Having not followed Airbnb very closely - I have no interest whatsoever in using the service either as a traveller or a host - your link clarified one thing that's always sort of bugged me.
I had never understood how "air" fit with B&B. It wasn't until I saw the original screenshot that I understood that it's "AirB & B" rather than "Air B&B".
When a question is deleted on StackOverflow, it's hidden entirely - direct link or not - except to users with at least 10k in "reputation", and I think to the question asker.
I suspect the link was provided mostly for the users that can still see it. There is an "undelete" link[1] for users with that privilege level, but it takes ten votes to restore the question, with no guarantee that it won't be blown away again right after its restoration.
"Steal" seems to be a slightly strong word. It looks like it's open source and just missing the license.[1]
I'd prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than jump straight to accusations.
[1] I didn't look too hard, but I came up with this link quickly: https://gist.github.com/benjaminsinger/ad5231be7748de3a9a11#... - I didn't immediately see the license on the original it was forked from, but this one has a license, so I assume there's some sort of compatibility.
It looks like she held the record for just three of those months. A month before Harry Hong took it back, a guy named Neil Gewirtz took it from her with a run of 2349 lines.
> the 2/3 split in Python is a reason that many will give for not using Python at all
I don't know Python, but I've gone through a few phases where I'll play with it for a bit and then put it back down. (Incidentally, I appear to be entering a "play" phase right now.)
I can't explain it exactly, but the 2/3 thing makes me really uneasy about learning the language.
On one side, there is Python 2 which is supposed to die in the non-immediate future. I don't need to learn it, particularly since development isn't my primary career at the moment and I'm unlikely to "need" it before I inevitably switch careers back to dev. If I don't need it now, and I don't expect to be in a situation where I need it in the near future, why not go for Python 3 right away?
On the other side, Python 3 is the new hotness, and it's the future of the language. It's the heir apparent. It's going to be "the" Python in the nearer-than-you-think future.
But it doesn't seem ready. You get the impression that you'll start a greenfield project and then get to a point where you want to drop in a well-known component and you just won't be able to.
You also look at the fact that it's been around for over half a decade yet 80% of of respondents to this survey say they use 2 more than 3, 40% have never touched it, and 20% say the whole thing was a bad idea. If you were walking into that environment, would you really be so quick to disregard it?
I suppose the answer is to just learn it all and try to keep the differences in mind as you go, but it's understandable the a lot of people don't want to half to learn and semi-unlearn the same language all at once.
This is only true of the public beta. It bothered me as well when I tried it out, but after a few searches I found that the RTM will still have local accounts. I assume the decision was made to keep in contact with the beta testers or something, but my hotmail account is a glorified spam catcher at this point, so I've never bothered to check.
