Specifically, the book "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python" is freely available online (although it seems to have recently been renamed "Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design". It's an excellent resource for first-time programmers; it starts with "The Way of the Program" and shows how to use the command line interpreter, then gradually moves on to control flow, data structures, building GUIs, etc.
This fits with what some other studies have shown in the past... in the short run. Depression is often cyclical; people get more or less depressed over time and will often be fine for long periods of time. So simply by taking nothing and waiting, they'll often start to feel better soon. This is why taking anti-depression meds is almost indistinguishable from a placebo in the short run, except in the most severe cases.
The real test is how effective the meds are at preventing future episodes of depression, or at least limiting how bad they are. TFA doesn't go into enough detail on the length of time over which the data was collected, so I don't know what it has to say about this.
The Python dev team knows that it will take years for Python 3.0 to be considered the default for most people; they've said as much on their mailing list. That's one of the main reasons why they're backporting as many features as they can to the 2.6 release - basically everything that doesn't break backwards compatibility.
Only for public websites. Most of my web programming is for internal corporate websites. In those cases we only have to support one browser, which is usually the latest version of IE. So once IE8 and/or Firefox 3 become the primary browser(s) for company machines, I'll be able to program to the standards.
This seems unnecessary due to Firefox's "Master Password" feature. You can use a different password for every site and have Firefox remember those passwords. Then create one good master password which Firefox uses to decrypt the other passwords. I don't think your proposed feature would be any more secure than this.
Not only that, but it'd also be a horrible idea to pull the prank from the comic on Linus Torvalds, since his wife won the karate champion of Finland for several years.
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Specifically, the book "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python" is freely available online (although it seems to have recently been renamed "Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design". It's an excellent resource for first-time programmers; it starts with "The Way of the Program" and shows how to use the command line interpreter, then gradually moves on to control flow, data structures, building GUIs, etc.
You can find it at http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/
Sibling posts are quoting Hanlon's Razor, but I prefer Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
This fits with what some other studies have shown in the past... in the short run. Depression is often cyclical; people get more or less depressed over time and will often be fine for long periods of time. So simply by taking nothing and waiting, they'll often start to feel better soon. This is why taking anti-depression meds is almost indistinguishable from a placebo in the short run, except in the most severe cases.
The real test is how effective the meds are at preventing future episodes of depression, or at least limiting how bad they are. TFA doesn't go into enough detail on the length of time over which the data was collected, so I don't know what it has to say about this.
The Python dev team knows that it will take years for Python 3.0 to be considered the default for most people; they've said as much on their mailing list. That's one of the main reasons why they're backporting as many features as they can to the 2.6 release - basically everything that doesn't break backwards compatibility.
Only for public websites. Most of my web programming is for internal corporate websites. In those cases we only have to support one browser, which is usually the latest version of IE. So once IE8 and/or Firefox 3 become the primary browser(s) for company machines, I'll be able to program to the standards.
This seems unnecessary due to Firefox's "Master Password" feature. You can use a different password for every site and have Firefox remember those passwords. Then create one good master password which Firefox uses to decrypt the other passwords. I don't think your proposed feature would be any more secure than this.
Not only that, but it'd also be a horrible idea to pull the prank from the comic on Linus Torvalds, since his wife won the karate champion of Finland for several years.
Python 3000 is fixing that issue with PEP 3104: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3104/