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What do the parentheses around a function name mean?

c function parentheses Jan 16 at 18:50 Peter Mortensen

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PyLint, PyChecker or PyFlakes?

python pylint pep8 pyflakes pychecker Nov 17 '11 at 12:42 cnu

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Was “book” to “beek” as “foot” is to “feet”?

etymology grammatical-number old-english ablaut i-mutation Feb 5 at 17:11 Jonathon Brown

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Punctuating question tags: A question mark is always required, isn't it. (Well, isn't it?)

punctuation question-tags Apr 3 at 1:24 Robusto

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23 votes

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How to check if hex color is “too black”?

javascript colors hex Aug 21 '12 at 18:49 David Nguyen

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can you recover from reassigning builtins in python?

python cpython Nov 9 '12 at 23:16 Sven Marnach

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Why is math.factorial much slower in Python 2.x than 3.x?

python performance python-3.x python-2.x factorial Jul 3 '12 at 16:03 DSM

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18 votes

What is the “Ocean Sea”?

meaning Dec 7 '12 at 10:33 RegDwighт

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“Make something out of” or “Make something with”?

meaning word-choice prepositions Oct 12 '12 at 20:03 RegDwighт

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16 votes

Assigning a function to an object attribute

python methods Jun 25 '11 at 19:03 warwaruk

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16 votes

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Algorithm for incrementing a String in a non-obvious manner

java string algorithm random Jul 7 '11 at 6:30 Sterex

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15 votes

Types of things vs. types of thing

word-choice grammaticality grammatical-number Dec 6 '12 at 9:41 RegDwighт

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When did Greenwich begin to be pronounced as “Gren-ich”?

pronunciation british-english toponyms Mar 25 at 17:52 jwpat7

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Imperative vs. Declarative (can a third grader or his parents tell the difference?)

imperative May 9 at 10:57 Edwin Ashworth

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Why does using a list as a string formatting parameter, even with no %s identifier, return the original string?

python string-formatting Dec 13 '12 at 20:02 Martijn Pieters

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12 votes

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How can I check if two segments intersect?

python math May 7 at 21:58 Roger Pate

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11 votes

8 answers

Possible Google Riddle?

python google Aug 27 '12 at 15:56 chakrit

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10 votes

Merging multiple adjacent rectangles into one polygon

php geometry polygons rectangles Dec 17 '12 at 14:18 Enzino

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Medical term for deafness

single-word-requests terminology analogy medical Oct 12 '12 at 18:27 coleopterist

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What is the optimal winning strategy for this modified blackjack game?

ruby algorithm language-agnostic probability playing-cards Feb 22 '10 at 23:02 Rasmus Faber

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Help me to port this NetHack function to Python please!

python c time porting nethack Mar 1 '11 at 22:58 Drew Streib

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8 votes

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Natural Programming Language… what would you like to see?

compiler syntax language-design nlp Feb 5 '10 at 13:31 Josh Lee

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7 votes

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Subtract Overlaps Between Two Ranges Without Sets

python range overlap Jun 24 '11 at 19:25 senderle

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6 votes

Some NLP stuff to do with grammar, tagging, stemming, and word sense disambiguation in Python

python nlp grammar tagging nltk Dec 17 '11 at 11:08 cyborg

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Excel-like text import in Python: automatically parsing fixed width columns

python excel parsing text fixed-width Jan 16 '12 at 16:53 Ryan McDevitt

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5 votes