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I didn't take a deep look, but it reminds me to Bret Victor's proposal on "Inventing on Principle" from 2012: https://vimeo.com/36579366

> this is an unfortunate blow to Python Just as unfortunate as how Python turned its back to Mercurial

In Spain, Amazon was the major retailer introducing the Black Friday to the local masses. During the next few years, other sellers joined the trend pushing it even more. This year,…

> Copying files onto a USB stick requires physical proximity, and is uncomfortable for transferring long-term secrets because flash memory is hard to erase. Copying files with ssh/…

Not to undermine its merit, but most of the dirty work and heavy lifting is done by its dependencies: https://github.com/kennethreitz/maya/blob/d57a78c6bc6b5295f7... And i18n suppo…

How about Tk? Is it or will it be implemented?

Spoken language is backed by other optional channels of information: * Audio: speaker controls tone, speed and emphasis * Video: body language * Feedback: listener can acknowledge …

Related project: https://github.com/replit/empythoned It's a pity it didn't get more traction. The effort invested seems a bit more worthwhile.

By the same principle, this girl will be also pulled of a CS degree becase the man will be frustrated again that she will be stuck wasting her time in college taking yet another se…

This is one example of what happens when the population gives absolute power to a single political party: lobbying paradise. We spaniards have the politicians we deserve.

Or Hy: http://docs.hylang.org/en/latest/language/api.html :-]

Calling yourself a software engineer implies an software engineering degree. Otherwise you would be a liar. I bet not many people have the guts to call themselves mechanical engine…

I can't see any mention of the new asynchronous programming support presented by Guido in this year's PyCon. Has it been discarded from this release?

He took it to his local computer repair shop. The geeks there went to work. In the course of their work they found a number of images of naked children. I want to believe that the …

I think you can customize most parts of the Web UI: http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/wiki?name=Cookbook#css

The size issues of the SQLAlchemy repository come from the way Mercurial handles copies and renames. I prefer Mercurial because is much easier to use but this file rename issue alw…

Too bad there are no comments on the blog: SQLAlchemy's issue repository will remain hosted on Trac; while a Git repository can be mirrored in any number of places, an issue reposi…

It is interesting how SQLite is so well known but de SCM built on top of it, Fossil, and by the same author did not catch so much.

It is the kernel the one that interprets shebangs, not the shell: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

I think that there is some abuse of the term real-time these days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Read carefully: "sudo -i" to replace "sudo su - root". You should check the "su" manpage and look for the -/-l/--login option.

So I've read, congratulations! It's just that these things always remind me to a Simpsons episode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Just_Want_to_Have_Sums Hence my whining. I hop…

This kind of gender segregation makes me sad. So many years fighting for women to have the same rights as men, and now it turns out that IT, the youngest technology of all, suffers…

Well, there is still one use case where IE is indispensable : http://www.bourkedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ie-po...

«An asynchronous, event-driven architecture based on highly optimized coroutine code scales across multiple cores and processors, network cards, and storage systems.» It may be a d…