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  1. happy about python moratorium. now's a good time to start converting my code to 3.0, without feeling like i'm always chasing a moving target
  2. @flipzagging dozens of studies, the most famous probably being the stanford prison experiment and the milgram experiment
  3. good and evil is inherent in a person to a remarkably small degree; instead, we are largely the product of circumstances.
  4. i'm starting to come to the conclusion that being slightly crazy is the only way to maintain your sanity long term.
  5. tonight @abossy will be presenting watchuwant.tv at the New Tech Meetup in Palo Alto http://is.gd/4MpiD live stream: http://is.gd/4Mplk
  6. surgery museum makes you grateful for any modern healthcare whatsoever http://is.gd/4L8uK
  7. people should wear name badges all the time, not just when they're at a conference/event. life would be a lot simpler.
  8. this made my day: "One of the things I respect about Linus is that he's such a gifted troll. :)" http://is.gd/4xQIo
  9. anyone driving to the dinner reception at Y Combinator tomorrow? can i get a ride (from palo alto)? thanks. #sus09
  10. @flipzagging welcome to online self-segregation :) you can almost always tell just from the hashtag which of the parallel networks it's from
  11. @flipzagging other examples: parser w/o explicit state; filters that branch and merge a la yahoo pipes (my current goal)
  12. @flipzagging try coding any natural pattern like a chain of filters using just python coroutines w/o an abstraction layer. it's terrible.
  13. figured out a possible abstraction layer for python coroutines. plan to code it and test it out in the next few days.
  14. wow, looks like youtube is rolling out more social networking functionality. this should be interesting.
  15. ah, the "bear caught in the headlights" look :-) http://is.gd/4mOyM
  16. there's a hacker news 'leaderboard' and someone is being 'congratulated' for being the new '#1'. oh, the absurdity.
  17. massively collaborative research (polymath project) achieves first successes. this is the future of all science (i hope!) http://is.gd/4koCx
  18. RSS failed because it was developed for a world with information scarcity. but the world changed; it's attention that's scarce now
  19. dear SOSP folks: i have nothing to do with RAMcloud. i have a namesake at stanford. i had another at UTCS. the laws of probability hate me.
  20. "De-anonymization is not X: The Need for Re-identification Science" (an unabashedly technical post) http://is.gd/4jM4O