The emphasis on code is important. Code defines the behavior of systems -- for the most part Once upon a time, we used clever mechanical designs, or discrete electronic components. The InternetofThings idea exists because high-powered general-purposes CPU's are ubiquitous.

A DevOps mantra is "infrastructure as code". The entire deployment is …

https://medium.com/@s_lott Plus, of course, lots of other stuff from lots of other folks. Enjoy.

http://sdtimes.com/json-vs-xml-battle-format-supremacy-may-wasted-energy/ This article seems silly. Perhaps I missed something important. I'm not sure who's still litigating the JSON vs. XML, but it seems like it's more-or-less done. XHTML/XML for HTML things. JSON for everything else. Maybe there are people still wringing their hands over this. AFAIK …

I suspect some people sweat so hard over each line of code that it becomes precious. Valuable. An investment wrung from their very soul. Or something. When they ask for comments, it becomes difficult. The Pull Request context can be challenging. There the code is, beaten into submission after Herculean …

This was a cool thing to see in my Twitter feed:

Dan Bader(@dbader_org)

6/19/17, 10:47PM

"Why Python Is Not My FavoriteLanguage"zenhack.net/2016/12/25/why…

More Problems with Python. Here's the short list. 1. Encapsulation (Inheritance, really.) 2. With Statement 3. Decorators 4. Duck …

The request was murky. It evolved over time to this:

Create a function file_record_selection(train.csv, 2, 100, train_2_100.csv)

First parameter: input file name (train.csv)

Second parameter: first record to include (2)

Third parameter: last record to include (100)

Fourth parameter: output file name (train_2_100.csv)

Fundamentally, this …

Real Question:

One of the standard problems that keeps coming up over and over is the parsing of url's. A sub-problem is the parsing of domain and sub-domains and getting a count.

For example

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/374880/living-alone-on-a-sailboat/

It would be nice to parse the received …

Real Quote (lightly edited to remove tangential nonsense.)

Recently, I watched a video and it stated that OO is about nouns and Functional programming is about the verbs. Also, ... Aspect-Oriented Programming with the e Verification Language by David Robinson

It would be nice to have a blog post which summarized …

Here's the code: https://github.com/slott56/NMEA-Tools. This is Python code to do some Internet of Things (IoT) stuff. Oddly, even when things connected by a point-to-point serial interface, it's still often called IoT. Even though there's no "Internetworking."

Some IoT projects have a common arc: exploration, modeling, filtering …

https://opensource.com/tags/python Red Hat was an early adopter, putting Python-based tools into their distros. Sadly, they've also lagged behind. They haven't gotten much beyond Python 2.6 or maybe 2.7. RHEL is really good. Except for the Python problem.