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could not have said it better

this is not funny. this is less funny then when engineers sit around and make puns about ruby idioms

this is useless. In the python interface they are obviously lists. Is the author arguing that cpython implements them as C arrays? I don't know because the terms weren't defined. I…

"10000 year old lamp shows mesolithic man used quantum mechanics"

If learning anything makes us worse at something we should just stop learning

compelling story, but I'd like to know how he translated an ip address in to a street address.

Looks like 10 text books (read: ~$100 each) with no descriptions and referral links to Amazon. edit for clarity.

let me save everyone some time: > Jim Keller, the chief designer behind the A4 and A5 chips used in Apple's iPhone and iPad products has joined AMD as chief architect and VP

I found this paper on the "semi-living artist" mentioned in the article fascinating. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533587/ Answered a lot of my questions about how t…

Not sure if the two are related, but http://youarelistening.to/ has this for a couple other cities.

ahh, cool. suppose I should have read past the rules

seems like per #1 & 2 you could either write a dsl or line-processing library and get it done in 1 line

it's not as if we were purchasing one language. It's a stretch goal, with python as the reward. The goal and the difficulty of implementation are not related.

I seem to be getting a lot of gists that are distinctly not application code (ie diffs, make files, random text). I think you could really improve the signal:noise if you let peopl…

just started playing around with it. We've been using hive on EMR with tables stored in S3 (json formatted). using a single m1.large to run run queries over an hour of data was tak…

FTFY "TSA _agent_ admits..."

hmm, z is indistinguishable from py. (at least on my screen).

whoops. sorry about that. back up now.

Here's a lower-fi version http://107.20.224.248:8000/#pics;funny;humor;comics;reddit.c... hack the URL to control subreddits source here https://github.com/mwhooker/procrastinatr

Doing it client side has a couple issues. 1. you need to block the click event until you get a response from your analytics endpoint. Google suggests doing this by adding a 100ms d…

s/Reward them with fun/Reward them with money/ It's ridiculous to expect more than 40hrs/wk from someone without fair compensation. Need more hours out of someone but can't afford …

Surely China is more culpable than Amercan consumers and corporations?

I started reading this a few weeks ago, and was struck by how much casual magic there seemed to be in India at that time. In the parts describing his childhood, every other page de…