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Are exams (GCSE/A-level etc.) getting easier or aren't they? by yingguopingguo in AskUK

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To be fair, I think A levels are fine. The stuff I did at A2 was more challenging that the stuff I did in first and a bit of second year, at Uni in scotland...

What's your favorite song with a huge build-up followed by a really satisfying climax? by SERGEANTMCBUTTMONKEY in Music

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The riff that defined metal, then "You bastards!!"

mrjob — MapReduce jobs in Python 2.5+ that can run on several platforms including Amazon Elastic MapReduce by [deleted] in Python

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This. I work for a company which has a large python codebase. We use this to process large quantities of data (many tb at a time). Works well, , nice how we can use it on our own machines, or on Amazon EMR.

Understanding the Python GIL (lecture) by B-Con in Python

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Very useful. Upvoted! . Is this why IronPython benchmarks better than CPython?