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...and I'm surprised there's a whole section on using recursion in Python, considering Python guards against recursion depth. (tail recursion is especially applicable here). The au…

Here's an experiment: Get a random set of pie charts without labels on them. Get a large group of people. Now get those people to go through the pie charts and add what % of the pi…

As a computer scientist, it's a joy to discover when you're wrong about things. So I'm enjoying being on the wrong side of the discussion for once, because I'm learning lots. Thank…

I want to call particular attention to the author's point about Apple's pie chart. Not only is Apple's pie chart used for telling lies here, I would argue that all pie charts are u…

Apologies. Perhaps I'm being a master of the obvious here, so I'll restate more simply: When people try to implement security without actually thinking about what the system is doi…

On the contrary, "It has not been broken" is exactly what I would expect a programmer to say. If the security of an algorithm is weakened, then it's important to evaluate the use o…

Put the documents on bittorrent and let the world mirror it for you.

Experienced Twitch streamer here. I've been streaming for almost 2 years now to Twitch. On Profitability: In the gaming space, it's all about the sponsorships. Yes, Twitch ads are …

The reality is that you need BOTH. This is how modern news articles are written: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4698382/second-lifes-stran... Some people will skim and get the i…

This plugin is actually really nice. Thanks, this will help. :)

This looks really awesome. We use Jenkins heavily for deploying applications from build all the way through production. I'll look into this and see what I can get out of it.

You can track changes in Jenkins configurations?

This is a great illustration that demonstrates why gasoline engines NEED to die and be replaced by better, more efficient engines.

The huge problem with this suggestion is that society is built around the idea that you have a "High School Diploma" and a "College Diploma", so just up and quitting school isn't a…

You mean the TSA?

Ah acryonyms, the death of us all.

RE #3: They could also already have the data and simply be querying Facebook to establish a "backwards chain of evidence". Hilariously, I'm reading Cryptonomicon right now and that…

Nice. I can see lots of room for improvement. Great start, especially using Requests will streamline things. I'll work in some changes tonight. Let's start with PEP8, shall we? :)

What all of this fails to mention is that Jannard was essentially forced to sell Oakley to Luxottica ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica ). Luxottica has a gigantic monopoly …

This this this. And what is the turnaround time on getting new servers provisioned for development? Are they using Docker, or are they stuck in Windows land where there's no open s…

This data might be interesting for folks who want to do language tutoring for foreigners.

French Creole in Tennesee? What's up with that?

https://github.com/holman/spark You'll like this then.