iconjack

I will never, ever vote for anyone who supported the drug war. Yes, that includes you, Hillary.

I learned FORTRAN in at a summer job between jr and sr years of high school from the source code of some version in 1978 on a MODCOMP mini computer with IBM terminals where I saw zeroes with dots in the middle for the first time.

Why put it off until tomorrow? Quit now.

Yes, it's simply childish on Apple's part.

This is the 1729th time I've heard a form of this joke just in the past year.

Hey, I just noticed something. 1729 is the smallest positive integer that can be written as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

> (Sorry I'm sending this from two email accounts. I hate the iPhone)

I knew it! Lots of people secretly hate the iPhone, but won't admit it public!

Why in God's name would they have "share on facebook" buttons?

I am @iconjack, poser of the question, ask me anything! Kidding aside, as an avid user of the whole stackexchange suite, it is kind of interesting to me how popular this question became. It was only my second question on graphics design and it's become the all-time 3rd ranked question. Keep it going, folks!

If you're curious, the reason I was looking at the logo svg was that I thinking about making a bumper sticker. When I saw the notches, I was perplexed, and threw the question up on a whim.

You noticed I put the disclaimer at the top about the question not being about politics. I honestly thought there was a chance things would get ugly because of the loose tie-in to the whole election grotesquery. One time I asked a question on english.stackexchange.com, Is "Sent from my iPhone" correctly punctuated and capitalized?" and I practically got hate mail. Not only did I get snarky comments and answers, I believe the question was down to −8 at one point. It's since been upvoted into positive territory and some of the nasty remarks have been deleted, but I never really got what all the hate was about. One friend suggested that Apple fans would think I was dissing the iPhone or something. That's the only theory I've got.

"The jury was not legally allowed to hear the original recordings of "Stairway to Heaven" and "Taurus" in determining their verdict."

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I think if give the conversation where these came from another listen, you'll agree that your summary of his statements doesn't really capture the truth of the man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyad99ncEp0

I hope you didn't read my comment as saying Python 2 is better. Personally I don't have an opinion on that. But as you can see from this thread and many, many others, a lot of people are disappointed with Python 3's choices. You're right, it's been a lot of years, but if adoption has been as slow as some are suggesting, maybe we could cut our losses and put our beloved Python on a different path, as a community.

Well I'm sure this is a naive point of view, but I'm going to put it out there anyway. It seems there are many Python devotees out there who are lukewarm about Python 3, and quite a few who really don't like it at all, hence a slow adoption rate. Right now it seems like the community is fractured along that fault line.

Is it too late? Can we back out of the current incarnation of Python 3 and go down another path instead? In other words, turn the slow adoption rate into a plus, call a do-over and mold the new Python into something more people are happy with.

From the comments here, it seems like people either didn't read the article, or just don't believe the study, because it pretty much says it is ok to smoke and drive.

  For marijuana, and for a number of other legal and illegal
  drugs including antidepressants, painkillers, stimulants
  and the like, there is no statistically significant change
  in the risk of a crash associated with using that drug
  prior to driving.

Microsoft tried something similar years ago with HTML Applications (.HTA), essentially web apps that could talk to the file system. Didn't seem to work out, though.

Does no one know what the word salary means anymore?

Good luck uninstalling it. The thing was designed in the vein of malware. It was almost as hard to clean off my system as RealAudio.

65% "tend to trust the police" Are people living under rocks?

If your comments lie, you're doing it wrong.

I normally frown upon people getting too hung up on page design on HN, but this one I gotta admit is a real WTF'er. When you "scroll" down, it's doing page loads, and filling up browser history. Back back back back back back. Worse still, you think you've backed through all those page loads, and you find out it's one of those sites that keeps you from backing out of their site! We used to call this "breaking the back button" and Google used to discourage it.

Back in the 90s, there was a piece in Wired by Will Shortz about then-president Bill Clinton's crossword prowess—he claimed he could solve the NYT puzzle in about 10 minutes, if I recall. But readers who would care about this would also know that there's no comparison in difficulty between a Monday and a Friday. Which puzzle could the president do in 10 minutes? I couldn't believe Will Shortz of all people would leave this out.

Enjoy this character code puzzle. http://realmode.com/punch22.html

One more example, from the 70s: TARGET, a text-mode shootem-up on the SOL-20 had sound effects—just put your transistor radio (every kid had one) near the computer while playing. Took a bit of futzing with the tuner, but there used to be more time in the day.

I was wondering that myself. Figured it must be because SO deleted the original, but like you, I checked and there it was, not even closed.

This is great! Today I already got 1/4 of the way toward my goal. Tomorrow I'll get 1/9 done, the next day 1/16 and so on. Slow and steady wins the race!

How can you be contacted?

Define "feelings".

Remember folks, now that Rand Paul has dropped out, there is one candidate left who is not a drug warrior. This will be the easiest vote I've ever cast.

Edit: I was not fair to Trump on this. He apparently isn't a drug warrior. Still gonna be an easy vote for me though!

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Online poker is banned in the US.