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IIRC, Arrington is an ardent follower of Libertarianism

There are some non-programmers in my team who use excel to generate bash scripts because they find the bash for-loop syntax too hard

This is exactly what I was looking for since around a month now.

Other amazing Python answers by the same guy: What is a metaclass in Python - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metaclas... Understanding Python decorators - http…

Why don't they pull the Chrome app because I can turn the default safe search off and search for porn?

Agree with you on the Google not caring about the product at all. I am so dependent on Google Voice right now to the extent that I don't even know my real number. But Google's appr…

This sounds like best plans for computing in general, not just scientific computing

The irony is that the current submission's title needs to change from "Yehuda Katz..." to "Joshua Stein..."

He links to https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker... from the projects page

According to https://jcs.org/projects/ "Lobsters (2012 - present) - A link aggregation site that I created after I was banned from Hacker News." EDIT - also found https://lobste.rs…

There are so many things a camera could do that it can't right now: * Sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter * Post processing pictures (like Instagram) * Automatic backup to Dropbox …

The section in the penal code should have read "deliberately letting your religious feelings get hurt and attempting malicious acts intended to outrage the religious sentiments of …

That is because you were just seeing the output of Google Glass's camera, not seeing what gets shown on the Glass's display. It may already be showing the Maps overlay for all you …

I fail to see how this is a MITM attack

See this video related to what you just said. It is a clip from a BBC documentary about how a tribe has different color names than us and how it affects their ability to find an od…

If the missing ads and side bars is really what your post is alluding to, then googling for "Apple forcibly" http://www.google.com/search?q=Apple+forcibly also gives you the same r…

HN may be interested to know that Anand is a brand ambassador for NIIT, a computer education company from India ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIIT ). AFAIK this is the only brand …