I was going to donate to aid organizations to help supply food and water, but I guess I should send some nuclear engineering textbooks and maybe my old exams from Nuclear Engineering 101. That's obviously the best and only way for the average American to help, what with our expertise on these matters.
I've also included this link[1] to the wikipedia article discussing the current situation involving the threatened nuclear reactors; hopefully, this will elucidate matters for Japanese officials. Maybe someone can help with the translations.
We should also send them the most insightful reader comments from CNN.com, reddit, and YouTube.
He had to do Math 55 to realize that there were people smarter than he was. Not too many people can readily appreciate what this means. I think you have to have participated in national-level math competitions to be able to understand the quality of person it takes to do this.
It reminds of the line from Good Will Hunting where the Professor says that only a handful of people in the world were smart enough to even tell the difference, even though it was grand, between himself and Will.
If your definition of a 'really-smart person' is someone who can ace the SATs or get into Harvard, then you probably won't be able to tell the difference between such a person and Bill Gates. There is a world of difference between the level of intelligence required to ace the SATs and level required to handle Math 55.
If you let them, they can directly measure the traffic of your website. If you sign up for their service, Quantcast's numbers will be very close to your own Google Analytics.
But, if you don't sign up, they'll still "measure" your traffic and come up with results that are no better than the other web traffic rankers. I don't know why anybody takes sites like these seriously anymore. Everybody I've met who had a website with decent traffic has said that these sites are always way off. I'd imagine that Alexa's main reason for reporting a ridiculous statistic like % of global/country traffic is that it makes it harder for website owners to realize how wrong they are.
With Django, I've learned to avoid anything that tries to do too much. Small apps or collections of code that aim to solve very specific problems seem to work with the least hassle. With a carefully defined and limited scope, these apps have a much easier time integrating into existing projects. You want something that handles OAuth. You want something that handles Facebook Connect. You do not want something that handles "integration with social networks" or anything so grandiose.
That's because Python is actually used extensively in the West outside the context of web development. Ruby really isn't. Rails became popular, and people decided to learn Ruby so they could use Rails. Most people who choose Python web frameworks do so because they are already familiar with Python.
I've also included this link[1] to the wikipedia article discussing the current situation involving the threatened nuclear reactors; hopefully, this will elucidate matters for Japanese officials. Maybe someone can help with the translations.
We should also send them the most insightful reader comments from CNN.com, reddit, and YouTube.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Japanese_nuclear_incidents