"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number." - rabble
"Having worked on the odeo.com podcast feed crawler, i can say go with python. I'm a Ruby guy, i code in ruby every day, am writing a book about rails, etc... But i feel like you should use the right tool for the job. And for crawlers, that's python. Seriously folks, ActiveRecord isn't thread safe. Daemons fail. The feed parsers, while getting better, are really nowhere as good as python. And there is nothing like twisted in ruby." - rabble
"Having worked on the odeo.com podcast feed crawler, i can say go with python. I'm a Ruby guy, i code in ruby every day, am writing a book about rails, etc... But i feel like you should use the right tool for the job. And for crawlers, that's python. Seriously folks, ActiveRecord isn't thread safe. Daemons fail. The feed parsers, while getting better, are really nowhere as good as python. And there is nothing like twisted in ruby." - rabble