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licensing - What can I assume if a publicly published project has no license? - Open Source Stack Exchange
Useful thread about what you should take away from a repository that's available on a forge (especially GitHub) and which has no obvious licence.
A crash course in machine learning
Google's crash course in machine learning.
0.30000000000000004.com
Handy web page that explains the issue of floating point numbers, as it relates to different programming languages.
python - PyLint "Unable to import" error - how to set PYTHONPATH? - Stack Overflow
Very handy solution to the problem of making a project you're working on available to its own tests. While this tends not to be an issue for linting from the command line (I use a Makefile and sort the PYTHONPATH when doing the linting), but from within Emacs with flycheck it can be more awkward.
awesome-for-beginners: A list of awesome beginners-friendly projects.
A great repo that contains a list of projects that encourage beginners (in programming, in some language, or perhaps even in a problem domain) to work on issues. All have some sort of "low-hanging fruit" tag for issues that would be a good place to build confidence in contributing.
Journeys: A fun coding challenge.
A fun little coding challenge; ideal for getting to know a new language, or testing someone's knowledge of a language.
Seq language
A high-performance, Pythonic language for bioinformatics
Seq: A high-performance language for bioinformatics
Paper about a language, that is pretty much a twist on Python that's aimed at getting higher performance for bioinformatics applications.
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
List of online tools and services that are useful for software development, and which have a free tier that allow for testing things out.
coded4: Time-based statistics for Git/Hg repos
Handy little tool that can be used to get a flavour of how long you've spent working on a particular project. While it's not going to be 100% accurate, it will give a vague sense of duration.
Placeholder support for contentEditable elements, without JavaScript
Handy method of adding placeholder-a-like text to contenteditable elements in a document.
YAML: Probably no so great after all
Article that details some of the problems with YAML
MySQL and storing emoji: proper utf8mb4 with Django | exana.io
The MySQL unicode issue as seen from a Django point of view.
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
Bloody MySQL doesn't support full unicode by default. O_o 💩
Projectile ignoring .projectile files : emacs
Helpful comment on configuring projectile so that it finds a project under strict control. I want to be fully in control of what appears to be a project, and this is what I needed.
EmacsConf - Main Page
The Emacs conference. The 2019 conference is online.
Emacs users are like Igor
An amusing description of your average Emacs user.
How can I use Django permissions without defining a content type or model? - Stack Overflow
Nice answer to the question: how do I make a permission that I can assign to users and groups, in Django, without needing to create a model in the database.
Fish shell support · Issue #32 · pyenv/pyenv
Issue regarding adding Fish support to pyenv. A very old issue now, but useful in that it details how to configure your shell and why you do it the way you do.
RaGOO/setup.py at master · malonge/RaGOO
Setup for a Python tool I found on GitHub, which is a library and also scripts. This might serve as a good template for pydscheck, as I'd like to get it properly packaged.
Statistics with Julia
PDF detailing using Julia for data stats.
Brian Lonsdorf: Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! – FunctionalTalks.org
Talk about things to do with JavaScript, functional programming, etc.
Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr
Interesting article about the size of data structures in Python.
Kivy: Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI Development
Library that provides a cross-platform application framework for Python. Works with many operating systems.
“Perl 6 is Cursed! I hate it!” | Aearnus’ Realm
File under "does Poe's law apply to programming languages?"
Agile is Literally Meaningless
Short blog post that nicely expresses how I feel any time anyone invokes Agile at me.
Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python | Toby Driscoll
Nice article comparing Matlab, Python and Julia. Not sure I 100% agree with it all, but it made for interesting reading.
User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Really rather funny exploration of some of the worst design elements you can find on the Web.
The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap
Good little article about the pitfalls of using boolean values as parameters for a function. Not the first time I've seen this sort of thing (I'm sure I read a similar article years before, and a similar thing in a coding book even earlier).
Still good advice.
At least it's a little better in languages with keyword arguments.