This shit matters. Marco’s not just scratching an itch and he’s absolutely not just scooting a bunch of code fragments between text files. He’s making things that he believes will really help people. And they do.
- arunthampi
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"as we’re introducing a whole new, completely cross-platform, way to sprite: base64 images. By encoding images as base64, we create a lossless text representation of images, allowing us not only to use them in whatever way we please, but to actually ship them with the code:"
- arunthampi
from Bookmarklet
"After Murdoch accused Google, Microsoft, and others of "stealing" his company's content, he was asked why he just doesn't pull his Web sites from Google's search results. "I think we will," Murdoch responded. "But that's when we start charging."" On Monday morning, Google responded to Murdoch's quotes in a report by the British publication The Telegraph. "Publishers put their content on the Web because they want it to be found," Google said in a statement. "Very few choose not to include their material in Google News and Web search. But if they tell us not to include it, we don't."
- arunthampi
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CNET got the headline wrong, should have been "NewsCorp accelerates towards irrelevancy by clinging onto outmoded subscription revenue model"
- Douglas
from twhirl
"This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to be released 18-24 months after 3.1) but allow Python 3.3 (assuming it is not released prematurely) to once again include language changes."
- arunthampi
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