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Why Reddit uses Python
During Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s Pycon Keynote , someone asked why Reddit was moved from Lisp to Python . The reason for moving wasn’t too interesting, but why they have stayed is. Steve gave two “huge” reasons Reddit continues to use Python:
E Text Editor: Releasing the Source
人気のある自動車保険を口コミやランキングで検証!
Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA
The Register recently published an article titled, “Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala“, prompting a wave of Tweets (Twitter messages for the jargon challenged)
Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
I’m an avid reader of news.yc , but it’s annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken. So, I decided to dust off my Lisp skills and give it a go. The biggest chunk was adding code to do conversion from UNIX timestamps to UTC in Arc. Significant stuff that works now:
PEP 374 – Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
That's Only Ten Lines Of Code
I've gotten used to the snarky and cynical comments that people make on techcrunch and other tech blogs when there's a post about a startup that get's funded. It's a good thing that people debate and discuss these investments. Clearly not every venture investment that is made is a good one. In fact I've written […]
Some AI Koans
These are some of the funniest examples of a genre of jokes told at the MIT AI Lab about various noted hackers. The original koans were composed by Danny Hillis, who would later found Connection Machines, Inc. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Minsky, Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of…
Using /usr/local
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
Understanding Git
Git is quickly becoming one of the most popular version control systems in use. There are plenty of tutorials on Git already. How is this one different?
Django 1.1 beta released
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 23, 2009
How to Write Fast Code
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
The Most Unusual (and Best) Computer Language Book I've Ever Seen.
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby by _why the lucky stiff. CC BY-SA 2.5.
Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy Steps
I just installed a “hello world” Chrome extension from this Chrome Extension tutorial page. When you surf to www.google.com, the Google logo is replaced with a Lolcat: Here’s how …
GNU Emacs Video Editing
Independent xxxxx research organisation examines the software real, life and live coding, autodestructive strategy and crash-falsified revelation