Learning a new language: 1 Tutorial. 2 Practise. 3 Read about best practices. 4 Practise. 5 Review others code and be reviewed. 6 Goto 4.
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Anonymity in #bitcoin (research paper July 2011): http://t.co/vTAzKOjy -- utterly fascinating.
#Python trivia: absolute imports became the default in 2.7, so careless imports will break. Use "from __future__ import absolute_import".
#python surprise of the day: bool((False,)) => True
Just released my first #Emacs package, a flymake mode for #jshint . Grab it at http://t.co/CoCocF8W
Aahz's law: The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.
"It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code."
Another reason to switch to #python 3: "True = False; assert(True)"
There are news stories on Reddit that just link to Norwegian articles with Google translate. How far we've come!
A wonderful (meta-)proof that P != NP: http://t.co/rNxmRq4
"I put in what I hoped would be power enough for real programmers to finish the job. That's why I made everything malleable." Eich on JS
"Passwords are like foreign languages; you forget the ones you don't use often"
Meta-CAPTCHA: 'The obvious next step is to use comments as CAPTCHAs: "which of these 3 comments is spam?"'
"#Node isn't a web framework, it's more of unixy, network oriented stdlib for v8."
From an App Store review: "it was a $1 and I took a plunge, and I am GLAD I did." What happened to our pricing conceptions, and is it good?
Fun #python fact of the day: isinstance(True, int) => True!
I'm amazed by the readability of code produced by #CoffeeScript. It's *very* close to what I'd have written in JavaScript.
@pr1001 I was just admiring the style of your site, and noticed there are a bunch of bizarre hidden links. Are they supposed to be there?
type() doesn't really tell you the type of an #python object, it gives you a function that constructs that object. Much cool stuff possible.
In the past month I've seen MP3 decoding in JS, PDF decoding in JS and (amazingly) whole PC emulation in JS. A sign of the times I believe.
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