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by nacker 14y ago
The best argument for the quality of anything, is that it succeeds despite lacking "sexiness". I first encountered python in 1993, and although I was intrigued, my first reaction was that it could never become popular, because it was too
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Where is the sense of history of someone whose entire experience of programming probably extends no further than 2-3 years into the past? This is a systemic problem in software. The average age of a "cutting-edge" programmer is always goin
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by nacker 14y ago
No, Python will not be "taking over the broader programming world", nor will any other language. Of course Python will go on, hopefully, being used only where appropriate. As for your n = "?" (your ex=colleagues) anecdote, it is laughable,
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Not only your country. It takes a little effort to understand why. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l...
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I know that there are many Brazilians who seize on any opportunity to point to Brazilian corruption, and corruption IS a big problem, but THIS is not an issue where Brazil is worse than many other countries. Take the case of Germany. Free
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It wasn't due to a Youtube video. That is a PSYOP. I mean, really, how can people fall for this stuff? Massive instant demonstrations in multiple countries in response to a lame 30 minute video on Youtube? Please. Don't believe the hyp
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by nacker 14y ago
Jail for a Tweet? In the UK, it's OK. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121003/Liam-Stacey-...
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by nacker 14y ago
Yes, on the page you linked, it states: "Government requests for content removal are high in Brazil relative to other countries partly because of the popularity of our social networking website, orkut." In other words, the high number of ta
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by nacker 14y ago
Ah, but who is really to determine what is legitimate or illegitimate? My country, your country? The Google shareholders? The RIAA? The fact is that Google complies with US requests at a far higher rate than any other country's. It's a U
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"Brazil is the number 1 country in number of takedown requests to Google" I had heard that too. It's not true. Of course, it's the US. And the US is ahead in the percent of requests complied with by Google (93%) which is the important thi
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by nacker 14y ago
But will it run on my N900?!
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by nacker 14y ago
Congratulations, you have just realized that you are owned by the Tax Farmers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67_imEHTPE
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by nacker 14y ago
Although I'm in favor of paranoia generally, I don't think it was suggested by the US. All you need to know about "plans" for the EU was divulged by Vladimir Bukovsky a few years ago. http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
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"The article doesn't really answer why the services cost so much." The video ends with the author explaining that it is due to a cartel of 5 or 6 companies getting together to fix prices with "non-compete" agreements. Where is the governme
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I agree 100%! This is the main point that the article misses. Open hardware and open software are completely useless if the networks are not open. The open internet as we know it would never have happened unless it had been provided by
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by nacker 14y ago
In spite of the Elop shenanigans at Nokia, Qt is very healthy, and Qt5 has even been demoed on the Raspberry Pi. Pyside is now totally integrated and mature. Please take a look. http://qt-project.org/wiki/PySide-Tutorials-by-Experience-Le
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by nacker 14y ago
There is a Door on Browsers for Python right here: http://pyjs.org/examples/ https://github.com/pyjs/pyjs/wiki/GettingStarted Needs more developers... (Hint)
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"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." Oscar Wilde
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New Software Makes Synthesizing DNA As Easy As ‘Drag and Drop’ With Icons(singularityhub.com)
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Thank God for the renegades, and the lives they lead Far ahead of their time Without the renegades, Lord knows where we'd be When it comes to heroes, Renegades are mine They railed against the crown, Another rag tag band Declaring Independe
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There was a time when I should have felt terribly ashamed of not being up-to-date. I lived in a chronic apprehension lest I might, so to speak, miss the last bus, and so find myself stranded and benighted, in a desert of demodedness, while
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by nacker 14y ago
Yet another "I dismissed the Atkins diet until I tried it" article. Poor old Atkins. Even the so-chic Paleo diet is pretty much what he recommended back in 1965.
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No one who has the slightest degree of awareness of reality, and who is not in a state of denial, can possibly think that any legal negotiation on the part of the TSA is in good faith on their part. What is it going to take before Americans
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by nacker 14y ago
Even more succinct tl;dr: - It's a diversity problem. Too much money in the hands of white guys in suits. "I don't think there's too much money sitting around. I think there's too much money in too few hands. So when six white guys in su
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I enjoyed the article, and found the end disappointing and surprising in equal measure. It certainly confounds the readers expectation of "closure". It made me think of that classic Rumsfeld line: "There are a lot of people who lie and get
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by nacker 14y ago
Well, it appears that other people received the comment well. I thought it was fair and relevant. However, it is tedious to read threads that have been hijacked by this kind of sniping.
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by nacker 14y ago
Have you looked at http://pyjs.org ? I can't understand why it has got so little traction. Is GWT not considered a "proper" GUI library?
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by nacker 14y ago
Paradoxically, Lisp depletes the ego. Too many choices. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
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by nacker 14y ago
Wait, do you really want to know? Really, really? OK, http://www.obamasrealfather.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY
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by nacker 14y ago
No, really. I was expecting downvotes and I see I'm getting them. I understand people don't want to hear this. Why am I saying this then? I have nothing to gain. Altruism. It exists. Run for the hills! http://pt.scribd.com/doc/95493792/

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