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Very cool. This project addresses some usability challenges that the Jupyter community has been debating and struggling with for years: https://twitter.com/jakevdp/status/935178916…

> Why was this code even necessary > The answer is: an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement i…

Can you share some examples?

It's been a rough few weeks for antirez, but I just want to say how much I appreciate his work on Redis and open source in general. We're lucky to have him.

Pipenv is mentioned in the PYPA Python Packaging User Guide tool recommendations: > Application dependency management > Use Pipenv to manage library dependencies when developing Py…

This, Paul is someone I look to as a model open source contributor in so many ways. https://twitter.com/nedbat/status/861696880790704128 > How many people can say they have worked …

He has announced plans to run for state-wide political office in Massachusetts. We are probably going to hear plenty more about him.

Nothing is being injected. A section of the article deals with politics and Trump explicitly.

The writer is a non-native English speaker.

The article suggests he is not a full-time employee of Facebook.

You are missing an important point: different systems fail in very different ways. The reason why people will generally prefer software over other ways of building things is becaus…

The beautiful, cruel wisdom of Ptacek, in haiku: Arm amputated? Stop crying and use your brain You still have one left

This comment is pure misanthropy. Some of the people expressing their concern in this thread are THE VERY SAME PEOPLE YOU SCOLD US FOR NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO. You're telling the v…

Physician, heal thyself. You're objecting to the story because the subject is not maximally sympathetic, and because his life was only semi-obliterated. Drug prohibition exists pur…

This comment demonstrates the absolute worst thing about Stack Exchange: on sites with content policies that are not crystal clear, even if you submit content that passes the polic…

Because you did not engage at all with the facts of this specific complaint. You still have not done so. It's not clear what a long career in broadcasting has to do with any of thi…

The blog post makes a substantive charge of journalistic misconduct against 60 Minutes and includes evidence supporting the charge. What do Vietnam and Morely Safer's age have to d…

Regardless of motive, the allegations are true. Yahoo has admitted so.

What you describe isn't a problem, it's the greatest possible outcome. Think about it from the point of view of the employer and the remote coder.

Your comment is conjecture, not evidence. It's an invalid conjecture, because it makes sweeping assumptions about some of the most complicated, chaotic properties of securities mar…

> I'm not sure reg NMS allows this. This is correct. It would be extremely, unequivocally forbidden under Reg NMS to create a quote-disseminating market center with the proposed pr…

BoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/ Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores th…