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>But the fact that they were scientists does not lend credence to the additional, unfalsifiable claims they may have made about the universe.

I never said it did. Did you read post I was responding to? I was attacking the premise that one can't be both a scientist and a believer in God with the evidence that there have been many scientists who believed in God.

In fact your sentence here:

>It would be fallacious to discount their scientific work because of this fact

is exactly my argument.

>Furthermore, just because an assertion (e.g. "there is a God") cannot be proven (or disproven) does not mean it should be free from scrutiny.

Never said it should be free from scrutiny. I have no problem with you criticizing my beliefs. What I do have a problem with is the OP asserting that my beliefs make me a poor scientist. And the very specific assumption that belief in God renders one unable to perform scientific inquiry. You seem to agree with me, as does the evidence.

>There are two presuppositions you compare: "I think, therefore I am" and "There is a God." Both require at least a very fundamental assumption, but only one has any basis in what we might typically refer to as "evidence."

Two options to explain the beginning of the universe and why it doesn't violate causality.

A. Causality came into existence with the beginning of the universe and so was never violated.

B. An eternal God exists separate from the universe he created

There is absolutely no physical way to prove either one. Which one is simpler or more likely is completely subjective.

You can't choose camp A with no supporting evidence, and then decide that you are more rational or superior to people in camp B because they lack evidence.
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At least at my school, I think CS enrollment has swelled in recent years. However, it is not the same as it was back in the bubble (well before my time): back then, the intro professors had various schemes for weeding out potential majors; now they are still trying to get most people stick with it.

With that in mind, I think "recovered" is the wrong word: since enrollment back there was inflated with people just interested in a good salary, nobody in CS really wants that to happen again. As one of my professors would say, that's what the business school is for. These days there is quite a demand on the major, but I think it's actually mostly from people genuinely interested in the subject.

So, purely anecdotally, my observations echo yours: CS enrollment has increased, but not to the levels of the dot-com bubble.
If your code and environment works, why are you changing it?

If you're updating just to update, then the problem isn't with Python...
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How does such a touching, honest article get such terrible comments? (Referring to the comments on the author's blog.)

In any case I don't see why anyone would allow such lampreys to suck the life of their own web page.
"Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions" is a classic for messaging. It's pretty advanced I guess, but beginners can understand it too.
Sad. But true.

As satu said below, there's a lot of ways to avoid thinking in what their well-being costs all around the world.
Most people just see gadgets, ignoring the kids killed in Coltan wars. We like to feed our vehicles without thinking about all kind of problems that the very same oil we are using is causing elsewhere. And it's natural, otherwise, we'd get crazy.

But then again, it's amusing when (just to put a silly example) a company changes something in their EULA, and lot's of people start calling for a boycott.

Our values scale is so damn wrong.
I respect your opinion and maybe you’re in a unique position that makes Python 3 really awful to you, but in general your comment seems more like a knee-jerk "lolpython3" reaction that was appropriate while 3.0 & 3.1. But now, that situation changed.

Many, many high profile projects are already on Python and many will follow, now porting has been made even easier.

Django tries to support Python 3 with 1.5, Pyramid already does support it, Twisted has a GSoC student that tries to bring it to Py3… And funnily enough, “normal” code that doesn’t screw around too much with advanced features is rather trivial to port. I have written a Python 3.2 program myself only to find out later that it also works on Python 2.7 without changes. :)

With every bigger change you lose some – and I’m sorry if it’s inevitably you – but you also win some. Because all in all, Python 3 is great.
To condense that long explanation, the principle is that the universe is a chaotic system. It is: self similar, inherently unpredictable and deterministic. Seriously dude, read up on Chaos Theory.

Now here's where it gets interesting. The mind is fully contained in the universe - it is physical. So emotions, thoughts and feelings are all things. They are emergent behaviors of this physical reality. Hence the dual mode of thought being incorrect - there is no distinction between objective and subjective, they are one and the same. So if the universe is deterministic and our experience is physical, then there is no free will.
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"""The SEC is either toothless or has been subverted by political interests."""

Or politics is subverted by financial interests? If you have to find your own financial sponsors in order to run for a government office, it is hardly surprising that finance runs the show.
That attitude leads to devaluing software, followed by bugs, a legacy codebase and not being able to extend your software when your competitors catch up. Programs and the problems that they solve are intertwined. You can't easily separate them - which is why your metaphor doesn't work.
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> I am curious, however, how many libraries you actually rely on, given the ease you seem to indicate you were able to move with.

Not that many, admittedly. I'm fairly wary of dependencies and prefer to stick to the standard lib unless something is just orders of magnitude better at the job, to cut down on deployment overhead. That attitude has of course benefited me tremendously with the Python 3 transition.

That said, I currently use lxml and requests a lot, a long with a bunch of smaller things like python-dateutil and mock (the latter of which was just added to the standard lib in 3.3, actually). Sum total I have maybe 12-15 external libs across my codebases that I didn't write myself, and I've had only one case of an abandoned lib that I needed to port myself.

As for my own code, when I started out transitioning I had already cut compatibility with anything older than 2.6, and making things run both on 2.6 and 3.1 turned out to be relatively easy for the most part (certainly with some pain points too however, like needing to abandon syntactic sugar for metaclasses). As the next step I went to 2.7/3.2, which made things even easier. Most of my code now still runs on 2.7 in addition to 3.2, but I'm now starting to abandon the notion of backwards compatibility and introducing code that relies on Python 3.2 and am slowly removing the hacks once required for cross-compat as I find need to touch the respective areas again.

Now, I realize that I'm not the norm and that a lot of Python folks out there have a much harder time transitioning. But with the bleakness of your post, I felt compelled to point out that it's not been hell for all of us.
That will explain the unorthodox, but very effective, interviewing style then? ;-)
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Tested on Chrome only. For a hackathon project, I think thats OK.
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I actually really like how you've kept the images as thin bands, really keeps the continuity of the text going. I'd just recommend that you use source material that looks good when cropped to fit such a wide aspect ratio without any stretching.

Other than that, great blog!
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There's a bunch of developments that make me feel that the Python 3 ball has started rolling in a much more significant way lately. Some you've already mentioned; another is Canonical insisting on everything in the "main" section of Ubuntu running on Python 3 by 2014, and doing some of the work to make that happen.
I'm not following the concept.

Is it specific to a type of goal or does it apply to any type of goal?

Is there some form of reward system for completing a goal?

The site is a bit vague on details.
I assert that, rather, those people are mostly either still doing grunt work, or else are unable to find a useful role in society (a leftier turn of phrase would be "they are being abandoned by society")

Ah, now you're moving the goal posts. From "200 years ago X% of society were doing grunt work, and today X% of society are doing grunt work" to "x% of society are doing grunt work or are just loafing around". I agree that it's wrong that there loads of people who are unemployed, or working crappy jobs, but it's much better than when they had to shovel shit for 10 hours a day.

Tell a serf in the middle ages about the terrible future where people don't work till they're 16ish (sometimes 20), then sit around in housing estates all day doing nothing. Tell them how horrible it is.

Things have gotten better. We need to continue to make things better.
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> it is certainly exposed that multiple cores may be running Erlang simultaneously.

Sure, but there is absolutely no way that values can change "under your feet" within a process since processes don't share memory. Even if objects were mutable within a given process that would make no difference.

> Yes, I said that, but can a structure owned by one goroutine be directly modified by another such that a single goroutine can observe that a reference has changed values which the goroutine in question has not changed?

Not sure what you mean by "a single goroutine can observe that a reference has changed value". If a structure is not local to a goroutine A (because it was carried through a pipe or was created in a lexical scope other routines can see), then other goroutines will be able to alter it yes, as to whether A will be able to see that, well unless A memoized the old value (by deep-cloning the structure) A will see new values and not old ones.

> Do structures even belong to goroutines?

Go has no built-in concept of ownership, so that question is a bit tricky. Structures are only exclusive to a given goroutine if they are not visible by or shared with other routines. So if the structure in question has been created in a scope making it visible by multiple goroutines, or it has been carried across a channel to an other goroutine, then other goroutines will be able to modify it from "under your feet".
Reincarnation, telepathy, extra sensory perception etc. are pipe dreams for us, but ironically, for AIs that we build, they will be routine!

Current operating systems are like rudimentary souls, and any OS routinely uses these capabilities:

Rebooting <-> Reincarnation

Networking <-> Telepathy

USB devices <-> Extrasensory perception

Andy Tannenbaum's MINIX-3 explicitly calls rebooting as reincarnation.

Future AIs will have Thompson & Ritchie to thank for making flexible reincarnation possible for them.
BrowserID is horribly complicated. Even to log into Mozilla's own Web Apps store. I had to remember my browser id, wait, enter it again and then enter a password. Why are there more steps to something so simple. It's for these reasons that no one wants to adopt these things.
Heh, I emailed you directly some time ago :) We both agreed that blogs are my best bet. But maybe I have to face that my MVP idea sucks :\
Interesting remark. Although I really can't see any other good alternative at the moment.
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So they appear to be moving over to "not being IBM PC compatible". Which is perfectly valid.

I never said that PCs are called PCs because they ARE IBM PC compatible, only said they are called PCs because in the past "IBM PC compatible" defined their category.
This is flat out wrong. The correct analogy is:

Before HFT, to execute a block trade, your only option was to go to a specialised liquidity provider a.k.a your friendly local investment bank - the CC company in your analogy - , who would take a huge spread - the 3%-5% drain on the economy that you mentioned - in exchange for taking that liquidity risk.

Now, with HFT, the increased speed of markets has democratised liquidity provision. There is a corresponding larger supply of liquidity in the markets, and so spreads have come down - very significantly.

The aggregate affect - it is now cheaper to trade on stock exchanges. What does this mean? When your 401(k), pension fund, mutual fund, etc. rebalances, it doesn't lose 3% of your money to an investment bank. It loses ~0.01%-0.05% (1-5bp) of your money as a transaction cost (earned by HFT firms as compensation for taking on the liquidity risk), and thus you keep more of your money.

It's easy to say that HFT's provide 'no benefit to anyone but themselves' without any understanding of the historical context, but once you do, it's hard to see it in such black and white terms.

Full disclosure - I was an algo trader in a previous life.
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I can't tell if this is a parody or not! A perfect example of kprobst's point with the added comedy bonus that you threw a rant about oil in there too!
Since they were both assigned to the same city, it's quite possible that more people use OkCupid in that city.

I have no idea why the author didn't realize what a terrible idea splitting them up across cities was...
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I feel there is too much churn in Python. No-one is ready to say "we're stopping here and bug fixing". It just churns and churns and everyone gets confused. It's too much of a rollercoaster to trust at the moment and I assume this is why a large number of Linux distributions are stuck on 2.6 and 2.7 still.
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Oh come on, blueprint, that is the Tathagata[1], the only other enlightened being besides the original Tathagata to have graced earth? And the bump on his forehead is the Third Eye? You've got to be kidding me!

"Therefore, being diligent, frugal and honest are just right way and law to get happiness."[2] I think someone really missed the point here - this is probably taken directly out of the Protestant work ethic; definitely doesn't come from Buddhism.

[1] http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/

[2] http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/happiness_and_pe...
Yes, apologies. I misunderstood your meaning. I also think we interpreted dhechols's post slightly differently. (I did not assume he was actually making the argument that "one can't be both a scientist and a believer in God" -- I thought he was just hinting at a cognitive dissonance between being a scientist and holding a faith, which is a slightly different line of discussion.)

Your other point:

> "You can't choose camp A with no supporting evidence, and then decide that you are more rational or superior to people in camp B because they lack evidence."

Whoever said I chose camp A? This line of reasoning excludes the possibility of an option C (or D, E, F, etc). Again, argumentum ad ignorantiam. You are shifting the burden of proof and appealing to ignorance. ("There is no proof, therefore they are both equally subjective.")

How about, instead, "there is no proof, therefore we don't know or claim to know." Seems more rational than any of the other options, at least to me.

(Sure, nobody's 100% rational, so we could keep picking these arguments apart all night. I'm happy to agree on a simple "we don't know" for anything not empirically based on the evidence of the senses.)
>* You don't see professional pianists perform on electric keyboards.*

Classical pianists don't. Every other kind of professional pianist does it all the time.

Except if you don't consider someone like Keith Jarrett, Herby Hancock or Chick Corea a "professinal pianist".

As for "not supporting all the vim keystrokes", ever heard of the 80/20 rule?
You should read the full article.. the hiring writers bit is just a parody.
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(The following is parody of recent posts, it is not meant as criticism of any individual but as commentary on what I see as an unhealthy obsession with the habits of others and of people taking themselves and others in the 'startup community' a bit too seriously)

0523 Alarm sounds on my iPhone 4GS. I don't use just any alarm program: I use Biorythym Alarm System+ which monitors my internal body clock and starts ringing at the appropriate time before 0523 to begin an in tune start to the day. It uses Gregorian chants, nature sounds and recordings from inside the womb to ease me into the day.

0530 I'm in front of my MacBook Air (with 256GB SSD) at my desk made from recycled lumber from South African railway tracks. Why did I get up 7 minutes earlier? Because, as Manic Minute Minder Pro reminds me 7 minutes wasted per day 1.7 extra days of productive time per year. 1.7 days when the competition is literally sleeping!

I drink a large bowl of Jing Tea Matcha Supreme Green and a glass of organic milk. At 0533 every day I'm hacking through my email, TODOs, tweets and catching up on Hacker News. Every 20 minutes Time Out reminds me to stop, meditate and focus.

0645 I walk into my bedroom with a green tea for my wife Cassiopeia who is waking up. We smile at each other and spend the next 15 minutes on One on One Time. At 0700 it's time to wake our two boys: Dagwood and Spaniel.

0800 The house is quiet but Skype isn't. I stay in contact with my teams in Costa Rica, Montreal and Goa via Skype throughout the day. This morning check in with the teams gives me a good view of where the business is. Currently we're in double stealth mode (the public doesn't know what we're building and neither do we).

0830 I jog down to the ground floor of our New York brownstone and get on my Trek Madone 4 series bike for a 30 mile ride out into New Jersey and back. My iPhone 4GS is cued up with a set of daily business podcasts set to run at double speed so I can get through all of them in the hour's ride.

0930 Shower and then spiritual time. I have a small shrine set up that allows me to focus on the important. I light an incense and gaze up at posters of Tim Ferriss, Kevin Rose and Warren Buffet.

0945 The day really begins. For here on in it's meetings, hirings, firings, networking with the New York VC and angel crowd until 1900 when C, D & S (or cease and desist as I call them) come back home. We eat together and at 2200 I'm in bed with a light cucumber mask and the alarm set for another day.

Tonight's a little special because I've been invited to give a one hour keynote on being a startup CEO at Velocipede Ventures weekly Pumped and Primed meetup for other successful entrepreneurs like me.
Of course, men have it harder than women in the mating game.

I think this is a myth. I wish years ago someone had told me all I needed to do was walk up to someone I found attractive and say "Hi, my name's Tom, how're you?" The day I started doing so, my dating life was revolutionised.

Actually, this applies to most situations: parties; conferences; seeing a new face at work.

With exception of special cases (maybe alpha males or older women), women on the average have is so much easier when it comes to finding their partner.

Again, I disagree; just like hiring someone, how do you sort through the cruft to find the jewel in X number of applications? I'm not talking about seeking perfection, just someone whose quirks - and we all have them - you can tolerate enough to enjoy a successful relationship.
As so many people have pointed out over the last few years, building your product on top of someone else's product is a bad idea unless you have a legally-binding agreement in-place. And having an api key isn't a substitute for such an agreement.

If this principle had a name (ie "<someone's> law") then maybe people would pay more attention.

(And OT: I read "boxopus" as "box o' pus", which makes me think perhaps its a poor name)
I checked and it does support vi bindings, including ex commands.

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Very simple - and brilliant!
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Interesting that a retail bank whose core business is to process transactions takes the decision to outsource that capability. And then is exposed as unable to monitor/control the outsourced operation.

Some similarities to the now defunct Railtrack whose remit was to maintain the UK railways decided that it was a good idea to outsource all of its engineering capability. It turned out that Railtrack did not have the ability to manage, monitor or access the state of work carried out by contractors. Some details and links in...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack#Founding

A good lesson. Accessing which are the core functions of your company. And the ability to execute them without failure.
It would have been extremely interesting to host this experiment in Eastern European countries such as Russia. Due to alcoholism...

I can't speak for alcoholism here in Poland, but after moving to Warsaw from London, I was quite surprised at the number of young, single ladies. I've wondered if a seeming small difference in the age 15-64 sex ratio[1] of 0.99 vs 1.03 could be responsible, but really have no idea.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio
"Truth will out."

I didn't know anything about Fez or its history going into that film, but I think it did a good job implying how many people could have issues working with that guy.

I didn't imagine his partner to be a villain. I imagined him to be a reasonable guy who didn't want to put up with histrionics all day long for 5 years.
This could be the beginning of the API Olympics. Can anyone launch a fully authenticated API in less that 10 minutes?
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