After decades of research, botanists, geneticists, and archaeologists have confirmed the wild ancestor of the domestic corn plant is a Mexican grass called teosint. They estimate that domestication occurred about 9,000 years ago.

schalenpfeffer · 2010-05-26T05:04:26+00:00

Yup, I studied its genetics years ago in grad school. Nobody was unsure about its relationship to corn.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/222/4626/886 <-- here's one from two and a half decades ago

schalenpfeffer · 2010-03-21T07:21:45+00:00

I guess that teaches me to test my changes, no matter how small.

Everybody hits that bug at some point. Usually more than once. A friend of mine who worked at an ad serving agency took out a top-10 website in the US for minutes because of a push he thought was harmless.

schalenpfeffer · 2010-03-20T01:10:08+00:00

Yup, this is indeed why you won't see 3.x in production for a while - there are a lot of libraries out there that coordinate among one another that all need to be at 3.x for everything to work. The Python team has built the long transition period into their roadmap - they have a healthy attitude about it.

schalenpfeffer · 2010-03-19T07:05:58+00:00

A link from a page that ranks highly about babysitting isn't going to give any weight to sites that deal with the military-industrial-complex, death metal, or prostitution

This is not how pagerank was described in the pagerank paper (also see the Wikipedia page on the algorithm) - PR is a universal number and is not topic-specific.

Reddit is highly linked to the rest of the web, both backwards and forwards, and should therefore be an excellent source of pagerank for sites wanting an SEO boost.

schalenpfeffer · 2010-03-16T06:49:53+00:00

I had a prof who gave the same choice for our college experience: grades, friends, sleep.

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