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Python Black Magic(jeffbail.com)
19 points by jbail 16y ago|24 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
I thought about mine a lot though. It was awesome in my imagination.
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by jbail 16y ago
Good idea or bad idea? Funny or not funny? Wearing a kilt could be a true social/political hack. If enough people did it, it would send a message. I think TSA employees would complain that they don't get paid enough to hand search a bunch o
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Ask/Show HN: TSAKilt.com(tsakilt.com)
2 points by jbail 16y ago|2 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
This could be considered bad timing for Crowdbooster. Or maybe not. Does this deter others from building businesses that are dependent on a third party app/API? Or does competition provide validation that the idea has merit?
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How China Swallowed 15 Percent of Internet Traffic for 18 Minutes(arstechnica.com)
6 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
I took CS at University of Wisconsin. Yes, you could collaborate and chat with your classmates, but copying/sharing code was absolutely not allowed. Maybe schools are more lax now, but I would frown upon copy and paste education. Developing
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Why Facebook Wants Your Email(technologyreview.com)
2 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
Great moral: "Information, properly delivered, is power."
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by jbail 16y ago
Last line of the article: "Who wants to bet on whether Facebook will replace Microsoft Word with a simple, integrated editor with built in sharing & chat?" That's the sharing I was talking about. I reference the theoretical text editor
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by jbail 16y ago
Sharing homework and asking somebody a question are completely different things. That said, if you can't figure out the name of the guy who was first to sign the Declaration of Independence by searching for it yourself or reviewing your not
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by jbail 16y ago
I've been trying nearly all the code samples and haven't run into any issues yet. I'm using version 2.7 of Python though. Haven't upgraded to 3.1 yet.
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by jbail 16y ago
Sharing homework. Great idea. Except that's called copying or cheating. At least it was in all of the academic institutions I went to. I do like the idea of being able to place a banner ad for a paper writing service right next to the soon
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by jbail 16y ago
To add to the free Python book fest, Learn Python the Hard Way http://learnpythonthehardway.com is excellent for beginners. If you do know how to program, Dive Into Python http://diveintopython.org is also excellent. They're both free.
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Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python (Free e-Book)(inventwithpython.com)
113 points by jbail 16y ago|22 comments
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Pssst Hey you - Wanna buy a failed email marketing company?(jeffbail.com)
2 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Apps Annoyances for Software Developers(jeffbail.com)
2 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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Gorillaz Record New Album on an iPad(mashable.com)
1 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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Pre-Roll Video Ads Suck (and how to fix them)(jeffbail.com)
1 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
That's what we did. All customers got an email saying they automatically received credit...as opposed to an email where they needed to click a link to claim their credit.
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by jbail 16y ago
We had a discussion at a previous software company I worked at regarding credits for outages. We were debating whether to give out credits automatically or to send an email with a link to get your credits (like Netflix did). We went with gi
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by jbail 16y ago
Does this mean Yahoo gets access to all your friends' email addresses? Or is that a moot point since they are likely drinking from the Facebook data firehose already?
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by jbail 16y ago
Calculating the balance between opposing gravitational and inertial forces is yet another reason why cats are awesome.
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48 Hours and 30,000+ Views Later - My First Blog Post - Lessons Learned(jeffbail.com)
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Yahoo's Informal Offer To Buy Groupon: $3 Billion To $4 Billion(businessinsider.com)
1 points by jbail 16y ago|0 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
I am admittedly late to the party. I went to a university where they taught Java (and unfortunately not Python). For the last 10 years, Java has paid the bills, and it still does, so I'm not knocking Java. I stuck with it for so long becau
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by jbail 16y ago
You can do one liners with lambda functions in Python. e.g: lambda x: x*2 http://diveintopython.org/power_of_introspection/lambda_func...
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First Impressions of Python from a Java Developer(jeffbail.com)
73 points by jbail 16y ago|97 comments
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by jbail 16y ago
I'm also hoping it doesn't become yet another browser with quirks and idiosyncrasies that devours web developer time. That said, I doubt it catches on inside corporations because corporations wouldn't want to encourage their employees to wa
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by jbail 16y ago
My first impression is that it doesn't seem that new or different. It looks like Google Chrome with social dingleberries on the sides.

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