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Comment Re:Bad definition (Score 1) 219

To be specific, the Chinese calendar throws in leap ("intercalary") months to stay synchronized with the solar calendar whenever a lunar month does not contain a "major solar term" (there are 12 of these, spaced evenly throughout the solar year). This makes it a "lunisolar" calendar.

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Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month 184

darthcamaro writes "Some programming languages just move on to major version numbers, leaving older legacy versions (and users) behind, but that's not the plan for Python. Python 2.6 has the key goal of trying to ensure compatibility between Python 2.x and Python 3.0, which is due out in a month's time. From the article: 'Once you have your code running on 2.6, you can start getting ready for 3.0 in a number of ways,' Guido Van Rossum said. 'In particular, you can turn on "Py3k warnings," which will warn you about obsolete usage patterns for which alternatives already exist in 2.6. You can then change your code to use the modern alternative, and this will make you more ready for 3.0.'"

Comment Re:It's amazing... (Score 2, Informative) 548

Why are there no old ponies?

They're called horses, dumbass.

I can't tell if you're trolling, but... ponies are not young horses. Young horses are called foals. Ponies are members of one of the pony breeds of horses.


And there are old ponies. The pony my brothers and I kept in grade school died a few years ago; she was probably close to 30 years old.

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