Adding type hints is easy and fun. Seriously. It's not a lot of work.

Until.

Until you find a piece of code that does more than what you sort-of

thought it kind-of did.

def null_aware_func(x):
    if x is None:
         return x
    return 2.2*x**1.05

This is …

In a way, this is about an epic fail attempting copy-and-paste coding. But really, this is about thinking outside the box. The issue -- to me -- comes from failing to see the box. Here's the body of the email, edited slightly.

"...how determine when a file has completed downloading. It would …

https://www.ynonperek.com/2017/09/21/python-exercises/amp/ This seems very cool. These look like some pretty cool problems. It includes debugging and unit testing, so there's a lot of core skills covered by these exercises.

The three unsolvable problems in computing:

• Naming
• Distributed Cache Coherence
• Off-By-One Errors

Let's talk about naming.

The project team decided to call the server component "FlaskAPI".

Seriously.

It serves information about two kinds of resources: images and running instances of images. (Yes, it's a kind of kubernetes/dockyard lite that …

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.

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 …