miniblog.

"If you're going to teach people to program, learn J first, so you can remember what it's like as an utterly confused beginner."

“Attempting to prove any nontrivial theorem about your program will expose lots of bugs: The particular choice makes little difference!”

@codebase Do you guys have a security contact?

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:

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:

"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)