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user20683

01:24

exploringdata.github.com/vis/…

user20683

This is really cool

Yannis Rizos

08:16

@benbrocka Let me know if you notice a burst of upvotes in your answer here or anything else out of the ordinary, the question might need protecting soon...

Yannis Rizos

09:09

> Ruby and Python's core devs cooperating? Hersey! But amazing that somehow both maintainers of that subsystem actually answered that question. And I once doubted the need for a programmers StackExchange considering we already had SO...

Q: Experience of Python's “PEP-302 New Import Hooks”

I'm one of the developers of Ruby (CRuby). We are working on Ruby 2.0 release (planned to release 2012/Feb). Python has "PEP302: New Import Hooks" (2003): This PEP proposes to add a new set of import hooks that offer better customization of the Python import mechanism. Contrary to the curren...

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Ben Brocka

11:06

@YannisRizos I have no idea what you're talking about the semantics thing?

Yannis Rizos

@BenBrocka I've shared it around, and it already got 200+ additional views in the first hour... Having the top voted answer there you'll probably be the first to notice if the thread suddenly explodes (you'll know by the rain of upvotes)...

Ben Brocka

Nothing at all yet

Yannis Rizos

@BenBrocka I know, my "this will bring us tons of people from reddit" detector is slightly off lately. Anyway don't worry about it, if you happen to notice lots of upvotes, take a quick look for sub par answers (comments as answers, mostly) and flag so we can protect it.

crucified soul

Hi all, I'm very much interested in research on prgramming languages (not compiler construction). Can anyone suggest where to begin?

Yannis Rizos

11:24

@crucifiedsoul If you are at a very early stage, you might want to check out this Coursera course: Programming Languages

...and since programming language design is more of a Computer Science concept than a software development one, Computer Science Stack Exchange might also be worth checking out.

crucified soul

11:54

@YannisRizos Thanks for the course link. CS.SE is focused on language grammar, automata, algorithm, data structure. I don't think there's room for different programming paradigms (why they are suitable for specific domains), DSL, language constructs, concurrency

Yannis Rizos

@crucifiedsoul Those topics would be on topic on Programmers though ;)

maple_shaft

Relationships and Dating

Proposed Q&A site for proposed Q&A site for people seeking answers to questions about dating, long term relationships, love, marriage or other commitments, and everything else typically considered a "relationship".

Currently in definition.

Follow and vote if anybody is interested!

Ben Brocka

> Proposed Q&A site for proposed Q&A

Warning, nested Q&A loop detected

maple_shaft

@BenBrocka So what did you mean by NPR 2.0 funland?

Thomas Owens

If SE keeps growing, we might need a Q&A site about Q&A.

Yannis Rizos

12:07

@ThomasOwens Isn't that what Meta is about?

Thomas Owens

@YannisRizos On a more abstract sense. Meta, in a non Meta way. As in literally questions about how to ask questions or questions about how to answer questions. Because soon, people from all interests will be on SE and will want to know how to effectively ask questions on the Internet and in real life.

Ben Brocka

@ThomasOwens That's still on topic on Meta

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Ben Brocka

15:37

derp wrong room

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