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This is why you should be using Google AppEngine and free providers, so you don't get on the hook like this.
Re:Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers on Friday September 24, 2010 @01:57PM (#1724577)
Drum accompaniment, what a great idea! But can we do it in Visual Object Cobol 98++?
Re:Python Startups and the True Entrepreneur on Friday September 24, 2010 @11:48AM (#1724011)
It wasn't there for linkbait purposes, it was there because the startup my friend was considering which initiated this post is crazy about python, another startup in progress is all python-based, and python is always coming up in the discussion. If I wanted to linkbait I would have used a more popular language like Java.
Re:Python Startups and the True Entrepreneur on Sunday September 19, 2010 @02:54PM (#1706666)
Yeah but when your startup isn't covering the bills and you're already eating and living cheap - what do you do?
Re:Symbology, APL, and Chinese Python on Sunday September 19, 2010 @10:32AM (#1706199)
Yes doing the keywords is one thing, the built-ins another, and harder as well. But given the success logic and mathematics has had with remaining largely symbolic, and the mathematical nature of python, it might be at least an interesting exercise.