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You can exclude certain directories from synchronizing to your laptop if you want to.

I'm not sure what you mean by communicating through "status messages". It doesn't seem like a good way to operate. Posts are not limited in the same way as Twitter messages. You ca…

They are pretty terrible, and a dead end in terms of Windows 8 support based on my experience.

There were likely considerations that fed in at different levels of the process: 1. Higher-ups who still believed that they could offer a platform that would be more valuable than …

> Moving on, even though I didn’t pay for my ticket since I was a speaker I've attended PyCon a few times and found the experience to be great value. I believe their speakers have …

I think you can go further than that. To get people asking for your time as a consultant you have to demonstrate experience and get close to vendors who already support clients you…

I miss the simplicity. For better or worse lobbyists are part of the US political system that won't go away any time soon. The "right to petition" is granted under the First Amendm…

Please post more about why you feel this way. I know that Jesse Noller and some of the other organisers would be interested in feedback from first time attendees.

You'll also see them called "open spaces". PyCon has some great ones although they were a little disappointing this year. A combination of the hotel layout and placement of the ope…

Almost 10 years ago work sent me to TechEd 2002 EMEA in Barcelona. I remember a party with Cirque du soleil (or a similar) troupe, and a Ballmer-like break dancer. Everyone was dri…

Do people really go to programming conferences for keynotes? My experience has been that the hallway conversations are alone worth more than keynotes. Many keynotes sessions tend t…

Is Hadoop really approachable for most businesses who don't have a some sort of large-scale need for analytics? Last time I looked there were things like Pig ( http://pig.apache.or…

It's based on IronPython/IronRuby/DLR. I've been to a few PyCons and the CPython-based developers never seemed all that interested in it due to library support, and the majority of…

There is some more information on GPS jamming at http://www.ausairpower.net/TE-GPS-Guided-Weps.html .

> I'd imagine the screaming, flailing, flickering lights, smoke, and vibrations would do a decent job of getting people to look up from their iPhones. That's not the point. The fac…

Having a "contractor" role there is going to throw off salary. If this is a typical contractor role then it is likely to be much higher. Does anyone have an idea how many contracto…

I listened to an NPR segment on this topic and it seems like Congress has several ways around doing the things that journalists think can be forced through. I'm an immigrant to the…

I think I saw an old style Python class in there.

In all likelihood it was probably compromised through some other means than the software. I'm sure the software got a lot of attention in terms of security but surrounding systems …

I don't think they would install a service to start the helper program. Service and desktop interaction has been changed since Vista. IIRC this was to prevent the shatter attack th…

Wikipedia has some coverage of the flight control modes mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes_(electroni...

I don't see how benchmarks like these are really useful to anyone other than the author. I care more about reliability than raw performance on a simple test, so I would rather see …

Why not ask questions that you've solved yourself with much effort and googling? That would mean that that knowledge is captured on SO for easier access by others.

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