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Does it though? All of spotlight's extra functionality seems to work even with wifi turned off. Even things like currency conversion rates seem to be stored locally.

EDIT: I just noticed I have spotlight settings turned off. Unless I forgot turning it off, I was either asked whether I wanted to turn it on, or it's off by default now.

I may, but the Canadian political landscape right now is one where the ruling party has a majority so they can push through pretty much any bill they want. Also the party has pretty much discouraged MPs from expressing any opinions counter to the party line.

Hey, that sounds like my MP (and anyone else with a conservative MP)

It's not like there is much we can do about it :(

I wish it was possible to know how much of that 5–6% were actual users, and how much were people running tests.

It is all self-reporting based on the classifiers given to PyPI (NetworkX lists itself as supporting Python 3, Python3.2–Python3.4). It seems like both it and twisted would benefit from a Python3–partial classifier

It's too bad that the WoS isn't able to display things like partial-support (https://twisted.readthedocs.org/en/latest/core/howto/python3...).

Unity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29

Agreed. Half the reason I've kept my pre-order was as a reminder.

Even with key match, this is a fundamentally different product.

With the original Lockitron, a renter could just install it wherever they were currently staying. With the Bolt, the renter has to get permission to install a new deadbolt and has to get a new key pattern each time.

I'm not going to lie, that does sound similar to my experience with iTunes on OS X (though I do remember it somehow being even worse on Windows).

You might enjoy reading up on the French Republican Calendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar) then, and see what could have been.

Seconded. I recently moved a work project from py2exe to pyInstaller and was very happy with the results.

It probably doesn't help that people spend more time inside in close quarters during cold weather.

Unfortunately, I think they are just based on the reality of the situation. According to the person who is responsible for PyPI, ~5X as many people use 2.6 than 3.X.

More likely, Alex does not want to spend the time to provide moderation for a comments section. His stance is that Twitter is bad because the kind of community it creates—it would be silly for him to create a comment section that similarly failed to meet his expectations.

It is perfectly fine for Alex to criticize Twitter without providing his own alternative (though he does tacitly recommend using IRC and Facebook instead). Alex is a Rackspace employee who also is heavily involved in the Python community. The expectations on him for providing a space to talk are completely different than a company who's business is providing a communications platform.

It's possible they eventually plan adding write support using xlwt.

I purchased a developer Peak when they first came out. I used it as my primary phone for about a month on two different occasions when I was between phones.

In theory it was nice to just have a basic, but in practice I had to tether it to my computer or Nexus 7 for anything more than a quick text or Facebook message. The OS isn't there yet (though 2.0 is getting there) and the touchscreen is a thing that constantly needed to be fought against.

What I found I was really longing for was a small dumbphone that had LTE so I could tether when I needed to get work done/browse the web

It was PyObjC.

Sometimes I wonder, would it be worth moving to Bermuda so that I could own poop.bm

I ran into some code a few days ago that wouldn't install because it was checking OS X version as a string and '10.10' < '10.5'. Bad code will always find a way

I can't read most of it, but it looks like his application letter to Atari. It's addressed to someone at Atari, and has his name and signature at the bottom.

I would say fn and mod are a lot better than cdr and car. At least fn and mod are just abbreviations of the words they represent.

cdr and car requires me to know 60-year-old implementation details of Lisp.

As far as I could tell, Atom didn't have per-syntax settings. That made it a non-starter for me.

Python has a solution to this. There are decorators that allow you to access methods as if they are properties:

    class Foo(object):
        def __init__(self, bar):
            self._bar = bar

        @property
        def bar(self):
            return self._bar

        @bar.setter
        def bar(self, value):
            self._bar = value

> I've always been put off by thinking that I'd just be embarrassed because I'm not good enough and they'd laugh at my code.

The good news is that you already sound like a programmer. It's been a decade since I first started programming and I'm excited when I don't cringe at code I wrote half a year ago.

The fact that you seem driven and willing to learn should be assets when you are applying.

My JS knowledge isn't great. In python, I can do operator overloading such that `obj[item] = value` does something completely different than assignment. Is that possible with JavaScript?

You can connect to it using an IRC client, but you lose the ability to view history or make edits to posts

Just a heads up, !m also leads you to Google Maps

I might go as far as saying that MS Paint for Windows Vista is the my favorite program period. It had every feature I could want (excluding transparency) and nothing else. The interface was quick and intuitive. I think it was pretty much perfect