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by limist 16y ago
I'm just pleased to see that the complaints/rants against python are few, and without much import (at least for me).
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US National Debt 1940-2010(visualizingeconomics.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|1 comments
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What are the lesser known but cool data structures?(stackoverflow.com)
174 points by limist 16y ago|44 comments
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by limist 16y ago
There was a common smugness to the tone of the article - borne of the comfort of parroting conventional/majority opinions - which your summary/comment makes explicit. Thanks.
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Is Europe Imploding?(iwallerstein.com)
5 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Alan Kay quotes(en.wikiquote.org)
4 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek(reason.com)
52 points by limist 16y ago|36 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Thanks for the follow-up! Oh well, at least those programming and CS books the site had collected tend towards being classics, and have some staying power. So the archive.org pages are still very useful.
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Half of social networkers post risky information, study finds(computerworld.com)
4 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Life After Moore's Law(forbes.com)
3 points by limist 16y ago|4 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Reframing is just a fantastic psychological tool/technique, and is the logical follow-up to Einstein's maxim that "The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation." This exam
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by limist 16y ago
Well yes, arguably learning Esperanto and speaking it for any purpose is already a sincere form of prayer. :) Python may not "need" these patterns, but python programmers might. At the minimum, I find it useful to know how design patterns
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by limist 16y ago
I was wondering the same thing, given python 2.6 and 3.1, and leafing through the GoF book lately. Exploring that line of inquiry would make for a good article (or two, or more).
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Patterns in Python(suttoncourtenay.org.uk)
63 points by limist 16y ago|24 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Cool, please post a follow-up if you find out why the site is down, thanks.
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Slick Operator: The BP I've known too well(gregpalast.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Did you mean: programmingbooks.org ? If yes, you can see the old pages here, which are definitely useful: http://web.archive.org/web/20080731211843/http://www.program... I especially liked the section "Books Every Programmer Should Read
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Persistence Pays Parasites, or Cory Doctorow phished(locusmag.com)
8 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
If nothing else, this proposal to simulate humanity on planet Earth is ambitious. The original paper is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4969
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by limist 16y ago
Many/most business predictions are wrong, but at least this set of forecasts is funny.
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Europe's Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet (technologyreview.com)
2 points by limist 16y ago|1 comments
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by limist 16y ago
Not only is this problem of great philosophical interest, I always find it sociologically interesting as well: people who don't see why there is a "hard problem" are typically entrapped believers in the materialist/deterministic paradigm.
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To learn better, take a nap (and don't forget to dream)(physorg.com)
4 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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Maxed out: Testing humans to destruction(newscientist.com)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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by limist 16y ago
With more context and eloquence, John Taylor Gatto has been saying this for years: adolescence is artificial, and dangerously so. See his sketch of the future Admiral Farragut, who took his first command at age 12: http://johntaylorgatto.
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Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’(truthdig.com)
15 points by limist 16y ago|9 comments
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Snake oil? Scientific evidence for popular supplements, visualized(informationisbeautiful.net)
1 points by limist 16y ago|0 comments
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The Best and Worst of Government Web Design(fastcompany.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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The Renter’s Manifesto(mint.com)
52 points by limist 17y ago|72 comments
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Knights of the Lambda Calculus(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments

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