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Why is this guy still in the press at all?
Nothing will go wrong. War in Asia and Africa is great for the American economy.
The actual act of law behind this: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/27/section/1

The chance of a serious sentence is small. However, in getting a guilty verdict, they had to prove one of his purposes of sending the message was to "cause distress or anxiety", not merely that such distress or anxiety was caused. This is why comedians aren't constantly hauled in on such charges because their role is clear.
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There is no 'horrible gotcha' with tuples of one element. Have you even tried generator expressions? Do you have any specific performance problem, or do you just suppose that you couldn't write sufficiently performant code in Python?

Overall, from your post, I don't believe you have used Python seriously.

I don't care what color Python would be, nor would I care what ice cream flavor it would be. Nor do I care whether it is cool on Lambda the Ultimate. Is this grade school?

If you are looking for a lowest common denominator, I think the language best fitting that description is C. I do not say this to damn C, which I rather like in its way. The core language is relatively simple and portable and is the closest thing that practical programming has to a lingua franca (not talking about academic stuff like ML).

If you can't understand why anyone would like C then it isn't at all surprising that you wouldn't understand why someone would like Python.

Use whatever you want for yourself, but let's be clear that this is a matter of you being too cool for Python, not of you having any real reason why it is a bad tool.
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Normally, if an investment goes bust the VCs are the people who get their money+ back, so don't tell me about how operating for their own good is how we've come to this pass. The only point that VCs will agree on is that they make more money if the company succeeds (and I can't imagine how anyone believes that the VC doesn't take a role in running a company; the infamous "getting rid of the founders and bringing in the grownups" stage is driven entirely by VCs, and all VCs take some role in running the company which varies among them as to how hands on they are). Yes, they need to be educated, but if you can't put it in very direct terms of "this will make you more money, fast" then they tend to put their fingers in their ears and ignore you. They are NOT about the long run; they're about the exit strategy.

I've worked with a lot of VCs over the years (and I'm a UX consultant too) and telling them about a fast enough ROI to make a difference to them is extremely difficult.

I've worked with even more start-ups who brought me in despite a lack of interest on their VCs part, because they wanted to build a product that was as good as possible and they were in it for the long haul.

As for friendly emails explaining and sharing...I think I covered that above under "they don't care".
That's very interesting. I had never heard about the magnitude of the impact of Western culture in the soviet bloc, but it makes a lot of intuitive sense.
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If you want to get ordinary web jobs it would pay off better to pick up Javascript and Rails or Django.
Well, the point is that concurrency primitives don't have to be built into the language to enable libraries to write safe concurrent abstractions. Rather, the type system features that enable it can exist in the compiler as general type system features unrelated to concurrency that just so happen to be able to ensure the safety of concurrent code if used properly.
It is good that you can separate the two so well. Depending on where you work you may find out very quickly that a LOT of people can't... they consciously or sub-consciously take their problems with them. And I think the older you get, the more "self-righteous" you are about it, as in more likely to not care just as much and turn your bad feelings out instead of keeping them in and being a good soldier.
Sounds like a variation on George Carlin's line that everyone who drives slower than me is stupid and everyone who drives faster is crazy.
I go to Python conferences and meetups regularly and I cannot say that I have ever run into this attitude, let alone the specific combination.

I do run into a lot of egos but these don't seem much different from the types I see posting comments like this on Hacker News. And a lot of Python people have picked up Node or Go these days, so I wouldn't be too sure that you weren't damning a significant part of your own favorite community here.
The market says that's a reasonable price, and Tempurpedic is serving the premium market segment. Why does a half gallon of milk with a generic store logo cost 10% less than the name-brand milk from the same exact dairy?

Anything less is either refurbished (ick) or one of the foam ones from Amazon/Overstock. The online foam mattresses are as low as $350, because they can compress the foam and make it light enough for UPS Ground.

Personally, I don't like foam mattresses. If i didn't know that, dropped $350 on a mattress from Amazon, I'm stuck with some bizarro return process, since it's no longer compressed foam that can be readily shipped!
If it works, can't you monetize it by using it and betting larger amounts?
"We didn’t have any page caching in place at all."

Cache me if you can! If you're a high-traffic site and you are not caching static content (I recommend Varnish highly), then your are throwing money or good user experience out the window.
...or if they were made in Jersey.
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How many Pythonistas? I would like you to substantiate this claim. I would assume that you actually don't have that much contact with the Python community because otherwise it is pretty unaccountable how I have never encountered that attitude all these years. and I am a grumpy person, and not without my own axes to grind about the Python community.
Mathematically it is simple for a bell curve centered on deists to split into a bimodal distribution of atheists and Christian fundamentalists.
Clearly, you don't see the slippery slope from:

Clearly, there are real patent violations that occur and need stopped

to

so many ones that benefit only trolls and attorneys

By design, patents are not to protect invention, they are a form of neo-feudalism. There is no such thing as a good patent, not by any rational definition of "good."
I think it might be better if you add REST API and let the editor's developers create a plugin based on that. It's an interesting project. Appriciate :D
Why wouldn't he be in the tech/startup press? He's usually in the middle of it in someway.
The author provides an interesting perspective but his argument misses some subtleties. The prohibition of Indian movies in Pakistan has almost nothing to do with religious arguments. It is basic protectionism. That is, if the ban still even exists.

Pakistan's own film industry produces movies which have all the themes of romantic love, action, etc. The few times I've heard Pakistani opinion on their film industry, they are often embarrassed because these films are often considered vulgar, while many Indian movies are not (vulgar by local standards). Pakistani 'dramas' (basically soap operas broadcast on TV) are well liked (and well watched) by Pakistanis and those dramas not only have the usual romantic stories but too many of them are down right preachy regarding social issues.

As a child, I remember watching extremely popular dramas address fundamentalist violence. The previous generation even had several satirical commentaries on politics, extremism, corruption, lack of literacy, etc.. Shows like Uncle Sargam, 50/50, ...anga teRha were fantastic in their message and their content. If their production quality was brought up, they would surely rank very high among great television programs anywhere.
Christian Fundamentalism was probably caused by the Second Industrial Revolution (which had a much bigger impact on society).

It took about 100 years for it to finally "go public" (1980s). The rationale behind going public was mostly driven by politics and money - incidentally this is also the time when Christianity started becoming a multi-billion dollar industry.
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You can type in any amounts you need. OP has a great visualization though!
No, I'm not suggesting diverting funds to McDonalds and raising the minimum wage wouldn't do that anyway as that isn't how the economics of it works.

After this I may want to buy a gallon of vodka, but if I do so I do not consider the wages of the person I am buying it off to be a form of tax, whether they have a regulatory minimum or not.

This is because the concept of tax has an actual definition that isn't really changed by your attempts to redefine it on the fly.

The definition of tax is not dependent on it being for a good cause, or even for any particular cause for that matter. Tax is a levy paid to a state, not a regulation of the minimum cost of a transaction between individuals. The portion of the money paid in wages cannot be a tax by definition as it is not being paid to a state.[1]

And no, the hourly minimum wage cannot be higher than the average, but you can create one that is higher than the current average, which is the example you yourself gave when you suggested a figure of $100.

And no-one is arguing that minimum wages have no effect. If they had no effect, no-one would be bothered either way. They can have positive and negative effects, like any other regulatory mechanism.

But the net benefit of a reasonably costed minimum wage is that people can always live off the money a job provides and not be taken advantage of by complete scoundrels, such as yourself.

[1] Or statelike actor, if we want to get picky. And no, the guy behind the counter at the 7-11 is probably not a statelike actor.

...Although, I just thought, if someone running a little shop was also an earl, or some tribal chieftain, and they considered their little shop to be their final outpost of conquered land, then there might be argument to be made that monies paid to them while in their fiefdom could be construed as some form of taxation. But I don't think that is all that common outside of Cornwall.
When we are talk about the need for western enlightenment values to triumph over fundamentalism, this is what it means, not Brzynsky and Kissinger and Cheney's War on Non-Americans.
Speaking of scope issues, you're missing a paren.
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If for whatever reason you don't want to build everything into the front end Javascript, it is very common to throw jobs onto a task queue to be done outside of the HTTP flow, so they do not block the response.

This could be a lot more accessible to beginners, however, because there are moving pieces like a message queue that have to be set up and blah blah.
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I didn't mean the getting old bit. Is just moving the foreseeable goalposts.
Generally, I try not to use single letter variable names in any scope that doesn't fit into a single screen in my editor. That way, I don't need to remember what "f" means, it's right there in front of me. And I shouldn't have too many variables in that scope, so conflicts aren't all that important; if I really do, I just start using multi-letter names again.
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"If you're fair skinned, experts say going outside for 10 minutes in the midday sun—in shorts and a tank top with no sunscreen—will give you enough radiation to produce about 10,000 international units of the vitamin."

You don't need a lot of sun exposure to get your body to produce enough vitamin D.
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Someone should probably write a refresh to HQ9+ to include a web hello world as well as a Fibonacci server, and perhaps the Arc Challenge as well. (For more information on HQ9+, go here: http://web.archive.org/web/20090602074545/http://www.cliff.b...)
If Google itself is really backing anything, it is Java.
sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0" still works on 10.8.
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I don't understand why any investor would be worried about missing an opportunity like Pinterest at this stage. Yes, they have a lot of traction and a nice valuation, but if you're an investor in Pinterest you have effectively nothing to show for it right now. If they go public successfully or sell for a large chunk of money, then you can kick yourself for passing it up; as it stands, you made a logical decision with the info you had, and that may have turned out to be the wrong one, for the right reasons.
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When the young say,"there are some young people who are wise beyond their years",you should translate it as "I am one of those young people who is wise beyond my years."No wise person ever says that.
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Why is Pinterest such a shining example when it doesn't have a fully developed market model yet and hasn't shown a single profitable quarter? What makes it more than just another overvalued company waiting for the next burst?
I'm from the UK, I know all about stiff-upper-lip but even to me this seems like unnecessary martyrdom.

I would feel that I had failed my staff if any of them thought that our product was so fragile that delaying launch by a week so they could mourn would cause irrevocable damage.
The antivirus era will never be over, as evidenced by the antivirus apps for smartphones. It provides the same purpose as the TSA: it inconveniences people just enough to make them feel like something is being done to protect them. It doesn't matter how ineffective an antivirus is, as long as it pops up a message every couple days saying "your computer is protected", it has served its purpose.

Anybody who has worked consumer IT can tell you, it doesn't matter how many times a person's computer has been infected despite running kaspersky, they still absolutely depend on the messages from their av program to tell them it's all good.
There are always bad engineers, which is what you're really describing above.

All other things being equal, I'll always pick the older engineer with more experience and maturity than the young engineer without.
Socio-economic standing. Like it always is.
It is, the installer you're looking for is just hidden very well. ;-)

You can find it by going to "Install Chrome for all user accounts" http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans..., which points to "Alternate (offline) Google Chrome installer (Windows)" http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

You want the "Alternate installer for all user accounts" (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/eula.html?syst...). That will install Chrome in the Program Files directory.
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I cannot wait for Wellness FX to come to Canada.

Here doctors look at you funny if you want to track biomarkers. "You're young, problems don't occur until you get old". As if they've never heard of prevention.
Genuine artificial intelligence and inference may be currently beyond our grasps, but hand-programmed special cased procedures (what you might consider the product of reasoning, rather than the existence of) are certainly doable. If the program behind Siri can determine that you want to know the location of your next meeting, and sift through your calendar event data for the next meeting in it, the human engineer behind this scenario should anticipate that the user is likely to want directions to their destination as well, and make the program offer them while retrieving them in the background. It's also certainly doable for the program to learn, with simple machine learning techniques, which addresses the user already knows how to get to (and thus does not want to be offered directions to), with a variety of data sources from "did they decline when offered directions?" to analyzing GPS data from previous trips to determine if they've been to that location before.

I'd wager that an assistant service like Siri can implement a great deal of the everyday "functionality" of a human personal assistant with nothing more than precise interaction design, careful data logging, and machine learning models to tailor assistance to the individual needs of the user. That's not easy, especially considering each interaction has to be designed by hand, but it's more than possible with today's technology.
What makes you unimpressed? Why do you think that Python clearly wins? Do you think that the additional type safety, namespace safety, and ease of concurrency in Go are worth nothing? Or do you just think that Python has more that outweigh that?

I know that I frequently kick myself in Python when I typo a name somewhere, and everything dies far beyond where I made the mistake because it goes along happily storing something into that typoed variable, and then when I read it later it has the wrong value, and it takes me a while to trace back and find where I made the typo.
One thing you eventually realize is that experiences always happen and there's no way to prevent them. You really don't have to hunt them out. Instead you may eventually just notice and appreciate them when they do happen.

I ran all over the world with a backpack before I realized that everything is relative and my adventurous experiences weren't necessarily any more valuable than a friend's who stuck around and built a family (which I'm finally doing now myself too).
Should also add Reduced Redundancy option.
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The last round of investment valued Pinterest at $1.5B. If an angel investor from an early round wanted to cash out at that point they could have.

From $5M to $1.5B in two years. That is a hell of a return.
I agree with you, there is still a lot for Pinterest to figure out. But if you are an early investor and don't believe in the company's future, there are many others who would be happy to buy up your Pinterest shares on the secondary markets. See here: https://www.secondmarket.com/company/pinterest

Just one way to get your 300x return (assuming return on $5 million valuation to current $1.5 billion valuation) if you wanted it right now.
Agreed, Draper + Jbuilder and you got yourself plenty of decoupling and beauty.
Very true. One of my first forays into Haskell came during the Google Code Jam, after seeing how short and elegant Reid Barton's solutions where. I solved the problems, but the programs were horribly slow, so I checked how Reid got around it: oh, he doesn't just map things and use the standard style, he needs some special constructs from the libraries.. it looks mathematically equivalent, but it looks plausible that the old way ends up holding onto too much data in memory. I eventually stopped when I realised that it would always take more time than hammering it out in C++, even if the final product in Haskell is shorter and more elegant. In fact, outside of writing APIs and frameworks, the desire for elegance seems debilitating. This also reminds me of how when I was most seriously practicing for Topcoder I could consistently produce shorter solutions than tomek (the top ranked guy far and away at that time) he would finish more quickly, since once he types it in it's done.
For the record I'm now using Python (and some R) but I think I'd like Go.
I've had an IT consultancy for 7 years. There was a time when I would recommend a certain antivirus because I observed that it was consistently able to cleanly intercept in-the-wild badware attacks or even clean out something that already had a foothold. Eset, Prevx and even Norton had solid, effective, best-in-class products at one time or another. However, based on what I've seen over the last year or so, there's been a sea change; the badware that gets on a machine typically does what it wants, antivirus or no, the majority of the time. Detection has become much more the exception and much less the rule.

Sure, antivirus has never been 'complete' protection but, speaking from a lot of firsthand experience, some of it used to be pretty darn good compared to lately. Now even 10-15% protection from AV sounds like a stretch. Hence, in terms of the soho PC segment I've dealt with day to day, I'd say The Antivirus Era Is Over And It Has Been For Awhile.
I don't know how true this is though. It might work in Pakistan, but doesn't seem like it would in the Middle East. For example, the article says that there's a lot of interest in Bollywood in Dubai, but that's because 70% of the population is South Asian[0].

And from another article[1], which has a great analysis of hard vs. soft power and how Bollywood's true influence on its neighbors is actually nonexistent:

> The immense popularity of Bollywood in Pakistan and Afghanistan, for example, has not turned Pakistan into a pro-Indian country, nor does it prevent Afghans (including the educated elite) from spitting on the floor whenever a Hindu idol is shown on TV. The fact is that the Indian entertainment industry has virtually no ability to influence the paradigm of its viewers, and can only bombard them with superficial trash.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Dubai

1: http://defenceforumindia.com/future-indian-power-hard-vs-sof...
I really don't understand this.

College students are the last group in need of this kind of help. They already have numerous opportunities for scholarships, internships and other programs. Most college students are already faced with an excess of learning opportunities (at least in terms of academic subjects).

It's the people who don't have degrees or who have unrelated degrees that would benefit more from what Treehouse offers. Unemployed and underemployed people in particular would likely have both the time and motivation to take advantage of Treehouse, too.
This is nice, but I would really like to be able to assign people "developer" access to the account, giving them full read/write access to the Test area, but no access to the Live area or account settings.

I'm really surprised they didn't think of and implement that as part of this change.
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This is missing something, but I can't put my finger on it.

Oh yeah: citations.
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This. From a comment on the page:

"The 51.* addresses are in fact heavily used by DWP, but only internally. The best bit is this: for security reasons, there is a policy that in any communication, the leading octet of all such IP addresses must be redacted. Not like it's a matter of public record or anything. I did once toy with the idea of printing out the XKCD map of the IP4 address space, write "you are here" on it and pin it to the wall near DWP data networks teams, but I didn't think it would go down well."
It may be louder, but I can't agree that it is stronger than in the past. Most recently, look at the increasing acceptance of homosexuality—and there's a long list of "sins" before that that have gradually become accepted by mainstream America.