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by egor83 14y ago
http://www.pycoders.com/ if you use Python
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by egor83 14y ago
> you can't pollute under an honest government I'd say not "honest" but "answerable", those that can be held accountable by the society. I can't imagine anything like Watergate or Clinton impeachment attempt in the present-day or Soviet
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by egor83 14y ago
Is it possible to put a link to this post on Python news page? http://python.org/news/ I'm going to forward this to some people working with Python in Europe, and I guess a link to the homepage might look more credible that to a blog.
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by egor83 14y ago
Wait, when you spoke of $2-3k/month, did you mean active or passive income? Because I was speaking of active one - as in, you directly exchange your time for money. Can't comment on your plan wrt template selling, but it seems you might sta
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by egor83 14y ago
When I was choosing between Python and Ruby a couple of years ago, I chose Python. To me it seems to be more universal - Ruby is (IMO) mostly used for web development, and Python is also rather widely used in other areas - in sciences (via
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by egor83 14y ago
Great list, thanks! Just one note - would you consider adding second level in the table of content? Like: COMPONENTS: - Display - Form - Input FRAMEWORK INTEGRATIONS - ASP etc
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by egor83 14y ago
> but these wondrous lab results don't seem to make it to the marketplace However, there is a very good progress in solar energy production. According to this chart [1], solar production in July '12 (peak month) was more than twice the
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by egor83 14y ago
Actually something like this has been happening for a while - Iranian students have been restricted from taking some courses in the Netherlands, and for a while outright banned from certain Dutch universities, so as to prevent them from rec
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by egor83 14y ago
And thanks for feedback! I updated the coloring a bit: http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3298...
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by egor83 14y ago
Some visualizations for these polls: Age (bar): http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=2175... Region (bar): http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3298... Primary OS (latest), pie: http://hn-stuff.app
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by egor83 14y ago
A Dutch guy I know moved to Berlin to work on his startup there. We didn't discuss the reasons, but it seems Berlin has something better to offer. If I start guessing - probably a better startup community. Amsterdam and Netherlands are corp
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by egor83 14y ago
Seems it's mostly C++, data and image processing. Thanks for the links!
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by egor83 14y ago
While I agree that the balance of soft/hardware in a rocket is shifted more to hardware side, I don't think their software is trivial. For instance, some of the delays to this last SpaceX launch due to software validation problems [1]. And
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by egor83 14y ago
It's indeed a tangent, but an awesome one, thanks! And they link to RHoK, which is also great.
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Ask HN: opensource projects for space industry?
7 points by egor83 14y ago|6 comments
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by egor83 14y ago
They've said a few times it'll take the rocket 3.5 days to get to the station. UPDATE: from [1]: Thursday May 24th - approaching station and maneuvering, Friday May 25th - docking, May 31st - return trip to Earth. [1]: http://blog.al.com/s
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by egor83 14y ago
You can rewind the webcast.
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by egor83 14y ago
I was referring to "ban the guy from being the CEO for 10 years", not prison sentence. As for prison effectiveness - that's a huge question that I'm just not qualified enough to discuss. I think US is a bit too zealous in this regard, but I
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by egor83 14y ago
More than that, I believe. That would also create a good incentive to avoid lies for the rest of executives.
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by egor83 15y ago
I was a bit confused at first when I was just starting to use GitHub, but got accustomed to it by now. Though making configurable menu or at least a lightweight option would indeed be nice, that would help people get used to the site. Seth
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by egor83 15y ago
press '?' to get a list of available keyboard shorcuts
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by egor83 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (St. Petersburg, Russia) Python/Django (more into backend) Libraries/APIs: Twilio, OAuth, some Google APIs, BeautifulSoup, basic scraping. Developed for Linux server, cloud (GAE), basic scripts for Windows. Comfortable
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by egor83 15y ago
Results visualization: http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=3771...
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by egor83 15y ago
MetaFilter.com has a good community. It's not focused on any subject; maybe a little inclined towards humanities/literature, but by no means limited to it. I sometimes see the same articles discussed there and on HN.
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by egor83 15y ago
An experiment in this field is "Iron Sky"[1] - while most of their financing (EUR 6.3M out of EUR 7.5M ~ USD 10M) comes from traditional sources, they also tried to raise EUR 1.2M from the crowd. This financing would come in two parts: as i
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by egor83 15y ago
you can track replies to yours at http://hnnotify.com/
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by egor83 15y ago
Thanks! It would also be nice to see a summary, or at least put new+in above zero, and deleted+out below it.
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by egor83 15y ago
Same discussion in Gmane: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/699983
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by egor83 15y ago
There's one thing he forgot to compare: number of employees. According to Wikipedia, Facebook has 3000+ employees, and SAP AG has 53513. So, profit per employee is ~300k for FB and 22k for SAP.
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by egor83 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (St. Petersburg, Russia) Python, GAE. Relatively new to these, though I worked on a few client projects, so I know from experience I don't require mentoring to get things done with Python. Also did several small person

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