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Yeah, I didn't see anything I'm interested in as a "power-user". OSX lately has decided to hide a ton of features out of the box that require changing values in Terminal before bei…

For you python Sublime users: http://dechols.com/post/40402860395/sublime-text-2-python-de...

So the answer is to paste it into an editor first?

This is evil. Please don't force users to do something they can already choose to do.

The author invents new words regularly in this article. Stephen King's "On Writing" talks about this, and I'm paraphrasing: "Writers who invent words are bad writers."

Which is more Pythonic? list() or [] dict() or {} set() or ???? I would argue that the left is more pythonic and expressive.

I wanted to reply, but then it asked me to sign up for Google+. Then it hit me: That's exactly it. Google+ is Google's way of controlling an entire ecosystem of replies to topics. …

So what does this mean for those of us who have made the jump to Distribute? Do we now jump back to Setuptools in a year or something?

I see this all the time too. This, despite the fact that my audience knows me by my pseudonym and not my real name.

Actually, The Sims 1 did this too. Obviously, it's a game and it's fluff so it's more acceptable than the bullshit that WellsFargo is doing here. I was sad when Sims 2 and Sims 3 d…

"Don't write something informative and realistic, make a call to arms!" The whole point of an internship (or underpaid, monkey coder job) is to get your foot in the door, to get so…

Yep. I've seen this too, usually as the "Blocked" state at the end of the process. Items that go in the blocked state need a blocked reason.

Bingo. The whole point of Trello is to mock up some manual end-to-end process. The natural state of this is columns that consist of "Backlog, TODO, Doing, Done". More advanced vers…

YouTube has asked me over and over for the past year to use my real name on YouTube. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

It does not matter the platform you use. The data you use is far, far more important. I use Windows 8, Linux, and Mac OSX boxes on a daily basis. I play music from all of them. I w…

> If Musk could really back up all of his accusations, why would he be "satisfied" with this "joke" of a response? Frankly, he's probably still not satisfied. But he realizes there…

"Never speak to police" isn't explicit enough. In many states, police can ask you to identify yourself. Some states require you to answer this question. Most states don't require y…