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.

This: https://darkf.github.io/posts/problems-i-have-with-python.html

Summary.

1. Slow.
2. Threads.
3. Legacy Python 2 Code.
4. Some Inconsistencies.
5. Functional Programming.
6. Class Definitions Don't Have Enough Features.
7. Switch Statement.

Responses.

1. Find the 20% that needs a speedup and write that in C. Most of the time that's already available in numpy. The …

Several things:

Generating 64 bit hash collisions to DOS Python by Robert Grosse

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6/6/17, 9:14 PM

Python job scheduling made simple: schedule.readthedocs.io | |

What's the most Epic Fail I've ever seen?

I was a traveling consulting for almost 35 years. I saw a lot. I did learn from epic fail scenarios. But. I haven't really spent a lot of time thinking about the lessons learned there. I never have a glib answer to …

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Blaming people for using ancient software is really weird. There’s no other context where we demand constant replacement of things that work

—Pinboard (@Pinboard) May 12, 2017

I'm not sold about this argument at all.

The "constant replacement" issue has two sides to it. If you follow the …

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"Running Python in Xcode: Step by Step" ericasadun.com/2016/12/04/run…

Thanks for the link. There's a fair amount of "this doesn't seem to be what Xcode was designed to do." But it does seem to work. I'll …

I received the worst code example ever. The. Worst.

Here's the email.

I have hurriedly created a blog post titled [omitted] at the url below [also omitted] ... Unfortunately, I am neither an algorithm expert or a Python expert. However, I am willing to jump in.

Please review the Python code …

The question is a deep one. What is the Literate Programming Life Cycle? Why is it so difficult? What are the three barriers and how do we cross them?

Here's most of the original question.

"Last week I threw together an F# script to parse markdown-style text into one or …

This. http://www.tomdalling.com/blog/software-design/fizzbuzz-in-too-much-detail/

And many other thoughts on overthinking fizz buzz. I'm going to overthink it, also. Why not?

This is a problem where the obvious unit test may not cover the cases properly. See https://projecteuler.net/problem=1 for a unit test case …