[Tutor] Google is not your friend (was: NumPy and SciPy)

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Sep 27 20:25:27 EDT 2016


Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> writes:

> I'm not sure if they are up to 3.5 yet or not but the easiest way is
> just to grab a full distro such as Anaconda or Canopy. Google is your
> friend.

I do wish that meme would die. Google is many things, but it is *not*
your friend. Corporations are not friends of anyone.

In particular, Google is not your friend even when you use their search
<URL:https://motherboard.vice.com/read/free-isnt-freedom-epstein-essay>.
So, Google may be useful, but let's stop telling people it's a friend.

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Ben Finney



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