanted the most is the local project-specific .ackrc ability. I have some projects where I need to be able to ignore specific files/dirs; I think this feature will address that need.

That font inspector looks awesome. I've wanted exactly this several times before.

It's often surprisingly difficult to pin down exactly what font the browser chooses. You can look at the CSS font declaration (which is often hard enough to find in complex CSS), but what if the browser didn't go with the first option?

Ironically, that's exactly what happens now -- defendants usually don't have access to the courts, because they don't have millions to defend themselves.

Check out the browser requirements. IE10+, Chrome 24+... wow.

http://www.discourse.org/faq/