"Python is growing, but not towards Lisp. As Python becomes more popular, I expect advocates of other languages will try to claim it as a descendant of theirs"
"When I started looking at Django, there was a simple 4 step tutorial that I followed to get up to speed. I read through it and over the next couple days I got my simple app up and running. There is nothing like that for the ASP.NET MVC stuff"
"the dragonfly 1.12 kernel does not scale to a second CPU on the benchmarks performed.... In all cases measured, FreeBSD 7.0 performs significantly better than both FreeBSD 4.11 and dragonfly 1.12 in both SMP and UP configurations."
"The Git index is the killer feature of git. Now obviously Git has many other things going for it, but I was searching for the real differences between Git and Mercurial and this appears to be the trump card of Git."
"As much as I may like Ruby more as far as language design goes, not only does Python boast a very solid implementation, it has several advantages over Ruby that go beyond the interpreter."
"After running the numbers yet again, I'm going to stick with my current program of rotating drives to a safe deposit box which has a nice cafe next door in which to get a cappuccino in."
2 interesting images: "Left: All the water in the world ... including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere ... gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth"
simpy
