cilantro

I couldn't disagree more. A federated network of world facing webservers goes far beyond what anyone is presently offering. This idea is older than facebook. I would love for someone to pull it off.

One can only imagine what future anthropologists will make of early internet culture.

Ah good point. I would just suggest that listening to someone pray and praying may be quite similar for very religious people.

You can't take that statement at face value. Part of the point of prayer is to focus your mind and block out irrelevant thoughts and stimuli. (Is it not?) I'd like to see how brain activity of people praying compares to those in meditation.

Anyone else remember when the official bittorrent site had "THERE IS NO PORN HERE (ANYMORE)" or something to that effect splashed across the top of the page?

Easy there. (This isn't actually a youtube comment thread!)

This is just a visual metaphor for standard mutiplicaton process. They are fundamentally the same thing. I personally think the way in the video has the potential to help children assimilate the process faster and/or better than otherwise.

You have to 'carry the one' just like the regular multiplication algorithm they teach in schools.

Doesn't seem so bad to me... http://i.imgur.com/W7NIR.png

Some more context: I had been programming for most of year, and I had two university courses under my belt. (OO in Java and Data Structures in C++) I was feeling pretty good with basic Python and had a couple modules in the standard library down. Reading an introductory book aimed at experienced programmers seemed (and still seems) perfectly reasonable, especially when I could not (at the time) find alternate examples of code covered in a couple chapters.

I agree completely. I made the mistake of turning to this book when I was still getting the hang of both python and programming. It taught me very little and really made my head hurt. I make sure to tell others to stay the hell away when I am asked about learning python.

I love the irony that you have to log in to read the docs.

The point of waterlesscloud's post is that we shouldn't assume things we don't know. This is also the point of your post, I think. Also you need to brush up on statistics if you thing your logic proves much of anything.

I guess I should thank you before I install the script.

As an aside, what does everyone think of my new StackExchange site? I'm rather surprised that there wasn't one already for this topic, so I set one up. I have no clue wtf I'm doing when it comes to building a community, so any tips are appreciated.

I find this tool excels at drawing bacon.

http://i.imgur.com/3uDPO.png

I read the Ars article to mean: "We won't judge you for blocking our ads, at the same time, please don't judge us if we choose to block content from those who block our ads."