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by jliechti1 13y ago
Check out his talk here, he talks about that and much more: "Guido van Rossum on the History of Python": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugqu10JV7dk
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Tim Berners-Lee: No Snooping on the Internet (2009)(w3.org)
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by jliechti1 13y ago
This was discussed pretty recently in this thread on "Python Newbie Mistakes, Part 1". Default values for functions in Python are instantiated when the function is defined, not when it’s called. Thread: https://news.y
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by jliechti1 13y ago
This reminds of the secret night club in an abandoned water tower (also in NYC) from last month, albeit larger in scale. article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/nyregion/illicit-nightclub... photos:
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by jliechti1 13y ago
Alumni here. Wow, this has been circulating among my Facebook friends and I saw the article when it came out. Did not expect to see it on the front page of HN. I'll try to add a little more information. The article mentions it briefly, but
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by jliechti1 13y ago
I guess it's time for Linus Torvalds to do some web programming. (joke) His report shows: "Linus seems to speak only one programming language: C. Maybe it's about time to branch out a bit."
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by jliechti1 13y ago
Do you have any summarized results to share from using this yourself? Also, I might be interested in helping you get this to analyze non-ASCII texts.
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by jliechti1 13y ago
As a Dvorak (and primarily Mac) user, the switching back and forth on Windows is really annoying for me. I always assumed there must be some system setting that would allow you to switch it for everything. However, this can be pretty easily
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by jliechti1 13y ago
Hey, this is pretty cool. Does this style of annotation exist for any other libraries/projects? I think the left side could be expanded into a pretty good pedagogical tool using mini-examples and explanations to focus on key concepts in the
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by jliechti1 14y ago
I liked this comment on the article. This is the kind of feeling I had while reading it: "Lets take 5 data points and project backwards 3x the range of the observed data. Science! Regression!! There's no way this could be wrong, right?"
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by jliechti1 14y ago
Agreed. As a pianist, I not only look at the position of individual notes, but also the positions of the next 3 to 6 consecutive notes. This way I can think in "groups" of notes - which is very helpful for sightreading broken chords quick
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by jliechti1 14y ago
This reminds me of an interesting short story entitled "Understand" that I read a few years ago. The premise of the story deals with the question "what would it be like to find meaning and order in everything you saw?". Naturally, language
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by jliechti1 14y ago
Agreed. That, or put a small reminder on the first step (or on each step) that lets users know they can use the arrow keys. Seeing the arrow in 'Next→' was not intuitive for me (if that was intended to convey that you can change steps with
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by jliechti1 14y ago
For those who have been trying to scrape pages that make AJAX requests, something you can not do with BeautifulSoup alone - I would recommend using Selenium Server ( http://docs.seleniumhq.org/ ). This allows you to automate a real browser
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Watching the Entrepreneurial Flame Flicker(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by jliechti1 14y ago
As a web person looking to get "closer to the metal", this is the kind of course I'm looking for. I also like the idea of daily bite-sized tasks assigned via email and the private mailing list for users sounds nice. In addition to these, wi
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by jliechti1 14y ago
Hey, there is a Facebook group where people are coordinating plans and discussing options: http://www.facebook.com/groups/263608800427362/ See you there!
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by jliechti1 14y ago
I created a Facebook group for people who are attending to coordinate transportation, lodging, etc...also it'd be great to meet some people before I go! http://www.facebook.com/groups/263608800427362/
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by jliechti1 14y ago
Side note: Ray Dalio (founder of Bridgewater Associates) is an incredibly interesting guy. He wrote a 100 page handbook entitled "Principles" that describes his life philosophy in detail and is required reading material for all new associat
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by jliechti1 14y ago
>"I would like to point out that the '$30 microprocessor' in 2012 would have needed a refrigerator size computer 20 years ago when the Onity system was designed. Twenty years from now all of our current 'state of the art' security will
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by jliechti1 14y ago
The main points of the article are well-summarized at the end, TL;DR: "It’s not illegal to film a murder. It’s not illegal to possess a film of a murder. But it’s still illegal to murder people. And it’s illegal to initiate a murder for the
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by jliechti1 14y ago
My experience with Labview is that it makes (relatively) difficult things easy (creating GUIs), and easy things difficult (complex number crunching).
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by jliechti1 14y ago
I think the bigger problem in Mandarin is the large number of homophones (at least, for me). To help speakers of non-tonal languages understand how difficult it is to differentiate between tones, after you get used to hearing them - it is a
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by jliechti1 15y ago
The censorship of Ron Paul really is pretty incredible. The Daily Show clip was already mentioned in this thread - here's another example I noticed the other day in the Chicago Tribune: I just pulled out three random stories: http://www.ch