Re: [BangPypers] Death of Aaron Swartz

2013-01-14 Thread ashish makani
Really sad to hear this http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/12/169235633/aaron-swartz-reddit-cofounder-and-online-activist-dead-at-26 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Anand B Pillai wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Anand Chitipothu >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm sure most of yo

Re: [BangPypers] Death of Aaron Swartz

2013-01-14 Thread Anand B Pillai
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure most of you might have already heard about it, Aaron Swartz, > hacker, writer and activist committed suicide on Jan 11, 2013. > > http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html > > Aaron was a great Python programm

Re: [BangPypers] Death of Aaron Swartz

2013-01-14 Thread Gopalakrishnan Subramani
Markdown is nice, I read a little about him in his infogami and reddit merge and html2text project and web.py. He was a great hacker, was able to move reddit from lisp to python (pylons) in short time (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit) After he was fired by Wired, things didn't go wel

[BangPypers] PyCon 2013 Schedule Announced!

2013-01-14 Thread Brian Curtin
Hi BangPyPers! It's that time of year again: the PyCon schedule has been announced and the rush to pick up tickets is on! https://us.pycon.org/2013/schedule/ was completed last week, and we've seen a sharp increase in sales as we approach 1,500 registrations. This year we're limiting the attend

Re: [BangPypers] Death of Aaron Swartz

2013-01-14 Thread Sreenivas Reddy T
I didn't know him before. I just came to know about him after his death. The other day, i gone through web.py code, i have felt like this is just simple..just bare metal compared to django. I felt like people should first learn web.py before moving to django. There is a considerable learning c

[BangPypers] Death of Aaron Swartz

2013-01-14 Thread Anand Chitipothu
Hi, I'm sure most of you might have already heard about it, Aaron Swartz, hacker, writer and activist committed suicide on Jan 11, 2013. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html Aaron was a great Python programmer. He created web.py, a web framework in Python, Infogami a wiki softw