Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673271 and previous links in there.

Start by practising: try to make this question better, discuss what you think and what you found researching about asking good questions.

Ugh. I suggest reading "Ina May Gaskin has blood on her hands" (http://skepticalob.blogspot.com/2012/05/ina-may-gaskin-has-b...).

At home births have caused deaths and brain damage that could easily be avoided in a hospital. The article hand waves these away by saying deaths caused by unnecessary surgery aren't scrutinized. To that, I say "then show it to us", because we can readily see the harm in at home births:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2012/03/09/wren-jones-2/

http://skepticalob.blogspot.com

http://hurtbyhomebirth.blogspot.com

There is pyprocessing, probably others: http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/

Read about it and spread the word: http://www.google-melange.com/ :)

Yeah, I feel like there's no way they'll accept a late application a month and half late. Rough. Do you think there were any drop-outs that left an open spot? I think I could catch up to speed with the rest of the students quickly, they haven't really done actual work yet.

The policy is strict. No late submission.

Unfortunate, but understandable.

Here's a place that teaches you about joining, giving nice experience for when you start your own: http://openhatch.org/

The Overstock CEO has this to comment: http://www.deepcapture.com/joe-floren-screws-the-pooch/ (tl;dr: Ha-Ha!).

Hey, thanks for wrecking page display for me! :)

it was just one line! :-)

Some responses from the Dart team: https://plus.google.com/115362263245161504841/posts/82jKeP4Y...

Author has recently submitted a patch to CPython which he believes will speed up the interpreter (looks too invasive and not discussed enough to have a chance of landing anytime soon IMHO): http://bugs.python.org/issue14757