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It can look bad to have high test scores and poor grades because it implies you were a lazy student. It's not a sentiment that I agree with but our guidance counselors basically put it to us that way.

I cant imagine how uncomfortable it would be to nap at someone's feet or have someone else napping at my feet while I'm trying to work.

If it were a dog bed though that would be nice. I could work with a four-legged companion at my feet.

I seem to be getting a 503, is there a mirror anywhere?

Agreed. OP should have seen this coming from a mile away but instead he got tricked into doing a weekend of freelance work.

Ahh. Found the realist in this thread. Leviathan isn't really taken too seriously these days in political philosophy although its taught extensively because its a great introduction and his influence is wide. Hobbes bases his argument on premises that are dubious at best. (Men and women being solitary, miserably brutal existence until society gave them order) His conclusions are also extreme in that he concludes we will enter into the social contract and resign any semblance of freedom other than our right to preserve our own lives at any cost. He also goes to extreme lengths to justify his premises and conclusions based on the bible which is interesting if not a very modern approach to political philosophy. Max Weber is an interesting read if you want something a little more modern. John Simmons is another one to check out.

The Gay Science is another great Nietzsche book. Pick up The Birth of Tragedy if you get a chance though, Nietzche's early views on history and science are also worth reading and considering.

Whoops, thanks. My phone doesn't like that word apparently

Great tutorial, I would love to see this rewritten with the new async / await syntax in python 3.5

This type of article seems to be a right of passage from basic to upper-level/intermediate understanding of Python. Where it really gets crazy is if you are making decorators that take parameters and in turn call decorated functions from within their block. You can do some really crazy stuff, even decorate classes.

I would like to see some more articles on Python metaclasses as I think that could benefit a lot of people.

Potentially, but the people with the ability to understand the code that is being generated will always have more value than the people who don't. WISYWIG editors are useful and quick but you are ultimately limited to the what the editor allows you to build.

I've long said that an ethics class should be a required "related course" (or at least be encouraged) for various Engineering and Business majors, not because it teaches you how to be a good person but to enhance the student's ability to clarify and explain their reasoning about ethical decisions they will inevitably encounter.

There are excellent libraries for data analysis, I know some people who use it in finance. It's still widely used for web applications. There are new features for asynchronous programming. Not to mention it's used by tons of major companies. Linkedin, Reddit, Youtube, just to name a few all use Python.

Ancient, you mean like C, C++, Java, Javascript, those languages?

I think the general opinion is "use where appropriate but be consistent" which I tend to agree with. There are times where the simplicity of old-style formatting just gets the job done but it certainly has it's limitations and new style can be extremely powerful.

If you don't like it then don't participate. Some of these projects might be interesting. Unlike you apparently I actually like programming and do have an interest in taking part.