links 2013-03-14

• each feature release of Python comes with a great amount of changes, but I was particularly impressed by those of 3.2; the latest such release isn't too shabby either
• the all-important factor of success in business... luck
• one interesting way of measuring Python 3 adoption is download numbers: 0.8 million out of a total of 2 million
• another sad case of Ubuntu diverging from GNOME... Online Accounts (via); as the author of that quality post says, they may have good reasons for this; it's just that it looks bad on the surface
• a detailed defense on the choice of technology for Stack Exchange chat