Scattered things...

[pmb]

• I remain skeptical of quite a few things that Hillary Clinton stands for - increased censorship is pretty much always wrong, and she's too willing to roll over and find the "middle ground" between the centrist position and the loony right - but linking the federal minimum wage to the congressional wage is a stroke of genius.
• 12 catches of 5 clubs

Comments

[djsendai]

but linking the federal minimum wage to the congressional wage is a stroke of genius.

yeah i'm thinking some sort of pod-creature thing is going on here, Hilary is certainly not on my list of "most beloved or courageous politicians".

I see it as pretty much a posturing move, legislators across the board have a tendency to frequently sponsor/write bills they know will have no chance of getting even through committee just so they can look good to the folks at home.

[djsendai]

as a followup, i'm actually not completely that cynical, I think it was a pretty bold thing to suggest. I hope it gets some real action to it :)

[triath]

"12 catches of 5 clubs."

Go you!

[tdw]

The Zelle book is pretty good. There is also a follow up (not by him, but obviously related, and from the same publisher) for teaching Data Structures in Python, but I'm fairly unimpressed by it. It comes close, but falls short (like not mentioning that Python lists are O(n) lookup, and building things in them like arrays. *cringe*)

[pmb]

I thought they were amortized constant time access and extension. Things like a[3] or a[500] are all O(1). It's mapping item to index that is O(n). Right? Is that last one what you meant by lookup?

[tdw]

Really? Last I knew (admittedly a while back) lists were really linked-lists under the hood, and thus O(n). Are they just doing lists-as-hashes now?

[clipdude]

I really like the idea of linking the minimum wage to Congressional salaries.

[porfinn]

5 clubs? 12 catches? You da man! I am once again juggling clubs to strengthen my bartending wrists, and I am starting to work on my flair tricks again (flair bartending is actually competitve now, who knew?)http://www.theflairschool.com/html/intermediate.html
It is amazing that people will pay an extra dollar to watch me juggle lemons! As if alcohol wasn't expensive enough.

[goteam]

Living with Peter has completely ruined my appreciation for bar flair, it turns out: last month I went out with some friends who kept getting distracted by tricks that I didn't even notice because they're the kind of thing Peter does all the time. I just kept talking and I'd occasionally insert an "I just missed another trick, didn't I?" into the conversation. Are people like me the bane of the flair bartender's existence, or can we redeem ourselves by tipping well anyway? (Actually, I have no idea what constitutes tipping well for drinks, so if you care to fill me in on how to avoid being a jerk in the future, I'd appreciate it.)

[neonelephant]

Frosh year at Mudd, and watching pmb and mbrubeck, among others, has made me quite jaded about three-ball juggling. My experience with flair bartending is zero, but I assume the effect is similar.

[porfinn]

I can't believe you could be a jerk. I started an answer that got completely out of hand, so I sent it you by way of peter. If he is wondering why he is getting long, windy messages from porfin; now ya know.