You could add something to the effect of 'say nothing you wouldn't say to our face'.
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Isn't that demographic also your target audience for this post?
See pp (http://www.parallelpython.com/) for something similar, without the django dependency. More parallel processing goodies at http://wiki.python.org/moin/ParallelProcessing.
It looks like Scribd is building a reader for the iPhone, and this app will also allow searching within Simon & Shuster pbooks. This is interesting because it sounds similar to what you can do with Google Books, though on a much smaller scale.
Also from the WSJ article, Scribd's PDFs can be read on the Sony Reader but not on the Kindle DX - which means they've probably adopted Adobe's DRM. Are we going to see DRM-free paid content from Scribd at some point?
In CPython, exit is actually an object of type site.Quitter (the actual class is implementation dependent). site.Quitter overrides the __repr__ special method (which is called by the interpreter on any expression typed in the shell to print the result). site.Quitter also overrides the __call__ special method, so when an object of type site.Quitter is called, the overridden __call__ method invokes system exit.
>>> exit_class = type(exit) #gets a reference to the class
>>> my_exit = exit_class('bye') #the arg is used to print the message
>>> my_exit
Use bye() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>> my_exit()
<python shell exits>
From http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-l...:
"At this time we aren't using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future," says Marissa Mayer.
I suppose they are going to wait until they get a meaningful amount of user data before they start using it.
In a way, search engines already account for up-modding by factoring in which links you click on when you are given a page of search results. But you are more likely to click on results already at the top, so I wouldn't give too much weight to that information.
The SearchWiki concept has a lot of potential if Google decides to go down that path though.
If I were the Topsy team, I would also worry about Twitter adding a static option to their own search. Unless of course I am hoping to go the Summize route.
The screen changes automatically when you rotate your Kindle from portrait to landscape or vice versa. Or, you can lock your screen to a particular orientation to fit your reading position.
However, since this is a much bigger device, I am not sure if reading in bed is going to work the same way it does for the iPhone.
1. Acceptable
2. Trivial to spell and pronounce for target audience (and from lacker's comment, I suppose investors too)
3. Unique enough to be the top result when searched by name
4. No existing trademarks
5. An intelligent answer for how the name is associated with the product
6. Unregistered .com
I try not to spend more than a few hours brainstorming names because it's an endless process. The product should define the name, not the other way around.
Sending an email like this to Arrington and telling him he might find it 'interesting' amounts to saying 'print this'. Further, all involved parties in a story do not have to agree before it's published. If an employee is harassed by her manager, does the NYT seek the manager's permission before publishing the story? I have indulged in TC-bashing on several previous occasions, but I don't think expecting Arrington to keep this stuff confidential is reasonable under the circumstances. If anyone's to blame, it's Goodrich.
And as far as Arrington's reputation is concerned, I don't think it's going to take a hit - he's a 'journalist' and he has to make a living =) It might actually save him some trouble because now people are going to think twice before sending him 'interesting' crap.
"I think he meant the submission to Wikipedia, not the meta-submission on HN. Now if the Wikipedia page had a section about the HN discussion of the submission to Wikipedia, things would get more interesting."
I hope the wikipedia entry is deleted, it doesn't quite capture the essence of HN.
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