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Oh yes.

Probably because they want to fight collectively under the MPAA for the "greater good".

"Accelerated C++" by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo is pretty good and somewhat along the lines of K&R.

Best place to learn Python? The official tutorial. Period. http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/

FTA: "If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? [...] If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does …

The last paragraph mentions this: "We’ve reached out to Apple to see whether a licensing arrangement has been reached for this graphic…but we doubt it.".

To add to this, Kumar McMillan's talk, "Unicode In Python, Completely Demystified" ( http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/ ) is really good.

Any particular reason that you believe the alleged rape allegations more than the fact that they may _actually_ have been politically motivated? I mean, it's difficult to take side…

> I can use this for free for my own projects (private) and the UI is awesome This was the first thought that came to my mind! A really awesome project, was much needed.

With the tutorial, you just need to read till Chapter 9 as the continuing chapters handle the stdlib which serves more of a reference once you know the language. Point being, you s…

I really wonder why no one mentions the official Python tutorial ( http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ ). That is by far, the most concise and easiest to understand Python tutorial I …

If you have never met before but can exchange data physically -- why not! The requirements of this (summarized) are: 1. Common content, 2. Ability to exchange data physically. And …

By the word social (and now I think it can mean different things in different context), I meant that it is based on the concept that there is content which is common to a given 'so…

That is correct. But to keep things simple, I didn't go into that. My main intention was to see whether people actually feel the need for this and how it would scale.

Yes that is correct. Geographical proximity can mean anyone who wants the same data you want and you are in a position to exchange it physically. So it can a friend you meet in col…

I have fixed this as requested.

Hi. Given the feedback on the UI, I think my designer skills leave a lot to be desired! Thanks for the suggestion, I will work on improving this.

Hi. I did that so that people could go through the link they wanted, rather than going through a single long page. I will find a way to fix that.

Right, thanks for the feedback. I have updated it to better reflect the idea.

The 'Idea' page mentions this clearly. The third line in fact.

Hi. This only works for peers within close geographical proximity and I used the word social because there are many times when you want to download something that some of your frie…