At work I’m trying to get some of my colleagues to give Python a try. Every time I bring up the subject I have to hear things like but there are not brackets … and what’s up with the forced indentation?
Needless to say I always reply that indentation is good as the end result is usually code that is easier to read and that once you have blocks of code defined by their indentation level you don’t need brackets anymore. But no, they will have none of that.
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while.
Most papers in the Information Retrieval field begin with a sentence along the lines of “In this era of information overload the need for better search mechanisms is evident.”. Or something. Indeed there is an information overload. This situation is actually worse because it isn’t any kind [...]
People are raving (ranting?) about www.cuil.com and I just have to do it too.
For me it’s simple: search engines can help you find the stuff you think is relevant but not give you stuff they thinks is relevant.