Start here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/20/the-low-codeno-code-movement-more-disruptive-than-you-realize/#98cfc4a722a3

I'm not impressed. I have been not impressed for 40 years and many previous incarnations of this idea of replacing code with UX.

Of course, I'm biased. I create code. Tools that remove the need to create …

Tweet:

Packt(@PacktPub)

9/4/17, 6:00 AM

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I have one thing to add: Learn to use the profiler and timeit. They will eliminate and hand-wringing …

Background: https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-replacing-shell-scripts-with-python-d8d201bc0989

And this

I wonder how/why python did not pick up some sort/form of pipe operator. 🤨 (although coroutine does have .send method 🤔)

—Ivan Pejić (@nadrimajstor) August 26, 2017

The answer to this is interesting because there are two kinds of parallelism. I like …

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 …