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by grifaton 15y ago
Habit, I think. Will change it when I get the chance.
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by grifaton 15y ago
Inspired by this very presentation, I recently knocked together a library for munging text streams in Python, rather than calling through to sed and grep. If anyone's interested, the code's here: https://github.com/inglesp/munger.py
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A palindromic C program(everything2.com)
1 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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The great piano swindle [2007](moreintelligentlife.com)
1 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
This was published in 2005. Unicode in python has come a long way since then, especially with respect to python 3 [1], [2]. [1] http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-... [2] http://docs.python.org/release/3.0.1/how
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by grifaton 15y ago
We have a long-running (and open) challenge at work to recruit a cold-calling recruiter (of whom we seem to get rather a lot) to our HR team. No luck yet...
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Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
One of the coolest cases of this I've seen recently is the second half of Kent Beck's "Test Driven Development: By Example". He uses builds a TDD framework with TDD, using the TDD framework he's building.
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by grifaton 15y ago
Have you ever tried to book a rail ticket in Turkey via the Turkish State Railways website? "Using TCDD Online ticket selling project requires internet explorer 5.0 or higher upgrades!"
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by grifaton 15y ago
You can even observe cycles with just two players. In Cambridge (UK), the River Cam is too narrow for side-by-side racing over more than a few hundred yards. Instead, a popular kind of racing has developed called "Bumps". Crews line up al
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by grifaton 15y ago
So what was this an advert for? Clicking on the advert itself just gives a 404.
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by grifaton 15y ago
It's a great way to learn how Linux works. I don't know of anybody using a Linux they've built from scratch for anything other than their education, though.
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Guardian's Obituary for John McCarthy(guardian.co.uk)
7 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
Just minutes ago, this was announced on the Twisted mailing list: https://bitbucket.org/pitrou/t3k/wiki/Home It's described as "an experimental, work-in-progress port of Twisted to Python 3".
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Self-recursive generators in Python(code.activestate.com)
1 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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Not Verbs(notaverb.com)
1 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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Try Forth(forthfreak.net)
61 points by grifaton 15y ago|17 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
Seems that the websites of all of NI's newspapers are down: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/ http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/
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Assertion rewriting in py.test(pybites.blogspot.com)
2 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
They're Ruby interpreters -- Matz's Ruby Interpreter, Ruby Enterprise Edition, and Yet Another Ruby VM respectively.
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by grifaton 15y ago
6/8 really has two beats in a bar, each beat containing three quavers, while 3/4 has three beats in a bar.
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All talk videos from EuroPython 2011(ep2011.europython.eu)
6 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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5 years of bad ideas(ep2011.europython.eu)
1 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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Fields medallist's perspective on UK electoral reform(gowers.wordpress.com)
5 points by grifaton 15y ago|0 comments
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by grifaton 15y ago
Can somebody explain the significance of this to me?
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The $5000 Compression Challenge(patrickcraig.co.uk)
1 points by grifaton 16y ago|0 comments
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Thrutu - do more than talk when you're on the phone(gizmodo.com)
1 points by grifaton 16y ago|0 comments
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User-mode Linux Kernel(user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net)
31 points by grifaton 16y ago|21 comments
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by grifaton 16y ago
Does anybody know how (if?) this was resolved? A quick google doesn't throw anything recent up.
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by grifaton 16y ago
I'm not sure about this - first-century London was about the size of Hyde Park! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_London#First_century_AD Edit - also, it appears that prior to the fifteenth century, the Welsh tended to use a patronymic n

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