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For Python, check out http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unum/4.1.0

It's frustrating that you see me as complaining, because my original goals were to (constructively!) get people to 1) remember to check the evidence for a claim before accepting it…

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886575

At the risk of repeating myself: the "opinion" he is expressing is actually a theory of procrastination. When you make broad statements like "the reason why human-beings procrastin…

I don't take claims without evidence as a rule, and he didn't present any evidence. His case is especially problematic because he is making strong claims about a fairly well-studie…

[citation needed]

Can you be more specific about why he wants to learn programming? What is he hoping to do with it? If he's smart and dedicated, I recommend SICP, but it's fairly difficult (and ass…

Also, I frequently find the information I'm looking for in the blurb from the website and so don't bother to click through. (Or I view the cached version.)

Don't worry about the name--I think it's a sufficiently general pattern that it makes sense to use it in multiple contexts, and I don't think it trademarked or anything (like "For …

A little bit of explanation about formalisms and the communication problems you mention from a computer scientist/linguist who gets that same look of satisfaction: In natural langu…

Even better, provide a way to use it without a paid Instapaper account.

Even better would be weighting that by testing comprehension. And even better than that would be finding the relation between reading speed and comprehension, letting the user set …

I'm from Tyler. There's not really a "city center". There is a downtown area, which is where Google drops you, but the surrounding area is mixed; some of it is fairly nice, and som…

It's called "entropy".

My soon-to-be alma mater has very small class sizes (student-teacher ratio is less than 10 to 1, most upper level classes are 4-8 people), so class here really is often a "conversa…

I mostly prefer text-based conversation. You have more time to respond, there's usually less filler, text creates an extremely convenient/useful record automatically, it is easier …

I agree. I can even corroborate the hypothesis anecdotally, since CTAs on the right side "feel" right to me, but without data it's still just a hypothesis.

As a frequent early adopter, I'd say the most important thing you can do after providing a useful product in order to retain early users is to actively provide excellent support. I…

I was too; that's why I said "I think". I've heard that too, but it nearly always seems like the "good bits" get put in the slides while a lot of the other things that the speakers…

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