Why I hate Windows 7

• The personal folder created for your user has 'My Documents' and 'Documents' folders created. Which then becomes confusing as to which directory has my files in it...
• When I open the Windows Explorer, as I click on directories, I continuously see the new hourglass circle, which gives the impression Windows 7 is much slower then Vista, XP, etc.
• The auto-wireless tool will auto connect to a network. And then will not allow you to switch networks.

Development Tools

Mythicsoft - Agent Ransack

Great article on the benefits of using emacs:

http://www.insightdatascience.com/blog/emacs_for_data_science.html

Love Emacs! Glad I learned emacs back in 1999. I had been a hardcore VI user, and felt emacs didn't have anything I couldn't do in VI. But with the lisp dev environment tied to emacs, I can customize the hell out of the editor. Also I have found that I can customize the text and rendering of code in lots of different ways.

Python vs Java

Wrote some python couple of weeks ago and wanted to document the items I thought were compelling compared to java:

1. Less syntax

2. String operations more intuitive

3. Function calling versus method signatures

4. Package Runtime