@codebase Do you guys have a security contact?
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The secret to doing something well is not to do it for the first time.
"code unto others as you would have them code unto you"
#Python: what I wish I'd known: http://www.wilfred.me.uk/?p=124
Reading an article on quines, and just realised that it's just a Ω from lambda calculus. I should have seen that coming.
#Python thought of the day: avoid concatenating lists, usually itertools.chain(list1, list2, ...) is neater and faster.
"Sniffing user agents is like sniffing glue. It's a temporary fix." (via @jasoncartwright)
Just discovered M-x calc. Another reason never to leave emacs.
Google translate reminds me more of science fiction than any other app I've seen this year: http://bit.ly/ds5HcZ
"People who enjoy an activity tend to be good at it." -- thoughts from @potatolondon
What licenses say about the author: Public domain: I want ubiquity, BSD: I want to change the market, GPL: I want to build a community.
"Sometimes, we reinvent the wheel not because we need more wheels, but we need more inventors."
Why, #Python, why? >>> '1' > 2 => True (no warning, no nothing)
Word to the wise: when picking shared hosting, make sure it has forkbomb protection :-/
Python thought of the day:
my_decorator = lambda decorator: lambda *args, **kwargs: lambda func: decorator(func, *args, **kwargs)
Recently received an email: "hi Wilfred / found bug in your site / here's a patch / cheers". This is why I love open source.
Do you ever have one of those days when you think 'I wish I could search library docs by type signature'? http://bit.ly/aMwFXn
#Python tip of the day: run the interpreter with -Wall to get deprecation warnings sooner.
"Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast."
A CAPTCHA for the mathematician http://random.irb.hr/signup.php and a CAPTCHA for the artist http://www.geee.net/contact.htm
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