You own the local grocery store?

Well, it was one of those situations where I thought, "Hmm, should I put a footnote [1] in this to make myself perfectly clear? Then I thought, why skew my parallel grammatical structure, howsoever already imperfect?"

[1] I don't actually own the grocery store. The word "my" changed from "that which I possess" to "that thing whose utility I am habituated".

Wow, I'm sorry to hear your career is shot.

Read the Myth of Sisyphus by Camus...

Is this hacker news or SEO news?

Because a Weebly website isn't, itself, a multi-website management interface; it's just static pages (as far as I know). Would you suggest Excel be coded in cellular formulae?

How non-Godelian of them.

Sometimes I have a hard problem in front of me. I can't crack it. I go to sleep. I don't dream about it. I wake up. I know the answer. That isn't part of the concious mind and is pure reflex and creative.

>or, to be truer to the data, perhaps 1 per cent inspiration, 29 per cent good instruction and encouragement, and 70 per cent perspiration.

Wow, these are all in the same unit?

It is hard to be serious about getting tenure in an English department, which amongst typical universities tend to have orders of magnitude less tenure spots available per actual tenure-track position.

That should read:

    def foo(n):
        n = [n]
        def bar(i):
            n[0] += i
            return n[0]
        return bar

Python really needs a scoping syntax to allow assignment to closed variables.

You might want to try that math again; it doesn't work for spheres.

What math?