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Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants?

security pci-dss Mar 18 at 17:12 Jim
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How can I make a chain of function decorators in Python?

python decorator Apr 12 at 19:35 Matt McClure
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352 votes
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Difference between __str__ and __repr__ in Python

python Nov 20 '12 at 10:58 Martijn Pieters
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Is there a word or phrase for the feeling you get after looking at a word for too long?

single-word-requests phrase-requests linguistics psychology Dec 3 '12 at 6:19 coleopterist
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Did English ever have a word for 'yes' for negative questions?

etymology history questions old-english middle-english Apr 17 '12 at 21:56 RegDwighт
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Can I install Python windows packages into virtualenvs?

python windows virtualenv Mar 26 '11 at 12:33 Piotr Dobrogost
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39 votes
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Is there a reason behind the ordering of letters in the English alphabet?

alphabet Jan 11 at 4:51 Cerberus
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What does the phrase “Begging the question” mean?

meaning idioms Nov 10 '12 at 2:54 RegDwighт
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How to filter numbers that contain unique digits?

python algorithm Jan 15 at 12:27 Jan Dvorak
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Truncating floats in Python

python floating-point Aug 8 '12 at 16:30 user1048839
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What is the name for someone who gives his subordinates a morale boost?

single-word-requests Apr 28 '12 at 20:24 tanantish
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Is “early mark” only used in Australia and New Zealand?

slang dialects australian-english new-zealand-english antipodean-english Mar 31 at 15:03 tchrist
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7 votes
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Resources to determine pseudo-anglicisms

discussion resources online-resources pseudo-anglicisms Jan 4 at 19:16 Hugo
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6 votes
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What is the difference between 'can', 'could', 'may' and 'might'?

differences modal-verbs can-may Jan 15 at 2:52 StoneyB
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6 votes
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Why “line of business” applications?

terminology technical business-language buzzword May 2 '12 at 12:26 tanantish
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6 votes
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An idiom meaning “failure is not the end”

idioms phrase-requests May 5 '12 at 18:52 Ben Hocking
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What do I call a number that has a period in it?

single-word-requests Jan 18 at 6:39 coleopterist
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Word for anachronistic elements in design style as a function of cultural adoption

single-word-requests Oct 10 '12 at 2:50 alcas
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Better term to put on a label of a bottle of milk to describe that it's 'made' in a particular geographic location

single-word-requests verbs synonyms past-participle Feb 2 at 15:06 RegDwighт
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An English equivalent to “débroussailler un projet”

phrase-requests Apr 29 '12 at 6:09 Barrie England
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Python's Multiple Inheritance: Picking which super() to call

python multiple-inheritance super Jan 8 at 0:02 Marcin
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Sorting by multiple conditions in python

python sorting Jan 13 at 2:53 millimoose
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dd performance on Mac OS X vs. Linux

linux osx dd Mar 6 at 13:56 slhck
superuser.com

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How do I calculate a 3D centroid?

python average maya mass Jan 28 '11 at 19:01 Glenn
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What is meant by “the passive voice remains 'an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver'”?

phrases metaphors May 2 '12 at 1:03 htoip
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“Best is enemy of the good” (Russian idiom/saying)

idioms saying Jan 29 at 6:49 Community
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Word for cheap manufactured art

terminology thesaurus May 12 '12 at 10:01 TimLymington
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Force compute when transform node changes (Maya Plugin)

python plugins maya Aug 11 '12 at 20:28 joojaa
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Creating a UI in maya using python scripting

python maya May 4 '11 at 20:10 meetar
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Parsing a nuke script with simpleparse EBNF

python parsing ebnf Dec 27 '12 at 23:24 tintin
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