maelstrom

Probably because it is running on a Pentium? Perhaps it is an emulator or a Linux theme?

I think the EU is great, but I wonder how much of that peace can be attributed to both the United States and USSR both having large armies camped through Europe for most of that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola

There should at least be one canonical example. I'm not claiming to know everything, I'm trying to fill in my knowledge. If lisp is so great, and so much more productive, and used by the greatest programmers on Earth, point me to some great code so I can become more informed.

Should I start reading EMACS source? Show me the code! If there's not at least one great open source project written in lisp, I'm not inclined to take your claims prima facie.

Yes, if Lisp is so powerful, where are all the super programs written in it? I'm only aware of EMACs and maybe at one point Autocad? And I guess PG wrote a couple webapps with it....

How does futures relate to Twisted's deferreds?

They did this before with OSDN, wonder if they'll have any more success this time around.

rrdtool

Have you tried ipython? http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ Pretty close...

Sorry, making an http request and showing the response in headers qualifies as trivial in most modern programming languages.

This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?

If you read PEP 318, http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/, it's easy to see how much thought went into what is syntactic sugar.

Hrrm I tried importing my wordpress blog and just got an error. Any tips for this? Does it import comments also?