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I've long thought it would be awesome if someone started a business along these lines: a news source driven by data analysis; like fivethirtyeight but for analysis of all sorts of …

Do you know if it supports ipython? I'm on the scientific computing side of the python world, so django is less important to me . . .

I'm currently struggling to find a satisfactory IDE for python for this exact reason. This seemingly obvious feature has to be hacked on to just about every popular coding tool. Th…

That math app sounds amazing. I think this is something that would be great to have in a Surface-type device with a touchscreen and a keyboard — I would love to have that sort of i…

The degree to which this is possible has been hugely exaggerated. Yes, you can have DNA mailed to you, but not DNA as its packaged in the human genome. When you order from NEB or S…

Can you suggest any resources for learning about profiling in python? I'm just getting into scientific computing with numpy,scipy,etc. and I'd be interested to learn more.

Nostalgia is universal, but Britain is in the somewhat unique position of having once been a hyperpower and today being substantially less relevant on the world stage.

Hmmm I use python for most scientific computing applications, but I do a lot of statistical things in R. I've been interested in trying pandas for a while, might be time to give it…

My initial thought was that while I've never done any 3D printing so I'm not how hard the plastic is, it might be possible to print something in the right shape and use it to unscr…

Alternatively, if you're young and single just live with a bunch of roommates — group cooking/cleaning/etc is really cheap.

I for one love LibreOffice Writer and find it to be much more intuitive and configurable than Word. Draw and Calc leave something to be desired, but the needs they fill are better …

This is exactly what I do. The device doesn't have the password to my wifi so it can't phone home. I have no need to connect it to the internet — I just transfer files from my comp…

Little Brother anyone? I've always told people that book is hyperbolic but good anyway; seems like that might not be the case :/

The problem isn't just what journals will publish, its how funding is distributed: the modern NIH/NSF grant process gives money for likelihood of producing positive results, which …

even if you get shutdon you've inspired me to write a script to do it myself. any chance you would publish your code if you were shutdown?

Oh my god I love you

Same here. On Opera, 0 days. weird.

Agree. I just started doing scientific computing in python/scipy/numpy/matplotlib and it is fantastic. I see python going nowhere but up in the scientific community.

wow awesome! I'm getting ready for the RTR prerelease and this will for sure help!

Ahhh I see. I have three finger drag enabled, so not as much of a pain.

To me that's why its so magical. Its actually expensive in time and effort to navigate, so you feel like you're investing something in order to explore. This also means that its di…

In the words of a good friend of mine: "You wouldn't download a car? Man if I could download a car off the internet for free, you bet your sweet ass I would!"

I'm a GPG noob, is there a way to configre pass + gpg so that my passwords are encrypted with AES rather than an asymmetric algorithm?

As far as not widely audited goes, the encryption is handled by GPG so that part is at least fine.

Ahhh, I see, thanks for the explanation, makes sense.