Comment Take a Look at CPython (Score 1) 329

by ewsnow on Thursday September 08, 2011 @12:21PM (#37341292) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Programs To Learn From?

CPython's source is easy to find and easy to read. The core dev community has gone to pains to keep it simple. It's also pretty well documented and has a great community in general. You can download the source at python.org or look at it online (http://hg.python.org/cpython/). You make a mercurial clone on your local box for hacking and use bitbucket to host it publicly.

I've found the CPython source to be a fount of knowledge. A great place to start is the devguide.

Submission + - Scientists One Step Closer to Cheap Nuclear Fusion

Submitted by ewsnow on Sunday October 18, 2009 @01:50AM

ewsnow writes: The Focus Fusion Society reports that the scientists and engineers at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics have finally built an operational Dense Plasma Focus device. While not at full power yet, they were able to achieve a pinch on their device. The small company that Eric Lerner started recently gathered enough funding to start a two year study on the validity of his theory regarding fusion-inducing plasmoids. If the theory holds, the device will produce more electricity than goes in. In contrast to the billions of dollars spent on Tokamak fusion (think ITER), LPP is conducting their research on a budget around a million dollars. Yet, if it works, it will provide nuclear fusion with much simpler equipment and much less cost. Eric Lerner and Focus Fusion have been discussed on Slashdot before.

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