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Looks solid!

Thanks. Looks pretty perfect.

I'd love to know what "super fast" means. Are we talking about ETL jobs that would take hours? We run our batch file processing jobs in Python. It's not the fastest. But in a world where we can bring up more instances/containers to help process the work faster, I'd love to know how much faster COBOL is at these jobs that it'd be interesting to consider against the alternatives.

Thanks for the info. The Carbon looks really good, so it's good to know someone's already successfully put Linux on it without issues. Two questions: have you tried hooking up two monitors to it and if you connect an external monitor to the laptop and then close the lid do things work as expected?

Looks pretty awesome.

I've tried that and it just feels incomplete. The VM competes for resources with the host machine. And then it's a bit awkward where the focus of the mouse is. When you run Linux natively you can get fancy with window/tiling managers (I really want to play with i3). Life is just better when things are simpler.

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While what the AlphaGo team has accomplished is nothing short of amazing, I'm not sure if everyone's thinking about this in the right context. While playing there's a "super computer" behind the scenes with these specs 1,920 CPUs and 280 GPUs [0]. Then consider all the machines used to train this neural net. I'd say Sedol's brain is pretty freaking powerful. Also, with that much computing power I would expect AlphaGo to win with the right team and the right approach to solving the problem. It would be very interesting to change the rules and limit the processing power of the computer playing a human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo

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This is the first I've heard of Falcon. Have you used it for a "real" project? It'd be interesting to know the tradeoffs when considering it against something like Django Rest Framework. Looking at the benchmark figures on the Falcon site, it's sad that Python 3 underperforms Python 2. I wish Python 3 had the slightest performance win, it'd be an easier sell. Hate to shift the topic to Python 2/3 talks, but I've wanted to switch for a while now, and it's still not the simplest sell.

While time will tell if we ever actually see this drones in action, imagine how cool it must be for the people working on this project. They get to go to work each day playing with some really fancy model airplanes. Plus, this is Amazon pushing yet another aspect of technology forward. They may overwork their employees, but cool things are coming out of those offices.

Thanks! Pocket looks interesting. I'll try it out.

I really wish we as a community just set a date and ported. As it is right now there's almost zero chance that the project I'm working on will get ported to Python 3. I'm not sure what it'll take, but I really wish we were passed this stage.

You're missing a dash on the AWS podcast: http://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast

Thanks for mentioning this, didn't know AWS had a podcast.

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* NodeUp - http://nodeup.com

* This American Life - http://thisamericanlife.org/

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Anyone know if Ubuntu will do the retina justice?

Wanted to wait on my own response so as not to influence peoples' responses. I'm a software developer and I've recently been thinking that one of the skills that I'd like to improve on is writing. Never late to work on, but it would've been great to put a little more effort into it earlier in life.

That's really interesting. I would've thought it'd be useful trying to understand more complicated texts in college.

As a developer with a fairly interesting background, I've been getting messages from recruiters for years. As Aline's post elucidates, most of the messages are completely impersonal. I had been ignoring these e-mails for years. I then got a message from a recruiter that was really well written and completely geared towards me. I was shocked that someone took the time to actually read my resume. That recruiter got a response from me. He then lined me up with a gig. His approach also got four other people hired at the job he lined me up with.

Tyler, as someone who constantly thinks about different avenues of working on my own, it's really informative to hear stories such as yours. Plus, your story is usually the one people gloss over. We usually hear about the two projects a year that make billions and the ones that completely fail. It's refreshing to hear about an app that made money and gave you the financial stability to take a couple more risks. Thanks for sharing!

In case you're looking for a link to Joe's 2013 "Prags" book. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Concurrent-Pragmati...

On the Python 3 subject, I'd be highly interested in seeing if there any performance wins by switching your Django deployment to Python 3 over something like Python 2.7.

At this point they haven't really done anything. I'm really curious to see what they come up with.

Looks like HN traffic hosed their site...

Having used both Haskell's package manager cabal and Python's pip and easy_install. Cabal has a long way to go before it's anything like pip. You can see cabal moving in the right direction, but pip is leagues ahead of it right now, especially when using virtualenv.

I really liked this. Unfortunately emacs bindings are the same as browser bindings so I kept killing my browser session and or browser tab.

This is the most amazing example of an MVP that I've ever seen. Lesson learned...

Having used both git and hg in my own projects, I have strong feelings towards both, although in the end they're like siblings who got the same lessons from their parents and just choose to go to different colleges.

With that said, I'm not sure this post really pushes one to use hg. The comments about being close to svn are pretty lame. While I get the point; subtle differences really won't matter after the first week. And getting over the mental difference that comes with distributed version control is a lot more to take in than a couple letter changes in commands.

The two things I most like about git are how -- by default -- you can choose line-by-line what gets commited. Where as the default in hg is to commit all changes. This actually changes how I find myself coding and my comfort with the repo. I know you can do something similar in hg, but it's a bit of a nuisance.

The other standout is how simple branching is in git.

I highly agree with linguist on this point. It's very unlikely a homophonic substitution was used here. It's more complicated than you'd think. A great read on the subject can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography... if anyone's interested in learning more about cryptography. Very interesting.

What do you mean by "strong" enough? Are you just talking about strongly typed?