Timeline for engineer list by rozzin, page 56
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 14-Oct-2016 12:44:54 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
Hmm. @steve, I think Chirp dropped all of my responses to you last night: http://status.hackerposse.com/conversation/105211 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:57:51 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
@steve, I liked the `don't use lists, use dicts' lesson, but the next step after that for many algorithms is actually `don't use dicts, use sets' ☺ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0218/ -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:50:19 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
@steve, the lambda in things like "lambda w: w.lower()" is also typically superfluous, because you can just pass the *class method* directly, e.g.: sort(…, key=str.lower) -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:32:50 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
@steve, #Guido actually *really* wanted to drop !lambda in #Python 3: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:20:10 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
@steve, I ♥ !lambda, but they can kill your performance in #Python because there's so much overhead in Python's procedure-call implementation. So #Guido would say you're supposed to use list comprehensions for that stuff at this point. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:15:43 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
He's a pythonaut after my own heart, but be careful not to follow his examples too literally: a number of them are either counterproductive by the metrics used in the others, or contrary to modern #Python standards. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Oct-2016 15:13:07 EDT Stephen Sekula
Some fun tips for writing python code. https://blog.michaelckennedy.net/2016/10/10/pythonic-code-by-example-in-5-videos-video-series/ -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:10:52 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
#q "They were using the head basically as a portable hard drive to transport pirated ebooks, movies, games, and data between Russia and South America," said Detective Andrei Supernov. "I think they thought it was funny." http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=529&mode=one -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 13-Oct-2016 23:08:57 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
Supposedly that Philip K. Dick head was stolen and then recovered 4 years later (in 2010) in the bust of a Russian warez syndicate: http://fictioncircus.com/news.php?id=529&mode=one -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2016 18:04:29 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
Clever choreographed responses to #predictable !robotics reporters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot0Fuy34xN0 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2016 17:40:14 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
... from this comment on #slashdot: https://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9756585&cid=53051067 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Oct-2016 17:39:47 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
!TIL about the Jaquet-Droz !automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata -
Joshua Judson Rosen
Setting up your own APT repository with upload support
A brief HOWTO for reprepro and dupload
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Monday, 10-Oct-2016 11:18:19 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
!TIL about Port Control Protcol, which I guess serves a problemspace similar to !APF's? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:52:10 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
(I wonder if I just got Fermilab in trouble...☺) -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:50:17 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
Hm. I should have used "M-x spook" on that message before sending: http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/emacs/emacs/emacs_29.html#SEC308 -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2016 23:31:55 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen
See also: John Gilmore on SMTP relays: http://www.toad.com/gnu/verio-censorship.html