See https://slott56.github.io/replacing-a-spreadsheet/. This document is really exciting (to me).
This is still shaky -- I'm still learning -- but it's a very cool combination of Python components sympy and Jupyter Lab. As a bonus, Jupyter{Book} appeals to me as a writer. There's an aspect of literate programing …
more ...Let's talk about profound confusion.
I got an email with a subject of this, "Python's Protocol Reduces Reliance on Duck Typing". The resulting conversation led to this nugget: "... my current project could use protocols in Python, and thus I didn't need to rely on duck typing and instead could use …
more ...I heard about these less than a week ago.
This is very interesting. Very interesting.
I have a partially complete IoT anchor alarm.
The idea of leveraging the boat's other devices through a Signal-K interface is …
more ...See A 5-Point Framework For Python Performance Management.
It seems straight-forward to me. Have goals. Measure your ability to meet them.
I don't see too many teams doing this, though.
I could be wrong, but, I think performance is left to arguments and complaints, not solid engineering.
more ...I get asked about good books for beginners. Here's an example:
"What Python books do you recommend for novices so they can learn from beginner to advanced?"
For me, this is nearly impossible to answer.
"Beginner" is often undefined. I have to turn this around and ask what you already …
more ...It's hard to write shameless promotional material.
I already wrote the books, isn't that bold enough?
It isn't, though.
Packt’s Head of Product, Oli Huggins, said: “We believe in helping to serve and support the global developer community. By selling our eBooks and Videos for $5, we hope to …more ...
See https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-the-smallest-positive-number-missing-from-an-unsorted-array/ This seems to be a popular coding interview problem.
The Python code shown on the site seems almost maliciously misleading.
The full problem is this:
You are given an unsorted array with both positive and negative elements. You have to find the smallest positive …more ...
Yes, that's what the email said.
I was -- well -- shocked. Too shocked to be polite. Content Warning: much snark follows.
Eventually, it became clear they were worried about tail recursion optimization. Maybe I'm too focused on words, but I think words matter …