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join on '\n' instead of ''. Problem solved.


In XP, when connecting to a wireless network, you are required to type the network's password twice. How the UI team came to that decision I'll never know.


Or was it really a mistake?


Are there any anaphoric variable names in python, like cmd.exe?


By adding "parts" to the submission title, at least we're still talking about a subset of the car.

Can't say the same for "rumor."


That depends on whether the rumor is a subset of the truth. Sometimes true, sometimes not.

Truth: Joe Smith has never beaten his wife.

Rumor: Joe Smith no longer beats his wife.

There's some truth in the rumor, but no rumor in the truth.


From Wikipedia[1]:

> a distribution is most simply described as a particular assortment of applications installed on top of a set of libraries married with a version of the kernel, such that its "out-of-the-box" capabilities meet most of the needs of its particular end-user base.

It seems you're just making up random criteria that elementary OS doesn't meet so you can dismiss it for what it is: an operating system.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution


The HTML source says FrontPage 4.0, but Wikipedia says there was no version 4 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage#Versions


FrontPage 4.0 is FrontPage 2000. I know because I remember using it.



> These mappings of numbers to characters are just a convention that someone decided on when ASCII was developed in the 1960s. There’s nothing fundamental that dictates that a capital A has to be character number 65, that’s just the number they chose back in the day.

I don't think it's mere coincidence that the capital letters start at 65 and the lower case at 97 and the decimal digits at 48.


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