Free Ebook: The Python Programming Cookbook

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Here is our free ebook for today: The Python Programming Cookbook!

Kick-start your Python projects with these hot recipes!

Python is a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java. The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale.

In this eBook, we provide a compilation of Python examples that will help you kick-start your own projects. We cover a wide range of topics, from multi-threaded programming to web development with Django. With our straightforward tutorials, you will be able to get your own projects up and running in minimum time.

[Free Ebook: The Python Programming Cookbook]

New Captain America: Civil War Trailer Features the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! [Video]

It was about time, don’t you think? The new trailer for “Captain America: Civil War” finally puts the spotlight on Spider-Man, and he looks exactly as you’d expect him to look.

So what do you guys think? Are you excited about the appearance of Spider-Man in the “official” Marvel Cinematic Universe?

“Captain America: Civil War” will hit the big screen on May 6, 2016.

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WANT: Aliens Warrior Cookie Jar

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In space, no one can hear you eat cookies.

From Thinkgeek:

Aliens. Those darn Xenomorphs are always trying to shove something down the throats of humans. You know, maybe if they made the Chestburster embryos look like cookies, the Facehuggers could get cushy desk jobs. Or, you know, something else they have the skillset for. They’d probably make great massage therapists, what with all those little appendages.

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[Aliens Warrior Cookie Jar]

What It’s Like Seeing Every Marvel Movie (For Fans and Non-Fans)

A look at what it’s like to see a Marvel movie for a fan compared to a non-fan. I go through this at least twice per year with my wife who’s not that much into superhero movies. She likes them, but unfortunately, she does no obsess over them like I do.

The part about Stan Lee as well as the one about the post-credits scene is especially true.

[Dorkly]

What Is Up With “Glimmers” on Titan’s Surface: A Theory

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For those who don’t know, Titan is the 6th moon of Saturn, and we know VERY little about it, though our collective intelligent appetites are whet. What has us all even more enamored is the fact that recent photos from N.A.S.A have shown very distinct glimmers on the surface.

What are they? The question of the day.

The guys over at Gizmodo seem to have some pretty solid speculation as to what those glimmers might, but the real question is, what purpose do they serve to Titan:

The glimmers could also represent bubbles of sea foam or some sort of floating solid. Not much floats on liquid methane, though who’s to say there isn’t some wacky alien biology perfectly adapted to the -179 degree Celsius surf? We may have to wait until April 2017, when Cassini makes its final close flyby of the Saturnian moon, for the full answer.

It’s incredibly interesting stuff, and us, like most geek, cannot wait to find out more about Titan.

[H/T, Image, i09]

Google Hires 4chan Creator Moot

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In one of the more headscratching hires of recent times, Google has hired 4chan’s founder Chris Poole. The man known online as “moot” will work on Google’s social media offerings, notably Google +.

At its most basic, 4chan is simply an image posting board with particularly relaxed rules on content and user identity, but it’s become influential — in online terms at least — through a combination of creating memes and spawning the Anonymous hacktivist movement.

Poole started the process of withdrawing from the site early last year and sold it in September. Some commentators believe he grew disillusioned after attempting to crack down on posts with leaked celebrity photographs and with the Gamergate row, both of which provoked a hostile response from site users who argued such crackdowns were against the spirit of the site.

In a brief statement on his personal site, Poole noted that:

When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems.

I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.

There’s no official word on what Poole will do at Google, though the company’s ” Chief Architect of Ambient Computing” Yonatan Zunger commented on the hire and tried to put the emphasis on Poole’s ideas and technical creativity in developing 4chan rather than the way it was used:

Poole is by no means a troll or a troll-curator, and I actually think that with the rather different crowd of people who hang out here on G+, he’s going to make something really exciting…

Judging by Zunger’s comments, anyone hoping for Google + to win an audience through offensive and controversial images may be out of luck:

And fear not: we aren’t about to become a den of infamy. This isn’t that kind of place, and we don’t intend for it to be.

(Image credit: Jscott [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)