blokeley's comments

Interesting article.

1. It doesn't mention obvious potential causes to brain changes and hormone levels that coincide with having children like lack of sleep, changes to diet, or adjustments to work patterns etc.

2. It says towards the end that I should continue to wrestle the boys. Great!

The article could have simply said, "Mozilla intends to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation".

We already have a good definition and framework for privacy, thanks Tim.

We don't need a watered-down definition that plays to your current business model and leaves out bits that don't.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Don't bother reading the article. It's an unenlightened rant.

Indeed, the author does not know that Python is strongly typed. Most of the article is nonsense.

If you're running the same code on different machines or virtual machines and one fails, the first thing you check is the version numbers of the runtime and libraries. This is true in any language.

When discussing python, the authors missed the elephant in the room: numpy.

When almost any statistical work is done in python, we use numpy arrays, sometimes via the pandas or statsmodels etc. libraries. We seldom use native python types.

That list is for the 3.5 release, not the 3.5.2 patches

For software in medical devices, the process that's accepted by the regulatory authorities is ISO 62304 http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38421

That's a good start

I run a company which develops medical devices, many of which combine mechanical, electronic and software engineering. It's well known (and a running joke) that software engineers from non-medical fields think it is acceptable to ship their product with serious defects. It takes a long time and a lot of training to get them up to the level that we need, more so than for mechies and sparkies.