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unpythonic
8y ago
Our company has a similar number of channels, if not more, and you don't scan all of the channels for input. People typically subscribe to their team and related team channels as well as any topics of interest. Slack makes it easy to
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unpythonic
9y ago
If you want to not infect your current shell with the new environment, you can just run it in a subshell by using parentheses: $ ( . /full_path/env/bin/activate && python myapp.py --workers=3 ) This work
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9y ago
Another good one for project management is The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. When running many large projects, there's always a common set of stuff that needs to get done before declaring a project ready for deployment. The
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unpythonic
9y ago
An excellent book which covers this topic is Permutation City by Greg Egan (1994). If we can clone all of you (physical characteristics, brain, memories, personality) into a simulation, what are all the implications? In it, a perfect rep
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unpythonic
9y ago
Brasil by Terry Gilliam already predicted this. As the main character, Sam Lowry, is being brought in to be tortured, a guard tells him, "Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your cre
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> Then, checking on Google Scholar, Heneberg saw that many of the remaining papers actually had been referenced by other works indexed in the Web of Science, but had been missed because of data-entry errors or typos in the papers I wonde
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9y ago
When I worked for a very large networking company, we wanted to bring in a small company's only product which would have been central to the day-to-day running of engineering. Because they were so small with so little track record, we
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9y ago
Since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief... Wit should fit on a Hollerith card.
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I got mine from Audible at the link below. If you do use it, please SKIP THE INTRODUCTION . If you haven't read or listened to the book before, it gives away some major plot points as part of the author's update. https:/&
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9y ago
I used to commute in silence or listening to the radio for my daily Silicon Valley drive (237 Milpitas to Mountain View), and by the time I got to work, I'd be angry, frustrated, and cognitively spent. Listening to audio books has allo
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9y ago
I've been a programmer for 30 years, and I could reasonably be considered to be a senior dev. Yes, I'm very happy with my job. I work at a company which cares deeply about solving hard problems well, and that care translates into
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9y ago
The details for the infection can be found at Malwarebytes, the discoverer of this issue: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/01/new-ma... This article has the signature of the infection as wel
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9y ago
From the article: One customer had nine years left on their mortgage. Wells Fargo extended that to forty years, giving Wells Fargo an extra $40,000 in interest. Another customer had fourteen years left on their mortgage, it was extended
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9y ago
For those of you living in the San Francisco Bay Area, and especially for those living in San Jose, you can interact with Pepper at Valley Fair Mall -- Pepper being the AI-infused robot which was one of Softbank's previous acquisitions
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This study seems to show that sugar-sweetened beverages are positively correlated with insulin resistance while diet soda does not have that same association: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/146/12/2544.short
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9y ago
Are you going to continue family life the automated way? Perhaps start a family using Jenkins: an enjoyable build process, lots of tests along the way, and release to production once they're out of college.
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10y ago
The contingency table shows these very clearly, but I believe the question is about the future popularity table. The future probability table shows that Swift is to the left of (smaller future probability) of Objective C. The coloring of t
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It's in the Constitution: "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President". - Article II, Sect
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What Facebook Owes to Journalism
(nytimes.com)
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Oh, that's great to know. That coupled with filling out the size to an uninteresting length with nulls (or another delimiter) covers my concerns. For example: $ echo "my secret" | dd bs=512 conv=sync | docker secret c
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This looks amazing. Solving secret distribution across containers will be very useful. Being able to see via `docker secret` exactly which services are using which secrets is an unexpected treat. I'm a little worried about two aspect
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Given that everything must go through shipping & handling which is typically measured in days, what is the benefit to ordering immediately? Surely these services could batch your requests through the day and push a confirmation request
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Pythagoras, 2116 A.D
(hackernoon.com)
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Love the /e for executing the substitution $ echo abc9def | perl -pe 's/(\d+)/$1+1/e' abc10def
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Introducing Google Assistant Surveillance Interface [from HI Perspective]
(hi-project.org)
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This has been my go-to page for movie information for the longest time. Yet again, Google is training us not to trust that any of their services will be available -- this one seemed to be shutdown without any notice whatsoever. I know it&#
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Google shuts down Google.com/movies
(google.com)
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This is a rambling article with a conclusion which isn't supported by any of the rambling, that conclusion being that "fortune-telling is simply an exhibition of one of many possibilities, rather than the absolute truth. It is, th
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The failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter usually stars in hallway discussions on types or notation. This article shows a long chain of failures far more subtle than the punchline to which it's relegated. Design failures in the beginni
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How maths can get you locked up; proprietary score affects bail, prison,
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