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That's obviously and English sentence, but I have no friggin' idea what it means.

what are you running on the backend?

Do you run ColdFusion on the server side? If not, what are you using on the backend?

I'm downloading the SDK now, which seems like it was released under a modified GPL.

Ok, I stand corrected. If spez did it, it's legit. Kudos.

Ok, I'll be the first person to admit I'm an idiot, but this stack trace doesn't make any sense. First, how am I to know this is actually from reddit.com? It's an image, so I can't grep through the trace. Additionally, it looks to me like the initial error refers to accout.py at line 68... maybe I'm blind, but I don't see that anywhere in the trace. I'm no python expert but I've looked at a lot of java stack traces and this makes no sense. Seriously. Why deliver this as an image? What sequence of events did you go through to get this result? Is it repeatable? If so, how?

I know reddit bashing is super-fashionable right now, but really. Am I being dumb? It's well within the realm of possibilities. But this doesn't pass the sniff test.

The original question aside (for the record, I'd find it interesting as well), does anyone else think this comment thread is kinda nasty? Ugh.

Yep, I know what you mean. I've got the O'Reilly "Learning Python" book, but I'd love something that covered soup to nuts. Start with a python interpreter, suggest and IDE (EasyEclipse for LAMP?) and get me to Django.

Maybe I'm being lazy, but more practical, show me, types of tutorials work best for me.

Is comment karma tracked differently than submit karma?

I got proficient at the scrape method after about a week. Generally, this method involves more luck than skill and can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 mins to pick a lock. The pin-at-a-time method is much more difficult. I'm still not super good at that approach, but I don't practice as regularly as I should. They've got these clear plastic training sets you can purchase so you can see the tumblers move up and down. I never bought one, but I can see how they'd be useful: http://www.lockpickshop.com/PSTNX.html

I've heard that about auto jigglers only working on older model cars. The set I have advertises that they work on both foreign and domestic. I think my camry is a 2002. Anything post 2000 is a dicey proposition. And obviously, they won't work on cars that have the computer chip embedded in the key. I have no idea how you'd pick one of those.

There was a woman on Click & Clack last weekend who was looking at a $2000 key replacement from Saab for her key with an embedded chip.

I wonder if lock bumping really works. I've also got a set of Auto Jigglers (btw, the police get really pissed if you have these things, so don't carry them around in public), but they don't work at all. At least, I've had no success starting or opening my own Toyota Camry.

Paraphrased from Full Metal Jacket:

Pvt. Joker: "Is that you, reddit? Is this me?"

Maybe restrict users below a certain karma to X number of upvotes per day? That way, you need to consider carefully which stories you upvote. Comment upvotes could stay infinite.

Karma is variable, no? As the site gets more traffic, karma points will start to go up over the board. A rising tide lifts all boats, so to speak. 7 may be a good threshold now, but will it be in 6 months?

The downarrow is a good idea, until you start to consider the cabal of greasmonkey jerks auto-downvoting everything on the new page that wasn't submitted by one of their cretin brethren. Perhaps there could be some kind of difficulty weight a user inputs when they submit a story. More demanding stories get a 10. Cartoons get a 1. Then give more weight to upvotes on the more complex stories. Obviously, this has the potential for abuse with folks misrepresenting the complexity of their article. But that wouldn't be hard to spot.

I hope this doesn't come out the wrong way, but why isn't it as simple as that? I'm sure the Enron accountants could come up with a better valuation model, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. It's a simplistic formula, but it seems reasonable enough to me.

Wow. Add a few puns and one C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker, this could be a comment thread on reddit. That ain't a good thing.

"The way of Cobol" sounds like a kung-fu style; perhaps something akin to Drunken Master Style. Or some strange Battlestar Galatical ethical mandate ("To behave ethically Captain Apollo, one must conform to The Way Of Cobol").

I take your point tho. However, it seems to me there's something inherently snarky and pejorative about comparing anything to Cobol. I'm a big enough man to admit that those might be my own anti-Cobol biases coming out. You couldn't pay me any amount of money to write Cobol apps. Perhaps my son 20 years from now will be saying the same thing about Java.

As Hemingway penned at the end of The Sun Also Rises, "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

I've got no love lost for Java (I use JSF in my day job), but it isn't going the way of Cobol. Java continues to reinvent itself, be it Applets -> J2EE -> Struts -> JSF or it's most recent use for interactive menus in Blu-ray disks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Java_software_supp...)

To further the point, here's one guy's list of Ten Amazing Java Applications. http://java.dzone.com/tips/ten-amazing-java-applications

Personally, I think JPC is pretty darn cool. I'm lukewarm about others and downright hostile to ThinkFree (uh yeah, if by "free" you mean spending lots of money).

I seem to constantly be quoting John Carpenter's The Thing.

"'Cause it's different than us see? 'Cause it's from outer space. What are you asking me for? Ask him"

"I realize you gentlemen have been through a lot, but if you can find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!!"

It does occasionally occur to me that perhaps I'm having the wrong types of conversations.

"Dogs and cat's living together... mass hysteria!"

Lebowski seems like a pretty safe bet: http://mattmaroon.com/?p=52

I guess if you only own one movie, that's a pretty good one.

> I personally own one DVD, because there’s only one movie that I sometimes suddenly feel like re-watching without having to drive to Blockbuster or wait a few days to get from Netflix.

I'm almost paralyzed by my desire to know what that one movie is. Totally irrational, but I MUST know. I've discovered my purpose in life. I suppose there's a little Asperger's in all of us.

My God. I never noticed that, but you're absolutely right. I'm a vi guy myself, but all the other, more _visually_ oriented developers in the office don't read code from top to bottom. They scan the methods in the structure tab on eclipse. I always wondered why their eyes would constantly drift off the editor...

good point. but hey, that's even cooler.

this is obviously a rhetorical question.

> "Since joining Mr. Fujita's school, I have had five successful relationships," says Hachioji Robocop,

oh my god!? his last name is Robocop!?? that's the best thing ever. i bet i could get laid 100x as much if my last name was Robocop.

I ran into a nasty bug(?) recently in the way Excel processes CSVs. I create a well formed CSV from a Java Web app which the user downloads. They open the CSV up in Excel and modify the data for an eventual upload. However, during the save process, Excel truncates trailing commas. Which causes my well formed CSV to be a poorly formed CSV during upload and parsing. Not fun.

I know. I thought long and hard about posting this on here. I'm a long time reddit reader who's gotten disgusted with reddit. But seriously, this is one of the funniest things I've seen on the Web. Thanks for your input.