"People who enjoy an activity tend to be good at it." -- thoughts from @potatolondon
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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
"It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a previous foot and merge it with your current leg."
I've come to the conclusion that a degree in Computer Science is merely a breadth-first search of the field.
http://github.com/inky/see -- a pretty-print alternative to #Python's dir()
Picked up a copy of Programming #Clojure this weekend to have a proper play with Lisp.
Delighted to be joining the fine folks at @potatolondon
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."
Python learners beware: One minute you're learning #Python with list comprehensions, the next you are grokking map, reduce and filter.
My third geekiest university experience: being the victim of a meatspace a capella rickroll.
Experimenting with Emacs with StickyKeys. It feels comfortable but rather like modal editing...
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