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Aren't the reddit demographics, like O'Reilly, 'richer, whiter, older'? (also kinda racist and sexist, so that's more points of convergence).

Grow up.

Communities don't form in a vacuum, site ownership abetted, if not encouraged, the reddit culture: A few years ago, while Jailbait was still going strong, Reddit's administrators g…

The stuff coming out of those computer algebra things is not always exactly the form you want to be stuffing in your code. Working it out manually focuses the mind.

Reddit is great if you're looking for a place for: * Mens Rights Advocacy * Bitcoin chat * Creepshots * Jailbait creepshots

I haven't been a regular perl programmer for coming up on 10 years now (switched to python), but I still miss the easy regexes, and I'll pull it out when I have to do awk/sed like …

Need to keep that resume up to date for when she finally musters up the gumption to dump his MRA ass.

From: "If we see that 1000 of the 10,000 random iterations had a difference of more than $1.50, we can say that there is a 10% chance that our $1.50 observed difference was due to …

??? where did "f2py" come from in this list?

"a lesser peer to me" classy as fuck, pal

I remember huge fights on mid-90s usenet about Apple's anti-open source practices, up to and including Stallman trying to prevent FSF code from being ported to System Whatever, it …

"""Who can take a look at the deflationary nature of land, and think "gee, I'd like everything to be like this!"""" People who think they're going to come out on the long end of th…

Maybe if the Big Three had designed cars people actually wanted to buy, history would have been different.

"But where did it lead?" The forty hour work week? OSHA? FMLA?

"Nobody is being forced to work there" That might not be entirely in accord with actual facts. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/technology/foxconn-said-to... http://kotaku.com/rep…

[1]: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 (warning: google's calling it malicious, check the cache instead) """ I was near surrounded by these people, for the first time in my life, at a…

Dents in the wrong place can let in air and spoil the food inside.

I kind of like grocery shopping, especially if it's in a decent store that has enough registers open and where the vegetables aren't molding on the shelves and the cans aren't all …

Welcome to the Patriarchy.

How many people are interested in streaming Led Zeppelin and don't already own a big chunk of the collection.

Yeah, I remember those times, and I hated them, because sometimes you got a shitty album and you were stuck with it. You go to the record store and there are these long ass shelves…

yet here you are posting on an internet forum

Regarding languages lacking certain features therefore limiting the cognitive space of their speakers, everybody should remember the English has no future tense: http://itre.cis.up…

I'm just gonna drop this here: http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com for all the dudes saying 'hostile? my community?'

If you're a beginner, stick with python, or matlab.