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Wow.

I posted this three years ago, and boy was I ignorant. Since then I've learned LISP, figured out what I actually want to do with my life in computer science, and actually understand what the...

My Dad has been asking me a few questions about how open source programmers make a living, and for once, I can't actually think of the answer.
Obviously they don't live off of sponsorships by major...

Thanks, I'll check that out then :)

I'm trying to write a simple range calculating program in C++,
however, I can't seem to get it to parse the arguments.
I have used the info and example from the GNU Getopt page, but it seems as if...

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I wouldn't use lynx as it's interface is not very user friendly and it doesn't render CSS. Go for links or elinks.

sudo apt-get install elinks

I've translated my python script into php, you can find it at this web address...

http://xavieran.com/ulam_form.html

:D :D

I'm trying to use the curl library in a script to work with google's AJAX API, but I get this error when I run it:

Warning: include(curl) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or...

Seems a bit strange though, In my app I need to distuinguish between int and bool...


def opposite(x):
'''Return the opposite of x.'''
if x:
if isinstance(x,bool):return False...

I'm running python 2.5.2 and I think I may have found a bug...

When I run:

isinstance(True,int)

python returns True...
it also returns true when I substitute False for True...

Is this a...

Here's my (rather limited) solution.

I've used curses, and an abstraction of a pixel...(oooh... ;) )

I borrowed the prime calculating algorithm from MaxIBoy (hope you don't mind...).

It's...

http://pygstdocs.berlios.de/

That's for python, but it is fairly good anyway...

I'll use the python's curses library.

OP: I'm sure ruby has a curses library to control exactly where text is output, or you could use spaces and tabs...

Hi,

I've installed mit-scheme, so I can do some of the courses in their OpenCourseWare, but when I run it I only get:


Largest address does not fit in datum field of object.
Allocate less...

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I am experimenting with gstreamer in python, using this tutorial:http://pygstdocs.berlios.de/pygst-tutorial/pipeline.html

I decided to set myself an exercise, to translate the first code example...

Sorry guys...really stupid mistake!!


raise ConfigError,'problem with configuration file:%s'%(cfg.name,traceback.format_stack(0))

format_stack does not take an int as an argument...

Hi,

I'm trying to extract a stack in my program for a format string with traceback.format_stack(), but when I use it (and any of the other related functions in the traceback module) I get this...

Hi,

I've been checking out launchpad and it's translation service for programs, and am wondering what a .pot file is, and how one creates a .pot file.

I've tried google, but I can't really find...

Genius!
Thankyou,
I should have thought of that... :D

Sorry, I should have specified that.

Python.

Hi guys,

I'm writing a function to parse a config file and have got stuck on one large problem.

I want to ignore any empty lines in the config file such as this:

GAMESTART
game=nethack...

As Riffer said, skype is available.

I have it working here at home, and it works perfectly; including video.

The only issue I've had is that it doesn't support sending SMS's to mobile phones...

Thankyou all your replies.

I was getting a bit confused with the parentheses and tried chucking a few in somewhere.

@HymnToLife:
when I was making this I checked out the rules for...

Hi all,

I am writing an implementation of the card game blackjack and am having some problems with a particularly complex if statement that needs to tell if there is a blackjack in the hand or...