lehmannro

Your arguments can be driven by your emotions but your emotions cannot be your arguments.

No matter what your collections will just keep growing (if you do not delete items but rather mark them DONE) so that could be a little demotivating.

It's a platform for open source developers granting access to exotic build environments. A communist server farm of buildbots, so to say. It aims for more cross-platform compatibility.

Snakebite will be publicly announced… soon. whoops.

I appreciate those two essays and highly enjoyed reading them. But when interpreting such works I'm always cautious not to read too much into small details. I found the overview about philosophy refreshing but when the author begins to claim the movie got it wrong in some place but insists on some special philosophical trait I become suspicious.

  import sys; sys.exit()
  import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
  import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
  import psyco; psyco.full()
  import pygtk; pygtk.require('2.0')

  $ python -c "import mymod; mymod.test()"

That way just about every application will end up supporting email (paraphrasing Jamie Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment).

If you rebuilt humans with whatever technology (we might use transistors, nature used neurons), how would they be different from real humans then? Why would you call the robot a trickster while saying you are no doubt conscious?

"Looking after yourself means everyone is looked after." Now beat me.

Am I misunderstanding you or are you really arguing that one should expect the EU to clean up after the US?

Apart from that the EU is actually doing things in Afghanistan as far as I know -- but more like the friendly-negotiative style, not the world's cop style.

For SMS, though, the reader (often a mobile phone device) has to read the message the moment it arrives (or it, well, won't arrive). Since tweets are not limited to one person, reading Twitter can happen asynchronously.

Personally I like to get up early (around 6am), go to bed when done for the day and nap when tired.

Our standards have changed, too -- not even a century ago, holocausts were considered absolutely appropriate (even by scientists!).

I cannot see any biological advantage of not eating your children in emergency situations -- i.e. where you need to eat the child (survival, extortion, ...) and she won't survive anyways.

"Trying to get PyPy to run on Python 3.0" <http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2008/04/trying-to-get-pypy-to-r...; If you followed PyPy's politics in the last few months, the headline's already yelling "APRIL FOOL" at you. I liked the "Automatic Program Reversion on Intermediate Languages" (APRIL). ;-)

"psychotic -- Pure Python code optimizer" <http://code.google.com/p/psychotic/>; The source is definitively worth a view.