I just had shared "sushi train" (conveyor belt actually) with a an IT chief with Everett School District, far north of here, during which we discussed whether or not listservs (such as edu-sig here) are on the decline across the board, having been replaced with other social media by next generations of Internet savvy. Do we know that for sure?
For my part, I'm sure it depends on the subculture. I'm on a very active listserv around csound, the music synth language and engine, several posts a day. I'm sure sci.math is as frantic as ever. nbviewer seems to time out quite a bit and I don't think it's just me. Does the site get overloaded? I'm somewhat more likely than not to link directly to the Github version i.e. the raw source, as here: https://github.com/4dsolutions/Python5/blob/master/Comparing%20JavaScript%20with%20Python.ipynb Shortened: https://goo.gl/jUqIwA ...versus feeding the latter through nbviewer. However the latter does a more thorough job in many cases, so I find it's worth it when it works. The above Notebook was just now lengthened with a new comparison of ES6 and Python3 function calls. Question: will nbviewer accept a shortened URL as input? Answer: no, but you're free to shorten the "nbviewer + Github URL" combo naturally: https://goo.gl/HtM0NR Did you know ES6 is the first edition of JavaScript wherein what we Pythonistas call default named parameters and sequence parameters were first acquired? In the above Notebook I extend to another example showing these features in both, comparing two recipe() functions. One could say Python has two "rest parameters", one for "positionals," the others for "named". Perhaps in Python "keyword parameter" is a little more correct than "named parameter" as the latter implies use of = (naming) to give a default value, whereas as shown in the example, one may have unnamed parameters to the right of a sequence parameter, that as a consequence are only reachable with named arguments. Les (the above IT chief), is very familiar with the Chromebook scene around public schooling in the state just north of Oregon. I'm likely to venture into that space pretty soon, as a Portland-based trainer. This will be a day job so I'm hopeful I'll be continuing with the evening gig as "radio show" broadcaster (a zoom.us-based tele-class). Speaking of which, I've been dropping in on some of Trey Hunners chat sessions after the fact (I've yet to make it to a live showing). I learned quite a bit about duck typing in connection abc types such as Sequence, thanks to this video: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/duck-typing <http://treyhunner.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cdbc9ae7bf54c3dff2773ea2d&id=377dc1d5ad&e=16760d8b0b> I'm guessing more people learn about such free resources from Twitterverse than from listservs these days, but I don't have hard data. I wonder if Python.org keeps any stats on gross subscriber numbers, posting rates etc. within its vast Mailman empire: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo Kirby
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